"Favorite Byzantine Army?" Topic

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Editor in Chief Bill	28 Aug 2018 2:44 p.m. PST
Which of these Byzantine armies is your favorite? Early Byzantine 474 AD – 576 AD Maurikian Byzantine 578 AD – 641 AD Thematic Byzantine 641 AD – 963 AD Nikephorian Byzantine 963 AD – 1071 AD Komnenan Byzantine 1071 AD – 1204 AD Successor Byzantine 1204 AD – 1460 AD
dragon6	28 Aug 2018 3:38 p.m. PST
Early Byzantine 474 AD – 576 AD
etotheipi	28 Aug 2018 3:42 p.m. PST
Varangian Guard – How do you not love Viking mercs?
ColCampbell	28 Aug 2018 5:39 p.m. PST
Nikephorian and Komnenan, so my Normanno-Italians can have someone good to fight. Jim
Robert Burke	28 Aug 2018 6:02 p.m. PST
Nikephorian. Love those Kataphracts!
Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut	28 Aug 2018 6:51 p.m. PST
Early and Nikephorian… I like to do all my armies in neat, compatible timeframes such as ~500AD and ~1000AD.
cfielitz	28 Aug 2018 7:08 p.m. PST
Nikephorian Byzantine 963 AD – 1071 AD
williamb	28 Aug 2018 7:50 p.m. PST
Early and Maurikian
Cacique Caribe	28 Aug 2018 8:07 p.m. PST
Early Dan
catavar	28 Aug 2018 8:21 p.m. PST
Thematic. I love being mediocre.
Twilight Samurai	28 Aug 2018 8:45 p.m. PST
Justinian and Belisarius.
Perris0707	28 Aug 2018 8:50 p.m. PST
Do I have to choose? Love the middle period, but also the Komnenan restoration. If I had to choose one, it would be Komnenan. John Komnenus is my favorite emperor!
Winston Smith	28 Aug 2018 9:43 p.m. PST
I had a Nikephorean army once. Never played it.
Cyrus the Great	28 Aug 2018 11:15 p.m. PST
Nikephorian Byzantine 963 AD – 1071 AD.
langobard	29 Aug 2018 1:38 a.m. PST
Another vote for Thematic, centuries of not refusing to accept that they should have been swept away long since :)
Costanzo1	29 Aug 2018 6:17 a.m. PST
Early
Patrick Sexton	29 Aug 2018 9:33 a.m. PST
Early.
Ferozopore	29 Aug 2018 10:18 a.m. PST
Early aka Belisarian Byzantine. Belisarius was an early hero, discovered in the 8th grade.
DeRuyter	29 Aug 2018 11:57 a.m. PST
Belisarius and any that fought Sassanids
Codsticker	29 Aug 2018 11:19 p.m. PST
I think Maurikian/Thematic- bridges the Sassanian and Arab Wars.
Big Red	30 Aug 2018 7:25 a.m. PST
Early
freecloud	16 Sep 2018 2:13 a.m. PST
I have Early and Komnenan – seemed easier to find opponents for them. I find many rules struggle with the Thematic cavalry formations.
The Last Conformist	23 Sep 2018 3:33 a.m. PST
I've considered getting a Maurikian or Thematic army, but there's to much else I want to do first.

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