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.

[General Appo]

Long ago, in the times before times, I first played EB, and I started with the Romani.
I don´t know, I think I just thought I should start off with a faction I am relatively familiar with instead of jumping straight at a new one. You know, experience the changes gradually. Was still quite a shook though.
It must have been 0.7 or 0.8, I don´t quite remember. I played it very slow and I think I took Sicily, southern Iberia... maybe even Carthage. Then the next version came out. But I do remember that that version wasn´t 1.0, could have been 0.81x or what it was called.

[TWFanatic]

Saba.

Are you kidding me?

The Senatus Populusque Romanus was my first faction. My second faction was the Senatus Populusque Romanus with the script on.

My third faction was the Casse tribe.

Fourth Makedonia. Fifth Makedonia. Sixth KH. Seventh Averni. Eigth Qart Hadasht. Ninth Senatus Populusque Romanus. Tenth KH. Eleventh Sweboz tribe. I’m currently on #11 (my “screenshot of the month” entry is from that campaign).

[Moros]

Epeiros. Except for baktria it was the only 'new' faction that was decently finished back in the good old Closed beta of the 6.x version. I still have it on my HD. lol. I don't believe I've finished the campaign. I can't believe how vanilla everything was compared to now, and yet I found it so different and refreshing already. Ah sweet memories of yore....

[The Celtic Viking]

Sweboz in 0.74, which reminds me: I haven't played as them since 0.8. I must remember to do that, what with all the new content they've got since then.

[Lovejoy]

I too played Epeiros first. I had only played RTR up until this point so the Epeiros faction was totaly new for me. I remember I found EB to be very hard that first time - I lost many battles - and didnt liked it at all. But a few weaks later I tried it again but this time as the romans. I fell in love.

That was, hm..., atleast 3 years ago. Since then I have played this game more then any other game ever. There is ALWAYS this little voice in my head screaming; EB! EB! EEEEEEB! I cant let it go! And I dont plan to stop playing any time soon!

EB2 will prob drive me insane!

[Megas Methuselah]

Bartix FTW!!!!
Then I got pissed off because 1.0 was released halfway through my campaign, so I started a Pahlava one. Of course, after a looong Pahlava campaign, I did another Baktrian one again. What fun EB is!

[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.

[Bellum]

Romani. I'm pretty sure I remember that the Triarii still fought with pikes in phalanx formation.

[Che Roriniho]

Romani. I'm pretty sure I remember that the Triarii still fought with pikes in phalanx formation.

Not in the phalanx in the makedonian sense, but try TWFanatics phalanx mod. it's great, and looks incredible.

[Bellum]

No, I mean in that version of EB, the Triarii fought with the RTW phalanx formation.

EDIT:

It was before the custom animation, I think.

[Tellos Athenaios]

The strong presence? That was just the somewhat generous money scripts which made the AI so rich it could afford to buy anything. And it would.

[Celtic_Punk]

my first faction was KH, as i loved the greek cities in vanilla, and wanted to create a spartan greece. My second faction was Casse, because I'm from the Isles, my third was Makedonia (which i abandoned) and my fourth was Rome with house rules (Which strangely i got overrun by Carthage in 250BC unprovoked... f**king elephants...) I have just started baktria, AND MY GOD I LOVE EM! i love their diversity GOOD JOB EB ON BAKTRIA!

[socal_infidel]

Didn't get into EB until 1.0 back in October, was it? First faction was Pahlava. What can I say I'm a cavalry guy, and they have an amazing roster. I've played many factions since, but my heart belongs to them

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

The first faction I played back in 0.8 was Casse. I was new to EB and thought, "hey those isolated islanders sure make for an easy introduction". Got crushed by the other Britons after 3 ours and 2 years or so...

Second was Romani. That was so easy that I welcomed my first ctd for quitting my campaign. Thank god 0.81 came and I tried Makedonia, and fell in love... Got a massive empire until 187, then I became bored...

Then came 1.0 and I did a Sweboz campaign till a ctd in 234 stopped me. Then I did a Carthage campaign. That was actually the first time achieved the victory conditions. Had a massive Mediterranean empire, but I was somehow bored in 213, and I quitted.

But 1.1 was alreay out, so I started a Makedonian campaign again. Currently at 218 and far from quitting.

[Rilder]

Romani in .74

[Intranetusa]

hastati...principes...triari...ROMANI!!!

[Aemilius Paulus]

hastati...principes...triari...ROMANI!!!

I second that! (Romani are my favourite and naturally I played them first)

[Fondor_Yards]

I honestly have no idea, .7 was what 1.5-2 years ago? More? God I've playing EB long. Anyway, the most likely faction would be Kart-Hadastim.