What is the worst faction in your opinion?

[The Stranger]

what no unique units, damn foresters are the best archers in game

[The Stranger]

worst faction definitly is Scythia, i hate them

[The Stranger]

oh and the spanish campaign also sucks

[Mikeus Caesar]

For me, it's either Thrace or Numidia. I would probably play them if it wasn't for the dull selection of units.

[Craterus]

Oops, i forgot about foresters. But they have regular barb infantry and cavalry...

Spanish campaign is fun, you obviously didn't play it very well...

Technically, any campaign can be fun, as long as you take an interesting route. Could do with the AI being better though.

[Garvanko]

Agreed. Do something unexpected, and a campaign will open up lots of new possibilities.

For example, take Carthage with the Brutii before the Scipii get there..

[Es Arkajae]

Thrace also has a unique unit, the Bastarnae, though it is identical in appearance to the Thracian mercenaries so it may give the impression of not being unique.

I would like to get rid of the identical looks for some units. I personaly think that Macedonian and Seleucid pikemen should somehow look different (and I don't mean just colour), they can be the same stats but they should look different, variety is the spice of life and all.'

Same goes for Bastarnae and Thracians, Illyrians, Merc peltasts and heavy peltasts etc. and the various barbarian civ units.

Anyway to answer the question the Egyptians are the worst, they're so un-historical it isn't funny they have stupid appearances that don't match with their stats (the infamous iron skinned desert axemen) and under AI control they steamroll across the map killing off all the actual interesting factions and making the game much duller as a result.

If you mean worst faction to play then the answer for me personally is the Parthians, I'm not a big fan of cavalry dominated armies and at least the Scythians have axemen, the Parthians just get pajama wearing desert fags.

[Craterus]

The brackets weren't referring to Thrace. I like their bastarnae and falxmen, some nice units but they seem to bore me. Their location isn't too hot either. In worst faction terms, I would give Gaul first place, Thrace second.

To be honest though, as I said earlier, any campaign can be exciting, just do something out of the ordinary. I'm sure I would enjoy a Thracian campaign, if I got into it.

[Mikeus Caesar]

the Parthians just get pajama wearing desert fags

When me and a friend were looking at RTW screenshots last summer, we didn't know who the Parthians were, so we nicknamed them the 'Pyjama People'. The name has stuck ever since.

[The Stranger]

Oops, i forgot about foresters. But they have regular barb infantry and cavalry...

Spanish campaign is fun, you obviously didn't play it very well...

Technically, any campaign can be fun, as long as you take an interesting route. Could do with the AI being better though.

nah the spanish have stupid units, and early on the scutarii whipeo ut every unit in the game

[Craterus]

I found the Scutarii to be quite adequate. Not great, adequate. You can get to building them really fast though...

[The Stranger]

yeh but they're better than warbands, iberian infantry and hastati

[King Arthur]

oh and the spanish campaign also sucks

You shouldnt go by just how the campaign pans out emperor for judging the worst faction
, but taking into account the units location etc, in this way i feel the thrace faction is worse then the spanish faction

[IliaDN]

Thrace is boring !!!!!

[The Stranger]

You shouldnt go by just how the campaign pans out emperor for judging the worst faction
, but taking into account the units location etc, in this way i feel the thrace faction is worse then the spanish faction

i tried 4 spanish campaign and after around 20 turns i was burned out, everytime.

[Count Belisarius]

Define 'worst'. 'Worst' as in most-hated? Egypt, hands down. Un-historical, and ridiculously overpowered.

Worst to play? I would say Gaul if it weren't for the Foresters. I also hate Germania and Scythia for the interminable rebels and tedious distances, though they both have an interesting units. Have to go with Thrace for bad map position, poverty, and boring units.

[The Stranger]

if you play RTR you have a less powefull more realistic egypt