Egypt Faction Guide - Rome Total War (Full Breakdown)

Gotta make more of these faction guides. So interesting and I'm learning so much

While Romans have more overall public order buildings (from games and races and whatnot) I’m fairly sure if you build temples of Set and max out the secret police/executions squares Egypt has the max potential bonuses to Law reducing corruption more than any other faction which adds up when doing a world conquest.

Egypt does benefit from mostly being protected in the west by deserts, quite unusual ( not impossible ) to see Numidia/Carthage come late in the game from that direction. Another advantage, taking all those coastal settlements and building massive naval trade network in the eastern Med. Also basically your only rival Seleucids will find themselves in multiple wars whereas you'll likely only be fighting them most if not the whole campaign.

Nice!

Egypt is my next faction I will play as, I want the archers that I could not get from Carthage which was super fun to play as since you get poeni and sacred infantry, but here I find the cavalry and infantry super weak considering AI gets plus eight stat bonus and chariots can’t be used in siege and have only defence 1.

Oh wow you said it most powerful in the game. Agreed. Rome is close but the other factions close make egypt better

RIP Ramsey Bolton, you would have loved Total War diplomacy cheese

Will you do other in-depth guides for other factions?

Those absurd chariot advantages in auto-resolve and that tribute exploit against Seleucids kinda spoils the challenge of playing as Egyptians. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.

The most powerful faction in the game BY FAR is the Greek Cities for simply spamming armored hoplites and having many of the best regions, unlike Egypt that only has a few of the best regions, much worse expansion possibilities, and NOTHING to compare with the opportunity cost and sheer power of armored hoplites. With Greek Cities you can easily conquer the Scipii, Brutii and Rome by turn 30 if not 25, then just keep rolling over everything since armored hoplites are like better legionaries (manual combat) on one tier lower and no need for Marian Reforms.

Now i wanna play rome lol

I saw 2023 strats and I thought it was going to be the one where they give you money.

playing egypt atm, romans are a bit annoying, they have so many troops

I still think that the brutii are better, thanks to the fact that i thinl roman infantry is better than phalanxes

Played with every factions. Egypts are easy on veryhard. Numidians sucks, germans are funny. No exploits or cheats used

God I hated this faction so much.