V1-V3 Tahar Caliphate Fan Thread.

**Request a new user name** · April 29, 2009, 02:47 PM

Easily the most powerful Faction in the Game:

1. Cannon Elephants, never mind real life tests showed that no matter how light the cannon, the recoil would break the elephant's back. Ballista and Catapult Elephants are more realistic.

2. Musket Elephants, charge them into any opposition and they will conquer.

3. Camel Archers and Gunners, they just wreck your opposition.

4. Solid Militia

5. Good Cash and Large Unit Pool from Castles.

House Rules I play by.

1. All towns I capture are converted to castles.

2. I do not convert castles to cities.

3. I exterminate the Cities I do capture.

This faction is perfect for Maneuver and Defense specialists.

**TheFirstONeill** · April 29, 2009, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by Request a new user name

Easily the most powerful Faction in the Game:

1. Cannon Elephants, never mind real life tests showed that no matter how light the cannon, the recoil would break the elephant's back. Ballista and Catapult Elephants are more realistic.

2. Musket Elephants, charge them into any opposition and they will conquer.

3. Camel Archers and Gunners, they just wreck your opposition.

4. Solid Militia

5. Good Cash and Large Unit Pool from Castles.

House Rules I play by.

1. All towns I capture are converted to castles.

2. I do not convert castles to cities.

3. I exterminate the Cities I do capture.

This faction is perfect for Maneuver and Defense specialists.

Elephants on Thera have much thicker bones ,

(remember the fantasy mod bit)
Nice to see this faction being used though, no one has really posted about them yet +rep

**Yuko** · April 30, 2009, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by TheFirstONeill

Elephants on Thera have much thicker bones ,

(remember the fantasy mod bit)
Nice to see this faction being used though, no one has really posted about them yet +rep

i use them,the problem is that people only talk about their favorite factions i like to use every faction because every faction is different but i always get back to the Reich

**Pink Beard** · May 01, 2009, 12:19 PM

I do play them ocassionally. But I usually don't get far enough I guess. I've never seen the Tahars use elephants

**TheFirstONeill** · May 02, 2009, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by Pink Beard

I do play them ocassionally. But I usually don't get far enough I guess. I've never seen the Tahars use elephants

Isnt their campagin called Warriors of Camel and Elelphant ??

**toluas** · May 02, 2009, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by TheFirstONeill

Isnt their campagin called Warriors of Camel and Elelphant ??

Yep, Pinky just got to the Camel part...

But I have to admit, I never played them long enough to see them use Elephants, too.
Good thing that this faction finally got it's fan thread!

**jan_boruta** · May 08, 2009, 07:28 AM

After having played A LOT of Third Age: Total War and having set up a living and ongoing Dwarven AAR on Polish totalwar.org.pl forums, I came back to Thera and apparently, I started a new campaign with the Tahar Caliphate... I couldn't do anything else after reading this thread

(the cannon elephants and camel musketeers made me wanna play them)

**crazyguy1916** · May 12, 2009, 11:36 PM

I havent really found a "prefect" faction for me, but I think that Tahars might be it!

**TheFirstONeill** · March 20, 2010, 07:31 PM

**KngGilgamesh** · March 26, 2010, 04:41 PM

the Nafatun Elephant were a great idea, they can kill with flame, and by trampling, great against heavy Infantry.

**Julianus Flavius** · March 27, 2010, 08:23 PM

Also fabulous against other pachyderms (Yes just to include mammoths, they aren't technically elephants), without the danger of being trampled before they can let fly the boomyness.

**toluas** · March 27, 2010, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Julianus Flavius

pachyderms

Massive respect!

+rep

**Julianus Flavius** · March 27, 2010, 11:50 PM

Cheers! I did a test, those naffatun eles vs the sykorax mammoth riders without guns. No casualties at all. They were like half a metre real distance from my guys when they went 'Splosion.

**TheFirstONeill** · August 31, 2010, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Agammemnon

TFON, it is brown. However, I personally think that the red in the marines and greystokes looks great, and I would like to see a faction made specifically to use late british empire-looking skins (so my line infantry have someone to shoot at MWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!).

In version 4 there is a Tahar equivilant of muslim line infantry

**Agamemnon** · August 31, 2010, 11:06 AM

Cool.

**Daraunon** · August 31, 2010, 06:30 PM

Yes,cool,but I'm curious as to why this new unit would be given to the Tahar...with the whole "Camel and Elephant" thing they already had some character,and I also liked the fact that they had a lot of nomadic troops...so the real question would be:why giving gunpowder to them?

**TheFirstONeill** · August 31, 2010, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by Daraunon

:why giving gunpowder to them?

They already posses more firearm units than any other islamic faction, and there close proximity to both the Faust and the Valiente makes there use of firearms logical.

**Daraunon** · August 31, 2010, 07:06 PM

Duh,sorry about not noticing before,was too busy facing Elephants

Anyway I see your point,but I find that the "line infantry" feel could stand out in a strange way when put beside nomadic troops.

**TheFirstONeill** · August 31, 2010, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by Daraunon

Duh,sorry about not noticing before,was too busy facing Elephants

Anyway I see your point,but I find that the "line infantry" feel could stand out in a strange way when put beside nomadic troops.

Their low to mid range roster is nomadic, they have a professional elite teir already this is a unit that will fall into place with them,

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