Favorite Faction?

[RustySword]

Whats you favorite faction and why?

[Doug-Thompson]

Turks, because I'm greedy. Ransom the Egyptian sultan twice with katank's kidnapping opening, then invest the money and watch those florins roll.

Gotta' have those Syrian assassins, too.

[Cazbol]

The vikings. Probably because it's the faction that I know the most about and can most easily relate to.

[Finn]

at the moment i would say english

longbowmen and billmen + the usual catholic units, just seems to suit my fighting style better and longbowmen rock..

[PseRamesses]

I like almost every faction in the game for many different reasons but find myself comming back to two of them repeatedly, the English and Egyptians. I like the historic feel of playing the English with many unique units, some of them really powerful too. I prefer the Egyptians for a completely different reason; ambiance and the complete opposite exotic feel of the game.

[Bacchon]

The Danish and the Aragonese, for the challenge. Although very differant challenges...

In VI, the Scots for pride of heritage, or the Welsh for the challenge...

[Maychargewithoutorders]

The one im playing http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

I think they all have their own advantages/challenges, one very replayable game

[Apocalyp$e]

I like using the Polish, but that is because it is my heritage...

[Lord Dazed & Confused]

The Turks JHI need I say more they pretty much walk over anything then the Spanish (Gendarms) or the English (Longbows)& VI the Viking. Just an amazing game.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Whichever I'm playing at a given time. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
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[Malcolm Big Head]

The Turks due to the unique units.

[Jxrc]

1. HRE for the difficult start and the nice units in the Late period.

2. The Sicilian for their nice location range of option available.

3. The French for the GA goals.

4. The Danes for their early units

[katank]

French and HRE for GAs

Spanish for lancers, brits for longbows, almos for AUMs

Russians and Poles for financial challenge

Aragonese and Danes for strategic challenge.

Turks and Byz for most unique units available.

overall, I'd say English and Turks

[Tricky Lady]

1. Byzantines, for their katanks and varangian guards and for having Constantinople as a capital. It's also fun to tech up the other provinces from scratch.
2. Turks. Also for their unique units.

[VikingHorde]

1. Byzantines for me. I like having to face modern unit with old ones and they are the last part of the old roman empire.
2. The Danes, cool viking units and start with only one province.
3. The spanish, allso cool units and great starting place.

[Graphic]

I usually like to play as the Islamic factions. I prefer their light mobility to the Catholics slow units.

If you could play as the Golden Horde in the campaign, they'd definitely be my favorite. Is there a mod that lets you do this?

[katank]

use the -ian switch to start the program.

then ctrl+shift+6 gets you the horde IIRC.

anyhow, this is god mode and lets you toggle between factions with ctrl plus number keys.

add in shift for more than 10 factions.

[SnakeCharmer]

Hungarians

They have the best HA in the game (Szeleky) as well as having two other types of HA. Add this to all the normal Catholic units and u have a very strong faction.

[Lord Godfrey]

English and Spanish because I know their respective military histories much better than the other factions. I want to play a non-catholic faction, but halfway through the game I find myself hoping my side actually loses because I can’t get into the game.

In VI my first 2 campaigns were with the Welsh (first unsuccessful – second 60% victory). Since then I have only been able to play the Vikings. I want to start a new VI campaign but cant figure out who would be the most challenging faction to play.

[Graphic]

Quote[/b] (Lord Godfrey @ May 06 2004,07:52)]I want to start a new VI campaign but cant figure out who would be the most challenging faction to play.
The Irish are a little dificult to play as. Securing all of Ireland is easy but it takes forever to get boats so you can attack England, while the whole time the Vikings are raiding on you.

[English assassin]

The Spanish for me. I like Jinnettes. There is a muslim faction to hand for some Pope-friendly warfare. Reunifying the Iberian peninsular as quickly as possible makes for a fun start to the game, then you have a good defensive position to pause, tech up and build your armies, then its let the conquistadors roll...

On conquest I like to have quiet periods in between the mayhem, or at least little sub goals to achieve, but for a lot of factions it simply doesn't make any sense to stop conquering once you start. I like the English and Danes for similar reasons (unifying the British isles or conquering Scandinavia and maybe the baltic). The italians/scilians would be good if it wasn't for the pope.

[Bayushi Togai]

I am drawn to the Muslim factions. The vast openess of the rolling desert makes the best battle-scapes.

[Cattleman22]

The Spanish are my favorite faction. The Iberian peninsula provides a decent base of operations. There are mutiple iron sources so that highly teched units can be created.

In addition, the African coast is an ideal area for expansion as taking one additional province only does not create more than 1 defensive border until you get all the way to the middle east.


c22

[octavian]

i swear, there is an echo in the forums, how many threads is this now http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif a lot, thats all i know http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

[zayanm]

I like to play as all, but the Faction of MTW that I play most and am more experienced with is the Turks. They have lot of unique units, and good harrassing tactics able (Turcoman Horse, Futuwwas). One problem is for multiplayer you don't have Pavise Crossbows or any Arbalesters.

[TigerVX]

I personally love the Mongols and Muslims. A lumbering mounted knight with heavy armor will never catch a lightly garbbed Turcomor Horse Archer http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif . I like the all the hit and run tactics. Its also fun to batter off crusaders time after time. Plus the pope is always a problem for Catholic faction, but those problems are everyday life for muslims, plus being crusaded against is so much fun... For me anyways. I also like their variaty of units. With Catholics, you get FMAA and CMAA the most of the time. Alot of them have about 2-4 indivual units. Muslims have a variety of units completely different to Orthodox or Catholic.

[garion]

I like the burgundians, because i first enjoy putting them in the game, and then i can play with them and defeat europe

[tombom]

Byzantines. They have lots of interisting units and are fun to play. But NOT fun to beat, if they become a real empire...

[goldcas]

Byzantine

I love the feel to be a leftover of the Roman empire.
Theyre units are great. And the generals are devasting.

And if u have the potential u can easely becom a superpower right away with them.

Im currently playing them. Im the superpower. But i lack allies. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-embarassed.gif The golden horde, The polish and the HRE are at war with me. And they are the 3 biggest factions beside me. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif I think ill eventual eliminate them, they have began to b annoying.

This is the first time i play as them, and so far this is has been the most fun faction to play with.

Also like the Vikings in VI. Coz im from norway http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[-Amon-]

Amon says that:


1.turks..they have jhi and futuwwa..also i am from turkey http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif
2.english..they have longbowman..
3.spanish...they have lancers...


however i have fun playing all factions..


have fun http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-2thumbsup.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cheers.gif

[Graphic]

Quote[/b] (katank @ May 05 2004,11:28)]use the -ian switch to start the program.

then ctrl+shift+6 gets you the horde IIRC.

anyhow, this is god mode and lets you toggle between factions with ctrl plus number keys.

add in shift for more than 10 factions.
Very cool, thanks. Does -ian give me anything else besides the ability to switch between factions? I want to be the Mongols but I don't want to have an insane advantage either.

[Vincenzo]

English, for longbows and billmen, also for hobilars.
Turks, they have some of my favourite units, but I have to wait too long for getting them.
Also, Polish, for their nice location.

[katank]

@ graphic, I don't think you get any advantage also there is definitely cheating possibilities with you being able to control other factions etc.

not that anyone would ever think of such a thing http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-anxious.gif

[Gregoshi]

I see three new factions emerging: garion, goldcas and Vincenzo. Welcome aboard Glad you joined us. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

[goldcas]

hehe thnx http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

Just been watching around in this forum...
as I said on my first post... i finaly took the time to register http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Vincenzo]

Cita[/b] (Gregoshi @ May. 11 2004,00:18)]I see three new factions emerging: garion, goldcas and Vincenzo. Welcome aboard Glad you joined us. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif
thanks, and hi everyone http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cheers.gif

I had got lots of new knowledges reading this forum, and finally decided to join it http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif

PD: I love these smilies http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-juggle.gif

[Graphic]

Quote[/b] (katank @ May 10 2004,11:27)]@ graphic, I don't think you get any advantage also there is definitely cheating possibilities with you being able to control other factions etc.

not that anyone would ever think of such a thing http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-anxious.gif
Ok. I should be good as long as I can restrain myself :D.

If that's a problem, i can start a game as Mongols, save it, and restart without -ian

[Defensor Pacis]

I've only played 4 games so far, but I have to say that I struggled with the Irish in VI because they didn't have archers. Kerns are fine, especially when used well, but mercenary archers didn't come along often enough for my liking So I guess I took some pride in winning with the Irish, but I know it was because the AI didn't push me anything like as hard as it should have done: I could have been toppled easily at several points and it never took the advantage on the map. I won't be playing the Irish again TOo much grief there.

[Robert the Bruce16]

The Byz are my favorite faction, and the only faction that I've beaten the game with (not because of skill, but because I get bored with other factions and keep going back to the Byzantines). I like the Byzantines because their extensive unit roster allows for virtually any strategy. Pronoiai and Katanks if you like smashing people with heavy cav, Byz infantry and Varangians if you like heavy infantry, Byz cavalry and HA's if you like the Turkish/Golden Horde approach, or my favorite, a little bit of each making for a versatlie and unstoppable war machine.

[ah_dut]

The turks harass the byz to hell. My turcomen horse are sadly not faster than your lancers or steppe cav if u conquer Khazar. Still in high i get the satisfaction of watching my jhi's maul the byz, supported by good archer cover and i can harass christian knights leading them in wonderful circles in the desert sun. Then my jhi slaughter them. My life is great, go turks Also the by now infamous, 'katank's kidnap' tactic helps a lot too i find the byz will often cough up more though http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif

[Ellesthyan]

The Byzantines, as I've got an obsession with them even before I knew this game existed. I think they've got a most interesting history, and some very cool units to boot http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

[makkyo]

I love... the vikings just because they start the game with an amazing advantage in naval and army superiorty. And those beserkers... wow

[Captain Kevin Darling]

Germans, bring back the glory of Charlemagne and reunite europe

[themonkey]

Well my fav are the Danes because of there position,
Norway is near impenetrable so all I do is Fortify Sweden and
Denmark then I push south through the Polish encircle the Germans.
I take any chance I get to ally with the Papacy before attacking the HRE.

[cutepuppy]

The first faction I played with were the Spanish, and they are still one of my favorites (I love their jinetes).
I like the Turks (turcoman horse, JHI, sipahi of the porte) and the HRE (one of the most difficult).
And the Byzantines.
And the English.
And the Vikings.

[TheBMeistor!]

Almohads for me.

I prefer the Muslim factions and the Elmos fit my play style the best.

They have a lot of very strong units in early and the majority of my play time is in that era.

AUM just tear apart any foot unit you throw them at early on, and Murabitin infantry can really mess up any of the armored units that AUM might have troubles with.

I also like the Italians but really dislike having to deal with the pope. I have also had fun playing the Danes but in the end I'm always back to playing the Elmos, nothing is more satisfying than killing the Spanish king in 1090 when he has no heir.

[Robert the Bruce16]

Quote[/b] ]Still in high i get the satisfaction of watching my jhi's maul the byz, supported by good archer cover and i can harass christian knights leading them in wonderful circles in the desert sun. Then my jhi slaughter them. My life is great, go turks Also the by now infamous, 'katank's kidnap' tactic helps a lot too i find the byz will often cough up more though


Personally, I have a grudge against the Turks. Like Ellesthyan, I've been a Byz fanatic before MTW even came out. They were the only real reason I got the game. The Turks, as the people who finally and completely tore down the magnifacint Byzantine culture, are jerks. The brutal sacking of Constantinople also is a sore spot. Though no worse than anything the crusaders did, it resulted in the desacration and destruction of some of christianity's holiest relics, just to show Turkish hatred of christianity.

Thus, to me there is nothing more satisfying than watching Turks get trampled under a unit of charging Katanks.

[themonkey]

Cutepuppy who don't you like? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-confused.gif

[katank]

Don't be so harsh Bruce, I like both Byz and Turks.

Naturally I kill off the hell spawn horsemen from the east with ample servings of arrows courtesy of treb archers and charge their inf with katanks but I enjoy playing the Turks too.

When I take Const., I always make it into a glorious center of the world. In all my campaigns, I never had the heart to raze Const. even if it's clear that I couldn't hold it.

[Bayushi Togai]

Quote[/b] (katank @ May 05 2004,16:28)]use the -ian switch to start the program.

then ctrl+shift+6 gets you the horde IIRC.
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif What's an -ian switch? I tried a forum search but only got this thread as a result...

[katank]

just run medieval_tw.exe -ian from a command prompt

this enables god mode.

[Armchair Athlete]

If playing GA, the French, otherwise the Spanish. Fun to build hordes of Spanish Jinettes Mongol style and unleash them upon the almos

[Bayushi Togai]

ahh, thanks Katank Now I can finally be Early era Russians http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-yes.gif

[Lord DeVeau]

Hey all:

I like the English so far. Right now I have concurred half of the world with the English. I also learned today at our state capitol in RI (USA) that is in New England that the Charter given by the King to RI for it's freedoms was from the King of England, Scotland, France & Ireland at that time in (I believe 1663). I found tha

[Lord DeVeau]

I was saying I found that interesting that the King was over those 4 nations at that time.

Bqattle on dudes: http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/idea.gif

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Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit.
- General George Patton Jr

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[Lord DeVeau]

I was saying I found that interesting that the King was over those 4 nations at that time.

Battle on dudes: http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/idea.gif

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cheers.gif


Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit.
- General George Patton Jr

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