What factions do you like crushing?

**Zradha Pahlavan** · 10-30-2008, 14:44

The Saka Rauka. Their armies are obnoxious to fight, and at times are nearly invincible. Further, no matter how hard you try to kill the bastards, they take yet another city. They have proven to be one of the more difficult factions to deal with, and I like difficulty.
Even now they plague the frontier, and I'm not sure my armies can stop this cancer before it spreads again.

**Subedei** · 10-30-2008, 15:58

Hunting Romans down wherever I can find them.
Ptolis are sort of huntable too. Esp. in my Carthargian campaign in which they started a world war by besieging Lepki. All I can say: we got rumble in the Nile valley these days. They do have some good units.

**Ibrahim** · 10-30-2008, 17:44

Originally Posted by Subedei

Hunting Romans down wherever I can find them.
Ptolis are sort of huntable too. Esp. in my Carthargian campaign in which they started a world war by besieging Lepki. All I can say: we got rumble in the Nile valley these days. They do have some good units.

yes they do. try not to tangle hand to hand with the basilkon Agema. they killed more seleukids in my campaigns than any other unit but the k. galatikoi (the #1 killer). and don't tangle with th k. galatikoi either.

**Reno Melitensis** · 10-30-2008, 19:26

Originally Posted by Iraklis

Personaly i hate make distinctions... i love killing everyone

Tho since i enjoy Kart-Hadast most of all factions to play with, i would have to vote for SPQR as most loved to crush.

Well everyone has its own taste, I like to see Carthage fall to ruins. And next on my agenda is a huge invasion of Africa to destroy Attika and Carthage.

Cheers

**Andronikos** · 10-30-2008, 20:14

Enemy factions. Really don't have any special one and while playing for someone I like even defeating my favourite factions (example: Makedonia and KH).

**Majd il-Romani** · 10-31-2008, 06:09

Baktria. Since I love being Romani, I take over the western part of the map and help them take over the east, then we sandwich persia

, take it over, and I RP a collossal war between the Indians(as baktria) and ROME

**Cbvani** · 10-31-2008, 06:25

Originally Posted by Reno Melitensis

Well everyone has its own taste, I like to see Carthage fall to ruins. And next on my agenda is a huge invasion of Africa to destroy Attika and Carthage.

Cheers

Oddly enough, as Rome I've never gone down into Africa.... I don't need it, and Carthage doesn't attack me when I confine them to the other side of My Sea..... and as Carthage, I haven't had any problems with Rome, because they have yet to take Rhegion in my current game. I consider it a demilitarized zone.

No, I've never finished a game. At a certain point it becomes boring. I'm thinking of blitzing hard soon, just to see how overextended I can go, and fight back from the collapse.

**Cullhwch** · 10-31-2008, 06:49

You might not collapse. If you blitz hard enough and start the wars yourself you will turn into a juggernaut. Relentless expansion can be viable in EB.

**Cbvani** · 10-31-2008, 07:00

I'm thinking of taking my massive Romani warchest and bee-lining it for India, just to see if I can make it in 20 years. My bet? Yes. Will I tick every faction off and bankrupt myself in the process? Probably. FUN.

**Anastasios Helios** · 10-31-2008, 07:11

I play as the KH around 75% of the time (otherwise i'm Baktra or the Ptolemaioi)...my favorite faction to crush is definately Makedonia. They always give me hell in Attika and the Peloponessos and in the early game, i'm literally their bitch. After many years of struggling, I eventually manage to turn the table on them and take a savage pleasure in crushing them.

Then I turn my eyes west to Rome...I take great pleasure in the side quest of liberating my Greek brothers in Southern Italy, Sicily, and Massalia. I like to make Massalia my western power base where I make life hell for the Romans in Gaul. :)

**LordCurlyton** · 10-31-2008, 08:40

Me? I like to crush whatever faction gets in my way. Currently the Roman world is at peace, though technically at war with the Saba. Makedonia-in-the-Levant is my next "aquisition", then it's raiding time to finish of the VCs. Will mark the first complete Roman game for me, ever. Though I still have yet to make the Augustans and am roughly 45-50 years from being able to do so in any case.

**KhaziOfKalabara** · 10-31-2008, 10:30

For some reason, I always find myself with a vendetta against Epirus. Or more specifically, against Pyrrhus and his descendants, whom I like to hunt down and kill like the dogs they are. Really, once they are out of the way (which typically involves sacking Ambrakia and Epidamnos, and sometimes Thermon), then I leave them be.

Following that, I don't really have a specific preference - although the way my current Romani campaign is going each and every battle against the accursed Aedui is hard-fought and so victories are much the sweeter. The cost in Claudii and Fabii of my Gallic wars is pretty high - all the more expensive since I'm only trying to restore the power of the Arverni somewhat to provide some balance of power and maintain my overland supply routes to Hispania. It has nothing at all to do with expanding the benefits of Roman civiliation to those over-hairy northerners...