Whats your Favorite faction?

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I love this game R: TW. I'll never get bored of it.

My favorite faction probably the Roman Julii or the Eastern Roman Empire. I love Romans (Scipii, Brutii and WRE I also like). After that the Selecids are cool.
 
Carthage! Gotta love killing romans hehe ;) Though i love playing Iberia and Egypt as well.

For best factions i believe the Greeks or Macedon are very well placed for the first place, romans and seleucides are good also.
 
Gah! Carthage have the worst starting position. Greece? You gotta be joking! They absolutly smell of cheese! They don't have any good cavalry and Hoplites are so inflexible. In fact the only thing good about them at all is the Spartan unit and the fact that they start out with all the wonders (or most of em anyway.)

Macedon are alright.
 
Nope, armoured hoplite, is probably the best unit of the campaign game: stats like no other, 30 defense! - 1 turn build! - and you can make then from turn 5 or so! What can you do against these babies - Cavalry? what the hell for man...on emperor cavalry is good for one thing - dying. Besides did i mentioned you got amored hoplite, cretan archers.

Besides, Greece can buy out every single army macedon and seleucid puts on the field for cheaper prices since they are all hellenistic people.

Greece also starts with Rhodes and Statue of Zeus and can easily take out Halicarnassus and Artemis in 2 turns, man oh man?? what do you want more for an earlier start, besides they can build milita cavalry, and greek cavalry is good for start also. Hell, put me on a field with 10 armoured hoplites, a couple cretan, greek cavalry, heavy pelstats and militia cavalry, and will be making sushi of your roman troops in no time.

Carthage as one of the best world start positions, just build an huge navy and you start playing with those romans. Take out Messana, next Numidia, next Iberia and puff you ve won the game.

Carthage is like Britain, only bigger,better cities, armed with phalanx, elephants and sweet onagers, oh yeah baby!

Romans tend to be the easiest faction i take out (except SPQR of course), now Gauls, these the AI play like hell with them, on the hardest difficulty level of course, other levels are just a pure joke - you can kill everybody with a full pack of horses, theres no strategy, just press charge and the battle is over in 15 sec (my personal best i think)
 
I would say Greece as i love the hoplites, but i dont care too much for the first 30 years of war with all of Italy plus MAcedon and whomever they bring alon; Britannia as I love their starting position and their units are allright; or the Selucid Empire, they have a great unit array, but their starting position is less than fashonable for my methods of empire running/building. an early defencive war is not a war i personally enjoy
 
I like the Hoplites... but I also prefer cavalry and/or elephants. In RTW, it´s between Parthia, Armenia or Carthage for me.
And in BI, I like the Eastern Romans, although the Western´s Auxilia Palatina is invincible in frontal charges...
 
I really haven't done many campaigns. My thoughts on the factions I've played:

Roman Julii (short): Not bad. Gallic lands kinda stink because of low population.
Roman Scipii (unfinished, 17ish provinces): Got boring after I took Carthage. Lots of desert, not much going on.
Roman Brutii (long, in progress, 27ish provinces): The best of the Romans. Green troops (my favorite color), fight Greeks and Macedon, really hated when I got to the Egyptian lands though.
Romans (RTR) - Nice campaign, much better than RTW Romans, a little easy though. Looks better, feels better, plays better.
Macedon (RTR) - Probably my favorite. Lots of good phalanxes (pezhetairoi are the best combination of price and power), and General's Somatophylakes (sp) are very powerful when used well.
Goths (BI) - Fun campaign, like the "horde" mechanism, got to beat up on some Romans. Would like to try this with a purer steppe faction (Huns, Vandals, Sarmatians, Roxiolani)
Arverni (EB - didn't get all that far) - Hard. You start out in bad shape. If I were playing on hard/vhard campaign map, the rebels would've beaten me before the Aedui got there.
 
Abgar said:
For me it's a tie between Armenia and the Seleucid Empire.

Armenia...because its a challenge? he he

Numidia is fun too, a bit hard, but you have legionnaires on RTR playing for them, on RTR 6.0, they have the berber unit, a 240 men skirmisher, have 6 on an army and its like the american´s 4th of July he he.
 
On what difficulty level did you play it? Hiper-easy or you´re God!
 
In regular RTW the Egyptians just eat the Seleucids alive. They start with fertile lands, they get their good units earlier, and chariots are overvalued in autocalc.
 
expert level, it took a little bit for the windup, but basically, i grabbed a few independent states to my east, plus Hannover to the north. The W Romans told me to be a protectorate and i said no, so they declared war on me. I took the Low Countries and N France from them, made peace, and then just crushed all of France. Most of the barb factions were allied with me, so it was about 5 of us against the W Romans, and then civil war broke out. I went for the Iberian peninsula first, and then got peace again. After a long consolidation, and a few wars with the barb factions ( which i totally owned, btw), I marched into Italy and took Rome. At this time i was actually allied with the E Romans, so we had to turn around and deal with a horde rumaging about, i think it was the Huns. We beat the crap out of them. At this time, I had France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, Denmark, Czechosolvakia, Austria, Yugoslavia, and Hungary. The W Romans still existed in N Africa, which i really didnt have the patience to chase them around the desert, so i let them be. That was a bad idea. relations with Constantinople had pretty much become nonexistent after we bested the Huns, and the W Romans, whom i had not made peace with yet ( they sunk the Diplomat on his way to them!) they pulled E Rome into the 'war' with me ( i put it in quotations because we had not really fought in like 10 years) and i just turned around and put the smack down on Constantinople. Now, I dont have anything in Asia, just Europe, but my Eastern border is on the Don River.
 
RickFGS said:
Armenia...because its a challenge? he he
It is a challenge at first, but after I managed to capture Tarsus and Antioch, I had a reasonable amount of income and I could build some of the more expensive buildings, and bribe some Egyptian armies. Armenia has decent troops, although at the beginning I was too poor to build anything higher than militia barracks.
 
Never played Armenia before i must admit, only on custom battles, my memory is falling me now, but they have a spearman unit that rocks yes? heavy spearman..hu...to lazy to go check for myself :) Well ill give it a go someday.
 
RickFGS said:
Never played Armenia before i must admit, only on custom battles, my memory is falling me now, but they have a spearman unit that rocks yes? heavy spearman..hu...to lazy to go check for myself :) Well ill give it a go someday.
Heavy Spearman are similar to Phalanx pikemen, IIRC. IMO, they are the only good infantry Armenia has. Eastern Infantry and Hillmen get slaughtered by spearmen and Armenian Legionnaires aren't worth wasting 2 turns. Cataphracts and Cataphract archers own, and you can hire Samartians in one of your starting provences.

Oh, and you need to expand fast early, as your starting cities are pathetic.
 
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