Hardest Faction

**KrooK** · 12-17-2005, 02:24

OK first of all - depend if you are talking about single or multiplayer.
In single interesting are bizantine and poland on late era, maybe arragon too.
In multiplayer hardest fraction is egypt on all terrains exept desert.

**Come Together** · 12-17-2005, 04:26

Honestly, I didn't find france or the turks quite difficult. I would have to say Poland, I can barely do anything with them. Allthough, to be fair, i have never played the argonese, or the sicilians for that matter.

**Microwavegerbil** · 12-17-2005, 04:37

The HRE is, IMO the hardest to play. On Hard/Very Hard and especially with mods, everyone else is so aggressive that's it's rediculously hard to fight them all off. A war on all sides is about impossible to avoid.

**The Darkhorn** · 12-17-2005, 06:08

Originally Posted by Microwavegerbil

The HRE is, IMO the hardest to play. On Hard/Very Hard and especially with mods, everyone else is so aggressive that's it's rediculously hard to fight them all off. A war on all sides is about impossible to avoid.

Is it just me or does your avatar look like George Clooney?

**Microwavegerbil** · 12-17-2005, 17:07

Haha, I guess he does slightly resemble him. Now I wanna change it.

Speaking of pictures, is it just me or does this santa

look absolutely insane?

**phred** · 12-18-2005, 02:17

Try the turks starting on High. I found that to be pretty challenging.

**Alim** · 12-18-2005, 20:49

HRE is definetely one of the hardest factions to play, you will have to fight on2-3 (if not more) fronts at some stage. Also they don't get any light cavalry and no unique units until late. I imagine the Byzantines in Late must be a real challenge.
No-one's mentioned them, but I find the Danes really hard to play with. They do get very strong units but no cash with which to train them. Also their only route to expansion (apart from Scandinavia) goes through the HRE.