Most boring faction to play as

[Jebivjetar]

well this time you did it XD

[Apázlinemjó]

Nomad factions, they are too cavalry based for me.

[Celtic_Punk]

I like all the factions. But I hate Rome, and I feel like the bad guys when I play em. I prefer killing Romans!


EDIT: also for all you casse haters! The campaign is incredibly hard. Only the best survive. Only the greatest can take the whole isle. You just have to pick your targets. And siege them till they sally or surrender. Use your initial dough and let yourself go into huge debt. Get rid of those damn boats too you don't need em at all. Get to Eire through Scotland. Once you unite the Isles you'll have insane amounts of coin. Get trade rights with as many people as possible. Spain is an inviting target! Lots of romans or possibly carthies to kill! It is worth it to spend most of your money on a fleet to get rid of pirates in the North Sea and Bay of Biscay. Its a very hard campaign.

[DaciaJC]

I don't know why you ramble on the difficulty of the Casse while simultaneously exhorting Casse players to willingly go into debt...

If one disbands the navy and most of the starting troops, the Casse won't go into debt and will actually make a small profit each season. Bide your time and you will slowly but surely expand with no threat from any other faction.

I managed to play about 10 years as Casse and build something of a full-stack before I decided that there wasn't much to be found attractive in Casse units, in my opinion.

[Celtic_Punk]

pfffff, you cower behind your phalanxes and such. The casse are true warriors! And actually put up a fight against the romans!

[Apázlinemjó]

The Casse isn't really a hard campaign, you are isolated and that tells everything. It's fun, if you want to build up a strong barbarian economy and army, before you hit the other factions.

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Koinon Hellenon - despite having a certain fondness for them, their roster is bland, boring and terribly anachronistic and weak. Nothing like a pike phalanx when you're playing Hellenes, and that's what they lack the most. And cavalry, especially cavalry.

Sweboz - Terrible.

Saba - Never went past turn one.

Ptolemaioi and Seleucids - Big Empires, not fun.

Karthadastim - I'm better off destroying them than commanding them.

The Best:

Romani, Arverni, Makedonia, Epeiros, Casse, Sauromatae, Baktria.

EDIT - The order above is my order of preference. The important aspect to notice is that I was never fond of pike phalanxes either, despite finding them a necessary evil for Successor states; my favourite part is the Successor Cavalry, otherwise the flexible and fast heavy infantry of the Romani and Gauls eats them for breakfast all the time.

[Atraphoenix]

I love all, I just get bored after I have dominated the world and there is no faction to challenge me.

If you battle with the same tactics you get bored as well.
For Hellenic factions you get bored using hammer and anvil all the time.
For nomadic factions you get bored using rinse and repeat or hit and run all the time.

so you must change your playing style. For example after I have dominated persia and mesopotamia with mostly Pahlava, I immediately change my battle tactics from classical rinse and repeat to a hybrid of hit and run and hammer and anvil.
Namely, I send HAS to soften the enemy. then enemy engages my pandadapoi phalangitai that pins them, then after the inferno of HAS the remaining enemy troops they are piece of cake for my cataphracts
so change your playing style, if you stick to historical realism or house rules, there is no fun mate
like : If you bored with slow moving phalanxes just increase the time speed...

[Celtic_Punk]

I find the elutheroi in my Casse campaigns aggressive. I've been sieged many many times on the first few turns.

[DaciaJC]

pfffff, you cower behind your phalanxes and such.

Er, no. Look to my signature and you'll see that I play mostly as Getai and a bit as Romani. No phalanxes to be found with either. I hate them myself.

And it seems like most people agree that the Casse campaign is rather easy compared to those of other barbarian factions.

[Tartaros]

i say the averni. i don´t know why, probably because they have no devided territory and there gaesachtae-unit looks stupid...

[Fluvius Camillus]

i say the averni. i don´t know why, probably because they have no devided territory and there gaesachtae-unit looks stupid...

What??

Building this was a great experience!

https://i594.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1245793352

~Fluvius

[Tartaros]

What??

Building this was a great experience!

https://i594.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1245793352

~Fluvius

i did nearly the same some time ago - but i don´t know why, for me aedui are the cooler celts. i enjoy there gameplay much more (divided war against averni, early war with the romanoi)

[Moosemanmoo]

i did nearly the same some time ago - but i don´t know why, for me aedui are the cooler celts. i enjoy there gameplay much more (divided war against averni, early war with the romanoi)

Plus that lime Green is just sickening
Aedui's dark colour just says grrrrr me smash

[Maion Maroneios]

Now that's what I cal blitzing, if you ask me. But hey, I've never bothered playing the Arbernoi too much as to get that far so I can't really tell if it's easy to get to such heights or not.

Maion

[HunGeneral]

https://i594.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1245793352

- Now thats what I call a celtic empire!

And in 254 BC?! One question if I may: what tactics did you use (especially against the romani..)?