Factions you haven't played/never got into

[QuintusSertorius]

Hm you should give the Getai a try then. Start poor, but a lot of mines in the surrounding provinces fix that problem once you get them. Doesn't start bordering anyone, the closest factions get stuck in their stalemate down in Greece which leaves them easy prey for you if you so chose. If you don't want to fight them, you can easily take Naissos, stick half a dozen Drapanai, and they can't do jack to you even if they have all of Hellas. You could then head northeast to take the Black Sea cities, west to Illyria and it's mines, or northwest into Central Europe to fight the Romans and Germans instead.

They have good light infantry, *Komatai, Komatai Pelekuphoroi, and Drapanai* medium infantry, *Getikoi Stratiotai, Taxeis Triballoi, Galathraikes, and Thraikioi Peltastai* and heavies.*Thraikioi Rhomphaiaphoroi, Komatai Thorakitai Stratiotai, Ischyroi Orditon, and Komatai Epilektoi* Add to that good composite archers *Scythians and Komatai Agrianai* and good cavalry *Scythian Nobles, Thrakioi Prodromoi, and Tarabostes* makes an army you couldn't ask any more of. Plus nearby celtics/galatians, illyrians, and greeks to fill out your ranks if you desire.

Might be worth a look-see later on then. Certainly sound more viable than when I was trying to play the Arverni as Thrace.

[Majd il-Romani]

I never got into the Steppe nomads like Pahlava, Sarmatians, Saka, etc.
I don't like briton, too isolated
AS is way too big and Makedones have no appeal to me. tried playing Egyptand its doing pretty OK

[hoom]

Drapanai* medium infantry

Drapani are a very special breed of light/medium, because that big armour-piercing & high lethality Falx lets them absolutely eat more traditional heavy infantry.
Get them in behind an already engaged enemy heavy elite & watch that unit melt away in seconds (they have to survive the first stroke in order to turn & fight!).
Just don't leave them standing around when there are javelins & arrows flying...

Me, I've never played Rome, AS, nomads, Germans nor Pontus & Hayasdan.
Not gotten into Ptolomies, Sabyn

Thoroghly enjoyed Bactria until CTD, Gauls are great, Getai the best (see Drapani :) ), mainland Greeks are fun but I never seem to get anywhere much, Carthage & Lusitanan are good but I shy away from Rome & always wind up somewhere in Gaul.

[russia almighty]

Thraikoi Samurai are even scarier because they can do balls to the wall head on assaults.

[Aodhan]

Lets see, I have played (in perfect order) the, Casse, Ptolemaioi, Romanoi, Epeiros, Averni, Sweboz, Koinon Hellenon, Aedui, Saka-Ruka, the Sweboz again, and I am currently playing a game as Casse again.

I have never played, Baktria, Lusitanna, Getai, Hayasdan, or Makedonia,
and have played the Sauromatae, Kart-Hadast, Pontos, Saba, and the Pahlava, but never finished.

[Maion Maroneios]

Factions I've never, ever played as:
Lusotana, Saka Rauka, Sauromatae, Pahlava, Hayasdan, Pontos
Factions I've played but ended pretty quickly:
Getai, Aedui, Arverni, Casse, Romani, Sweboz

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

I love the Romani. Despite the fact that their armies need replacements all the time during a campaign, but they have lots of money and manpower reserves.

Makedonia is my favourite Diadochoi faction: it has powerful elite phalanxes and the like and, contrary to Romani, I can stay with the same army with little replacements for a lot of time, thanks to the fact the AI loves an all out frontal charge against phalanxes. Plus they start from the zero and it's better to build an Empire than to inherit one (one reason I dislike Ptolemaioi and AS).

Arverni is my favourite barbarian faction. It takes some challenge to play them because their infantry is not very exceptional and they're tied in no less than total war. Challenging but fun.

I have never tried KH, Saba, Sauromatae, Saka, Pontos, Hayasdan and do not intend to do it anytime soon.

Factions I dislike: Aedui, because the Arverni COA is cooler (otherwise they are almost identical), Casse, because they are small and their Chariots are bad.

Factions I intend to play in the close future: Sweboz, Getai (very nice infantry and light troops, safe starting position), Pahlava (I'll try a different cavalry commanding scheme), Baktria (good Hellenistic roster).

I just dislike Karthadastim for some mysterious reason. Never got appealed to fight as them, but love to fight against them no matter what is my faction, but mostly with the Romani for the need of it early on.

[panosha]

I have never played sauromatae, getai, aedui, qarthadast, romani, ptolemaioi, pahlava or pontos.

btw sweboz rule. Those german pikemen coupled with Tiwoz temples own anything including camilian roman troops but suck against real pikemen

[TWFanatic]

The Casse are a lot of fun. You get to unite Caledonia, move on to Hibernia, spend a decade or two strengthening your economy and filling your coffers before building a massive army to invade the mainland with. I suppose most of my campaign are like this though, whether I am uniting Iberia, Germania, Dacia, or Greece before launching an invasion of a neigboring faction or region. As for the chariots, I agree that they are awful--replace them with some champions and you are good to go. I use Calawre as early bodyguards and Rycalawre as late bodyguards. So no more dissing the Britons.

As for which factions I haven't played, my answer would be most. I have them ranked in priorities and at the moment they are all tied for first place.

[||Lz3||]

I don't like macedon cause it reminds me Cassander , who killed Alexander's son...

even if Cassander has nothing to do with Antigonos

[Chaotix]

I haven't played a lot of factions, but this is mostly due to the fact that I don't have a lot of time to play.

I haven't ever tried: Lusotana, Arverni, Sweboz, Sauromatae, Pahlava, Saka Rauka, Arche Seleukia, Ptolemaioi, Hayasdan.

I've played these, but my campaign ended quickly, either to difficulty or lack of interest: Aedui, Casse, Epeiros, Saba, Pontos, Getai, Baktria.

And factions that I've played for a significant amount of time are: Romani, Qarthadastim, Koinon Hellenon, Makedonia.

So far, Makedonia and Qarthadastim are my favorites because of their unit rosters.

[Lysimachos]

even if Cassander has nothing to do with Antigonos

You can't really say that... Almost all the diadochoi families were related by marriage...
Kassandros' sister Phila was Antigonos Gonatas' mother, so technically Kassandros was his uncle...

[Tretii]

I've tried them all apart from Saba, Hay and Sauromatea.
The most fun were Baktria, Swebos and Aedui
The most boring - Ptoleys
The quickest ending was - Pontos. I've lasted about 20 years.
The longest was Swebos - I even went on rampaging rich cities of other nations, deliberately destroying their wonders to get rich and satisfy barbarian last for destruction. This was fun.

[tapanojum]

Ive played Hayastan about 8 different times but never got past 230's BC. Either had CTD or lost interest. Latest game I was working on my "Conquerer Comes" reforms to rebuild the Persian Empire but once again lost interest.

Pontos I've played till 240's BC until I got a CTD after capturing Athens.

Saba I played till 240's until my naval invasions into India were destroyed by Elephants (Unit card said Archers good against them...they arent...didn't bring skirmishers..doh!)

Played Lusottan, united all of Iberia before getting bored. As KH I united Greece and marched into Rome before CTD killed my game.

Also played Rome,Getai,Sauromate, Saka, for a short duration.

MIGRATED Factions: KH into Massalia to form the kingdom of Massalia, conquered half of Iberia, and most of modern France before getting bored.

Hayastan into the Crim (Role played an Armenian prince escaping the AS onslaught into Crimea to build an empire and take back what's ours..was fun)

NEVER played Carthage, Ptolemy, Pahlava, Makedonia, Arveni/Aedui/Casse/Sweboz, AS, Baktria. Intend on doing a Baktria campaign rather soon.

[Laman]

Arverni- simply prefer Aedui
Lusotannan- don't know why, but I always get bored really quickly with those guys, even though they should be fun with their nice units and all.

Have had troubles with Saka Rauka, by the time the economy got going I had a handful of family members (and nothing else) that had to repel Pahlavan stack of doom or get crushed. Was in 1.0 though, since they no longer start at war with Pahlava it seems they might be easy enough for me to get going with now.