What faction have you had the most success with?

[danfda]

Russian and Scottish were the easiest, and the most fun. Though my current Sicilian campaign is getting quite interesting...

I have decided I hate the Italian states...no matter who I am or where I am they feel the need to betray and declare war on me. I am purging them from the globe now, however, so that helps me feel better inside.

[katank]

I found the Venetians the easiest. Buying Bologna on the first turn, taking Florence and crushing Milan as well as getting everyone to pay you for alliance is great. I also managed to land my force on Crete next to Corinth on the first turn and siege it on the second. The Byz were crushed in short order. I also quickly took Antioch through a crusade. By turn 20, I had most of the richest lands of the game all in my hands.

Most fun is probably my Russian game right now when I decided to relocate to Britain. I think that any relocation game might be fun. Turks are also a blast. I'm a big fan of horse archer armies.

[Wizzie]

My only completed long campaign so far has been Venice, and that was fun enough until the late game where my borders were so massive that I got declared war upon by every faction touching them. Then it turned into a bit of a slugfest.

So far, I'm only at around 1140 or so in my Spanish short campaign and I have to say it's really good fun. I don't know if it's the fact that I know much more about the mechanics of the game and thus alot of the "playing in the dark" feeling has gone, but the peninsular war between the Moors, Portugal and Spain is alot of fun. I even had France come knocking in the middle of it, arriving with a full stack at my northern borders. While all I head was a small, dusty (but damn experienced) Iberian army of Jinetes and Alumghavers skirmishing with the Moors in the mountains to the south. Really captured the spirit of La Reconquista, I think.