Crushing the hopes of the innocent is way too much fun, I just couldn't resist.
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Crushing the hopes of the innocent is way too much fun, I just couldn't resist.
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Deeply lost in the night. Just as one sometimes lowers one’s head to reflect, thus to be utterly lost in the night. All around people are asleep. Its just play-acting, an innocent self- deception, that they sleep in houses, in safe beds, under a safe roof, stretched out or curled up on mattresses, in sheets, under blankets; in reality they have flocked together as they had once upon a time and again later in a deserted region, a camp in the open, a countless number of men, an army, a people, under a cold sky on cold earth, collapsed where once they had stood, forehead pressed on the arm, face to the ground, breathing quietly. And you are watching, are one of the watchmen, you find the next one by brandishing a burning stick from the brushwood pile beside you. Why are you watching? Someone must watch, it is said. Someone must be there.
Epicness in overblown proportion. However how will they fare in action? If they go round with the same calibre as cataphracts from the original RS, then they pretty much overweighted light cav with glorified harnesses to me.
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Last edited by apple; July 13, 2009 at 04:03 PM.
The horse culture factions of RS2 have probably received as much or MORE attention than any other factions in RS2. RTW was built to be a 'heavy infantry' game.....so horse cultures like the Sarmatians, Scythians and Parthia tended to fair poorly in many mods...including RS1.5. But with the help of people like Aradan, Faridus and Tone they are now far more formidiable. Actually, for the first time in my experience EVER, I have seen Parthia actually expand and do well against the Seleucids. And people who have tested them are quite pleased.
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Indeed...I'm a heavy infantry kinda guy, but god Parthia is fun!
Btw frontier-auxilia, the Cataphracts are pretty balanced as it is. Nothing like light cav at all lol...
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@ Gez: i just find eastern cavalry backed by turban sabres to do a better job as skirmisher killers then cataphract as they can take out the only thing that can lay the hurt on my purple horse archers of doom when they shoot up the enemy armies. Not only are they easier to manevour out the way when clumbersome legionnaries wanted to ripped them limp from limp, it also more bearable to see them suffer casulties when exposed to enemy fire. As an infantry based game, i find catas fine as it is but i just don't find them effective compliments to my army.
Im not saying that they should butcher an entire legionaire cohort in 1 charge but when compared to what else thats fieldable at a cheaper price, who can pretty much perform the same function and can operate alongside my horse archers without being made into a seperate branch of my army, the catas just don't cut it for me. The cata horse archers on the other hand are made of win.
Otherwise glad to hear that cavalry are being made more efficient unit in the mod . Besides it will be fun to fight or play as another faction who use a different approach to warfare.
Last edited by frontier-auxilia; July 13, 2009 at 06:23 AM.
So how about that:
20 cataphract units crushing the Roman Legion in RS1.5
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
At first, there was a thunderous charge. Then it came to melee combat and multiple repeating charges of single units. And cataphracts did pretty well in melee.
P.S. Battle was fought on Medium, unit size: Huge.
P.S. 2: The composition of Legion: 1x general, 1x 1st cohort, 9x cohort, 4x auxilia, 2x archers, 3x cavalry.
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For RS2, the balance I'm working on is for an army of say:
1 general
4 cataphracts
2 dahae nobles
2 parthian nobles
1 persian nobles
6 dahae horse archers
2 eastern spearmen
2 skirmishers or hirkanian horsemen
or something like that to give a Roman legion a very good run for its money. As Romans defending against that army you're really hard pressed to win.
Another thing you'll find in RS2 is that the cost of units is very carefully tailored by Tone to encourage the AI to recruit well, and put together good balanced armies. What this will mean as the player is that you'll have to show some 'restraint'. The cost of units is based on what the AI likes, not necessarily what would make it harder for the player. A lot of mods put costs on units that are very high to keep the PLAYER from spamming them. The problem with this is that the AI then decides that unit isn't worth it....so you rarely see them. So a Cataphract unit isn't going to cost you an arm and a leg to recruit...and play with fear, because the AI likes them too.
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^Yep
It all comes down to player choice and discipline. Sure, as Parthia in RS2 you can probably afford to have 20 cataphract units per stack. But just stop and think, is this a)fun or b)realistic? The answer to both is probably NO.
Are Parthian G's Bg slightly better than 'normal' cathaphracts? Also, is there a 'sauce' for their awesome helmets?
Oh, and an video preview please
Last edited by Phunkracy; July 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM.
Sure, the answer is "no". The army I have just shown you was made for fun, to check if it would be able to defeat a roman legion, and it was. Usually I recruit more various armies, so there is no problem with realism. And from what I can see, there will be far more developed unit roster in RS2.
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Wow, well done with the bodyguards Nice to see the sources.
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wait, I just noticed this, there's no camel unit...
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