Which Faction Should I Play as Next?

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Succesful Pontos Campaign Succesful. At least that's when I repelled the 25th Seleucid stack besieging Antiocheia while I rampaged on Greece and the Pontic Steppe, fat bank account and the likes.

Now I was thinking of either playing the Romaioi or a barbarian faction, or anything that uses little in the way of phalanxes since I got a bit tired of the style. Here's what it comes down to:

Arverni
Aedui
Getai
Sweboz
Casse
Romani
Lusotannan

[Andy1984]

If you haven't played as the Romani, I suggest you try them. They may not be difficult, but their many reforms and their construction options are good reasons to consider them. Besides these things, their elite units (pedites extraordinarii, camillian trairii,...) are really sweet and you get to fight the Aedui, which can be though on the higher difficulty levels.

However: if you're a blitzer, I'd choose a different faction.

[HunGeneral]

I suggest Romani: they are really a unique experience.

[Megas Methuselah]

Choose the Aedui, then migrate to the northern Balkans, or a bit further to the north in modern Poland, or maybe central Anatolia.

[Kevin]

I'd say try the Lusotannan. I've never played them but they sound good. They get the best infantry in the game (Dosidataskeli) and the best horse in the east (Iberi Lanceari). Though, their armies are more about skirmishing than fighting I think.

Another choice would be the Getai, they have some good units, or the Sweboz because they can train 4exp units
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[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

I thought Dosidataskeli had been taken out?

Anyway, do a Sweboz campaign. I'm recently thinking about doing the same either, but I had to revert many changes everytime I play them, basically switching manually between Sweboz and Arche Makedonias files...

The Sweboz are just great and have a really cool feel to them... not caring about the mediterranean political fuss, but maniacally trying to subjugate the Lugii, than invading Gaul. Yeah!

[mountaingoat]

play as the casse , u can spent most of the time sitting around.

[Kevin]

Nevermind, don't play as the Sweboz. They're boring as . All of their units look the same :/

[Geticus]

If you are sick of the heavy infantry grind then you might consider Casse, use chariot bodyguards exclusively as cavalry, along with skirmisher/light infantry hordes and see how many chevrons and how strong of charioteer forces you can build up during the invasion of the mainland.

[Blxz]

Go averni. AI cannot control them and they always get steamrolled. Give the poor faction a chance. Plus their green is way better than Aedui green -> deciding factor