Worst faction?

**Papewaio** · 07-20-2005, 04:15

My Criteria: The worst faction is the easiest to win with.

**King of Atlantis** · 07-20-2005, 04:18

The only way i can ever lose in rtw is SQUALOR!

I think it's stupid that the only challenge in the game is someones citzens trashing their own cities.

**pezhetairoi** · 07-20-2005, 06:07

Quite true.

Papewaio, if you're going to say the worst faction is the easiest to win with, then I suppose Eggy has a good running for it which I fully agree with. And perhaps, also the HA factions...? That seems a little more dodgy. Depends on whether you're talking about easy to 'win' as in gain final 50-victory/world domination victory, or 'win' as in pass the point of strategic domination where there is really no faction left in the world that can pose a major threat to you?

**Spartiate** · 07-20-2005, 15:46

Egypt get my vote as the worst faction.Just so unrealistic to take apart Roman Cohorts with those Axemen with no bloody armour.The Numidians are the most frustrating i think but i did enjoy the challenge.You need to rely on a lot of mercs to get anywhere but once you capture a few developed cities the Numidian Legionaries make adequate line infantry backed up by archers and flanked by barb cav.It's fun to have to use tactics again.
I agree that the Gauls,Britons,Dacians and Germans are boring and the same with the Greeks for lack of variety but not just as annoying as the damn Egyptian with their invincible units.In RTR they are replaced with the(correct) Ptolemic Empire and are more enjoyable to play with and against.

**Viking** · 07-20-2005, 20:21

Numidia got those freakin` cool legionaers people, don`t forget that! But appart from that are they an utterly boring faction.

The definition of a bad faction lies in its unit roster:

Thrace,Numidia, Dacia and Gaul=boring(few (unique) units)

Britannia=boring(no cavalry? That sucks!)

Egypt=boring(these units are the ugliest to be found in RTW)

**antisocialmunky** · 07-20-2005, 21:06

Yeah, too bad you can't lead enemy armies around the desert so they roast to death as the Numidians, it would provide for a good LOL factor.

I take it back about Numidia because Egypt, while playable, is GAY! They kill all the interesting factions and have enough money to bribe every single thing on the map.

Atleast with the Numidians you can joke about melting all your sand down to create giant convex lenses and burn the Romans like ants. Freaking Numidian superweapon.

**pezhetairoi** · 07-21-2005, 00:24

...lol.

Egypt? In my game it's now not as bad because the Axemen have been modded to 3 armour. So Numidia now takes the cake because there's nothing I can do about them to make them less...erm...underpowered.