Thrace is the best faction.

[Thalmor]

Prove me wrong.

Protip: You can't

[Misterpolskatop1]

Originally posted by Industrial A_HUMBLEBUMBLED:

Originally posted by Zyx78boy:

Thrace can train both militia hoplites AND falxmen.

Try again m8 :^)

I beat them as Greece by bribing all their militia hoplites.

sick

[Lord Commander Jhogun]

I played as Thrace in the campaign and was kicking ass but i think it was only because i had the darth mod installed which make Thrace 1000x better than what they are in vanilla

[Lt. Ladders]

Originally posted by Zyx78boy:

Thrace can train both militia hoplites AND falxmen.

Try again m8 :^)

How are falxmen any good? I sent one unit of barbarian peasants (which are slightly better than normal peasants) against one unit of those guys, and they got their asses handed to them. Also, militia hoplites are pretty crap too. The only thing going for them is their shield.

Originally posted by TRA MoshonN:

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I'm not trying to say that Scythia is the best faction 5evar, but it does suit my playstyle best. I'm guessing Thrace is the same for you. On that note: March on, brother-in-arms.

When you find out other people play Scythia.

[Thalmor]

This was just a bait post I made last year for fun. It's not serious.

Thrace is an interesting faction to play because they're the only faction in the game to feature a mixed roster of ''civilized'' and ''barbarian'' units. However, their starting position isn't good and if the A.I. controls them, they usually lose.

They do suck, but I do personally think they're cool because of the mixed roster.

[Lt. Ladders]

Originally posted by Zyx78boy:

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I do personally think they're cool because of the mixed roster.

Yeah, that's honestly pretty much the best part of Thrace.

[Brotherscompany]

Nahh bro, they have a poor early economy and if you cant really focus on one single front.

You have to fight the Macedonians and once defeated you will have kickass Romans, once you fight the Dacia you will have Germania which will be a pain in the @ss and a not so profitable or usefull conquest or you can have the bad luck running into Sycthia

The military can be good in early game due to combination of falxmen and militia hopolite l wont dennie but later one you units arent so good later on and the lack of cavalary is overkill since you have to depend on it since your infantry wont stand a chance against elite infantry unless you can keep yor phalanx (which l doubt since my units are getting dumber and dumber and decide to use their daggers instead of the spear)

A good civilisation to use the p@ssy tactic since from early on you can guard your cities with hopolites but their gods dont give good bonus and you only have two

[Brotherscompany]

Armenia now is the big leader, you have a terrible start but you have to survive on horse archers which isnt hard at all.
You get a hopolite, legionaries, cataphrats, horse arches and super horse archers!
They have no problem on facing the Romans if you use your superb cavalary

They have a really hard begining but you can try to get Parthia right along and then you will evently evade Pontus or evade Thrace since its so easy and just defend a front or a city with the hopolites using the p@ssy tactic

You have a powerfull @ss economy since you have the silk road, execution square which decreasses corruption by increassing the law and a god that gives also law making it really good to cut that loss of income to corruption

So yeah if you can survive the increadibly hard begining as long you play on a defensive stance where is needed with the hopolites you can get everyone

#PEACE

[[TRA] MoshonN]

Originally posted by Ladders:

Originally posted by Zyx78boy:

Thrace can train both militia hoplites AND falxmen.

Try again m8 :^)

How are falxmen any good? I sent one unit of barbarian peasants (which are slightly better than normal peasants) against one unit of those guys, and they got their asses handed to them. Also, militia hoplites are pretty crap too. The only thing going for them is their shield.

Originally posted by TRA MoshonN:

-snip-

I'm not trying to say that Scythia is the best faction 5evar, but it does suit my playstyle best. I'm guessing Thrace is the same for you. On that note: March on, brother-in-arms.

When you find out other people play Scythia.

Tbh, Scythia is pretty much unplayable due their economy - or utter lack thereof. I use cheats to keep me out of debt and keep my minor cities from rioting due to overpopulation, but the military is all legit - and let me tell you, it feels amazing to pummel an army of 2000 with a general, one unit of barbarian cav and three horse archers.

[Lt. Ladders]

Originally posted by TRA MoshonN:

Originally posted by Ladders:

How are falxmen any good? I sent one unit of barbarian peasants (which are slightly better than normal peasants) against one unit of those guys, and they got their asses handed to them. Also, militia hoplites are pretty crap too. The only thing going for them is their shield.


When you find out other people play Scythia.

Tbh, Scythia is pretty much unplayable due their economy - or utter lack thereof. I use cheats to keep me out of debt and keep my minor cities from rioting due to overpopulation, but the military is all legit - and let me tell you, it feels amazing to pummel an army of 2000 with a general, one unit of barbarian cav and three horse archers.

So true. I had no problems with the economy, but I did have to forcibly keep my pop down.

[[TRA] MoshonN]

Originally posted by Ladders:

Originally posted by TRA MoshonN:

Tbh, Scythia is pretty much unplayable due their economy - or utter lack thereof. I use cheats to keep me out of debt and keep my minor cities from rioting due to overpopulation, but the military is all legit - and let me tell you, it feels amazing to pummel an army of 2000 with a general, one unit of barbarian cav and three horse archers.

So true. I had no problems with the economy, but I did have to forcibly keep my pop down.

Entering 'add _population -4000' two times gets rid of enough people to push the civil order up into the triple digits, but there are enough people left to still produce military units. Also, you don't destroy your own buildings which you would have to rebuild.

[Lt. Ladders]

Originally posted by TRA MoshonN:

Originally posted by Ladders:

So true. I had no problems with the economy, but I did have to forcibly keep my pop down.

Entering 'add _population -4000' two times gets rid of enough people to push the civil order up into the triple digits, but there are enough people left to still produce military units. Also, you don't destroy your own buildings which you would have to rebuild.

That's basically what I did, although I did have a few "exterminations" here and there.

[Iram Chunggus Han]

Ok well this is interesting I have to do dis ok.

Thracian only suck at one thing:cavalry. Their cavalry are useless piece of crap.
Their infantry however, can suit both defensive and offensive players. Wanna play like a barbarian? Falxmen will fill your needs. Play like a true greek? Hoplites. This flexibility ensures victory against infantry-based faction if you're clever enough to exploit this.

However, against factions like Parthia or Scythia, where their mobility is very, very above most factions. In a field battle Thrace is no more of a target practice. Their lack of proper anti-archercav units hinder themm further. If one have to face Scythia or Parthia, never reside in open fields. Make forts and defensive places to protect yourself from hails of arrows

[Brotherscompany]

Originally posted by Ahahahashoot:

Ok well this is interesting I have to do dis ok.

Thracian only suck at one thing:cavalry. Their cavalry are useless piece of crap.
Their infantry however, can suit both defensive and offensive players. Wanna play like a barbarian? Falxmen will fill your needs. Play like a true greek? Hoplites. This flexibility ensures victory against infantry-based faction if you're clever enough to exploit this.

Well in late game you get into super roman infantry which will tear you down, you would need the cavalary which you dont have so you have to stick mostly to the greek way

[Iram Chunggus Han]

Originally posted by Brotherscompany:

Originally posted by Ahahahashoot:

Ok well this is interesting I have to do dis ok.

Thracian only suck at one thing:cavalry. Their cavalry are useless piece of crap.
Their infantry however, can suit both defensive and offensive players. Wanna play like a barbarian? Falxmen will fill your needs. Play like a true greek? Hoplites. This flexibility ensures victory against infantry-based faction if you're clever enough to exploit this.

Well in late game you get into super roman infantry which will tear you down, you would need the cavalary which you dont have so you have to stick mostly to the greek way

And this , my friend forces you to either be defensuve all time and stay in cities or revert to use all-greek, while the wondrous falxmen only used as flanking

[Kami]

thrace is FAR from the best faction.

germania has barbarians that will tear pretty much anything apart.

the secluids and catharage have elephants that will trample ur men into dust.

the greeks have spartans that will kick you into pits. well, maybe not, but they'll tear anything short of war elephants apart.

in fact, i rank thrace as the worst faction in-game.

keep in mind im speaking from a custom battle standpoint here. i hate campaign, its nigh-impossible to gather a large enough army to counter the gauls in time.