Unless I play a nomad faction (when the entire field army can be made of cavalry) it's between 3 to 5 on wings or hidden behind the main line.
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Unless I play a nomad faction (when the entire field army can be made of cavalry) it's between 3 to 5 on wings or hidden behind the main line.
Simply put, I don't field elephants or chariots. Cheaper units can fulfill their function and are easier to replace.
The only real use for elephants in my campaigns is game-y recruitment for...
Within the mod timeframe you'd only have Gallic helmets and Kalkyriese segmentatas appearing in the mix for the soldier models. For some of them. That's only a material for an armor upgrade mechanic.
Epirus and Makedon had dynastic ties (except not for Antigonids and you play Antigonids as Makedon) and cultural similarities (both Doric Greek kingdoms). In case one took over another it'd be either...
Blow them monies on the Royal Fleets and them barely useful elephants. Might as well start collecting lithoboloi. Best argument for dealing with rebellions.
-"Eleutheria! We will fight in the...
Lack of shield, or even armor, might not be that crippling if you can defend yourself in hand-to-hand. I mean, if you are skilled. Most often it'd mean belonging to the elite who can focus on their...
It's almost certainly made of fabric. Etruscan "hellenizing" sculptural art can be very literal. Every line and wrinkle is rendered. If it was lamellar, then cords holding plates together would be...
Steppe garb worn in the field would be unisex. No woman fit for combat would end being built like a Victoria's Secret model. Not in cultures promoting equal level of aggression for both genders. If...
RTW BAI suiciding over trying to advance through a defended river ford with an army of equal strength vs M2TW BAI being possible to lure into doing this only if they have heavy advantage in shock...
Camillan era Hastati are reasonably good well-rounded unit. I think they're so available in Italy because they're supposed to represent not only Romans but the "generic" common Italian tactics for...
IMO mass 1.15 is what thorakitai should have. The Cohors Sociorum have this mass per soldier and it makes them actually capable of holding the line. I'm using them for comparison because they have...
Hard campaign difficulty, because EB2 looses a lot of its flavor on Medium. On the Hard level the independents besiege settlements instead of only raiding the fields. The diplomacy remains functional...
Bringing a town or a city down to 400 still is handy, though. They won't rebel for a long time after that. I was managing the human resources this way in Cisalpine and Sparta, then the cities were...
Not that much. Aside of having to perform multiple repeated depopulations in regions where the populace was asking for it. Like Cisalpine Italian provinces (rebelling and murdering their client ruler...
Pahlava and Hayasdan cuz them Ērānšahr. I should stop replaying mostly these two.
But I also had a field day playing Epeiros from time to time and I'm going to replay them after the new patch.
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If an allied faction has no other direction for their expansion left they will attack. It's only a matter of time. It's just that usually by this point all the players campaign objectives were...
They stay on your side if you're reliable and they can't catch you backstabbing them in any manner (like your assassinations of their agents being unsuccessful and detected, for an example)....
No need to be this nice. It's enough to cancel the trade rights and give them some kind of impossible demands first. Although I do like provoking neighbouring factions into attacking me first, with...
On anyone else. Especially if they're from the other end of the map... :ninja:
Taksashilan and Sweboz diplomatic corps mortality rate skyrocketed on my Epirus campaign.
Edit:
I mean, the...
Alliances are useful and they last in EB2, but you have to work on keeping your diplomatic credibility. Don't :wub: on your allies and don't punch people randomly just because they are there. I...
You can't reach him. I tried, just to see what'll happen.
Play a Hellenic kingdom to create your own Monthy Python universe.
Most of the "leather" armor was either rawhide or cuirboili (not to mention it was mostly scale/lamellar to capitalize on the greater stiffness of the smaller pieces). Unhardened, soft tanned leather...
TBH I'd slow down the population growth... If it's possible on the game engine. It's not taking very long for the one's major settlements to turn into the Rome or Alexandreia-rate behemoths.
Factions can re-emerge multiple times.
Pselkis
Pselkis
Pselkis
Antiochia
Ephesus
Pergamon
A new battle theme for the Hellenic factions - "Everybody does phalanx fighting" to this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwBKjK7Xik0
You need to simply translate the name to Chinese because the initial stages of government for Greeks and Romans are more-or-less this. "The land taken with a spear" and "regional pacification". I...
Thigh-flasher is an actual derogatory term other Greeks were using for them.
*Looks at pantodapoi.*
*Looks at pantodapoi phalangitai*
At this point even Pantodapoi Hypaspistai wouldn't be a stretch.
Flaming Pantodapoi: Set ablaze and rushed into the enemy lines, they frighten the foot and the horse.
Thigh-flashers: An all-female unit only recruitable for KH in Sparta. Lower morale for all Hellenic units unless they're Spartan hoplites.
Rambling Philosophers: Only recruitable by KH in Athens....
I'm not sure if, of all units, Peltenai need a boost.
At least they're balanced. Something you can't say of Thureophorontes Toxotai/Hippotoxotai.
Although I do agree that cavalry is a...
On the other hand, Thureophoroi recruitment is increased by the military reform which has a prerequisite of giving grants of free land to the citizen to increase the amount of citizenry able to serve.
Considering that I rarely assault cities without having numeric advantage over the defenders (otherwise I besiege and wait for their sallies if the defenders are roughly equal in numbers), for taking...
Personally I find skirmishers very useful in sieges for quickly capturing gates and city squares. Disclaimer: good quality skirmishers capable of stand and fight.
I also find lithoboloi useful,...
Syrakousai steam cannons. It needs to be a thing. With the Antikythera mechanism-styled fire directors.
It's best to ignore the family tree. It's a hardcoded leftover from the vanila M2TW mechanics. It's very simplified, has to start with a single ancestor and eventually will include even the faction...
I think that Hellenic Thureophoroi could use the free_upkeep_unit attribute. Effectively they're replacing Hemithorakitai and Hoplitai in the late game and the metioned units come with this...
Well, it's a bummer with certain pre-reform units disappearing with no choice as the Hyperaspistai don't have a good Hellenic replacement. You get better defenses with the units you mentioned, but no...
You'll have to compare it by yourself between EB 2 and vanila files.