What faction did you play first?

[Hax]

So, we've had numerous threads on what faction you played first, what faction you've never played, and what factions you still want to play.

Now, let's get to the question, "what faction did you play first?"

I thought it would be interesting to know what faction you chose to play with first, and why you did so. Was it because you like pointy hats? Was it because you want to crush Rome!? Was it because you felt psychologically attacked by everything French and wanted to raze every city from Massilia to Lemonum?!?!

Well, post everything here!

My first faction was Epeiros. I chose it because I loved Greek warfare and Elephants, and I wanted to crush everything Roman.

[Maion Maroneios]

Well, my very first faction back at EB 0.70something was the mighty Koinon Hellenon. First of all becaue I love all Greek factions, and secondly to kick, as with your case, some serious Roman arse (which I didn't btw, as I never got enough time before the next build came out...)

Maion

[Recoil]

Romani cos I felt out of place playing every thing else. Something about em just gels

[Foot]

Their position seemed interesting and I wanted to try something other than the romans. I've been a fan of Epeiros ever since. One of my fav campaigns have been with them where, during some epic battles all within the same year I lost both Pyrrhos and his son Ptolemaios to the Maks, but a captain from the army (the guy in charge of the phalanx that one the last battle for Demetrios was adopted into the family and eventually led a campaign against the Romans and into Sicily when Taras rebelled from their Roman occupiers and joined the Epeirotes for protection.

Foot

[bovi]

That would be Iberia, back in 0.74 I think when all they could affordably muster was skirmishers. I took Carthage but had to yield to the Romani with all their armour.

[Tollheit]

My first faction were the Casse. I chose them because EB scared me, and I felt more secure on an island.
Under my command the initial army, frequently retrained and augmented with 1-3 units of cheap but useful Iaosatae, conquered all realms of the British Isles.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I have to say that I am one of those who chose Romani.
I wanted to play them because there is no Senate in EB that can send me missions or make me do things that I do not want to do!(Not that I did what they asked/ordered me to do)

[Chaotix]

I tried the Romani to begin with, back in .81x or so. Although I quickly tired of them. Several mini-campaigns later, in which I barely played 3 turns, I settled on the KH. I consider them to be my first 'true' EB campaign, and also the first one in which I started to step up from the noobish E/E to my standard M/M. Now I find EB to be so much more challenging than vanilla RTW or even M2TW, so much so that I can go VH/VH in either of them, and win easily.

[Onehandstan]

my first (and only so far) campaign on EB was with the Romani, I wanted a starter faction to get to grips with it.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Very first campaign was with the Ptolemies of 0.74. Those were the days you could not afford not to maintain a strong presence in your [conquered] cities because along would come an AI retor/diplomat and then the place would throw off your rule to join the (of course) faction you just conquered the town from.

And I mean serious presence: at least a retor/diplomat of your own.

[General Appo]

Yeah, what was that about? Didn´t frequent the forums back then, so never saw the reasoning behind that.

[LorDBulA]

Frankly I dont remember but this was EB 0.6 something days.

[General Appo]

Yeah, ´cause I don´t think I encountered it myself, just heard talks about it the few times I did go here.

[Ibrahim]

saba'. nice place.

[SwebozGaztiz]

I think the very first campaign i played in EB, was with the Casse but ive got my ass kick by the eleutheroi, but well my favorite faction are the sweboz, i think their unit roster is amazing and the new units they received are just great, amazing job with them!i also like the celtic factions but honestly i really enjoy fighting the romans with my german armies i think its far more fun!thanks for the great mod!

[phonicsmonkey]

Wow, am I really the only person to have tried the Aedui first?

I didn't start until 1.0, but I guess I figured, what with it being called Europa Barbarorum and everything...

[White_eyes:D]

I went with the Romani first as I seen in the FAQ they had the most reforms(plus I gained experience that would prove to be useful later on, not just because I'm a roman fanboy or something....because people should not assume these things just because it's the most voted) Currently I'm playing as a HA faction and loving it

[TheGlobalizer]

Romani. Started a Baktrian campaign for fun, got stomped by rebels, went back to my Romani campaign. I need to tweak my strategy to match EB's gameplay.

I'll probably try Baktria again after my Romani campaign, or Saba.

[Strategos Alexandros]

0.8 Epeiros. They were new to me, and they looked good on the main site.

[Spartan198]

KH. Why did I play them first? SPARTAAA!!!

[Jarardo]

Macedon. All because of Alexander.

I had a lot of fun with that campaign too.

Look!

[Celtic_Punk]

ummm how the hell do two different people own the deserts?

and who is bright green? ooooh wait this must be a version before i started playing... im a feckin' eegit

[satalexton]

ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA!!!!

[Aemilius Paulus]

Macedon. All because of Alexander.

I had a lot of fun with that campaign too.

Look!

Whoa! How did you and Carthage conquer Eremos? I thought the African Eremos and the Arabian Eremos were the same province. Plus, isn't there only one city in all of Eremos, Terhazza, which you cannot reach without cheating. The Arabian Eremos doesn't even have a city.

[Hax]

0.7 rings a bell?

[Aemilius Paulus]

0.7 rings a bell?

Nope, my EB experience began with v1.1 in April.

[||Lz3||]

Nope, my EB experience began with v1.1 in April.

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