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I might bring 2-3 phalanxes along with each attacking army rather than 1 spearman. Kills several birds with one stone in captured cities.Ĭlick to expand.I'd agree that Phalanxes can serve double-duty as city attackers in the early game, and can take swordsmen if the battle is tilted slightly in their favor, and as such, reccomend themselves more than a typical spearman. Instead of building a theater, temple, and coliseum.I can build an Odeon and be done with it for quite some time. Not too many UUs are solid for several eras (praets) but the phalanx is.ĮDIT: Forgot to mention the Odeon, a versatile UB. I usually have them with three to four promotions when Pikemen come online, but I can put the upgrades off for a bit.theyre strong enough to deal with Knights and War Elephants. It just destroys chariots and horse archers, but it also dominates against other UUs in the same time period.Keshik, Numidian, War chariot, while standing their ground against Swordmen.

Aggresive is a cant-miss military trait that doesnt need time to "build up" like Imperialistic or Charismatic, plus the cheap barracks are nice in the beginning when you dont have the time to build them. The GP really help you stay in the tech race.lightbulbs, academies, trade missions, wonder rushing, culture bombs for captured cities.you name it. Phil is an awesome trait in my book for a warmonger, I think. True Alexander's starting techs suck, what's with no minning, but he has some real power.Īlexander is one of my favorites. I've been thrilled to get this on Emporer. His UB is also under rated as an extra happyness in one of the first happyness building is huge on higher levels.

It's can counter and early horse unit, which are becoming more and more popular, and it at least stands some sort of chance against axe men or sword men.

True it'll never be a great offensive unit, but it has great defensive utility. With a trait like Charasmatic you may get promotions faster but after a certain point there still very hard to get, while agressive essentally allows you to reach a higher level in the promotion chain. And since it doesn't count as a promotion it's still easy to get the earliest promotions. This allows not only the imideate benifit of +10%, but it allows access to more powerfull promotions later. I think agressive gets somewhat lost in the shuffle of the new traits but a free combat 1 promotion is huge. Philisophical allows a specialist economy, in fact it's really the backbone of it, and agressive is a great trait. I've been growing more and more impressed with Alexander.