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Just a few weeks out from release, so what factions are you guys planning on playing first?

The uber-nerd in me wants to go Sparta, but I may try Athens out. Eitherway, it will be one of the Greek City-States.

Knowing myself I will go with some of the Barbarian factions, because looting, burning and sowing mayhem down south never grows old

I will probably go for sparta.

Carthage. Or Pontus.

Definitely Carthage. I have an elephant cavalry fetish that was never satisfied by AoE or Civ ('cause the elephant units there weren't particularly good).

TheSGC wrote:
Definitely Carthage. I have an elephant cavalry fetish that was never satisfied by AoE or Civ ('cause the elephant units there weren't particularly good).

Just means you didn't use enough of them...

Rome.

Duh.

I've waited many years for taking command of my legions again ...

 Lynata wrote:
Rome.

Duh.

I've waited many years for taking command of my legions again ...

agreed

 purplefood wrote:

TheSGC wrote:
Definitely Carthage. I have an elephant cavalry fetish that was never satisfied by AoE or Civ ('cause the elephant units there weren't particularly good).

Just means you didn't use enough of them...

Never said I did. But there was always a better unit, and they were very niche imo.

TheSGC wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

TheSGC wrote:
Definitely Carthage. I have an elephant cavalry fetish that was never satisfied by AoE or Civ ('cause the elephant units there weren't particularly good).

Just means you didn't use enough of them...

Never said I did. But there was always a better unit, and they were very niche imo.

That just means you need more elephants.
Maxim 6: If elephants weren't your last resort you failed to resort to enough elephants.

I'm imagining the fight in Matrix: Reloaded with the elepha-I mean, Smiths and Neo

Just now - was simply surfing the web and saw this:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/elephants-take-revenge-on-village-after-herd-member-is-struck-by-train--210026298.html
Ah, how life has a way of doing things we'd never expect.

Probably Egypt, Macedonia or Pontus.

Whatever barbarian faction has the most units with axes. Undoubtedly it'll be something Germanic.

I was always partial to the Greeks. When I wasn't busy smashing everybody with house Julii

Either Rome or Carthage. Then one of the Greek states.

Germans or Greeks

Rome. The changes to legions/armies will be pretty cool, and I want to play around with the economy game.

Also suspect we'll see far fewer Greek players when the game is released and people find that hoplites are no longer laughably powerful as in Rome 1.

It's a single player game, why do I care how powerful things are. I take what I want and play how I like.

Legionaries were the most powerful units in Rome 1 anyway.

Urbans were single-handedly the most ridiculously powerful units in Rome (Not that I'm complaining, lol)

I'm thinking Pontus, Carthage, or one of the Greek City-States. I played as Rome often in the first game, and I like the starting positions for these factions.

MarsNZ wrote:
It's a single player game, why do I care how powerful things are. I take what I want and play how I like.

Legionaries were the most powerful units in Rome 1 anyway.

Not really. Unless you think running up to the enemy, then stopping to get out a javelin thus allowing the enemy to assault you, is powerful. Plus they'd lose to the Greeks easily, hoplites were insanely OP. The powerful Roman units were late-game and expensive, you can get Armoured Hoplites as Greece from the get-go and from then on you just crush the game. A stack of armoured hoplites with a few flanking cavalry units won't lose a single battle throughout the entire game, and most players had 5 or 6 of them.

xruslanx wrote:

MarsNZ wrote:
It's a single player game, why do I care how powerful things are. I take what I want and play how I like.

Legionaries were the most powerful units in Rome 1 anyway.

Not really. Unless you think running up to the enemy, then stopping to get out a javelin thus allowing the enemy to assault you, is powerful. Plus they'd lose to the Greeks easily, hoplites were insanely OP. The powerful Roman units were late-game and expensive, you can get Armoured Hoplites as Greece from the get-go and from then on you just crush the game. A stack of armoured hoplites with a few flanking cavalry units won't lose a single battle throughout the entire game, and most players had 5 or 6 of them.

Not my experience at all. I'm currently playing VH battles as the Greeks, and Romans (pre-marian) I'm going 50/50 on. Post-Marian I am probably going to get steamrolled, if I don't managed to get one of the three families down at least before then. Hoplites are very easy to win with if you can get a funnel situation going, but in a line to line battle with the Romans, it's never a certainty.

Am I the only one not getting worked up about this game? I just feel like I'm going to be doing the same things as in the first game just with better graphics.

I played the crap out of Rome. I guess I'm just burnt out on the period. (Even after all this time)

Define "worked up". I'm excited and looking forward to it, but not in a sort of "ONLY X MORE DAYS! SQUEEEEEE!" way; more of a "Huh, I'll be able to play R2:TW soon. =)" way.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Define "worked up".

Well, excited enough to pre-order it, let's say.

I was always going to buy it, and in order to play as Sparta I needed to pre-order it, so that's my excuse for pre-ordering.

xruslanx wrote:

MarsNZ wrote:
It's a single player game, why do I care how powerful things are. I take what I want and play how I like.

Legionaries were the most powerful units in Rome 1 anyway.

Not really. Unless you think running up to the enemy, then stopping to get out a javelin thus allowing the enemy to assault you, is powerful. Plus they'd lose to the Greeks easily, hoplites were insanely OP. The powerful Roman units were late-game and expensive, you can get Armoured Hoplites as Greece from the get-go and from then on you just crush the game. A stack of armoured hoplites with a few flanking cavalry units won't lose a single battle throughout the entire game, and most players had 5 or 6 of them.

Armoured hoplites weren't cheap either, the Greeks also reached their best units by about turn 10 whereas the Romans continued to improve throughout the game. If you let slow moving unmanoevarable hoplites charge you you were doing it wrong. You could get all the Pilae thrown before they'd even reach you. Unless you mean the Hoplites were 'spears up', in which case it was a whitewash for the Romans.

Either Greece or Sparta. My favorite thing about Rome 1 was using lots and lots of hoplites, they just look so freakin' cool!

SPQR..

This game really brings back memories, counting down the days

The EB mod hooked me on the Hellenic factions, so for me its probably going to be Makedonia, hammer and anvil (or the Seleukids, come on CA, please ).

Gentleman, just to get your hype up: