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If they're like the merc armies in the 30 Years War, Misthophoroi probably have a few members that were press-ganged or picked up from poverty.

When it comes to choosing your first faction, it's important to note the current Faction Difficulty Ratings are mostly out of date. My recommended starting Faction is SPQR (they're not my favorite...

The Building Browser is often finicky. I've managed to build Boioi Colonies in Kalisia, Leufana, and Himbroburgz. Other areas suitable for colonization include all of Gaul, Galatia, Dacia,...

Glad I could contribute my experience. After starting up a fresh Sweboz campaign I'll adjust my starting advice a bit. It seems like the Heruskoz to the west have a stack specifically keyed to storm...

The Faction Difficulty ratings in game are horribly out of date. Doesn't really make much sense for the Sweboz to be listed as an easier faction, what with Germania being a wild land filled with...

Usually Alliances are a matter of convenience, but once in a blue moon you come across one that's truly worthwhile. In my Boioi playthroughs my Alliance with Makedon was extremely lucrative, even...

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Personally, I don't think Total War has ever done sieges well. It took until 3K to add entirely cosmetic siege...

Now we need a submod for Gym Badge ancillaries.

One thing I do is "retire" FMs over the age of 60, unless they have the appropriate traits to remain in service for longer (such as ambitious, extremely high loyalty, Vigorous/Charismatic/Sharp, or...

M2TW is old, but old games can have a surprising amount of detail. Units have a shield value that only protects them from the front. There are also height and terrain advantages, I once won a battle...

I mentioned in the Faction Reviews thread that the Romans are a good introduction to EBII, but your experience can vary greatly even within the same culture groups. Assuming you're not strapped for...

My hunch is that is that the Hastati would pull double duty as pseudo-skirmishers, if the enemy advances despite being bombarded with pila they fall back to join the Principes and form a solid battle...

Oh yes. I do try and look on the bright side when it comes to games, but from my recent delvings into the latest generation of Total War (admittedly skipping the large Warhammer and 3K projects,)...

No problem. I understand that this takes a lot of effort, thanks for working to provide this excellent mod.

Yep. It's on 2.2.1b, haven't tried out Rise of the Republic or the 10th Anniversary Beta yet.

Hell, I'm down for trying to survive as 3rd Punic War-era Qarthadast or Koinon Akhaion. CA has a bad habit of trying to make every Faction's start as similar as possible, regardless of how little...

Can confirm that most of my steam for the Romani and Sweboz campaigns were lost by the time I reached their reforms, mostly because I rarely push a campaign to that height to begin with. But the age...

I haven't actually played EBI, but I have toured the mod scene a little bit and I can safely say that EBII is a comprehensive and unique experience.

While it seems to me that spear infantry have better bonuses against cavalry when braced compared to sword infantry, I haven't noticed a difference in the performance between sword and spear cavalry....

Salute! I've been enjoying this mod quite a bit, but there's been a bit of a bug in my boots. There are a few military technologies that would prove quite valuable on the battlefield, namely the...

M2TW's Succession System works off of Primogeniture-lite, so the firstborn son or the husband of the firstborn daughter is almost always the recipient of the FH status. If your Faction Heir's sons...

That's why Pyrrhos has got to hang onto Epeiros, so his somatophylax is staffed with countrymen that'd be relatively loyal.



With the greater Seleukid Anatolian Coaltion arriving in Hellas, we...

Sounds good!



The thing is that the backing of the various Basileu and the loyalties of Poleis has traditionally been fickle. If the Romani move to attack Epeiros itself Pyrrhos will definitely...

My current plan is to name the initial stage of the conquest "Pacified Land" ("Anfu" in Mandarin, 安服 in modern Traditional Chinese script, I intend to do further investigation on the suitability of...

Good warfare is good warfare (or perhaps powerful would be a better word.) IIRC most premodern chemical warfare was restricted to being a subset of siege warfare, and instances like these were rare...

D'oh. It took me nearly a week to see this post. I blame video games.



Now that's one hell of a Chekhov's Lithobolos. Naturally the Yervanduni wouldn't be sitting still with all this fighting,...

Funny thing...the Chinese actually did something like this, and it's not too far from the EBII time-frame. In 180 CE Han forces scattered a rebel army by using horse-driven, unmanned wagons armed...

Hoo boy, the Punic Wars and Wars of the Diadochi were exciting enough. The Ancient World going up like a powder keg'd be a sight to see.





It's a good, comprehensive setup for the war. I do...

I've done another round of testing with the Lithobolos (rock thrower,) and it seems like I did something horribly wrong with my usage of Lithobolos in sieges, or I completely misremembered the...

I could swear that one of the new tracks for Koinon Hellenon was somebody rocking out the Ancient Hellenic version of Free Bird.



But that would make them cool. My idea for them was to point...

Not so long ago I decided to undertake a few campaigns where I manually fought through siege assaults. As these are usually guaranteed to be time-intensive, I've preferred to autoresolve, even though...

I've got a thread in this subforum about typing up what the Chinese Warring States would look like converted to EBII. Insert obligatory I am not petitioning the devs to add Ancient China to the mod...

Thanks Shoebopp. I put a good amount of thought into crafting that Royal Army, in order to truly represent the splendor of the Boioi empire. I spent a good bit of time leveling up these units to...

TBH, I dunno. I usually drop the Epeiros campaign after conquering Rome. I'm guessing the answer to that is a no, because Latium is firmly not Greek territory. I'm pretty sure you can build a...

Yep. I've also had this issue, though not with Byzantion. I can also confirm that controlling Byzantion as SPQR changes it's name to Byzantium.

After a bit of messing around, it seems like you...

Usually I don't craft a Royal Army until I've reached the Empire Stage (30+ provinces.) They aren't so much practical military forces as much as they are a demonstration of my empire's vast reach and...

If only there was more hemlock to go around!

Well, if you want to see AI Roma conclude their business in Northern Italy quickly, play Boioi. I once saw the SPQR conquer Felsina in 20 turns, and...

Frank Miller style Ninja-Persian Immortals, put these and RTW's Arcani in a pit and have them fight it out.

Roman Legionaries from China. Only recruitable when you Carrhae a Roman force, and have...

You can build it in Sicily and Tarentum/Taras, at least. Never tried to nest in Byzantion, but building browser is pretty bad at showing where you can build Basilike Patris. At the very least you...

Bah, the bamboo I'm using for my scroll is messing with my ink.

For some reason TWCenter is pretty screwy on my browser, it logs me out automatically after 15 minutes or something. This isn't...