Most irritating enemy faction?

[Silver Rusher]

I just though I should bring this up. Playing as the Egyptians I found that the Seleucids just won't go down no matter what I try. Their army balance is just too good- to defeat them you need a very balanced army as well which the Egyptians do not have until quite a late stage of the game.

The Scythed Chariots are overpowed IMO. I had a 7-star general with a huge and well valoured army. I crushed a lot of the enemy captains, but got massacred (well I suppose it is a bit over-exaggurating, but still) every time the enemy army had scythed chariots in them. Many say Scythed Chariots are underpowered, but I strongly disagree.

Anyway, just vote on who you think is the most irritating, backstabbing, least diplomacy-friendly, or just hard-to-put-down faction out there. Choose wisely... and make sure to explain why you voted.

[Tamur]

I have had a consistently horrendous time on the campaign map with the Spanish/Iberians, whether I'm the Gauls, the Julii, the Scipii, the Carthaginians, etc etc. They very often don't even give me the option to ally with them, they revoke Trade Rights at whimsical intervals, they attack my allies but never me, they seek out and attack lone ships. In battles I rarely have trouble with them, but for the rest of the game they're the foulest pillocks imaginable.

But I'm sure most of them are nice people

[Silver Rusher]

Strangely enough, I don't think I've ever come face to face with the Spanish... although they did stupidly attack my huge fleet as the Julii. A little way into the war I quit the campaign and started a new one, I was getting quite bored of it.

[Maltz]

I hate all clans that use tons of horse archers. In castle sieges it is very frustrating to get them. They keep bounce back and fourth from the town center, shooting all the way. I wish I had some shotgun...

Fortunately I don't really see AI use a lot of them, though. I would just blame (vote) Parthia.

[Jeanne d'arc]

Without a doubt egypt, if u cant counter them early they grow into a superpower with seemingly endless armies.Then theres also those archer chariots they have, very mean units those.Playing as them is also the last thing i would do cause theres not much of a challenge.

[SwordsMaster]

Egypt here too. In the mid-game playing with seleucia, they brought armies composed exclusively of desert cavs, archers and chariots. Too fast and sneaky for my hoplites and pikemen. It took me a LOt of mercs to take them down.

After you get the trick of fighting them there isnt much problem.

But they are one of the hardest ones.
Numidia is also a sneaky one.

[Siris]

Most iritating, dont have one. Most stupid is Brutii & Scippi, sending so many Hastati that always run away and are run down by calvery, by the thousands. Their also pretty annoying.