Armenia
I was starting an Armenian campaign, I started to see what troops could I train in each level of barracks, when I realized that Eastern Legionaries need Marian Reforms. When I realized that I compared those with the Roman units and realized that someone screwed Armenia.
Eastern Legionaries are now a useless unit. They have a weaker missile attack than Principes (the rest it's the same) and they can only be trained after Marian Reforms. So they became obsolete the moment they became available for training.
In the readme is written that Armenia have good horse archers and good infantry.
What good infantry? Armenia only have Heavy Spearmen, that is a average unit that, with some luck, can hold the line and nothing else, before Marian Reforms. After the reforms, Armenia can train the obsolete Eastern Legionaries, that can't match even the weakest roman unit and that is incapable of forming testuto. It's ridiculous to wait so long for a such unit. Greeks have Thorakitai, that "show considerable Roman influence", before the Marian Reforms, these units are similar to the Eastern Legionaries.
Good horse Archers? Armenia only have the basic horse archers and then the might but slow cataphract archers, but there's no medium horse archer unit, just Eastern Cavalry. And Armenia isn't in the group of the Horse Factions, so their cavalry don't have the superior cavalry numbers of those factions.
I think that Armenia have the worst infantry in the mod, with the exception of the horse faction, and it's cavalry it's not good as the cavalry of those factions, making Armenia one of the most underpowered factions of the mod.
To correct this I suggest transforming Eastern Legionaries into Armenian Legionaries, Pontus already have great phalanx units so it's unfair to give to Pontus the best infantry unit of Armenia. I suggest to:
- Making Eastern Legionaries available to Armenia before Marian Reforms and adding a medium horse archer unit.
or
- Making Eastern Legionaries stronger, with their skills close to those of the Roman Legionaries and capable of Testuto, adding a medium horse archer unit and making Cataphract Archers available sooner.
Of course that other units are needed to make Armenia a better faction to play with, but these small modifications would make Armenia a much better faction.
Don't get me wrong I like the mod, I played with Bactria, that have a very good combination of troops, Carthage , that have a great variety of troops and some strong units, and Macedon, that have very strong and balanced armies.
But Armenia lack a coherent unit rooster, with weak infantry units and good but not amazing cavalry units. It's hard to play with Armenia, unless I spam Cataphract Archers, but that's not a fun thing o do.
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
