Worst Faction to Play?

[Knight Templar]

The funniest faction for me are Egyptians. They control the holy land so all catholic factions send crusades and they have very interesting unique units. Swiss are good too.
The most boring are Polish and Danes

[Crusader4thepeople]

Poles arnt to bad in XL Mod as you have bohemia + Lithuania + Teutonic Knights to contend with. Danes are always fun IMO

[dgfred]

I'm not much help with this question because I only play as HRE, France,
Danes or Spain with a small dabble with the Alomads and the Egyptians . I don't like the Poles, Turks, English, Byz or the Italians
too much so that would be my answer....... I guess. All can be fun if in the
right frame of mind. I just have a blast with the HRE and the Danes .

[Don Corleone]

Sicily is pretty dull. Yes, they can crusade, but:

-Every male member of the royal family's name begins with 'A' ??????????

-They get Knights Templar, not Hospitalier. I hate Knights Templar.

-They get galleys, not barques/caravels. No deep water??? Bleah.

-They don't get any unique troops.

-There's not many options for diplomacy.

[Graphic]

I've never been able to stick with a Catholic faction for long, their early units are just so...eh. And I don't have the patience to wait for the goodies. Other factions get coolness from the start.

[Roark]

For me, the least fun is the HRE (Germans).

Having a large proportion of your provinces landlocked from day one means a lot of micromanagement on the campaign map. Armies take 3 to 4 years to get where they're needed most. Not to mention the loyalty/crap heir bug. Yeah, I said bug.

I haven't played them in Late though. Goths are at least 8 kinds of goodness.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Play the real game, MP. I played sp for about 3 weeks. After conquering the world 2 and a half times I decided to go online and test my skills. Well its now three years later and Ive yet to even try a sp game again. MP is the only way to fly Then we can talk factions.

[Martok]

For me, the least fun is the HRE (Germans).

Having a large proportion of your provinces landlocked from day one means a lot of micromanagement on the campaign map. Armies take 3 to 4 years to get where they're needed most. Not to mention the loyalty/crap heir bug. Yeah, I said bug.

I haven't played them in Late though. Goths are at least 8 kinds of goodness.

I second that; HRE is my least favorite. You start with a crapload of mediocre provinces, most of which are landlocked. You're completely surrounded, mostly by other Catholic factions, so you're virtually guaranteed to get ex-commed at least once every couple decades (if not more). And by the time your really cool units become available, you've usually won the game already.

[Productivity]

Sicily is pretty dull. Yes, they can crusade, but:

-Every male member of the royal family's name begins with 'A' ??????????

-They get Knights Templar, not Hospitalier. I hate Knights Templar.

-They get galleys, not barques/caravels. No deep water??? Bleah.

-They don't get any unique troops.

-There's not many options for diplomacy.

Sicily can get interesting if the Pope decides he wants to get into a long war with you - but aside from that they seem to be a bit of a strange faction. It's not that they can't grow, but they just seem to have no real objectives.

GA is awful, they only have crusades, homelands and conquests. So boring.

[Budwise]

HEY, I love the Danes. To make them fun, attack the HRE from the getgo. MY best game was when I forgot to build up trade and my heirs were draining me dry. MY only choice was to go up against the HRE with almost nothing. After taking half their land, I allied with them and stayed their ally taking out everyone else for most of the game.

NO CRUSADES SUCKS SO BADLY THOUGH!!!!!

[English assassin]

I only played one campaign as the Russians and that was pretty boring. Boyars were OK if you like that sort of thing but it didn't really make up for having no other decent units. I had to resort to Halbs as my main inf and.....they......are......so.......slow......

I started in High, had a rush to get ready to deal with the horde, dealt with it, got bored and gave up. Never again.

I've never started the Byz in early but that must be pretty dull too because (I assume) it must be ridiculously easy.

[dgfred]

HEY, I love the Danes. To make them fun, attack the HRE from the getgo. MY best game was when I forgot to build up trade and my heirs were draining me dry. MY only choice was to go up against the HRE with almost nothing. After taking half their land, I allied with them and stayed their ally taking out everyone else for most of the game.

NO CRUSADES SUCKS SO BADLY THOUGH!!!!!

Me too . It is a fairly easy start after taking Sweden and Norway,
then smacking HRE some. Not so many provinces to deal with and solid units
for the early yrs .

[Tricky Lady]

Sicily is pretty dull. Yes, they can crusade, but:

-Every male member of the royal family's name begins with 'A' ??????????

-They get Knights Templar, not Hospitalier. I hate Knights Templar.

-They get galleys, not barques/caravels. No deep water??? Bleah.

-They don't get any unique troops.

-There's not many options for diplomacy.

Don Corleone, not sure if you're still checking this thread for an answer to your first question, but you might want to check out a post I ...errr... posted last year: link

It works...

[Pillowfighter]

Yea considering that Hitler hit Poland from 3 fronts(East Prussia, Germany, Slovakia) with 2600 tanks, 2000 aircraft and 1.8 million men and wanted to wipe out any Polish presence in a day. The Poles had 175 or so tanks, 400 planes and alot less military. Also the Germans used tactics not really ever used before in warfare...Blitzkrieg and bombing defenseless towns and refugees. French and British declared war a couple days later, but 2 weeks later when the Soviets invaded from the east the Poles still had no help. Warsaw didn't surrender for another 2 weeks after that, so over a month after Germany first attacked. The Germans lost 50,000 men, 697 planes and 993 tanks and armoured cars and Hitler was frustrated with having it take so long and diverting troups from other fronts.

Polish and slavic history during the time period of MTW is fairly impressive, and even more impressive shortly after the games time period...The Jagiellonian Dynasty (1386 - 1572).

[VikingHorde]

Yea considering that Hitler hit Poland from 3 fronts(East Prussia, Germany, Slovakia) with 2600 tanks, 2000 aircraft and 1.8 million men and wanted to wipe out any Polish presence in a day. The Poles had 175 or so tanks, 400 planes and alot less military. Also the Germans used tactics not really ever used before in warfare...Blitzkrieg and bombing defenseless towns and refugees. French and British declared war a couple days later, but 2 weeks later when the Soviets invaded from the east the Poles still had no help. Warsaw didn't surrender for another 2 weeks after that, so over a month after Germany first attacked. The Germans lost 50,000 men, 697 planes and 993 tanks and armoured cars and Hitler was frustrated with having it take so long and diverting troups from other fronts.

Polish and slavic history during the time period of MTW is fairly impressive, and even more impressive shortly after the games time period...The Jagiellonian Dynasty (1386 - 1572).

That is correct. They also later in the war did some of the hardest fighting (with the allies), often succeeding were the brits and americans failed. I admire the poles a lot for there role in WW2, always fighting harder than the most to free their country.