Rebels rule. I'd ally myself with them if I could. Better yet, I wish you could play as the rebels as a faction in the campaign... that'd be awesome... you can only hold like, a certain amount of cities at any given time, so you'd have to keep moving and pillaging and all that good stuff... plus their faction color is the best... every unit looks better in beige... PLUS you could have the widest variety of units available... ah...