I don't know what you guys where thinking, but I just wasted 3 hours of life on this Mod (previously my favorite) only to be totally, utterly destroyed by the Greeks.
Why? I had high walls, I had lots of troops and I had barracks to build tough units. So how did I fail?
Easy - PHALANX - 50% versus melee units.
Well I didn't have horses and I hadn't had access to ivory that long so regardless all the defenses I did; I was screwed. I even built fortress in choke-points between mountains so they would have to attack me at my strongest. Didn't matter a damn.
Plus, I know they've tweaked the AI and it's not supposed to "cheat" but how come I was practically bankrupting my Civ just to keep enough units so other Civs won't attack me and the Greeks (who had a similar sized empire as mine) is able to pump out twice as many units as me? Yes, I'm sure certain civics helped, but this is insane! I know this is "just a game" but you know as a fan of history and a 17y intel analyst vet of the Army, I can tell you that it is true what they say about talking tactics vs logistics. We were barely into the classic age and these guys are able to field multiple 10 unit stacks? How? How are they going to support that?
Well, until these balance issues get fixed (see my previous post about the SUPER Xebecs) I'm going back to playing Fall from Heaven. Which is really too bad since I like a lot of the changes recently in this mod. However, it's just unplayable as too many Civs seem to have 'super troopers' you can't beat. I mean I pretty much was "build a defensive unit/build a building" and I still got clobber. Hell, I even got mad and before pulling the plug on the game, I went into the Worldbuilder and plunk down lots of heavy swordsmen and pikemen and THEY almost to a unit got killed by these Phalanxes!
You know, historically the swifter Roman Legion defeated the bulky Phalanx. In Rise of Mankind, that wouldn't happen.