Most boring faction to play as

[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.

[Atraphoenix]

But Casse is a great challenge but it depend on the player who like challenge or peaceful, slow expansion. She has many good infantries and even romani elites are no match for them.
On the other hand, As I am a cavalry maniac, I have never played with them.

[Apázlinemjó]

But Casse is a great challenge but it depend on the player who like challenge or peaceful, slow expansion. She has many good infantries and even romani elites are no match for them.
On the other hand, As I am a cavalry maniac, I have never played with them.

Casse starts with neutral to Eleutheroi, so you don't need to worry that they don't let you to grow peacefully. The AI factions won't bother you, you can concentrate on the rebels - wipe them out, build a "safe haven" then invade Gallia. Casse is the easiest barbarian faction, as the Gauls are forced to fight eachother and Rome, while the Lusos end up dead against Carthage, while Swebóz is isolated too, after a little growin' they get into a trench warfare with Rome and the Sarmatians.

[Cute Wolf]

Believe it or not: Koinon Hellenon (but that also my favourite faction!!!)
End up doing the very same thing when the campaign starts... kicking Kydonia, reinforcing athenai, and massacring Korinthos... then moving up and doing a really big mess as quickly as possible against those Makedonians and Epeirotes.... and when u concentrate to the war, Pantikapaion, Emporion, Chersonesos, Sinope, and every "Greek Cities" sent their emissary say they are on your side now.... Waaarrrggghhhh......

But they are really funny everytime i play... just need some improvement, and "add_unit" for Makedonian ai

[Fierro]

I don't understand how people have trouble with Casse. In my current campaign taking over the islands was a breeze and after that I had a ridiculous income. I waited until 200BC to attack the mainland that way I could build up my cities and actually face developed favtions (that didn't work out too well, AI factions still seem just as weak with some being larger than others)
The only reason I'm not swimming in mnai is because I have three stacks of elites and a navy of 10 ships. If it wasn't for that I would easily have several million mnai.

[Satyros]

I wouldn't say the Casse are that hard either . They're for the first 3-4 turns , until you repel the Caledonians and take your first town , in my current campaign I managed to pull this off in the same battle , which was a close one but I really enjoyed winning it .

I found the Aedui a much greater challenge .

Still , these are 2 very interesting factions whereas the huge management of the Empires ( Carthage , Seleukeia , Ptolemy ) from turn 1 is too much of a burden for me to be convinced to keep playing after turn 3 .

Also the Romaioi are boring because they are too easy I believe . First turn on the positive ( at leat when I played them once , at an older version it was so ) ? Bah ! This is not a man's campaign ! It's a boy's campaign . Na na nana na .

On the other hand the KH suits me best I think . Some tough battles in the beggining ( true , the same ones every time ) till you get out of debt ( true , you can't plunge into a -30000 abyss ) but the challenge after that is to defend your colonies , especially if one happens to join your alliance . The declarations of war are a perfect opportunity to either gain some buck from ceasefires pretending to be forgiving to the enemy and roleplaying animosities with said colony , or be really offended and send ships and men to battle HA in the steppes , which should be a fun slaughter of your army .

Also , the unit Hellen Misthophoros Strategos absolutely rocks . Fast cavalry with a deadly charge , by the gods I'll have half of my cities with an allied gov . And a question popped up , but I will take it elsewhere since I am way off topic a while now in the post .

Satyros