12th playable faction

[Polemists]

Despite all the arguments I think next tuesday will come down to Portugal or 13 Colonies.

I know 13 colonies should not be a playable faction, I've heard the arguments, but not sure if CA is going to define them that way or not.

Next tuesday we find out, then the following tuesday it's game time :)

[ToeAndno]

Now where did I read that the 12th could possibly the 13 colonies once the RtI has been played through?

[General SupaCrunk]

Despite all the arguments I think next tuesday will come down to Portugal or 13 Colonies.

I know 13 colonies should not be a playable faction, I've heard the arguments, but not sure if CA is going to define them that way or not.

Next tuesday we find out, then the following tuesday it's game time :)

They have said (In the same PM message) the 12th faction is in North America.

[Polemists]

Well I don't see it being the iriquois so i guess 13 colonies it is.

[ToeAndno]

Unless it's something ultra-amazing like zombie pirates

[GMaximus]

Damn... If it's really the Thirteen Colonies, I'll feel disappointed. I mean, I can see how it makes sense from a marketing standpoint, and the USA could make for an interesting campaign... But I don't intend to play it myself. It's just a personal prefference, really, but I would've much rather had another middle-eastern empire in the final slot, either the Mughals or Sefevids. That'd make for three non-European main factions in total, not that much since there are three times as many European factions. Europeans are the main point of this game, yeah, but it'd be nice to have more different flavoured campaigns than just the Ottomans (big surprise...) and the Marathas (which are somewhat a surprise, as I definately wasn't thinking about them the first time I heard of ETW; their campaign is probably going to be a blast, slugging it out against the Mughal behemoth... reminds me of Hayasdan/Pontos in EB ).

I still have a small sparkle of hope that instead CA will go for something else as the final official factions. The Thirteen Colonies got their own campaign; shoving someone else onto the spotlight would be nice, be it Portugal, Mughals, or the odd Crimean Khanate. Hell, I'd play the Iroquois and be glad they're playable - now that'd be different flavor.

[Sir Beane]

The 12th faction is almost certainly the US or Portugal. The Iroquois just wouldn't make sense. How can you build an overseas Empire when your biggest ship is a canoe? And if they correct that by giving them SOL's won't it be a little odd seeing a First Rater crewed by Native American Warriors? It's bad enough that the Maratha liely won't have very unique ships.

Either they have an extremely historically innacurate Iroquois faction, or an extremely unbalanced one. I'd rather not see either as the 12th faction. At least the US or Portugal could conciveably compete with the other 11 playable factions.

Just my two cents.