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From Rome 2 multiplayer, I remember spearmen absolutely not even with swords :P My server played with swords limit, because then everyone would pick only them!

Spearmen purpose was to buy you time and for other units to tire out, before you'd bring in your swords :D

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Yeah idk about Rome 2, never played that one. It sounds like the game is unbalanced if an all-swordsman army is best and nobody has come up with a counter. Then again I doubt any of those games are very well balanced for pvp battles.

We had like, 10 pages of rules.

And every community had their own...

WH 3 basically solved this issue by making MP battles be capture the points style - genuinely, it freed us from having to make house rules.

Probably one of them has to do with camping, since defending armies have an advantage. Eh, most pvp video games aren't fun when people treat it like a job.

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