Given a restriction of one faction only

**chenkai11** · November 26, 2007, 02:35 AM

Which faction campaign you guys really love if given a restriction of one playable faction only? Disregard the starting difficulty level. And Why?

We are talking things only in the game and the pleasure you enjoy while playing. Then how will you play it?

Just feel the like to discuss it.

Mine is the karthadastim. I love their style and units. The most are the libypoenician infantry, african pikemen and elite, iberian heavy infantry and lancearii. The most exciting part is challenging rome superiority. To alter history.

My plan was to conquer every possible coastline regions first to secure the sea trading. So far it's 243b.c., controlling half of africa and spain coastline. Every homeland and conjugation settlement have family members as governor. Only faraway isolated settlement will be ruled by puppet rulers, the rest expansion settlement are new colony garrisoned. Only chosen family member will lead army for campaign.

I am still allied with lusotannan as I consider them as noble allies (for now), unlike the romans. Punic war had just began as they besiege messana (free people). I didn't tried to take sicily before coz I want to have the war in that island not in italy soil. Now my poenician army started to land on lilibeo and will aid messana every time romans try to besiege it. After the reform they will face the african elite, and if I can find ways I might add a libypoenician romanized infantry. (I changed the reform script but then I find it not fun having the reform before punic war so I revert it)

In africa I send Hanno to invade egpyt, so far taking kyrene. I think Ptolemaioi was pissed I got there first, they send troops to attack and I wonder when will they stop. They been sending for 5 years. They already lost 3 family members. But I can't continue the campaign for egypt like that, reinforcement is too far away from home, some reinforcements sent by ships were lost by ptolemaioi fleet and pirates. Although in kyrene I can recruit classical hoplite but they are not enough, and the population will be depleted. Somehow I am stuck right now.

**starXdiaMoo** · November 26, 2007, 09:06 AM

Well, this is a very interesting topic to be honest

My favourite faction would without any doubt be the Koinon Hellenon

. This is mainly due to the fact that I am Greek myself, as well as their rich history, interesting warfare, culture and great potential to become an empire.

I have stared a new KH campaign some days ago with EB 1.0 (which is awesome, btw

) with some minor tweaks. First of all, I gave Spartiatai Hoplitai the ''very_hardy'' attribute, as well as the ''hardy'' attribute for the Epilektoi Hoplitai and Somatophylakes Strategou, as these changes will be implied in the next release anyway

. I have also added the forced diplomacy mod, the EB city mod and Darth Formations

. Apart from that I have reduced range of all slingers by 30, as to neutralise their crazy range in battle.

My progress is very slow, as I am takings pictures of my campaign that will be used to make a KH guide with detailed information and pictures for the first few important years

.

As for what my plans are, I am thinking of first taking control of Greece as I have always done in my past campaigns, and when income will flood in like a wild river I will train a few armies. One army I will use to secure Greece herself from any possible Eleutheroi armies that spawn every so often or to push back any possible invading army. This, coupled with building forts with 1 unit each blocking every possible road into northern Greece will give me enough time to send other armies, if needed be

.

The other armies (possibly two) I will use as an invading force to take back Megale Hellas, or Magna Graecia. Then I will move up the spine of Italy and take over these lands as well and exterminate the filthy Romaioi kynai (Roman dogs)

! After I secure Italia as well with mabe an additional army or two along with forts, I may decide to move against the Karthadastim

After that, I haven't really thought of what I am planning to do to be honest, mabe I will try and take control of the Mesogeios (Meditterranean)

Well, that's all folks!

**Aketi** · November 26, 2007, 08:31 PM

Then I will move up the spine of Italy and take over these lands as well and exterminate the filthy Romaioi kynai (Roman dogs) !

thats hilarious!

I really can not pick one favorite faction thats such a mean question...

Ok I chose Baktria because of its extremely beautiful unit cards. The unit cards aesthetics are very important to me, I used to call RTW "the troop game". Additionally I love playing Greeks that are so far away from their original homelands and the resulting fusion of Greek, Iranian, Steppes and Indian ethnics, culture and military in the eastern corner of the map. The deep green of the campaign map around Baktria somehow makes me calm and happy.

Baktria has very effective heavy infantry and cavalry, I also love the strong India archers.

I prefer to go for the east first, after I have India I secure the north, that way I do not have to fight wars on two fronts later.

**starXdiaMoo** · November 27, 2007, 06:40 AM

Originally Posted by CrusaderForJustice

thats hilarious!

I really can not pick one favorite faction thats such a mean question...

Ok I chose Baktria because of its extremely beautiful unit cards. The unit cards aesthetics are very important to me, I used to call RTW "the troop game". Additionally I love playing Greeks that are so far away from their original homelands and the resulting fusion of Greek, Iranian, Steppes and Indian ethnics, culture and military in the eastern corner of the map. The deep green of the campaign map around Baktria somehow makes me calm and happy.

Baktria has very effective heavy infantry and cavalry, I also love the strong India archers.

I prefer to go for the east first, after I have India I secure the north, that way I do not have to fight wars on two fronts later.

Good joice, though I simply cannot understand how you Baktria fans actually manage to defeat those damned horse archers! I attacked an Eleutheroi army one time in a Baktria campaign I played that resided just outside one of my cities, and I got litteraly pinned to death by their never-ending arrows

**Aketi** · November 27, 2007, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by starXdiaMoo

Good joice, though I simply cannot understand how you Baktria fans actually manage to defeat those damned horse archers! I attacked an Eleutheroi army one time in a Baktria campaign I played that resided just outside one of my cities, and I got litteraly pinned to death by their never-ending arrows

You beat the horse archers with.... horse archers (and regular archers).

**chenkai11** · November 27, 2007, 08:50 PM

I decided to let Hanno sail to krete from kyrene with his lybian and libypoenician army, leaving his son to defend and hold ptolemaioi advance. His son is young and with him are the greek hoplites and hellenic archers and skirmishers. I find hard to fight against ptolemaioi especially elite phalanx. If wasn't the reserve libypoenician cavalry charge, can't be victorious. I kept sending the cavalry reinforcement from capital.

Hanno just taken the town at krete, setup a watch tower, with two separate triremes fleet watch over the sea. I will try to build that island to an allied hellenic military base, then send libyans and poenicians back home. I hope to use that island to a direct attack at alexandria. Not sure if it is a wise move, coz KH is allied with Ptolemaioi, need to see if I can ally with makedonia. For now I need to halt the egypt invasion, empire treasury is shrinking.

Need to focus on the island sicily and iberian coast. I will try to deplete romans with the punic war and advancement from spain to italy. Then I will force them to pay tribute and end the first punic war. Alter history.

If the EB script have hannibal, I will let him start the second punic war.

**starXdiaMoo** · November 28, 2007, 04:56 AM

Originally Posted by chenkai11

If the EB script have hannibal, I will let him start the second punic war.

Unfortunately not, I think

**invictus** · November 28, 2007, 03:39 PM

I for one cannot decide on simply one faction only. As part of my own house rules, i auto calc on vh/vh diff.
For carthage i love them. Not sure why, i just do. Perhaps it is simply having my "white" empire on the mini map that i find so cool, so maybe its that i can go so many ways. When i challenge rome, iv actually never had anything better than liby? phalanxes.
I also rather enjoy epirus. Leading pyhrrus? to victory over all others is the most fun i have in any game. Making him both king of greece and italy is what history should have been like.
For rome i love to play with no reforms at all. Phalanx triria leading the way to victory across the world. -Leon

**starXdiaMoo** · November 28, 2007, 04:34 PM

Hmmm, yeah I for one do think phalanx armies are one of the best if you want to rule the world. That is, if you couple them with heavy cavalry, flank protecting units and some missile units. That's what Megas Alexandros did anyway, didn't he? I know phalanx armies have many weaknesses, but I have become addicted to phalanx-based armies I think

**chenkai11** · December 02, 2007, 09:19 PM

Looks like only few can really bear the one playable faction restriction in EB. Really hard to decide which faction you only love in the game. May be it's easier to decide if it's only RTW vanilla.