Favorite fraction

[mech654]

What is you favorite fraction? My favorite is Carthage, They have high quality cavalry and good mix of infantry and very riched.

 

[Dreadnought]

I like Rome, personally.

Out of the three, I like the Scipii.

 

[101rstImperial]

Other: Poland. o/

 

[kulade]

My favorite fraction is 5/4.

 

[Stuck in Pi]

EGYPT!!

Archers (the bowman pwn), chariots, and great phalanxes. What else do you need?

 

[Civfan333]

my favorite fraction is 2/3.....

but my favorite faction is Pontus.....they have a cool name. plus they're hard to win with....

 

[Longus]

Resisting the temptation to come in with another fraction, my favourite R:TW faction is probably the Greek cities - you've gotta love the Spartan Hoplites and their interesting starting position can make for some really varied game play. Shame about the cavalry though.

 

[Pieman]

Parthia. There are few things more satisfying than smashing a vast enemy army with nothing more than a few primitive horse archers.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Aww. I thought you meant fraction. I like 355/113

 

[mech654]

Parthia. There are few things more satisfying than smashing a vast enemy army with nothing more than a few primitive horse archers.

Yeah they have great cavalry. But it's a damn shame that have crap land and I found it hard to do seige with them

 

[Stuck in Pi]

you just have to sit around and wait in a seige. But otherwise they have great units. Horse archers weaken, then cataphracts and elephants drive the point home...

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

No Scythians/Sarmatians?

I like them, but my favorite to play is either Bactria or Macedon, though my present game with the Germanic Tribes is completely wild.

 

[101rstImperial]

Are the Scythians the guys next to the Goths that get hit with the hordes?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The Scythians were only in vanilla RTW. They occupy, well, Scythia, the area today known as The Ukraine.

The Sarmatians are the ones who replace the Scythians in RTR, and who occupy their position in BI (the Sarmatians drove the Scythians out and assimilated them IRL), and yes, they are a hording faction.

 

[Pieman]

Eh, the Scythians/Sarmatians prolly have better horse archers (never really played either) but their geographical position is arguably worse than the Parthians. Plus the Parthians can eventually get Cataphracts and Elephants (though admittedly, by the time you have them, you shouldn't need them).

 

[J-man]

The Seleucid Empire: a selection of some of the best units in the game, particularly the cavalry. I like the combination of phalanx units and normal melee units.

The Germans are very close second, they also have great units.

 

[Stuck in Pi]

The seleucids kick as well, but for some reason every single nation I border ALWAYS declares war on me and i have to fight a seven front war...

Otherwise the seleucids and egypt would about tie for me.

 

[Kal'thzar]

The seleucids kick as well, but for some reason every single nation I border ALWAYS declares war on me and i have to fight a seven front war...

Thats the fun bit, I usually won by destroying egypt by declaring war on them on the first or second turn, Then I got so bored building up 7 stacks o'doom to crush the romans (who have killed off greece and are moving north, meaning lots of weakly garrisoned cities in greece), taking italy out I find much much harder.

 

[Maniacal]

Thrace in DarthMod.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Eh, the Scythians/Sarmatians prolly have better horse archers (never really played either) but their geographical position is arguably worse than the Parthians. Plus the Parthians can eventually get Cataphracts and Elephants (though admittedly, by the time you have them, you shouldn't need them).

I prefer the Sarmatian position to the Parthian one. Unless you go East for your fertile "pay for my armies" provinces, you're stuck fighting with horse archers in the mountains. There's a reason Crassus was advised to go through Armenia and not the desert when marching on Parthia, and its that mounted warfare is infinitely more effective in the flat wasteland of Syria, or out on the steppes, than it is in a hilly environ. I find the Sarmatian position easier because you have access to sea trade from the start, you are closer to the more densely inhabited parts of the world (any early game grab can net you Dacia, one of the richest regions of the ancient world), and can easily cover for your lack of heavy infantry with capable local levies like Thracian Infantry, or capable mercenaries like Bastarnae or Thracian Mercenaries, Mercenary Hoplitai, or Framae Germani if you go in that direction.