RTW which is the hardest faction to win with ?

[jarmel]

Hi everyone .

I'm in need of a challenge , I played RTW 1.5 as Julli on meduim l and won easy , so i played the Seluds on hard and won easier currently I am playing as the brits on very hard and at the rate im going will win fairly easy again .

So which is the hardest faction to play ?

[Garvanko]

Don't bother. You're too good.

[Laman]

Dacia or the Iberians maybe?

[Avicenna]

Dacia, Numidia or Scythia?

[Dutch_guy]

Numidians on vh/vh .

Scythia and Dacia are a walk in the park compared to the Numidians.

[Antagonist]

I'd say Numidia as well. Poor provinces, hedged in by more powerful enemy, limited unit roster... If I wore a hat, I would take it off to the person who wins a long VH/VH Numidia campaign.

Antagonist

[The_White_Knight]

I'd say Numidia as well. Poor provinces, hedged in by more powerful enemy, limited unit roster... If I wore a hat, I would take it off to the person who wins a long VH/VH Numidia campaign.

Antagonist

I'd do the same. I wouldn't believe anybody would be able to stand the boringness Numidia offers through a full campaign .

[Dutch_guy]

Wouldn't say it's boring TWK, rather the opposite.

It should be fun to fight for your life and try to consolidate your little empire, however as with every faction once you get to that point the campaign is almost certainly won.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Germania?

[Avicenna]

Germania has powerful infantry, wide choice of units and is just up against barbarians, rebels, dacians and scythians.

Rebels should be hardest, everyone has 600 hostility towards them. ;)

[Antagonist]

Yeah, I would've said Germania are the easiest of the barbarian factions.

Hey, how about BI? Hardest faction? I would have said Berbers, but I played a Berber campaign (VH/VH Short) and I found it to be pretty easy (largely because there is almost no concentrated opposition) A long berber campaign would be hard as hell though.

Antagonist

[Avicenna]

Celts? Once you take Britain, RB appear. Then you have to destroy them. And then make your way into a horde infested mainland, trying to beat back the Franks who want France and the Saxons who want England.

[jarmel]

Thanks all

Numidia is a challenge, thus far 40 turns and all im doing is fending off the gypts, romans and carthages , while spain is also keepin me honest by having one of their stacks on my land .All my cities are severly under developed i'm hanging on for dear life and lovin it
I lost libya after quite a few battles, sheer wieght of numbers did it in the end . I think thats a good thing tho as it was stretchin my finances too much. I thought about selling up and looting libya from the get go and use that to finance an attack on the carthages but the thought of looting my own people

[Lemur]

Yet another Numidian vote.

[x-dANGEr]

Carthage are scattered now, and the Egyptians shouldn't worry much about you. So just strike Carthage and take it, build some finances and push to Africa. Then, when Egypt is at war with a couple of factions, try to swarm it :D

What's boring about Numidia, is the long deserted provinces. I liked Carthage campaign more (And I found it to be the hardest, before 1.5 at least (In 1.6, they diverted the Scipii attention to Greece first.) Before that, you'd have the romans, spanish and numidians on your throught).

[Antagonist]

Celts? Once you take Britain, RB appear. Then you have to destroy them. And then make your way into a horde infested mainland, trying to beat back the Franks who want France and the Saxons who want England.

I won a H/H Celt campaign, it was challenging but not impossibly difficult. They face a lot more opposition than the Berbers, but they also have a considerably stronger selection of units, including the unfeasibly powerful Hounds of Culann. The initial fight against the Romano-British is hard, but once you win it they're finished.

[Dutch_guy]

The Celt campaign I played wasn't a realy challenge, the game winning battle was againt the RB - who sieged Londinium.

However I just defended the city plaza, the weren't able to break through the line.

After that you've basicly won, the world is your playground.

[Neco]

Numidia is definitely the toughest to win with, though I think armenia would also be fairly hard, at least in the beginning.

[Dutch_guy]

true,

but as you said, once you win the initial 2 battles - which may be hard, depending on difficulty, general, units, tactics etc... - you've practically won.

Your armenian cav. will win all your battles.

[Avicenna]

Allemani? One province and you're dead. Add that to the hordes invading Europe.

For RTW you also have a considerably difficult and very very bugged Senate.

[Diurpaneus]

Scythia because HA cant kill legionaries or other heavy armoured unit

[jarmel]

I've allied with spain now , So that has freed up some men to contain Cirta. However everytime I advance to Carthage the redii and Bluii keep landing troops to attack cirta. All i seem to be doing is fighting a battle each turn then retreating to retrain my small army (they have got great valour tho). Thinking I might take Thapsas not Carthage , if i take the later I'll be able to bank roll 2 armies and game over maybe ?

[Diurpaneus]

[Kierkegaard]

well, perhaps you can play some mods, such as SPQR6.0 (compatible with RTW1.5) with VH/VH, then you will know what is HARDEST or IMPOSSIBLE!

if you Play with vanilla RTW, perhaps almost every faction will be easy for you!

[jarmel]

well, perhaps you can play some mods, such as SPQR6.0 (compatible with RTW1.5) with VH/VH, then you will know what is HARDEST or IMPOSSIBLE!

if you Play with vanilla RTW, perhaps almost every faction will be easy for you!

Yup good call . The BKB mod made medieval TW much more challenging .

[PseRamesses]

RTW: Numidia
BI: Berbers
RTR: Sarmatians
EB: Parthia

The main problem IMO isn´t to win with any faction but to get to that point when things are going your way with decent troops, money in the black etc. Currently I´m stuck in my Parthian campaign (EB) and the only option left is to declare war on the Seleukids (my allies) which will probably bring me to war with both Bactria and the Armenians too and that is what I´m afraid of since I simply can´t muster the troops for a three front war.

[edyzmedieval]

One of my best friends is a bit obsessed. He won with Numidia on VH/VH.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

Celts? Once you take Britain, RB appear. Then you have to destroy them. And then make your way into a horde infested mainland, trying to beat back the Franks who want France and the Saxons who want England.

i beat the Celts easily (normal mode) bring a strong army with noble (clan cavalry) cavalry, those 2h swordsmen (forgot their name) some pictish spearmen a few hounds of culaan and of course a general. if you cant get noble cavalry get the lighter ones. once the WRE is removed from britain you should be alble to beat the Romano-Brithish. then take over east france, spain, italy and your done! (also make alliances with hordes such as vandals, make war with franks and Allemani) this was my second time beating campiagn.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

i say Carhage is the easiest once you take Sicily, Croton, Tarentum, Capua, Rome, crushed Spain, the world is yours. careful of egypt!

[Avicenna]

Well Spartan, nothing is really that difficult on medium campaign difficulty.