most powerful faction

[Craterus]

They are attacked from all sides immediately and in almost every game they are controlled by the AI, they will be the first faction destroyed.

[Beefy]

Acutally on my game they took a big chunck out of the eygptians, which allowed me to finish them off being alies with the selecuid!

Now i control all of africa, spain, sciliy and moving up into france!

[Craterus]

I own all of asia minor as far as scythia, down to thapsus (africa)... None of europe and the balkans :(

[cunobelinus]

secluids but they are surronded in campaign but my favourite is germany i love beserkers

[Yesugey]

Why everyone thinks Egyptians are unstoppable and extremely imbalanced? I see they have very nice set of units but their general is a Chariot. (Easier to kill, have to be handled extremely carefully, die at the secont in contact with Phalances, and cant send to the crisis points in the battlefields or cant be used to sweep city centers without lose.) And they have no other huge advantages. Maybe population growth? Or you were talking about the old version which they have double unit size?

[ReluctantSamurai]

Why everyone thinks Egyptians are unstoppable and extremely imbalanced?

Because they have rich provinces to begin with, excellent temples, a very good unit roster, and.....chariot archers. All AI vs AI battles are auto-calc and the chariot archer rules vs just about any lower-tier troops, especially cavalry. In virtually every game I've ever played, it's the Ptolemaic's that conquer the Middle East and roll into Anatolia with relative ease, unless opposed by the player.

[Yesugey]

Because they have rich provinces to begin with, excellent temples, a very good unit roster, and.....chariot archers. All AI vs AI battles are auto-calc and the chariot archer rules vs just about any lower-tier troops, especially cavalry. In virtually every game I've ever played, it's the Ptolemaic's that conquer the Middle East and roll into Anatolia with relative ease, unless opposed by the player.

Thanks I was just thinking of the player's perspective, and without considering the temple and startup cities bonuses.
Chariots really are deadly, but they rarely gave me hard time since the AI uses them very stupidly most of the time. (Especially on bridge battles.. What a mess )