Jump to content

About The Hellenic Factions


Sophokles
 Share

Recommended Posts

I love what you did to the concept of Hellas. It looks like someone finally realized that Macedon and the city-states don't belong in the same category. ;)

There is still a problem, though: there is no representation of Epiros. I'm sure that somewhere in your history articles is something about King Pyrrhus. Since the game involves Romans inevitably fighting the Hellenes, it would make sense to differentiate between the southern city-states and Epiros.

Just a suggestion. I personally think that 2 factions is enough. It is just good to remember that not all of Hellenic glory can be divided into 2 regions.

yiasou!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

can someone explain me why this should be???

i don't know very much about Ελλάδα ;) at the time of the Romans

my knowledge is limited to the time of the trojan, persian and poleponnesian wars. at that time Epiros was not much diffrent with the rest of the poli.

the where not of much importance in the first to major wars but in the poleponnesian war they just joined the athenian alliance expect some smaller cities who choose for sparta...

I love what you did to the concept of Hellas. It looks like someone finally realized that Macedon and the city-states don't belong in the same category.

hmmm i don't know how much you read about this game, but phillip and alexander are just part of the hellenes faction together with their palagnites and cavalry....

Link to comment
Share on other sites

In the Hellenistic era, under Pyrrhus, Epiros became a major player in Italian and Greek politics. Pyrrhus battled the Romans, the Syracusans, Carthaginians, and Spartans. The guy was everywhere. Plus he had a pretty sweet helmet. ;)

http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/john...4/original.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus

Edited by Mythos_Ruler
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hey, now that we are on the topic, can you clarify how the phalanxes work?

Is it like you get enough of them and order them to form up? And will there be reduced mobility, strength against horses and camels, and weakened flanks?

And finally, are there swordsmen of some type? Like hypapists?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I am the last person to talk about game balancing, but I think that a lack of general-purpose swordsmen makes the Hellenic army inflexible(which it was, of course).

I am just worried that a phalanx would be annihilated by fanatical Gauls because there is no effective rearguard for the Hellenes. Same thing goes for toxotes and peltasts.

Of course, you probably figured this out already. I am speaking hypothetically, since the game is in development.

Σπαρτανς!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I find it odd that your putting phalanxes in a real time strategy game that already has a counter system. Normally, formations are a characteristic of RTT games without any "x beats y" system.

So are there any other tactics? (testudos, Cantabrian circles, wedges?)

Edited by Sophokles
Link to comment
Share on other sites

hello, I am new on these forums, I just thought that I would humbly put forward my thoughts on Greek balance. from what I have studied, Macedonian phalanx was almost TOTALLY invulnerable to frontal attack by any unit except maybe elephants. even the roman Tripleex line, some of the best and most disciplined swords men ever, were not able to do anything to the phalanx until they either flanked it or somehow broke it. as long as it held, infantry and Calvary alike was slaughtered at the points of the phalanx. so is this implemented? and another question, do roman reforms happen? I mean, the Roman army changed ALLOT in the thousand years of history that this wonderful looking game is said to cover. do they go from the republican pseudo Greek military to the republican, then to the post marain, and finally to the roman army of the late empire? will auxilia be available? will the post Alexander successor states have their historical ability to recruit large contingents of natives? thanks for all you answers, I am looking forward to this!

Edited by Hannible of Qarthadastim
Link to comment
Share on other sites

We are representing our factions in specific "slices" of time. So, the Romans use the Polybian reforms for their army (Triarii, Principes, Hastati). The Marian reforms we might add in as a patch later on (I have some very cool plans for that, but we need to get the game to version 1.0 before we start implementing that stuff). The Greek city states sub-faction is the 5th century Greeks, while the Macedonian sub-faction is the 4th century Macedonians. The Carthaginians are the 2nd Punic War Carthaginians, while the Celts and Iberians are from around 200BC - 100 BC. Persians are 5th century BC Persians. ;)

And yeah, the Syntagma in our game will be nearly invulnerable from the front.

Edited by Mythos_Ruler
Link to comment
Share on other sites

We had to divide the Principes and Hastati into different unit-types, because the game design dictated that we not have two citizen-soldiers in a faction of the same type (Infantry Spearman, Infantry Swordsman, etc.), so the Principes are Infantry Javelinists (throwing the pilum), and the Hastati are Swordsmen.

Elven Ranger asked about experience. Yes, all citizen-soldiers upgrade themselves based upon experience. You train units at the basic level, then the level-up to Advanced, then to Elite. Each level gives a different, more elite looking appearance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Pardon my brother. ;) He has not yet read the FAQ, forum, or comments. He's doing all of that now.

So anyway, how much strength is given to tactics and to the counter system? For example: A hoplite can take on an equite 1v1, but not when charging up a hill. Or how about fanatics destroying tirarii behind their line but not in front?

I can't wait to see the result. It looks like you guys had the insight that RTS+tactics=realistic combat.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

So, there will be something like Elite Hastati?

That would look weird IMHO.

What about Hastati being able to upgrade with experience to Principes and later to Triarii?

Principes and Triarii would be trainable, too, but would be more expensive.

Also, I wouldn't follow game dictating design. I don't see point in not having two units of same type. Romans did so. If you balance better unit with higher price, I think it is OK.

Personally, I's prefer to have Hastati as javelinmen if you think, that you can't have two swordsmen (but I see no reason why).

Technically, both, Hastati and Principes were swordsmen and javelinmen. But I think, that usually only Hastati had opportunity to throw their Pilla, because they could do so before lines clashed. Then throwing of Pillum was IMHO impossible as it pressure of battle there was no time/space to throw pillum as heavy fighting occurred.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I agree. Hastati used their pila more than the principes.

Speaking of pila, will there be friendly fire in the game? Cause in most RTS games, arrows and such cause damage even if they don't actually land on the target. For that reason, I hate it when the lightest, fastest cavalry get hit by catapults EVEN WHEN THEY CLEARLY OUTRUN THEM.

Of course, friendly fire or out-running artillery are characteristics of RTT and not RTS games. In real life, however, I am sure that quite a few unlucky velites were killed by impatient hastati.

Postscriptum: Are there even velites in the game? Because I can't imagine armored principes as skirmishers.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share

×
×
  • Create New...