My only point was trying to emphasis I don't think that more factions will make a game better, I think it's quality over factions.



I'd certainly rather have 12 very well balanced and polished factions with another 38 basically playable but a bit more rough around the edges, than 50 virtually identical factions with generic units, differentiated only by a different colour scheme. And if I saw a game advertising itself as having "50 playable factions!" I would probably think "too good to be true, what corners did they have to cut to get that many?"
I just remeber that in the game of Rome, how I got Barbarian Spearmen, and I don't want to see that again, I want variety.