favorite faction in XL or Vanilla

[chris34au]

Unfortunately you cannot; Sicily gets the basic Catholic unit roster. They have a slightly more interesting roster in XL, but their best point is that you can pursue almost any strategy with them.

thanks. i wasn't really sure. i'd started a campaign with Sicily awhile back and i noticed that after i built a castle, i still couldn't train Italian Infantry but i wasn't sure if it was because i needed to build something else(spearmaker's guild) or if it was because Sicily couldn't train them.

[Fagar]

Imo give them another go.
The standard catholic roster still has plenty of versatility and with Sicily you just never know where you will end up on the map.
Last time I played with them I had ships all over the seas and couldn't resist the tempation to invade into Scotland and Ireland and work my way down.
So eventually I was a Sicilian king with heaps of Clansmen and Gallow-glasses pushing the English out of their comfort zone of their own Isles.
great fun.

[JR-]

i can't stop playing as the english, though byzantium is fun.

[chris34au]

Imo give them another go.
The standard catholic roster still has plenty of versatility and with Sicily you just never know where you will end up on the map.
Last time I played with them I had ships all over the seas and couldn't resist the tempation to invade into Scotland and Ireland and work my way down.
So eventually I was a Sicilian king with heaps of Clansmen and Gallow-glasses pushing the English out of their comfort zone of their own Isles.
great fun.

LOL that does sound like fun. i started a campaign with Serbia last night and it seemed to be going really well, until Hungary invaded Serbia when i was busy defending Venice. i was only about 15 years into the campaign, so i kinda lost interest after that. i'm still not very good with the factions that have bows in their royal guard or whatever. i like Boyers but the Carska Guarda units in early don't seem very effective. if they were 40 man units, it seems like they'd be a lot better.