What about Seleucids now?

[Antiochus]

There are 12 playable free factions:

a) 9 for all game:
- Rome
- Carthage
- Macedon
- Iceni
- Arverni
- Suebi
- Parthia
- Egypt
- Pontus

b) 3 pre-order:
- Athens
- Epirus
- Sparta


What about Seleucids? Do you think they will be playable? If yes, they will be a free?
There are possible options:

- Free-LC
- classic DLC
- collector edition
- no playable

[kamikazee786]

9+3 = 11

such a shamefurr dispraay of maths, sorry no Seleucids for you

[Prince Regent George]

9+3=12

EDIT: You were faster than me, Kamikazee!

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[kamikazee786]

9+3=12

EDIT: You were faster than me, Kamikazee!

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im not an asian, im an Arab living in Japan, quite close to Himeji Castle actually

[petertel123]

im not an asian, im an Arab living in Japan, quite close to Himeji Castle actually

technically, arabia is still asia

[kamikazee786]

technically, arabia is still asia

touché

[Mary The Quene]

XD

so we have a guy who cant do addition and another who needs to go over geography

Arabia is in the middle east

The middle east lays in in Asia if we speak about continents

Btw i fully agree with Antiochus, it's really a shame that SE didn't got included and we got parthia instead.
they will be paid dlc , i bet.

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

im not an asian, im an Arab living in Japan, quite close to Himeji Castle actually

That. That is the coolest thing ever. +1 for multiculturalism!

[karamazovmm]

aside your non existent math, who the are the seleucids never heard of them

[Sun Jetzu]

aside your non existent math, who the are the seleucids never heard of them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucid_Empire
They were pretty cool in the first game too. But they kinda already have an empire at this point. idk if it would be boring to play as an already established power.

[Mary The Quene]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucid_Empire
They were pretty cool in the first game too. But they kinda already have an empire at this point. idk if it would be boring to play as an already established power.

They're intresting because their empire really was unstable and got so many rebellions at the given time of the game

[Antiochus]

I hope people like Seleucids.

Thay have amazing and specific units like war elephants (only Seleucids have ARMOURED elephantes), Silver Shield phalangites (elite phalanx with silver armors), many mercenaries (Celtic - Galatians, Greek, African, Judean, Indian, Cappadocian, Persian, Syrian), Romanized elite infantry and HELLENISTIC CATAPHRACTS, of course.

They have some units which are in other rosters like Scythed Chariots (Egypt, Pontus), Greek, Celtic mercenaries, but only Seleucids have these units in one faction.

You must play Egypt, Pontus, Parthia, Epir, Macedon... Why? Seleucids have 95% units of these all factions.

[karamazovmm]

I hope people like Seleucids.

Thay have amazing and specific units like war elephants (only Seleucids have ARMOURED elephantes), Silver Shield phalangites (elite phalanx with silver armors), many mercenaries (Celtic - Galatians, Greek, African, Judean, Indian, Cappadocian, Persian, Syrian), Romanized elite infantry and HELLENISTIC CATAPHRACTS, of course.

They have some units which are in other rosters like Scythed Chariots (Egypt, Pontus), Greek, Celtic mercenaries, but only Seleucids have these units in one faction.

You must play Egypt, Pontus, Parthia, Epir, Macedon... Why? Seleucids have 95% units of these all factions.

and the largest empire for a very long part of the game.

even on EB it was easy to kill the annoying pontus first and retreat from the pahlava and leave bactria to deal with saka rauka, then establish good defensive frontiers on the bactria border and hold the land bridge at byzantion, quite easy due to geography and kill the ptolomies, then proceed to smash saka and whats left of bactria, that done you can turn to macedon that is fighting the romans in a very pitched battle, usually winning

where is the fun?

and dont worry they will appear, there is about a new thread each day about the seleucids

[HigoChumbo]

I hope people like Seleucids.

I liked the Seleucids before you filled the forums with ten daily threads about them.


They are going to be playable eventually, but i'd rather have other more unique options done first (iberians, scythians, dacians, etc). And about them being free... gaming companies and publishers are not preciselly known for their charity. So no, i don't think so.

[jamreal18]

Those three are not for free, so not all players can have them... These are only for those will pre-order..... I dont how many will pay for it later... Ill just wait for gold version so i can have it included on the game... Although gold version may appear 2 years later....

[torongill]

Without more info we cannot say for sure, but if there are no more announcements about Free-LC factions, my guess would be a paid DLC or not playable.

[Noif de Bodemloze]

Maybe it will come in "Eastern factions DLC" pack

[ROYAL SIPHAI]

Hellenic Seleucid Empire a mix of Western and Eastern culture.

Silver Shield Pikemens + Cataphracts + Armoured Elephants + Silver Shield Legionaries + Scythe Chariots + Other Local Mercenaries= THE BEST MIX

Proved my point.

[Mary The Quene]

Hellenic Seleucid Empire a mix of Western and Eastern culture.

Silver Shield Pikemens + Cataphracts + Armoured Elephants + Silver Shield Legionaries + Scythe Chariots + Other Local Mercenaries= THE BEST MIX

Proved my point.

This^^^^

[HusKatten]

Hellenic Seleucid Empire a mix of Western and Eastern culture.

Silver Shield Pikemens + Cataphracts + Armoured Elephants + Silver Shield Legionaries + Scythe Chariots + Other Local Mercenaries= THE BEST MIX

Proved my point.

I might speak for myself now, but i prefer to have the stronger factions as my enemies. I don't like knowing that i can both out-maneuver the AI and have exceedingly better units than them also. SE will probably come as a DLC, but i'm currently OK with them not being announced yet.

Sometimes the best and most mixed roster is the worst roster, if you ask me.