Terribad infantry. Seleucids have the best unit mix.
Help a Rome: TW newbie
- Thread starter RedRalph
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But the worst starting position. Macedon all the way.
Besides, starting positions don't matter that much in vanilla.
Lade
Prince
True, but you can own pretty much anything with calvary, which the parthians have the best of.
Macedon is only a cut and paste to play, besides, I have no idea why they don't just let you play every civ (well, SPQR are understandable)
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Baktria is fun. Nobody to your east, the north is containable (Saka Raka (spelling?) are not good at sieging xD) and "rebels" to your south. Seleucid to your West but eh, I can deal with them.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
The non-playable factions tends to be those considered "disposable", in that they will likely end up as fodder for other, apparently more "important" factions- in Macedon's case, the Brutii- and so they never bothered to go into much detail with them, leaving them with mostly generic or borrowed units. Apparently, they didn't want this to become too clearly evident- after all, who would guess who very short the Spanish tech-tree is when they get stomped all over so soon?- so they disallowed players from using those factions and realising for themselves. Didn't really seem to work, but I suppose it may well have done for casual players and reviwers.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
IMO one of the funnest things about AS is those tense moments when enemies are pressing in from every side and you're rushing armies back and forth between fronts, trading cities left and right, just hoping to stay alive long enough for an opportunity to open up or to find an enemy at a moment of weakness and exploit it. That's what really makes these games fun, and honestly makes you proud of a good days' work.
I hated Saba. You spend ages waging minor campaigns in Arabia before you can actually do anything
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
I've only played Pontos in RTR, and I found it very fun. Another fun one, although very very hard, is the Sarmatians. The only way I could make any headway was to sieze distant lands with domestic heavy infantry levies; Thracian Infantry, Galatians, if you can get there, German infantry types, or the infantry units available in Armenia, crappy as they are. The horse archers just don't cut it against Macedonian pezhetairoi, not enough for you to do more than forestall their invasions.
Saurometai are annoying in EB not because of any real difficulty, but because fighting as a steppe state, with insane distances to go for you to conquer just a few provinces, is bloody boring.
The thing to hate about Saba isn't the relatively short Arabian wars, it's the frigging near-impossible fight against the Ptolemaioi. You know, since you can't recruit any infantry that can come close to stopping theirs, and your cavalry doesn't stand up either.
lifelessgamer
Chieftain
I have a problem, every time I right click almost immediately a left click function follows it. I can't really describe it but try it for yourself, right click, keep you finger on the mouse and then left click. It cause annoyance and unplayability sometimes, it ranges on EVERY right click function for me, from battle map to campaign map. Can anyone help me?
The worst part of it is it affects both Medieval 2 and Rome total war
The worst part of it is it affects both Medieval 2 and Rome total war
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
I'm trying to remember any use for right clicking in the games, can't think of any.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Units and stack commands are generally issued using a right click. The left click selects in that case. Merging stacks, for example, uses a right click, while the left click would simply change the selected stack.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Oh right, I generally remember most commands once I am playing a game but outside of it I get them confused sometimes >_<
shadowplay
your ad here
What effect does having games thrown in your honour have?
I think it increases happiness.
Games in general increase happiness; when they are thrown in your honour then it's free. Normally, putting on games is the same as lowering taxes by 1 notch.
Jos Ballenbak
Zombiehunter, duh.....
Gauls are most fun in Vanilla, as they pose some tactical difficulty.
