Favourite Faction 2009

[Beirut]

The English!

It it even hints at a whiff of a smell of Agincourt and longbows, I'm there.

I'll play the Mongols or the Byzantines once in a while, but it's 95% English.

[Dodge_272]

The English, because, well, I'm English.

[King Kurt]

I loved playing the English - love those longows and bills

Other favoutites - sicilians, Teutonics (XL) and Almos.

Not a massive fan of the poles and Hungarians - too many enemies and I could never get those boyars right.

[Martok]

I'm stunned nobody vote for the sicilians. They've got a great strategic location, and a campaign bent on destruction as there's all sorts of good factions to pick from(Italians, byzantines, Almohoads, Egypt). Units might be a bit generic, but I always thought they were a very fun campaign.

As I've noted before, the Sicilians are definitely in my top five favorite factions. (Perhaps I should create a poll allowing multiple choice?)

Playing them stretches my "strategy muscles" so to speak, as I'm forced to rely on a strong naval presence more than on powerful armies as I'm used to. In conjunction with that, their starting location also practically guarantees an....interesting campaign.

[Saul]

1. Turks

Constantinople is near and it has a lot of buildings that add stars to your generals. Also Trebizond adds 2 stars. So you can pick two 2 star generals and turn them into 6 star in the first turns. PLus JHI

2. Byzantines - the same reason. Plus you can bribe that Serbian general.