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  1. Re: Historically Accurate, Well-Balanced Romani Army Based Upon Polybius and Vegetius

    My take is on pre-Marian armies a bit different, but close to Doozī roster. I center it around the idea that a consular army is usually two legions, while a praetorian army is one legion with half of...
  2. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.35A R2 released!

    Playing as AS at the moment and really enjoying the new traits. They add a lot of flavour and roleplay elements to distribute governships, favours and so on. One problem I have is that I canīt seem...
  3. Re: [2.35A R2] Unit card bug for rebel generals

    Iīve edited the ebii.cfg to adjust the graphic settings (unit detail always switched back to high) and adjusted movement ranges in the desc_char.txt (didnīt download the submod). Besides those two...
  4. Re: [2.35A R2] Unit card bug for rebel generals

    Restarted the whole computer, first thing was to load up the savegame and the error is still there. Could it be a problem from my end?
  5. [2.35A R2] Unit card bug for rebel generals

    Currently playing AS and starting from around turn 40 rebel general unit card portraits are getting mixed up with other ones. Similar to the bug of an old version where this would happen with an all...
  6. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.35A R2 released!

    Great job overall on the release! One thing Iīd like to suggest for consideration is the accuracy of the Scorpions. I think it is so high that it is actually a detriment. On this engine range units...
  7. Re: Romani campaign glitch? All my settlements are extremely happy

    Added to what Rad said, everything should turn back to normal on the next turn.
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    Re: Utterly overwhelmed

    A faction I could recommend to a beginner is Pergamon. It looks more daunting than it is. It has no complicated office system, is placed in a wealthy region, has a good starting army to quickly gain...
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    Re: Utterly overwhelmed

    The EB installation comes with a guide in its directory. Here you find the most important concepts explained, you see the offices, and the government trees. This should help you a lot and even I look...
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    Re: Wealthiest regions, factions, cities?

    My go to strategy for early game Seleucids is to not spend money except for ciritical +public order buildings and safe everything for mines instead. Especially Persepolis and some other cities in the...
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    Re: Artillery, anyone use them?

    I tried the bolt throwers a few times and suprisingly I found them to be too accurate. They repeteadly strike the same spot. The problem with that is if all four shoot in quick succession, only the...
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    Re: Rad compares units - a thread for balancing.

    So, I was reading the description of the Aswar I Mad (Median cavalry). It says "the spear is suitable in individual combat [...] rather than charge home as one would with the kontos." Yet, they have...
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    Re: Request for Early Game Advice

    One additional tip for maintaining a positive cash flow is to check carefully what the buildings do. Every new construction has at least one downside. For example: A market might increase your...
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    Re: Is Autoresolve balanced?

    AFAIK auto-calculated battles don't count towards the battle requirements for the factions reforms (like Rome or Pergamon). So you would want to check the requirements of the reforms and play those...
  15. Sticky: Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.35 released!

    Thanks to the whole team for the update, the hard (free) work and their patience with us here on the forum. It is really much appreciated. I enjoy the new update with all the new content. I haven't...
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    Re: What "house rules" do you follow?

    In addition to some of the rules already mentioned:- load and unload armies and characters onto and off fleets only at harbours - auto-manage settlements with client rulers (only building, not...
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    Re: How to use Melee Cavalry properly?

    Some quick tips from my own experience:

    Cavalry vs cavalry - always try to get a numerical advantage unit wise, not men wise. Two units of 50 will beat one unit of 100. Use one unit to attack the...
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    Re: Houserules

    AFAIK and I'm by no means a Roman historian they most common practice was to sack and enslave a troublesome opponent, which I already incorporate in my current campaign. My example might not be...
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    Re: Houserules

    1.: it depends. Before that rule my approach was to tax as much as possible without reducing growth below 0.5 and without causing public order to drop below 75%

    2. I use I to less to balance the...
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    Re: Houserules

    With this I mean to tax the cities not to the maximum amount possible without getting unrest but more in a role play approach, meaning the following:For City Empires (Rome, Carthage, Pergamon and...
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    Re: Houserules

    I like marching your troops back before disbanding them. Maybe one could take the concept even further and disband most of the troops regularly, especially in peace time. This could simulate the need...
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    Houserules

    As I'm always interested in enriching my playing experience i would like to hear your houserules to get new inspirations. But let me start with mine:

    obvious ones first:
    - realistic/plausible...
  23. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.3 released!

    Is the Scorpion supposed to be that accurate? Even on nearly max range it was consistently hitting the center of the enemy unit with very little dispersion.

    The other thing that it seems to have...
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    Re: Battle formations

    The right wing was under hellenistic armies the wing of honor. So I normally deploy the highest tier troops there while low level or mercenaries are deployed on the left. I think it was similar to a...
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    Re: Rad compares units - a thread for balancing.

    Hastati Sabelli - nothing wrong with the stats as far as I can tell, but they seem to loose men droves. They are always one of the units with the highest casualties, especially against ranged...
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    Re: Three consuls elected

    Ok, thanks for the info.
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    Three consuls elected

    As the name suggests I have three elected consuls in my roman campaign at turn 157.

    Is more information needed?
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    Re: Faction Console Names

    Alright, will try that. Thanks for the help
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    Re: Faction Console Names

    add_money f_carthage *amount*

    Tried with other factions and it didn't work either. Giving to myself worked. Had to send them the money as a gift from a diplomat and giving the money to me with the...
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    Re: Faction Console Names

    The faction names don't work for me. I always get the error "faction type not recognised"
  31. Re: How to use historically accurate government types as Rome?

    As far as I know Romans tended to give newly conquered or controlled people certain liberties and rights depending on how much resistence they put up. Fierce resistence resulted in harsh terms, open...
  32. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.2l released!

    Thanks for your reply. True, forgot about compressing it, sorry for the inconvenience.

    It is from directly after the crash, I made sure to check the time. What you say might be true, Iīll check it...
  33. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.2l released!

    Seems my Pergamon campaign has come to an end. Iīm crashing on during turn 171 while itīs calculating for Sweboz.

    I have the errorlog here: http://www19.zippyshare.com/v/swh29CNi/file.html
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    Re: Europa Barbarorum II FAQ

    Thanks for the answer. I was also wondering about those, but I figured that the Hyperaspistai and their own Elite Peltastai are their counterparts of the mentioned units. Is there a pergamese version...
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    Re: Europa Barbarorum II FAQ

    Am I supposed to have access to Agema Phalangitai as post-reform Pergamon?
  36. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.2l released!

    Turn 130 now on my Pergamon campaign. Reform worked like a charm, however after I defeated the Galatian invasion and before I captured Ipsos and Sardis, I still got the Galatian visitors event. Since...
  37. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.2l released!

    One more note: the picture of the unit card and the picture in the unit description of the Doryphoroi kata Galaton seems off. They look like a levy force in the unit card and like a professional...
  38. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.2l released!

    Turn 80 with Pergamon on H/M. Pushed the Ptolomaioi out of Asia Minor, took all their three settlements by myself, also took Byzantion and Nikaia and still in an Alliance with the Seleukids. Pontos...
  39. Re: 2.2g farms in Likash & number of soldiers in Elephants

    Thanks for your answers.
  40. 2.2g farms in Likash & number of soldiers in Elephants

    After I took Likash in my Carthago campaign I was able to build both Basic and Mid Scale Farming. My order of build was to go straight to Allied Oligarchy. Also, when I captured it there was already...
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