Which faction(s) are you most looking forward to in the Autumn release?

[jim600]

Come the release wich faction will you play.... and why ?

[romanius24]

Definitely Rome. I want to see the proper roman units. I hate Camillan troops. I know they are historical but that doesnt mean i have to like those cheap Greek rip offs.

[excubitor]

what makes you think the polybian are any different from the camillans?they sport the same battle tactics and almost the same equipment.

[kingman1337]

Hayasdan. Mainly so I can play with their new beautiful units.

[demagogos nicator]

That is really hard to say. In my current mood I would say Romans (polybian units), Pritanoi (new regional aar) and maybe Getai or Antigonids (to try some thracians and scythians).

[Roma_Victrix]

KOINON HELLENON. Nuff said.

[HarkonRules]

Romans, Romans, Romans.

[Funkmaster Rick]

Ultramarines.

[Larm]

oh thats hard to say. There are so many new units and updated factions that I wanna replay when the Autumn release comes out. But sinds I have to make a choice: Hayasdan. Because of there new horsemen.

[Roma_Victrix]

oh thats hard to say. There are so many new units and updated factions that I wanna replay when the Autumn release comes out. But sinds I have to make a choice: Hayasdan. Because of there new horsemen.

Even the Seleucids are going to have awesome cataphracts. Bactria already has heavy "hippotoxotai" horse archers. And thankfully the Bosporan Greeks will have horse archers this time around too. If you play as Rome and expand all the way to the Black Sea and the Bosporus, I think you'll be able to recruit horse archer mercenaries as well. Game over with Roman legions + Hellenistic and steppe horse archers.

[QuintusSertorius]

Even the Seleucids are going to have awesome cataphracts. Bactria already has heavy "hippotoxotai" horse archers. And thankfully the Bosporan Greeks will have horse archers this time around too. If you play as Rome and expand all the way to the Black Sea and the Bosporus, I think you'll be able to recruit horse archer mercenaries as well. Game over with Roman legions + Hellenistic and steppe horse archers.

Actually the Romans won't be able to recruit Thureopherontes Hippotoxotai. They're factional and colony building only - neither Allied Governments nor mercenary pools produce them.

[Roma_Victrix]

Actually the Romans won't be able to recruit Thureopherontes Hippotoxotai. They're factional and colony building only - neither Allied Governments nor mercenary pools produce them.

Really? That's kind of a bummer. Oh well. I'm going to be playing as Koinon Hellenon first, anyway, so doesn't affect me until I play as the Romans.

[QuintusSertorius]

Even the Seleucids are going to have awesome cataphracts. Bactria already has heavy "hippotoxotai" horse archers. And thankfully the Bosporan Greeks will have horse archers this time around too. If you play as Rome and expand all the way to the Black Sea and the Bosporus, I think you'll be able to recruit horse archer mercenaries as well. Game over with Roman legions + Hellenistic and steppe horse archers.

Actually the Romans won't be able to recruit Thureopherontes Hippotoxotai. They're factional and colony building only - neither Allied Governments nor mercenary pools produce them.

[squirrelmaster]

Any of the Germanic factions.

I'm excited to see the changes the reforms bring about.

[myarta]

Rome for me. Though I'm confused that some of you are mentioning Polybians, since it's my understanding the Autumn Release will in fact feature the Marian cohorts, which I'm excited to play. I went back to EB1 just to get a fuller Rome experience, but I forgot how bad the graphics are on the RTW engine, even the Alexander version.

[Roma_Victrix]

Rome for me. Though I'm confused that some of you are mentioning Polybians, since it's my understanding the Autumn Release will in fact feature the Marian cohorts, which I'm excited to play. I went back to EB1 just to get a fuller Rome experience, but I forgot how bad the graphics are on the RTW engine, even the Alexander version.

Nope. Just the Polybians, not the post-Marian legions. For that you'll need to look to midnite's submod that I prodded him into making, taking legionaries from the De Bello Mundi mod and putting them into EB II:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...an-Legionaires

His submod will be ready not long after the next release of EB II, hopefully.

[myarta]

Nope. Just the Polybians, not the post-Marian legions. For that you'll need to look to midnite's submod that I prodded him into making, taking legionaries from the De Bello Mundi mod and putting them into EB II:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...an-Legionaires

His submod will be ready not long after the next release of EB II, hopefully.

Huh, that's weird. I thought Polybians were already in the game. Granted, I haven't made it long enough as Rome to get the fall-back reforms (248 turns), having had trouble getting enough big-enough battles in Cisalpine Gaul to qualify before conquering it all.

[alex33]

Huh, that's weird. I thought Polybians were already in the game. Granted, I haven't made it long enough as Rome to get the fall-back reforms (248 turns), having had trouble getting enough big-enough battles in Cisalpine Gaul to qualify before conquering it all.

yes there are some polybian units in the game but they are mostly just placeholders

[alex33]

I've waited for the autumn release so i can finally play my favourite faction: Arche seleukeia. Now i have my favourite units kataphractoi, thorakitai, elite phalanx and some other great stuff like the promachoi. This will be so awesome. off course as always my beloved quart hadast and i also wanna try out the reskinned numidians and actually every faction tbh hahaha

[myarta]

Well, darn. I was thinking I would see the cohort units in the Autumn release. Obviously they intend to do them, since it's in our time frame. I didn't realize that was going to be at some even later release. At least I found out now instead of on the day of release.