The faction you feel LEAST attracted to...

**Zenicetus** · 11-05-2006, 23:05

Probably Venice, at least in historical role-playing terms. It's the one faction that seems the most like a "square peg in a round hole" for this game design. Venice's historical power was in trade, a strong navy, and a city with natural defenses, not so much big land-based armies crashing across Europe and the Holy Lands. The focus on land-based armies in this game just doesn't have the right "feel" for playing a maritime power. And it isn't helped by the (still) primitive representation of navies, blockades, and battles at sea. Then again, this is just speculation... I haven't seen the final game yet. Maybe playing Venice will be more fun than I think it is.

**wraithdt** · 11-05-2006, 23:10

Probably Hungary and Poland. No offense to the Hungarians or Polish.

**Drake** · 11-05-2006, 23:12

Poland, I reckon they'll be very slow to play as due to poor lands and relatively weak units.

**Basileus** · 11-05-2006, 23:16

None, im going to play all and im looking forward to all heh

**Phalaxar** · 11-05-2006, 23:41

It's only really those surrounded by loads of large provinces - it's so boring to wait three or four turns just to set foot in the enemy's lands.

And if there are too many rebels around you, I'll expand too quickly, be weak when I touch the enemy, and tearful when they take one of my beloved cities. :P

**Gradenko** · 11-05-2006, 23:57

I personally find England, France, HRE, Egypt, and Byzantium to be very uninteresting since they're all rich and straightforward. Denmark and Scotland don't appeal to me either, given their complete lack of strategic options.

**A jezy** · 11-06-2006, 01:14

the moors hands down

**Wishazu** · 11-06-2006, 02:58

Aztecs :) oh and the dirty Scots lol

**Horatius** · 11-06-2006, 03:39

Egypt, and the Turks, they simply have way to many wealthy rebel holdings to take, and perhaps Venice will have different goals then the other nations do, for example they just need to controll the coast? Or perhaps wealth and architecture related goals?