Most Difficult to Conquer

[Aemilius Paulus]

Yeah, it is steppes for me as well. Only I come prepared. French, Teutons, Poles, and Germans all tried to conquer Russia but failed. I do not. Ten spies an army; almost full cavalry, HA, and heavy archer (Bosphorans, Cretans, and less often the lighter Scythians) fullstacks on my side, and more fullstacks of garrison troops to follow.

[Ibrahim]

I was torn between the steppes and Arabia (both of which were hell on the seleukids I had), but chose Arabia. when I played my AS campaign, they cost me more in lives and money than all the other steppe factions put together-and even then I failed to coaquer saba.

so I started playing saba instead

[Exosus]

Brittania just because it always has a giant pile of pirates in the English Channel that I have to build a North Seas Fleet solely to destory in order to finally get my units onto the damn thing. Especially given that most of the factions that need to conquer it for VC, or who are nearby, have boats rather than ships and you have to build the 15000 dollar versions in massive numbers just to destroy partial stacks of the pirates (who by the way almost have to come from similar stock, yet have ships that can eat mine for breakfast )

Usually I end up just putting a full stack on a single boat and making a suicide run to the island and just hoping the Casse haven't built themselves a serious army in the mean-time.