opinions

[Rome:Total Slayer]

wich is your favorite faction in all the totalwar games?

[Csargo]

My all time favorite faction in any of the TW games is England. Just something about Longbowmen I like :) When I get M2TW that will probably be the first faction I play as.

[Celtic_Guardian]

Im not sure, probably the Byzantines in MTW, followed by the Usegi Clan in Shogun.

[ByzantineKnight]

Definitly the Byzantine Empire in MTW or the Scipii in RTW

[PseRamesses]

STW: Shimazu, MI: Hojo
MTW: Byzantines, VI: Saxons
RTW: Seleukids, BI: ERE

[roman pleb]

Probably the Italians in M:TW and the Armenians in R:TW

[Andres]

The Danish in MTW.

[Big_John]

probably the carthaginians.. because they drank the blood of babies. :barrel:

[Moros]

Hmmm...
I guess Makedonia.

[Conradus]

Shogun: Hojo
MI: Mongols
MTW: Byzatium
VI: Irish
RTW: Egypt or Julii
BI: Vandals

[Mount Suribachi]

Almohads. I adore AUMs, pure and simple.

[econ21]

The WRE in BI - something about a doomed Rome facing off with a horde of barbarians catches my imagination. The opening video of BI catches the sentiment quite nicely with its music and images. The gameplay is also fun and challenging - I like playing defensively when the computer is out to get me (HRE in MTW and Oda in STW are my favorites for similar reasons).

[doc_bean]

The Turks !

[Garvanko]

The Greek Cities in RTW.

[Celtic_Guardian]

I always found playing as the Greek cities fun, i always had a ton of money, just the way the phalanx works annoys me, i can never use it well. There lack of cavalry irks me as well. I haven't played Greek Cities once i found Macedonia though.

[Warluster]

wich is your favorite faction in all the totalwar games?
France!Best units plus easy economics!I'm mad about the French!:dizzy2:

[econ21]

I always found playing as the Greek cities fun, i always had a ton of money, just the way the phalanx works annoys me, i can never use it well. There lack of cavalry irks me as well. I haven't played Greek Cities once i found Macedonia though.

You could try the Rome Total Realism Platinum mod. The Greek hoplites are spearmen, not phalanxes, and less annoying. They also have some decent cav (Thessalian?). Pyrrhus even starts with elephants.

[Garvanko]

Or try Terrae Expugnandae. The Greeks have good Cav in that as well, and the hoplites fight in the overhand style.

[Celtic_Guardian]

You could try the Rome Total Realism Platinum mod. The Greek hoplites are spearmen, not phalanxes, and less annoying. They also have some decent cav (Thessalian?). Pyrrhus even starts with elephants.

Ah, one problem my friend, im in the stone age, yes thats right DIAL UP lol:wall:

[econ21]

Ah, one problem my friend, im in the stone age, yes thats right DIAL UP lol:wall:

My condolences. Maybe you have a friend or relative with broadband? Some of the RTW mods are worth making an effort for - better than most commercial games.

[Celtic_Guardian]

Well in college i'll most likely have broadband, and i'll probably get a laptop that can handle RTW, if not i'll just play Medieval at school, and you know study and do homework :book:

[Antagonist]

My favourite TW factions:

STW: Shimazu
MI: Mongols (Some choice given that there's only two :inquisitive:)
MTW: Polish
VI: Vikings
RTW: Macedon
BI: Romano-British

I must say I've never become as attached to a given faction in the original games as I have in mods. That could be a good or a bad thing.

Antagonist

[GodWillsIt]

Selecids

[Severous]

Egypt in RTW.

[Prince of the Poodles]

Byzzz

[Celtic_Guardian]

i've also always got a lot of enjoyment out of playing Poland for some reason, maybe just the location or the underdog factor, im not sure but i played them an awful lot........back in the days when my MTW disk1 was in one piece.....

[Martok]

The Spanish in MTW (or Castille-Leon in the XL Mod). I'm an absolute fanatic for Jinnettes! ~;)

[Rex_Pelasgorum]

For MTW, my favourites where the Turks... the yanissaries where along whith the chivalrics the best units in the game.And the Vlahs also (in the mod which enables them)

In RTW, unmodded , i love Pontus... i just like building fortifications across all the passes of Anatolia :laugh4:

[caravel]

STW: Mori
MI: Hojo
MTW: Turks
VI: Irish/Welsh
RTW: N/A
BI: N/A

[Alexios]

I would say without a doubt it's got to be the Byzantines. With their kataphracts, varangian guard, and Byzantine infantrymen, you can carve through just about any opponent. I think the biggest challenge playing as them is the desert heat, because of their heavy armor.

[unseelie craig]

i just got Total War Eras... and never had any of the other games except MTW before this.... so my favorites would have to be:
Byzantines (historically speaking, I have always been a fan of the Byzantine Empire) or the
Hungarians (for their challenging position - nothing like a crusade coming thru your lands every few years!)... or the
English (because just like someone said above, I also have a fascination with the Longbowmen - i guess nothing like being able to skewer people from a distance longer than your enemy can manage).

I am looking forward to playing RTW and MTW2 when it comes out.

Does anyone have a faction that they just cannot win with?

In MTW, I have won domination (or massacred with points in achievements) with every faction I have ever played (usually within 150 years or less), except the Holy Roman Empire. It just seems like they have so many provinces with so few troops, so many potential enemies, and very little infrastructure to start with in their provinces (at least in the early era).

[Martok]

Does anyone have a faction that they just cannot win with?
I've always found playing the Polish to be an exercise in frustration. I'm all too likely to get squished between the HRE, Hungarians, Danes, and even the Novgorods/Russians. Even when I don't get crushed outright, I nearly always get hemmed in by the other factions and can't expand. :furious3: When coupled with the fact that the Polish don't get any decent/interesting units, they're easily my least favorite faction in the game.


In MTW, I have won domination (or massacred with points in achievements) with every faction I have ever played (usually within 150 years or less), except the Holy Roman Empire. It just seems like they have so many provinces with so few troops, so many potential enemies, and very little infrastructure to start with in their provinces (at least in the early era).
Yeah, the HRE is definitely a challenge. I've long felt that that faction's difficulty level should be rated as Hard, not Moderate. That said, it *is* possible to succeed as the Germans. You just have to be careful and choose your targets wisely--and maybe hope for a little luck while you're at it. ~;)

[Koval]

I dont know really know why... but in MTW with the BKB Super Mod my favourite faction to play as has got to be the Irish ..... either that or the Norse.... probably just because of the challenge... or the interesting units..

In RTW it has got to be the Carthagians.. I have a soft spot for crushing armies with elephants,,,

[macsen rufus]

I always think the one I'm playing at the moment is my favourite, but let's see:

MTW: Turks
VI: Irish or Welsh
XL: Armenia
PMTW: Crimean Khanate
STW: no favourite, all too similar

RTW: Scythians or Sassanids
BI: Huns


hmmm, looking at the list again, seems like I have a taste for good hybrids and strong horse archers :2thumbsup:

[Celtic_Guardian]

This thread makes me really can't wait until i get MTW again, in VI i liked playing as the Scots, or this Irish, I don't think i've played as the Hungarians in MTW, i probably will when i get another copy. I also loved playing as the Alhmovaid (sp?) Caliphate, and the Egyptian Caliphate, Beating those crusaders never got old. :2thumbsup:

[unseelie craig]

yeah, i am playing the Hungarians in my current game... it is a challenging position.... while the Holy Roman Empire is very difficult to play because it starts off with such little infrastructure, and so many land locked and poor territories that just dont make much money...
the Hungarians are not as difficult... but still very challenging. I managed to take Constantinople from the Byzantines... but that was because i concentrated nearly everything i had to take it and then hold it from repeated attacks by the Byz and the Turks. Without Constantinople's good infrastructure and money making, i would have been squashed a while ago i am sure. The Hungarians are in a tough spot to defend... Byz and Turks on one side, Polish, HRE, and Italians on the other side... plus some pretty eager Sicilians across the Adriatic, and now in my game the Mongols (more powerful than I ever saw them in the standard MTW game) swept thru the Russians, and now have done a pretty good thrashing on the Polish and are sitting at my doorstep with a ton of light and heavy cavalry! I am not at war with them yet... but if i have to fight a war with the Mongols in the north... i will have difficulty defending Constantinople from either the Turks or the Byz if they decide to attack.
All this... and then there are the crusades that come thru my lands... luckily only have had about 4 in the last 40 years or so.... and in one case, i got lucky and the crusading army fought off the Byzantines that attacked me shortly after taking Constantinople! :)

[Martok]

Wow, a Crusader army actually *helped* someone?? Well I guess there's a first time for everything. ~D

[unseelie craig]

yes, it was quite amusing... although i would have to say, the crusaders surely saved my skin in that sitution!

I had just taken Constantinople a couple years earlier... when the Byzantines and the Turks who were both allied, made a play to retake my newly acquired territory. They both attacked me in Constantinople in the same year... the Turks had something like 1100+ troops and the Byz had about 450 superior quality troops (apx 160 Kataprak & 50 or 60 Varangian, etc). Turks had a 4 command leader and the Byz had a 3 command.

So, i was most likely screwed, since i had about 800+ men that were led by my 4 command king... my troops were pretty low quality except for 35 or so royal bodyguard and 40 szekely... although my army's average valor was about 3 and 4... while the Byz and Turks had mostly 1's & 2's.... so nonetheless i would have had to retreat with 2 to 1 odds and lower quality troops.... but the NICE English Crusade (that departed from Wessex, must have easily been marching for 10 years!) came along to try and retake Antioch from the Egyptians.

Luckily I was allied to the English... not to mention, that most of my territories that the crusade came thru were very low zeal, and mostly orthodox... so i only lost troops to the crusaders in Hungary while Bulgaria and Constantinople lost none. The 900+ crusaders arrived at the most opportune time to help me defend Constantinople from the Byz who were trying to retake it, and their allied Turks (who i believe, since having more troops than the Byz would have actually claimed the territory if they would have won).

The crusading English had a 2 command leader and plenty of great quality troops with knights and order foot soldiers. So we outnumbered the attackers by 200 or so and we won and gave the enemy about 900+ casualites to our nearly 600... 350 of which were the crusaders!

so... this was a rare, but great, example of a crusade actually helping a player!! :)

[Fulliautomatix]

STW: Mori (loved using warrior monks)

MTW: Turks (the variety of units was a lot of fun, and if you were the Turks your army went through two pretty opposite phases in the game: in the first part of the game you would spam tons of cheap archer and HA-type units and you fought having to take higher numerical losses against superior Byzantine/Mongol/Western units; the second phase was teching up to the Janissaries)

VI: The Vikings (no explanation needed)

RTW: Scipii (if I'm going to be Roman, I want the best navy)