Most irritating enemy faction?

[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.

[RZST]

egypt and those goddamn bowmen XD

[Zharakov]

In my game as Sythia - The Germans who held me in Russia for 80 years

As Julii - Britions just because they never let me land on Brittion, I only wanted to talk...

As Carthage - Numidia just because of how fricking huge Numidia is

As Armenians - Selucids and Egyptions tie because they allied against me after THEY attacked one of my fleets

[Uesugi Kenshin]

No matter what my most irritating faction is the romans, I always end up fighting at least two of them at once. Currently I am waging a two front war against the Scipii (North Africa) and Brutii (Greece, Italia), it takes me hours to capture a settlement in each area. Hint for those annoyed by the Seluecids, if you start on their border blitz them. The Seluecids start the game off weak, they have alkmost no way to counter archers or cavalry. So if oyu are Egypt what you should do is have light infantry hit the front of their phalanxes and then charge the rear with cavalry or just use archers to kill them from range. As the Britons the Julii have kept me from making significant gains in Italia because the Britons do not have heavy enough troops. If you are on the border of a faction that can become extremely strong mid to late game the best strategy is to force a decisive winner takes all showdown. Do not have a cautious game plan throw all of your troops into the grinder, make risky decisions on the battlefield, bottom line don't bleed the tough factions slowly decapitate them and burn their corpse. Beat them until there is nothing left to beat. Never allow your economy or population to come in the way of your military's need for a quick and brutal conclusion to a conflict. If you find yourself thinking, "But if I lose I might not recover..." you probably have the right idea!

[Paul Peru]

I think it depends a lot on who you play. As Armenia, Seleucids and Egypt are very annoying. They just won't take my peace offers. Parthians demanded 3 cities, but then settled for trade, map and 1000D. Pontus won't hear of peace either, but I've got them walled in. Eggies and SE are swarming me with chariots and pharaos elephant desert whatsits. I'll wote for Egypt, since I actually attacked SE first. GC are annoying too, with their bribing habit. I've never been annoyed by Scythians or Thracians.
(The list seems to be missing American Bushii)

[Paul Peru]

In my game as Sythia - The Germans who held me in Russia for 80 years

Don't you like it there?

[praetorians cavalry]

I really hate factions using elephants or horse archers.With these two units,perhaps only 150 mm anti-tank cannon and MG42 machine gun can help me out.

[Zharakov]

You'r right about the Selucids. Had I only Charged in in the begining...