Factions you haven't played/never got into

[Celtic_Punk]

how can you not like celts just cause they dont have armour? racist!

but seriously their defence skill makes up for lack of armour in close combat, most of them have javalins, and a number of them scare the shit out of other units (like naked spearmen and such) i'd be scared of a 6'2 200lbs naked celt armed with a spear or massive longsword

their only short fall is when getting pelted with arrows. but their lack of armour means they can close the gap quicker, and your chariots can cover their advance. and their other cavalry(later period that is) is hard to match (the only match ive found for celtic cavalry is persian or steppes and you aren't likely to be facing that unless you become an insanely large empire)

i've never gotten into carthage, gauls, spain, the arabs, saka, skythians, eprios, or any of the successor armies, or the persians.

i only play 2 campagins at a time

edit: the problem with casse is you can't afford mercs until much later when you unite the isles, and cross the channel and get a good base of operations (i.e. brest and normandy)

[Tellos Athenaios]

Please note that my opinions are my own. I may be an EB team member; but these [opinions] certainly won't count for the EB team as a whole!

Factions I haven't played as for reasons of "I prefer the other":

Epeiros (too uniform; even though they got some pretty cool units) ; I prefer KH & AS
Arverni; I prefer Aedui & Casse
Makedonia; I prefer AS

Factions I haven't played as but which I intend to explore:
Lusotanna
Makedonia (not sure, though)
Sweboz
Saka
Sauromatae (but I think I prefer the flexibility of the Saka & Phalava)
Phalava
Pontos
Hayasdan (but I think I'd prefer Pontos & Pahlava, as I feel the Hayasdan remains a bit stuck in the middle of either)
Saba
Getai (for some reason always the first to come up as "something different" only to be dismissed by "nah, next time...")

Factions I just won't play:
Romani (boring/legions/too easy - I once tried a little campaign to get over my predjudice they'd be boring thinking "but them traits & reforms, gotta count for something?". Unfortunately: my predjudice was confirmed by fact they are too easy for my tastes. I mean: fully developed barracks right from turn one saving what feels like ~40k per city [with these barracks] ? Not to mention the turns it'd take? ~70? And I just don't like legions; it makes even your army composition a formal & boring matter. I got impatient and quit (after taking Taras or thereabouts).)
Carthage (boring/too many elites - I've got that strange feeling over 70% of their factional troop types are elite. And that you don't have to build up much either. Though I might try them once, if I'm really in the mood for something completely different.)