Your Opinion is wanted.

[Shottie]

How can you play as them if everyones game crashes when you start a SPQR game?

[TinCow]

I have to say I am *really* enjoying my Dacian game. It's very hard (a good thing) and when you finally reach Chosen Swordsmen and Chosen Archers, you can field excellent armies. Add a variety of Barbarian Noble Cavalry, Warhounds and Onagars and you can even go toe-to-toe with the Romans. That said, I really miss the Roman battle speeches... they contribute a great deal to my enjoyment of those factions.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I believe that the Brutii are technically the best. They are Roman so they get the best unit roster and they have the best position of all the Romans. They start out with not a single neighboring faction that can attack them without crossing the Mediterranean.

But if you like playing surrounded try the Seluecids, because they start off surrounded by 4-5 unfriendly factions and their units in the early game are not designed to fight the horse archers that they are surrounded by. The most fulfilling experience so far in this game for me has been destroying Egypt, Pontus, Parthia and Armenia after years of brutal warfare and getting the Greeks to turn on them, because the Greeks were their allies for almost half the time.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Brutii- True Southern Italians with a cool name and colour, hard fight, and with the riches of Greece to the east.