Armenia (RTW Faction)
Armenia are one of the factions in Rome: Total War designed to be non-playable. However they can be made playable by simple modifications to the game files.
Contents
Game Play
Starting Position
Armenia begin in modern day Armenia and Georga, north-west of Pontus, south-west of the Sycthians and east of Parthia
Win Conditions
Units
generally speaking, Armenian armies are made up of terrible infantry but powerful cavalry, both horse archers and cataphracts, the exception this this is the heavy spearmen unit, who can make a suprisingly effective phalax for troops that hail from such hilly terrain.
Unique Units
As already mentioned, Heavy Spearmen are an effective, if expensive, phalax.
Armenia is the only faction that can recruit cataphracts-archers who have a weaker charge than normal cataphracts but can use bows to soften up the enemy formation, but they cannot use regular horse archers tactics as their heavy armour will quickly tire them out.