which is your favorite medieval faction?

[Motep]

Which is your favorite faction and why? Mine is the byzantines because of the conflick with the turks and the fact that they were once the roman empire.

[Motep]

I realize that I forgot poland...please notify if I forgot any other factions.

[Arciel]

I voted for England since they have that nice, cozy corner in the northwest of the map to sit back and relax and build up a trading empire. Or they could use the Isles as a base to stage their massive invasion of the mainland.

Btw, your spelling of Aragon is correct although I think that Novogorod should be spelt as Novgorod.

[Samurai Waki]

Forgot the Danish.

[Rhyfelwyr]

SCOTLAND the brave!

[Jxrc]

The HRE for the challenging starting position. Could add gothic unit but since I always start in early I hardly ever get the opportunity to use them.

[Dutch_guy]

A tie between the Italians, Turks and Germans.

Love the starting positions, and unique units (think Italian Infantry. Janissary heavies and Gothic Knights.)

[professorspatula]

Be warned, there are expert English longbowmen waiting in the shadows to sniper anyone who doesn't vote for the English. However, at about 11am-3pm they're usually down the pub drinking copious amounts of lager when they should be working, and from 3.30pm to 5pm they're watching 'Countdown' and 'Deal or No Deal' on TV so you might escape their usually deadly gaze at those times. They used to be builders.

[Motep]

Im sorry about the mispellings and forgotten factions...I havnt played in a looong time

[Kralizec]

Right now it's the Almohads. Though I like playing as the Byzantines and English too.

[shizzernockers3]

the byzantines cause they seem like they will be the hardest to play

[Martok]

Alas that I can only vote once! [sigh]

The Spanish remain my favorite faction in MTW, with the Egyptians right behind them. The Byzantines, Danes, and English round out my top 5.

Motep the great: You forgot the Sicilians. I doubt anyone would vote for them, though, so it's probably not a big deal.

[SCRIBE]

Which is your favorite faction and why? Mine is the byzantines because of the conflick with the turks and the fact that they were once the roman empire.

Correction friend, they are, some people say in a way, but they are essentially the Roman Empire, minus the Rome. Its thanks to those 18th-19th century scholars that gave that derogatory term.
Its like saying, if Earth had an empire (maybe in the next 1000 years), and Earth was...ahem...taken or no longer liveable, we would still be called earthlings or humans by extraterrestrials (if their are any).
Mind the farfetched story...

I can't forget about the Moors and their lovely hazel-eyed women.

[Jesenjin]

You forgot Sicily... you.... you.... you.... whatever i am not mad any more

[Mithrandir]

Camels, Almohads.

[Motep]

I have already apologized for forgotten nations...which is a 3 now. The polish, sicillians, and the danish.

[naut]

Bohemia, XL.

[Incubus Dragon]

I find the Hungarians to be very versatile - good cavalry options whilst maintaining the traditionally strong foot soldiers of christendom. That said, that's MTW and VI - I don't have MTW2 yet - need to wait until its release over this side of the pond.

[Ituralde]

I'm missing Venice... I know, I know Italy is there but that's just not the same for me. Venice had much stronger ties to Byzantium than say Milan oder Genoa.
So I would have cast my vote for Venice!

[dacdac]

why doesn't anyone pick Novgorod, what's wrong with you people!!!???

[Craterus]

Right now, it's the Turks. Playing a campaign as them right now, and I really enjoyed blitzing the Egyptians.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Germany,Poland or Italy. Very Good Starting Postions, Can win usally in 100-200 years,which is pretty good (with cheats :-) :-/)

[Northnovas]

I would have to say England. I like the isolation to build and have a small toe hold in France to get the units some experience.

[Xehh]

The Byzantines!!!!!
or the russians, Boyars and kataphaktoi are very good!

[Maxfu]

It would be the Danes for me. Something about that viking blood that draws me in. I also love the axe troops.

[Kralizec]

Hmpf. Looks like only I and Mithrandir appreciate the greatness of the Almohads

Berber camels, Almohad Urban militia, militia sergeants, Faris, Murabutin javelineers...their only real weakness is their lack of a decent spear unit, but I work around that.

It feels kinda odd to send militiamen abroad to conquer the world, though.

[The Foolish Horseman]

i voted england, because they (geographically) are the closest to the mighty Scottish army

[Motep]

Hey, dont get me wrong, I do like the Almohads. But I like England and Italy better. But I still have to say, Byzantines are my favorites! They are killing in the polls, although England is not far behind.

[satchef1]

Hmpf. Looks like only I and Mithrandir appreciate the greatness of the Almohads

Berber camels, Almohad Urban militia, militia sergeants, Faris, Murabutin javelineers...their only real weakness is their lack of a decent spear unit, but I work around that.

It feels kinda odd to send militiamen abroad to conquer the world, though.

I discovered their greatness last week. A whole campaign in a single night!
Pretty easy faction, just build up a decent economy and then AUM spam the enemy (not a lot the AI can do to stop over 100,000 AUM rampaging around the map)

Theyre not really a faction i see much of, most of my campaigns are down the east side of the map.

[caravel]

If this is about the best faction, then it's as follows in my, oh so humble, opinion:

1. The Unstoppable Turks
2. The Magnificent Egyptians
3. The Mighty Almohads

If it's about my favourite faction, then I would say:

1. The Unstoppable Turks
2. The Heroic Spanish
3. The Legendary Byzantines

Other factions worth a mention:

The Honourable Hungarians
The Indefatigable Novgorods

For a very interesting campaign, the Novgorod campaign (early) is very worthwhile. Even writing about it here makes me want to abandon my current campaign as the Turks and plunge into a Novgorod campaign again. The Byzantine high campaign is also very interesting. The best Hungarian, Spanish and Almohad campaigns are the early period ones IMHO. All of the Turks campaigns are interesting and very worthwhile. The Egyptians in high is also interesting, with some French neighbours to deal with. Of all the factions the Hungarians are the most unusual. Though a catholic faction they can train horse archers and their own horse archer unit the Szekely. This makes them an interesting catholic faction.