What faction are you most looking forward to play as in Campaign?

[Trajanus]

Really, I always assumed it was! :P

This arguement always springs up around new games when some countries aren't included and others are etc.

But at the end of the day they have to draw the line somewhere. Not 100% sure why they included Scotland though, seems a little pointless them having 1 prov on an island next to hostile England.

[Monarch]

I'm looking forward to 'uniting' (how noble am I?) Europe with the English.

(That's if the game works on my pc :))

[VikingHorde]

The Danes and Byzantines, my fav. factions

[zakalwe]

''Not 100% sure why they included Scotland though, seems a little pointless them having 1 prov on an island next to hostile England.''

Mind you we don't know how many provinces they will have.

I'd prefer they started with 2 or 3

Central/North East Scotland - the heart of Alba
The south-west - Strathclyde/Cumbria
The south-east - Borders/ Lothian

Also, a strong rebel province of the Sudreyjar, Caithness/Sutherland and Orkney to represent the Norse presence

[impar]

Greetings!

"There will be 21 playable factions for custom battle and multiplayer. England, France, Scotland, Holy Roman Empire, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Milan, Venice, Papal States, Sicily, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Byzantium, The Turks, Egypt, The Moors, The Mongols, The Tumurids, The Aztecs.
...
The final lineup of playable factions is still to be decided,..."
in, http://pc.ign.com/articles/682/682437p2.html

First play as Byzantine, to smooth the transition from RTW to M2TW. Then as Portugal.

[Subedei]

Hungary, Byzantium, The Turks, Egypt (if Mamluks), The Mongols, The Tumurids...

Gues who loves cav units?!?!

[Dutch_guy]

English first and for my second campaign the Italians.

[boastj]

Um Trajanus Scotland’s not an island its attached to England

[RemusAvenged]

Aztecs!!!

[King Ragnar]

He ment one province on the whole British Isles lol.

[Leet Eriksson]

In no particular order:

Danes: Becuase they have vikings

Egyptians: Heavy horse archers like the mamelukes, coupled with oddball units like Nizari, Nubians, Abyssinian Guard and Ghazi infantry.

Byzantines: Jack of all trades faction, good at all, master of none.

Mongols:All horse armies with a few foot units as support = winner formula.

Moors: AUM!

British: Becuase of the unique local units found in ireland and scotland and of course longbows.

considering the units remain intact.. yeah this will be it. But if the units are given a complete facelift, namechange, discription or function change then i'll reconsider.

[A.Saturnus]

Egypt. I want my nizari back!

But the Italian cities sound interesting too. And Mongols of course.
In MTW I also liked to play Hungary.

[Antiochius]

HRE of course, but also the Italian factions and England

[Rodion Romanovich]

I'm looking forward to 'uniting' (how noble am I?) Europe with the English.

(That's if the game works on my pc :))

unite - gah! I liberate! Maybe I should liberate the English first as the French?

Seriously I think France would be an interesting first campaign. Not too long after 1080 they are supposed to send crusades to the holy land if they are to be playing historically, and then they also have England and the HRE to worry about, although mostly defensively... After I'm satisfied in the holy land there's however nothing stopping me from changing history and conq... ahem liberating England...

[Martok]

But at the end of the day they have to draw the line somewhere. Not 100% sure why they included Scotland though, seems a little pointless them having 1 prov on an island next to hostile England.

I have a hunch the Scots were included because a lot of people (myself included) have sort of soft spot for them. (It's amazing what the movie Braveheart accomplished! ) Of all the factions that were missed in the original MTW, I have a feeling the Scots were very near--if not at--the top of the list. Also, a slightly more cynical reason could be that since CA is based in the UK, it was probably somewhat easier to research the Scots than it was for more exotic factions; and they just felt like being lazy. [runs away before anyone from CA can land a blow]

[Justiciar]

Maybe I should liberate the English first as the French?

One French oppressor to another? Gah!

[Vladimir]

Everyone except the French! Mostly the Spanish and Venice though. I love Iberia and Italy.

[Mount Suribachi]

. Not 100% sure why they included Scotland though, seems a little pointless them having 1 prov on an island next to hostile England.

Because before MTW came out the scots whined incessantly about how Scotland wasn't a playable faction

Now, given the limited number of playable factions in MTW (especially pre-VI) it was actually quite hard to make a convincing argument as to why Scotland should be included over another faction. It was bad enough as it was with no Milan/Venice/Genoa, just a generic Italy

Now with 21 factions, its easier to squeeze Scotland in, though truth be known, I would still put Genoa in ahead of them. But I think marketing and demographics plays into it. They'll probly sell a lot more copies of MTW2 in Scotland than in Genoa.

[Rilder]

I'l play as any of the Non christian factions first and turn every european into a non christian

[Samurai Waki]

Why the Danes of Course! ...or Moors.

[drone]

Danes: Becuase they have vikings

And huscarles. Something inherently satisfying in taking a low tech "barbarian" culture and annihilating the civilized pansies.

[Katana]

French, HRE and Byzantium all seem interesting to me, though I might try a Muslim faction my first game. If I was HRE I would definitley try to install a puppet pope, just to see if I could do what Charles XIII couldn't.

[Zain]

Scotland!!! I love Braveheart

-ZainDustin

"Every man dies, but not every man really lives." -William Wallace

[Craterus]

I usually pick a random faction to be first campaign.

*dramatic music* *drum roll*

And the winner is... Poland!

[AggonyDuck]

Propably Poland, due to the interesting position and a varying opposition of both eastern and western factions....

[kataphraktoi]

Byzantium:
repair the damage done at Manzikert and save Europe from the tide of Islam, blah, blah, blah that kind of rhetorical stuff in those days.

Timurids: Tamerlane, sword of Islam. Well I'll turn it against fellow Islamic states too but they started it first!! Its not fair!! (crys)

Sicilians:
Your dad's dad and his dad were the northmen scourge, now u can be the scourge of the mediterranean sea by annoying the HRE, the Byzantines, the Papists and the North African Emirates, plus join the Crusades. See the world, save the Christians, butcher them too then pray with bloodied hands in thanksgiving, etc, etc.

France:
Avenge English insults on the .org 990 years later by building a strong kingdom then invading England for the fun of it. Then wait for the 100 years war.

Russians:
There seems to be no threat from the East, lets split Kievan Rus into a jigsaw and fight against ourselves! Hooray! Vodka for everyone...

[Martok]

France:
Avenge English insults on the .org 990 years later by building a strong kingdom then invading England for the fun of it. Then wait for the 100 years war.

Russians:
There seems to be no threat from the East, lets split Kievan Rus into a jigsaw and fight against ourselves! Hooray! Vodka for everyone...

LOL!!

Kataphraktoi, let it never be said that you don't possess a fine sense of humor.

[Prince Cobra]

I like to play as the Byzantines- this is the genuine empire ( although a friend of mine says the real empire is the HRE- their army and so on, but Byzantium is the heir of Rome after all! ). The other faction I would like to play as is the Bulgarians (my people ) as I mentioned in one of my posts.

[Sardo]

I'll probably start out the same way I started in MTW - on English soil. I'm not sure of the direction I'll take, though. I might try and establish some sort of North Sea-based empire, Britain, Flanders, Friesland, perhaps Scandinavia, that sort of thing - not bother too much with continental politics. But then, I had wanted to do just that in my current English campaign, before the continent sucked me in anyway. Then I lost both England and France, and conquered Spain instead.
As long as MIITW campaigns will be as interesting as that, it won't really matter which faction I'm playing.

[caio giulio]

Turks!! In Medieval was my favourite faction!!!!