The Turks: My New Favorite Faction

[Goofball]

Man, why didn't I try them sooner I had always kind of steered clear of playing as the Turks because I didn't like their starting position. I never really paid any attention to them because I was typically playing as the English or Danes starting in Early and by the time I got around to conquering that part of the world the Turks had already been swallowed by the Byz or Egyptians. But a few days ago I decided, what the hell, and gave them a try.

They have the coolest units in the game Every time I construct a new building it's like Christmas time, with some new and exciting unit available for me to produce. I especially like the fact that they have several archer units that are also very capable melee fighters (or should I say, several infantry units that are also equipped with bows), so that you don't end up with units that are useless once they run out of ammo.

Here's to the Turks

[kiwitt]

I know what mean.

I am producing Hashashin with Gold Armor. I am looking at creating a raiding party of 8 Hashashin(24) and 8 Grenade throwers(24)(whatever they are called). Just to see them in action.

[The_678]

I know that they are one of the best if not the best factions, but they are very HA and archer heacy and I don't like using HA and archers too much. But I recently learned as the Byz. how to use HA so I might give them a try sometime soon. And from the receiving end I know how awesome JHI are. I really want to use those babies.

[Drewman]

The Turks are, IMHO, the most diverse faction in the game. That breeds replayability.

Some of the factions are fun at first, but become tedious and repetitive because of a smaller range of different units. Byzantium springs to mind here. To a similar extent, so too do Catholic nations. It's the same fuedal/chivalric sergeant, feudal/chivalric MAA, fedual/chivalric knight build scheme for almost every one of them.

[RZST]

turks are alos my newest fav faction in sp.
i dont like to try them on early since they have crap units :p and whenever i go early i usually conquer the map before horde arrives.

try them on high :) its soo much better, since you only have like 10 years to prepare before horde arrives, i had a measly 4 armenian heavy cav and 3 saracens on georgia when the horde arrived :( i completely forgot about them since i was busy building up an army to conquer egypt. damn horde :)