What faction are you most looking forward to play as in Campaign?

So tell me, i cant wait to play as teh HRE, they were always one of my favourites in MTW, with there teutonic knights and foot soldiers etc, they just plain kicked ass. I was also a fan of the Byzantiums and the Vangarian Guards.:2thumbsup:

England, smashing Scotland and then taking control of the British isles, build up an effective navy and then go from there.

Then I'll go Scotland and do the same.

SCOTLAND!!!
I like hopeless causes.

Venice and Milan. Again hopeless causes.

And Portugal.

The only faction I beat MTW with was Spain, so I'll play them plus I did have lots of fun playing with Sicily and Aragon in the original game (modded in), but not so much in VI.

(If I'm able to play he game on may machine) I think I'll play Portugal first, I like hopeless 1-provs.

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I like hopeless 1-provs

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In a dream I had portugal had four provinces. Three along the cost and one triangle-shaped inland province.

as im English ill be England and invade france

England. Crushing France and seizing western Europe! Although I don't know how it will work out in MTW2.

Turkey, I just hope they expand the map to the east enough to make it seem more the big country it was/is.

Of course, If they include Flanders I'll play that first ~;)

Hungary. [Altered the original game shortly after my first few campaigns so as
to make them playable.] Assuming there is no chance of Balkan factions being
included, I will quite happily use them to exert some influence over those
troublesome Croats. ~:)

Scotland and i can't wait :)

Mongols!

Byzantium ftw. After that I'd play as Denmark or Scotland.. kick the Norman scum out of England. :2thumbsup:

And then I'll assert papist rule over ze world! Buahahahaha!

Wnat to see my Aztec warriors marching down the streets of Rome, London, Paris & Moscow. :)

France. I only hope they don't give all France to France, as the French kings had little influence in France at the start of the game.

Byzantium, England and then....HRE probably

England and HRE.

The first Riech of course. Get the pope to like me then turn on him with Milan support if not Veince too. Then rig elections. Then i will play as the Russians. A nice populated Steppe will be kool. Attacking into Poland and moving down into Asia Minor. The Boyars will rise agian

I mostly played France and Byzantium in MTW i´ll propably do the same with MTW2, it was always fun with the muslim factions though and as usual any faction that needs to be unlocked i played :D

Italian factions, Byzantines, and factions in Spain (both christian and muslim).

As I always did in MTW, I'll probably play as the underdog (Scotland, Denmark, Milan, Portugal, etc.). Fun stuff.

I absolutely prefer 1 prov civs, they are more challenging AND: i always want everything in my empire to be ordered and organized, which is much easier if you build your empire from ground up.
So probably, Portugal, denmark. Though i'll definitely try Turks (they've got the coolest units and the most balanced military by far imho. At least in mtw 1) and hre (i come from there, so i think i should have played them once at least.

Byzantine, Danes, HRE... but I'll try most if not all.

What a cruel question to ask! :furious3: There's so many, I can't possibly pick just one! So here's a list instead (and in no particular order):

Scots
English
French
Egyptians
Timurids
Byzantines
HRE
Danes
Castille-Leon (I refuse to refer to them as the "Spanish"; ugh)

Mainly the Byzantines and the Italians

Do we have a full faction list yet?

I will try England first and then move onto something more exotic like the Egyptians I think.

Moors, invade Spain reaching western Europe.

I'd love to play as the Mongols and do something they didn't finish before.

Duh, England of course!

The real question is "do I crush France or Scotland first?"

Always a tough one that ~:)

Sweden!... damn CA if Sweden isnt in!

... couse its not logical that only Denmark is up there in the north. Its not like everything above Denmark was a frozen wasteland.

Really, I always assumed it was! :P

This arguement always springs up around new games when some countries aren't included and others are etc.

But at the end of the day they have to draw the line somewhere. Not 100% sure why they included Scotland though, seems a little pointless them having 1 prov on an island next to hostile England.

I'm looking forward to 'uniting' (how noble am I?) Europe with the English.

(That's if the game works on my pc :))

The Danes and Byzantines, my fav. factions ~:)

''Not 100% sure why they included Scotland though, seems a little pointless them having 1 prov on an island next to hostile England.''

Mind you we don't know how many provinces they will have.

I'd prefer they started with 2 or 3

Central/North East Scotland - the heart of Alba
The south-west - Strathclyde/Cumbria
The south-east - Borders/ Lothian

Also, a strong rebel province of the Sudreyjar, Caithness/Sutherland and Orkney to represent the Norse presence

Greetings!

"There will be 21 playable factions for custom battle and multiplayer. England, France, Scotland, Holy Roman Empire, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Milan, Venice, Papal States, Sicily, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Byzantium, The Turks, Egypt, The Moors, The Mongols, The Tumurids, The Aztecs.
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The final lineup of playable factions is still to be decided,..."
in, http://pc.ign.com/articles/682/682437p2.html

First play as Byzantine, to smooth the transition from RTW to M2TW. Then as Portugal.

Hungary, Byzantium, The Turks, Egypt (if Mamluks), The Mongols, The Tumurids...

Gues who loves cav units?!?!

English first and for my second campaign the Italians.

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Um Trajanus Scotland’s not an island its attached to England

Aztecs!!!

He ment one province on the whole British Isles lol.

In no particular order:

Danes: Becuase they have vikings ~;p

Egyptians: Heavy horse archers like the mamelukes, coupled with oddball units like Nizari, Nubians, Abyssinian Guard and Ghazi infantry.

Byzantines: Jack of all trades faction, good at all, master of none.

Mongols:All horse armies with a few foot units as support = winner formula.

Moors: AUM!

British: Becuase of the unique local units found in ireland and scotland and of course longbows.

considering the units remain intact.. yeah this will be it. But if the units are given a complete facelift, namechange, discription or function change then i'll reconsider.

Egypt. I want my nizari back!

But the Italian cities sound interesting too. And Mongols of course.
In MTW I also liked to play Hungary.

HRE of course, but also the Italian factions and England

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Originally Posted by Sovereign

I'm looking forward to 'uniting' (how noble am I?) Europe with the English.

(That's if the game works on my pc :))

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unite - gah! I liberate! Maybe I should liberate the English first as the French? :2thumbsup:

Seriously I think France would be an interesting first campaign. Not too long after 1080 they are supposed to send crusades to the holy land if they are to be playing historically, and then they also have England and the HRE to worry about, although mostly defensively... After I'm satisfied in the holy land there's however nothing stopping me from changing history and conq... :idea2: ahem liberating England...

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Originally Posted by Trajanus

But at the end of the day they have to draw the line somewhere. Not 100% sure why they included Scotland though, seems a little pointless them having 1 prov on an island next to hostile England.

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I have a hunch the Scots were included because a lot of people (myself included) have sort of soft spot for them. (It's amazing what the movie Braveheart accomplished! ~D ) Of all the factions that were missed in the original MTW, I have a feeling the Scots were very near--if not at--the top of the list. Also, a slightly more cynical reason could be that since CA is based in the UK, it was probably somewhat easier to research the Scots than it was for more exotic factions; and they just felt like being lazy. [runs away before anyone from CA can land a blow] ~;p

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Maybe I should liberate the English first as the French?

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One French oppressor to another? Gah! :dizzy2:

Everyone except the French! Mostly the Spanish and Venice though. I love Iberia and Italy.

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Originally Posted by Trajanus

. Not 100% sure why they included Scotland though, seems a little pointless them having 1 prov on an island next to hostile England.

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Because before MTW came out the scots whined incessantly about how Scotland wasn't a playable faction ~;)

Now, given the limited number of playable factions in MTW (especially pre-VI) it was actually quite hard to make a convincing argument as to why Scotland should be included over another faction. It was bad enough as it was with no Milan/Venice/Genoa, just a generic Italy :no:

Now with 21 factions, its easier to squeeze Scotland in, though truth be known, I would still put Genoa in ahead of them. But I think marketing and demographics plays into it. They'll probly sell a lot more copies of MTW2 in Scotland than in Genoa.

I'l play as any of the Non christian factions first and turn every european into a non christian :evil:

Why the Danes of Course! ...or Moors.

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Originally Posted by faisal

Danes: Becuase they have vikings ~;p

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And huscarles. Something inherently satisfying in taking a low tech "barbarian" culture and annihilating the civilized pansies.
:viking: :viking: :viking: :viking: :viking: :viking: :viking:

French, HRE and Byzantium all seem interesting to me, though I might try a Muslim faction my first game. If I was HRE I would definitley try to install a puppet pope, just to see if I could do what Charles XIII couldn't.

Scotland!!! I love Braveheart :smile:

-ZainDustin

"Every man dies, but not every man really lives." -William Wallace

I usually pick a random faction to be first campaign.

*dramatic music* *drum roll*

And the winner is... Poland!

Propably Poland, due to the interesting position and a varying opposition of both eastern and western factions....:2thumbsup:

Byzantium:
repair the damage done at Manzikert and save Europe from the tide of Islam, blah, blah, blah that kind of rhetorical stuff in those days.

Timurids: Tamerlane, sword of Islam. Well I'll turn it against fellow Islamic states too but they started it first!! Its not fair!! (crys)

Sicilians:
Your dad's dad and his dad were the northmen scourge, now u can be the scourge of the mediterranean sea by annoying the HRE, the Byzantines, the Papists and the North African Emirates, plus join the Crusades. See the world, save the Christians, butcher them too then pray with bloodied hands in thanksgiving, etc, etc.

France:
Avenge English insults on the .org 990 years later by building a strong kingdom then invading England for the fun of it. Then wait for the 100 years war.

Russians:
There seems to be no threat from the East, lets split Kievan Rus into a jigsaw and fight against ourselves! Hooray! Vodka for everyone...

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Originally Posted by kataphraktoi

France:
Avenge English insults on the .org 990 years later by building a strong kingdom then invading England for the fun of it. Then wait for the 100 years war.

Russians:
There seems to be no threat from the East, lets split Kievan Rus into a jigsaw and fight against ourselves! Hooray! Vodka for everyone...

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LOL!! :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

Kataphraktoi, let it never be said that you don't possess a fine sense of humor. :bow:

I like to play as the Byzantines- this is the genuine empire ( although a friend of mine says the real empire is the HRE- their army and so on, but Byzantium is the heir of Rome after all!:book: ). The other faction I would like to play as is the Bulgarians (my people :2thumbsup: ) as I mentioned in one of my posts.

I'll probably start out the same way I started in MTW - on English soil. I'm not sure of the direction I'll take, though. I might try and establish some sort of North Sea-based empire, Britain, Flanders, Friesland, perhaps Scandinavia, that sort of thing - not bother too much with continental politics. But then, I had wanted to do just that in my current English campaign, before the continent sucked me in anyway. Then I lost both England and France, and conquered Spain instead.
As long as MIITW campaigns will be as interesting as that, it won't really matter which faction I'm playing.

Turks!! In Medieval was my favourite faction!!!!

The Mongol horde of course!!

Head soup for din dins!

GAH!

Ahhh! Another game already! I've still only tried out about six or seven factions in the original MTW, have just recently bought STW, and still have yet to play RTW. Where's the time to enjoy them all?:dizzy2: I usually plan on trying out every faction but I have to say I'm excited about the Scots, Portuguese (just something about them I like) and the Moors.

Restoring the glory of the Roman Empire: Byzantium all the way!

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Then wait for the 100 years war.

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This raises a question...
How will the HYW acctually happen anyway? All it takes is for William Rufus to beget a child, or Robert to beat Henry to the throne and you've instantly avoided most of the conflict. It could essentially be there in the form of England not wanting to pay for Normandy, but without the key events happening (which could easily be avoided in your campaigns) there would be no Edward III to give England it's initial success, without which it simply wouldn't have happened (at least not in any recognisable way).

I'll choose factions with 1 or 2 provinces because its easier to manage and organize. Besides, I like the hopeless cause. So i think I'll play as Scotland ro Milan and go to smash other bigger factions like HRE, England or maybe the Pope himself. :laugh4:

*Raises the Imperial purple banner*

Call forth the Cataphracts! The Empire shall be restored! The World shall bow to the rightful authority of God's Vizier on Earth, me! :knight:

*Takes over Milan*

Wait a minute, I am no emperor, I am...the Duke of Milan! Come, you barbarian Germans, and the descendants of Romans shall crush you for your crimes centuries past! Italians are the only true Romans there are!

*Marches north across the Alps with the pope's authority, crowns himself Emperor*

There is but one rightful Roman Empire and that is the Holy Roman Empire! I shall dominate Europe and restore Charlemagne's legacy!

*Invades France, sacks Paris*

But wait -- the true heirs of Charlemagne...are not the Eastern ones, but the West, the French! Hold upon your Fleur-de-lis with pride, men of France, and see to it that God's glory be achieved!

*Sails West, across the ocean*

Nah...

First? Has to be the Turks, as they were my favorites in MTW.

After that, both Hungary and HRE will probably be fun, but a lot depends on unit selection and starting position. I'm sure I'll play em all eventually. :2thumbsup:

Aince i can't play wallachia not in the game~:mecry: though maybe they'll appear in the 1300's:2thumbsup: ,Byzantium and take the aztecs on after restoring the empire.Also all hopless 1 province country's around.

scotland i want to be scotland because i wanted to be ireland but if they arent included thats as close as im ganna get

Obviously it will be the Mongols. I only hope that CA do a better job than they did with the Golden Horde in MTW

....Orda

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Originally Posted by derF

Restoring the glory of the Roman Empire: Byzantium all the way!

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What he said.

And also, restoring the glory of the Frankish Empire of Charlemagnes, too :D

Byzantium and France rejoice !

I'll probably start with somewhere small like Scotland, and move on to the bigger ones (Byz, HRE) as I grow more used to the game.

Or I'll just randomly pick one and swing with it!

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Originally Posted by Midnight

Or I'll just randomly pick one and swing with it!

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That's what I always do.

By the way, Poland will be my first campaign.

In answer to the actual topic question, I look forward to playing as the Danes.

Cause of I'm a Turk, my favourite is Turks of course. I'm looking forward to control my warmachine janissaries and elite spahis on the battlefield. I can hear the drums of the Mehter Band from now. Yes, yes... it will be an amazing sight while besieging Constantinopol. After I'd conqured all Europe I think I'll try
Scots, forgive me my English friends but Scots will be victorious that time.hehehe

Egypt (cant wait to try out those mamluks!), after that, the Turks, then probably England, HRE, and Spain, and maybe a bit of Byzantium, just for the challenge.

Probably one of the Islamic factions first. I've always been one for the more mobile style of warfare.

Then Portugal, because I managed to take over half the globe in one Crusade in MTW. That, and I have this thing for hopeless, outnumbered factions.

Defnatly the Danes but also the byzantines and the Germans and all the Arab nations

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Originally Posted by z2ei

Probably one of the Islamic factions first. I've always been one for the more mobile style of warfare.

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As long as the Muslim factions have some more beefed-up units, and/or their mounted missile units can manage themselves this time around, I'll be very happy! The Egyptians are my 2nd favorite faction in MTW, but it really sucks having to baby-sit my horse archers all the time. I rarely play the Turks at all, just because managing that many horse archers would drive me stark raving mad.... :dizzy2:

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Originally Posted by z2ei

Then Portugal, because I managed to take over half the globe in one Crusade in MTW. That, and I have this thing for hopeless, outnumbered factions.

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Holy crap! ~:eek: How on earth did you manage that?? I've been able to destroy an entire faction with just one Crusade (especially if I'm the Spanish taking out the Almos), but I don't think I've ever conquered more than 5-8 provinces with a single Crusade/Jihad army. What was your Crusade's target province, anyway?

Well I will play as England, get one of my heirs to marry a Scottish princess thus re-enthuse the House of Wessex in the English Blood Royal. Then I'll promptly smash the in-laws (hey what a great meet the parents story) conquering all of Britain. Friesland will have to be after that. From there EUROPA.

As the Magyars I will again bring the fearsome bowed to the soft bellied Electors.

I really hope a Pagan faction other than Mongols are in like Liths or Cumans. If so I will play as them and make Charlemages heirs pay for their crimes agianst pagan blood. Besides it was his fault the Viking Invasions occured. Now really did you think attacking the Saxon Pagans and cutting down the sacred tree would go with out punishment. Our allies in the north will avenge us. as they saying goes "When charlamage attacked Saxony and gave the people the option to convert to christanity or die every true saxon died that day"