Hi, I've had MTW (and VI) for about 5 months, and I just joined the forums here today. Before I got MTW I was a huge Age of Empires II junkie, and I spent a lot of time at the Age of Kings Heaven forums, but I guess I'll be hangin' out here for a while now.
Anyway, whenever I'm playin the medieval campaign game, it seems like some factions with similar strengths at the beginning usually do much better than others. In my experience:
English: Get their butts kicked by France, often only surviving in Ireland or another remote province.
France: Take over England and often overrun the HRE and Spain. If there is one faction that almost always does well with the AI, it's the French.
Byz: Grow rapidly in Early but are toppled by Turks, Egypt, and the Horde.
The Horde: Get most of the steppes, and stop.
Egypt and the Almos: Often one or the other takes over a large part of the western or eastern part of the map.
HRE: Does OK, but never great. Often killed by France.
Spain: Usually beats the Alamos, and If France doesn't overrun Western Europe, they will.
Papacy: Always there, often takes what Sicily had if they attack the pope.
Turks: Usually beat up by Egypt, almost never gets very big.
Danes, Sicily, and especially Argon: Sit and do nothing, (which is understandable considering their one-province starting positions) but Sicily often does pretty good before biting off more than they can chew with the Pope or Italy.
Russia: Not much, esp. when the Horde arrives.
Poland and Hungary: Often burn each other out, if not, HR > Poles, and Byz > Hungary.
Of course, every game is dramatically different, and it often depends on who I'm playing as, but overall, I would say that the worst AI faction is Aragon, and the Best is France. Is any of this usually true when you play?
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