Most irritating enemy faction?

[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)

[Rosacrux redux]

Egypt is annoying and irritating anyway, just because of their pharaonic buildup and their stupendous unit lineup (even though by playing the Total Realism Mod I don't have to live with the stupid names anymore - I do have to live with the ridiculisly overpowered "native" units though) they are way too overpowered in vanilla RTW, their levy units are better than most factions top notch units, they attack the Seleucids out of the blue, even if they were allied for only a couple of turns (you can tell I've played a couple of Seleucid campaigns, can't you?) they bring in army after army after army... did I mention I hate the "pharaonic colour" of this faction?

Also, when playing as the Greek Cities, I find the Brutii (allthough rather weak) extremely irritating. They will land a smallish army in Athens every other turn, besiege, get trashed, repeat the next turn and over and over again... I really hate this.

[Paul Peru]

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

Don't you like it there?

[Somebody Else]

Egypt, as they seem to be able to reach 15 provinces fairly quickly - and defeat the Seleucids. A problem if I've got a slow starting faction and I want to play a short game.

[Heinrich VI]

egypt - hands down! they are always annoying to fight and their citys are prone to revolt all the time.

[Parmenio]

Egypt - just because they're so historically wrong.

[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...

[Silver Rusher]

Whoa, Egypt seems popular... I can guess why though.

[Woodtopian]

Damn Macedon, I say! Nothing stops a successful campaign quicker than a plague.

My main breadth of playing so far has been with the Greek Cities, and as them, the Macedonians are lightweights, the seluecids are entrenched but mediocre, and the Brutii are a paper tiger, but the Scipii always seem to foil me and grind my advance to a halt.

So, The Macedonians are annoying and hated for their plague, and the scipii for their resilience. Also, of course, playing as a Roman Faction, the most annoying enemies are your own allies. There's nothing worse than bringing up the rescources and recruits for a campaign to take a juicy territory, only to have it stolen out from under your nose by an ally you can't attack.

Of course, the Senate is also a bastard device of the devil for zeroing in on any faction I want to cultivate good relations with and then commanding me to the warpath.