Whats you favorite faction and why?
Whats you favorite faction and why?
The condition of the people was pitiable to behold. They sickened by the thousands daily, and died unattended and without help. Many died in the open street, others dying in their houses, made it known by the stench of their rotting bodies.
-Giovanni Boccaccio
Turks, because I'm greedy. Ransom the Egyptian sultan twice with katank's kidnapping opening, then invest the money and watch those florins roll.
Gotta' have those Syrian assassins, too.
"In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns."
The vikings. Probably because it's the faction that I know the most about and can most easily relate to.
at the moment i would say english
longbowmen and billmen + the usual catholic units, just seems to suit my fighting style better and longbowmen rock..
I like almost every faction in the game for many different reasons but find myself comming back to two of them repeatedly, the English and Egyptians. I like the historic feel of playing the English with many unique units, some of them really powerful too. I prefer the Egyptians for a completely different reason; ambiance and the complete opposite exotic feel of the game.
The Danish and the Aragonese, for the challenge. Although very differant challenges...
In VI, the Scots for pride of heritage, or the Welsh for the challenge...
And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder,
One of the four beasts sang, "Come and see,"
And I saw, and behold, a white horse.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts,
And I looked, and behold, a pale horse,
And his name it said on him was Death,
And Hell followed with him.
The one im playing
I think they all have their own advantages/challenges, one very replayable game
I like using the Polish, but that is because it is my heritage...
The Turks JHI need I say more they pretty much walk over anything then the Spanish (Gendarms) or the English (Longbows)& VI the Viking. Just an amazing game.
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Whichever I'm playing at a given time.
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The Turks due to the unique units.
Do unto others before they do unto you.
1. HRE for the difficult start and the nice units in the Late period.
2. The Sicilian for their nice location range of option available.
3. The French for the GA goals.
4. The Danes for their early units
French and HRE for GAs
Spanish for lancers, brits for longbows, almos for AUMs
Russians and Poles for financial challenge
Aragonese and Danes for strategic challenge.
Turks and Byz for most unique units available.
overall, I'd say English and Turks
1. Byzantines, for their katanks and varangian guards and for having Constantinople as a capital. It's also fun to tech up the other provinces from scratch.
2. Turks. Also for their unique units.
1. Byzantines for me. I like having to face modern unit with old ones and they are the last part of the old roman empire.
2. The Danes, cool viking units and start with only one province.
3. The spanish, allso cool units and great starting place.
I usually like to play as the Islamic factions. I prefer their light mobility to the Catholics slow units.
If you could play as the Golden Horde in the campaign, they'd definitely be my favorite. Is there a mod that lets you do this?
use the -ian switch to start the program.
then ctrl+shift+6 gets you the horde IIRC.
anyhow, this is god mode and lets you toggle between factions with ctrl plus number keys.
add in shift for more than 10 factions.
Hungarians
They have the best HA in the game (Szeleky) as well as having two other types of HA. Add this to all the normal Catholic units and u have a very strong faction.
English and Spanish because I know their respective military histories much better than the other factions. I want to play a non-catholic faction, but halfway through the game I find myself hoping my side actually loses because I can’t get into the game.
In VI my first 2 campaigns were with the Welsh (first unsuccessful – second 60% victory). Since then I have only been able to play the Vikings. I want to start a new VI campaign but cant figure out who would be the most challenging faction to play.
The state which separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools – Thucydides
The Irish are a little dificult to play as. Securing all of Ireland is easy but it takes forever to get boats so you can attack England, while the whole time the Vikings are raiding on you.Originally Posted by [b
The Spanish for me. I like Jinnettes. There is a muslim faction to hand for some Pope-friendly warfare. Reunifying the Iberian peninsular as quickly as possible makes for a fun start to the game, then you have a good defensive position to pause, tech up and build your armies, then its let the conquistadors roll...
On conquest I like to have quiet periods in between the mayhem, or at least little sub goals to achieve, but for a lot of factions it simply doesn't make any sense to stop conquering once you start. I like the English and Danes for similar reasons (unifying the British isles or conquering Scandinavia and maybe the baltic). The italians/scilians would be good if it wasn't for the pope.
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
I am drawn to the Muslim factions. The vast openess of the rolling desert makes the best battle-scapes.
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I made a Second Marriage in my house,
Divorced old barren Reason from my bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to my spouse
~the Rubiyat
The Spanish are my favorite faction. The Iberian peninsula provides a decent base of operations. There are mutiple iron sources so that highly teched units can be created.
In addition, the African coast is an ideal area for expansion as taking one additional province only does not create more than 1 defensive border until you get all the way to the middle east.
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i swear, there is an echo in the forums, how many threads is this nowa lot, thats all i know
60+ new units – including the mighty Indian War Elephants, Persian immortals and Indian naked female archers.
I like to play as all, but the Faction of MTW that I play most and am more experienced with is the Turks. They have lot of unique units, and good harrassing tactics able (Turcoman Horse, Futuwwas). One problem is for multiplayer you don't have Pavise Crossbows or any Arbalesters.
I personally love the Mongols and Muslims. A lumbering mounted knight with heavy armor will never catch a lightly garbbed Turcomor Horse Archer
I like the burgundians, because i first enjoy putting them in the game, and then i can play with them and defeat europe
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Byzantines. They have lots of interisting units and are fun to play. But NOT fun to beat, if they become a real empire...
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Byzantine
I love the feel to be a leftover of the Roman empire.
Theyre units are great. And the generals are devasting.
And if u have the potential u can easely becom a superpower right away with them.
Im currently playing them. Im the superpower. But i lack allies.The golden horde, The polish and the HRE are at war with me. And they are the 3 biggest factions beside me.
I think ill eventual eliminate them, they have began to b annoying.
This is the first time i play as them, and so far this is has been the most fun faction to play with.
Also like the Vikings in VI. Coz im from norway
If i could have choosen. I would want to be born 1000-2000 years ago.
Amon says that:
1.turks..they have jhi and futuwwa..also i am from turkey
2.english..they have longbowman..
3.spanish...they have lancers...
however i have fun playing all factions..
have fun
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