Most fun campaign?

[Pattar]

So far for me the most fun has been Seleucids (VH/VH) because you get hit from all sides and it is very tough holding onto everything. It is the most eventful campaign I have had, I was just curious as to others' opinions on the most fun campaign to play.

[hoonii]

I like to play Greek Cities and Parthia. Parthia is pretty much hard to play because of its economy, you have to destroy Seleucids quickly. And Greek Cities is surrounded by both Scipii and Brutii families, Macedons, Pontus and Carthage. If you want a real challange I prefer Very Hard Greek Cities or Parthia. Last time I played Seleucids I had only Antioch though.

[Pattar]

Do the Greek States get a benefit from the Marius reforms like improved bodyguard or it stays the same?

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

The Greeks get armoured bodyguards, yes, but their bodyguards just like with the other Hellenistic factions are the worst in the game. That's the only Marius reform like thing they get which is the best any non-Roman faction gets in that reguard.

[Ëvïlnïck8 ゴゴゴ]

I personaly think the Romans are the most fun.
You get good units, your cities have plenty of stuff to build in, you always will have some sort of intresthing end-game againts the other roman factions. I personaly realy enjoy taking over the barbarian lands as the Julie and seeing those barbarian towns grow into proper large cities.

Porblem i have with barbarians is that their cities can only be minor ones and dont have much stuff to build.
Hellenistic factions like Greeks and Macedon rely on phlanx units, and the AI cant deal with phalanx unit. So it becomes realy easy.
Same with horse archers, the AI cant deal with horse archers, so once you have a stack of horse archers you pretty much won the game.

[Armchair Civilian]

Vanilla? Seleucids or Armenia, though when i first started i REALLY enjoyed playing as Carthage.
In EB, most factions are pretty good fun, though i'd give special mention to Lusotann, Hayasadan, Baktria and the Sakae

[Myrmidon]

I've always wanted to try a VH/VH as Parthia but I think the battles would be so incredibly long that even a light skirmish on a patrol could take 30mins.

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Are you mistaking Parthia with Scythia? For Parthia has cataphracts, cataphract camels and the best non-chariot generals in the game, they certainly don't need to waste time skirmishing with cav that powerful on their side. It would be had to take stone walled cities though, they have no infantry to capture walls with should there be any resistance, but mercs and bribes could change that.

[spitfire23]

Originally posted by The Winking Skeever:

Vanilla? Seleucids or Armenia, though when i first started i REALLY enjoyed playing as Carthage.
In EB, most factions are pretty good fun, though i'd give special mention to Lusotann, Hayasadan, Baktria and the Sakae

Had a great campaign as bactria early on, but for some reason my campaign glitched and none of my ports traded with anybody costing me a ton of revenue that I couldn't replace

[hoonii]

Originally posted by Pattar:

Do the Greek States get a benefit from the Marius reforms like improved bodyguard or it stays the same?

Greek Armoured Body Guard is only effective with charge and fall back tactic. They got powerful charge(+9 dmg) but nothing else.

Originally posted by Myrmidon:

I've always wanted to try a VH/VH as Parthia but I think the battles would be so incredibly long that even a light skirmish on a patrol could take 30mins.

Parthian battles are easy for me though. You tire the enemy army with horse archers and when horse archers complete their jobs you charge with cataphracts and the whole army will route.

[Myrmidon]

Originally posted by Høøniə:

Originally posted by Pattar:

Do the Greek States get a benefit from the Marius reforms like improved bodyguard or it stays the same?

Greek Armoured Body Guard is only effective with charge and fall back tactic. They got powerful charge(+9 dmg) but nothing else.

Originally posted by Myrmidon:

I've always wanted to try a VH/VH as Parthia but I think the battles would be so incredibly long that even a light skirmish on a patrol could take 30mins.

Parthian battles are easy for me though. You tire the enemy army with horse archers and when horse archers complete their jobs you charge with cataphracts and the whole army will route.

Yes but it's still extremely time consuming. A campaign can take months real time.

[NekRon99]

My favs are any faction except roman ones, particularly carthaginian campaigns with varying strategies regarding who to kill first. Or even trying to keep other factions alive long enough to let them grow (i.e. seleucids and greeks/macedons) for lategame battles.

[Pattar]

Originally posted by NekRon99:

My favs are any faction except roman ones, particularly carthaginian campaigns with varying strategies regarding who to kill first. Or even trying to keep other factions alive long enough to let them grow (i.e. seleucids and greeks/macedons) for lategame battles.

So lategame does the AI as seleucids use good unit composition for armies or does it just mass 1 or 2 unit?

[piper.spirit]

Parthia is kinda fun because it's easy to use your horse archers and gain some pretty big wins against the ai.

[Brotherscompany]

Perhaps you guys are overlooking the Barbarian Invasion...

l despised this expansion for year since it had less cities and it always seemed to be too easy and always end in the same way. l know tried out it just for some fresh air and l actually found really fun the different way of playing and the way it allows you to play

l played on VH/H with Darthmod for extra difficulty and l found it really amusing.
l played with the Samartians which are basically step people and l became nomad. l went for the Romans to be more challeging and eveuntly after l set up myself after much thought battles l end u p being forced to keep conquering cities and declaring wars to be able to get more money since you can only do the basic ports which made me in a realy hard position and have a dedicated army to be conquering random cities, extreminate them and abandom so l wouldnt go bankrupt

Give it a try, you will find fun the fresh air the way it opens of playing that you cannot recreate in the Vanilla

[NekRon99]

Pattar, tbh in my experience it seems trying to revive a dying faction doesnt work as well as it should. For example Ive gifted the Seleucids cities and tons of gold and protected them as an ally. I feel as if once they have been soundly beaten they lose aggressiveness and usually stupidly declare war on me instead of thinking of their own historical enemies who beat them down in the first place. I have a game currently saved where Im right at that point; Im carthage with Rome contained, Egypt down to one backwater province, Parthia and Armenia encroaching on the seleucids who I have protected thus far. Just recently they cancelled our alliance however so we shall see. Oh, I kept the greeks around as well, and Macedon is big too. I like how things are shaping up I just have to stop my own expanding and let them come to me hehe.