Egypt Faction Guide - Divide Et Impera - Rome 2

[@Historica2000]

Egypt was a really fun faction to play a campaign with. Great start position and a very interesting late game roster.

[@camy252camy3]

What building trees do you normally go with in your settlements? I'm struggling to afford pikemen so do you have a recommendation on what cheaper units are decent enough?

[@Historica2000]

For Egypt, you can always go with a core of Jeudaen threospears. They are one of the best threospear units and will hold for a very long time in combat. As for buildings, you should priorize an agricultural economy with Egypt. Make sure to have a balance of farms and livestock buildings as the livestock buildings will give you much more income. Otherwise, whenever you have resources in a settlement, try to build the economic building specific to that resource since it will usually give you a great amount of income.

[@camy252camy3]

@Historica2000 thanks buddy, I can get the threo units until the reforms at turn 50 or so. I'll definitely aim for the agricultural builds though.

[@Historica2000]

@ Ohhh, for early game, look at your mercenary pool. There are some cheaper units there for sure. You don't get great infantry options as Egypt until your reforms.

[@camy252camy3]

@@Historica2000 are mercs feasible to maintain financially? Must be drawback to them?

[@Historica2000]

@@camy252camy3 Each mercenary unit has different upkeep costs, and most of the mercs Egypt has are worse than their pikemen, but they will also be cheaper. For example, Karian levies and Egyptian infantry are really cheap.