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    Icon5 Anyone besides me play as the Berbers?

    I recently started playing a campaign as the Berbers and have been thus far very successful with them. I have not been able to win every single battle (mostly due to vandal hordes in Iberia) but have held off any enemy from taking any of my settlements. They are not the best Faction but I favor them very highly for the challenge it brings and the small, plain and simple unit roster they have. One major bonus they have is very low upkeeps for infantry!
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    Default Re: Anyone besides me play as the Berbers?

    Here is a pic...

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    their lack of heavy infantry or cavalry is annoying, but they're relly good faction to play if you like challenge

    Quote Originally Posted by SgtScooter View Post
    If you went to the Skyrim forums you'll see a lot posts about how it's somehow been watered down and hampered by money men making the decisions. Fact is, it's a great game and people still complain. It's the same thing as the TW franchise.

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    I played Berbers, and found them more fun then for example Eastern Rome. (I don't like factions who get rich very fast)


    In fact, I really enjoy all not-intended for play factions, Macedon (unplayable in vanilla) is one of my favourites.


    What I don't like is when a faction is a thrown together from scratch and not different enough. For example the thracians, dacians in vanilla Rome were just like bad copies of gaul with 1-2 borrowed units from other nations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hopit View Post
    their lack of heavy infantry or cavalry is annoying, but they're relly good faction to play if you like challenge
    Ya well they do live in one of the hottest regions, lol. But archer cavalry and fast moving infantry can help. Good for ambushing and outflanking!
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    I like to use the Berbers too! I love to use the smaller challenging factions as compared to the more popular factions like Rome. I know playing as Rome is hard because of it's weakened state and etc, but they are still very powerful in battle compared to the troops of the Berbers. I have played as the Berbers in IB as well and it was equally as challenging. It makes the game so exciting because even when you do get large armies and alot of territories, it is still fragile because you're troops are really not that strong.

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    Great empire! +rep
    Always nice to see a pic. When I get around to playing vanilla BI, I will play the Berbers.
    Meh.

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    I quite like playing as them. As with any less developed faction, I think my biggest problem is stopping my cities rebelling without the complex law/happiness infrastructure other have.

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    Nice empire.

    A noob question here. How can i play the nonplayable faction in BI. It's just chance the file like vanila or i have o do something else ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nhinhonhinho View Post
    Nice empire.

    A noob question here. How can i play the nonplayable faction in BI. It's just chance the file like vanila or i have o do something else ?


    You must copy factions from the unlockable section to the playable one in descr.strat.


    The emergent factions are still unplayable, and will crash: rebels (or was is slaves?), ostrogoths, romano-british, ere rebels, wre rebels, slavs


    The rest, like Berbers or Celts are working well, just not all have an intro text at the selection screen.


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    Default Re: Anyone besides me play as the Berbers?

    I like their color+"tough desert warrior" attitude, lulz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Delta21 View Post
    I like their color+"tough desert warrior" attitude, lulz.

    Very true. I really like all desert factions in TW games. Numidia, Berbers, Parthia, Sassanids, Moors...

    (The only exception is Egypt in RTW)

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    I loved playing the berbers, it was one of the few BI campaigns that I spent a lot of time on before getting bored of it. I feel like most BI factions are too easy to win with.
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    I should try them sometime, i always play Saxons or Franks on BI Already quite hard imo


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    Default Re: Anyone besides me play as the Berbers?

    Thanks all for the comments. UPDATE OF MY EXPANSION!

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    Default Re: Anyone besides me play as the Berbers?

    Where are the huns? I see goths and sarmatians are still in place.

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    maybe in romania or sarmatia

    Quote Originally Posted by SgtScooter View Post
    If you went to the Skyrim forums you'll see a lot posts about how it's somehow been watered down and hampered by money men making the decisions. Fact is, it's a great game and people still complain. It's the same thing as the TW franchise.

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    Default Re: Anyone besides me play as the Berbers?

    But why haven't they horded every eastern european barbarian faction?

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    ways of the AI are mysterious

    Quote Originally Posted by SgtScooter View Post
    If you went to the Skyrim forums you'll see a lot posts about how it's somehow been watered down and hampered by money men making the decisions. Fact is, it's a great game and people still complain. It's the same thing as the TW franchise.

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    Default Re: Anyone besides me play as the Berbers?

    Gotta agree.

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