Favorite Ally

[Budwise]

I always side with Germany and help them take out everyone else and wait for them to attack me after I have an empire of my own. I wish I could stay Allied with them all the time but they always break the alliances and I guess AI is more Free For All than Team Play. I would just love Multiplayer Campaign because I could finish with an empire about 50% of the map, I don't need to own the world. Even if my Ally was an AI faction, I wouldn't mind as long as I don't have to constantly worry about my border. Hell - I would even give/help it get more of its own land.

I dunno, call me a WW2 nut but I always wanted to see the bad guy win IN VIDEO GAMES (not real life, I'm not a Nazi), I guess thats why I love the British enough to get to know the Billmen/Longbow. In fact, my first British campaign to 100% was won without using a single Billmen unit.

[Roark]

I like to ally with Sicily and Italy as soon as possible, purely because of their navies. I don't need them messing with my trade routes.

My staunchest allies have historically been the French. They can be very chummy for some reason.

[Dutch_guy]

Have to agree with you Budwise, in every campaign I ally with the HRE, they have even helped me on certain occaisions - in battles.

And yes, they usually just spontaniously decide to stop the alliance .... which is to bad since I would have let them live. if they kept my eastern border clean ..

As for the french.... I never ally with them, they're usually my first target conquest-wise, especially when playing a Western faction

[mfberg]

I love to ally with the Turks or Byzantines, especially if I am all the way across the map. In VI it is the Welsh I always ally with, so much fun to help them kick the mercians out of their regions.

[AggonyDuck]

Somehow I like allying with the Poles, dunno but they're some of the most reliable allies one can get.

[Grey_Fox]

Meh. Allies for me are just things I use for foreign princesses. I feel no compulsion to make allies of my own, but if they offer I won't refuse.

So I don't have a favourite ally, they are just people to be invaded at a later date.