What's your favorite M2TW faction?

[sapi]

HRE - more colour scheme and starting position than units imo.

byzantines are a close second.

[Specky the Mad]

with out a doubt HRE for their power to steam roll in every direction and leave no prisoners

[The Foolish Horseman]

Scotland, because of the sense of patriotism ( as said by ezikiel) and the mixture of great infantry ( far better than there rating suggests) and there awesome cavalry. Plus they have an okay startegic position as they can take one of the biggest armies in the game literally from the off

[ASPER THE GREAT]

England Crusading, Long Bows, it's a merry old island !!!! Spain was cool too the Moors take Africa & work your way into Europe . I have not tried Russia sounds good next round .

[Darkarbiter]

sticky anyone?

[AliAS]

HRE - because i played with them first and it is "old-school" medieval catholic faction.

moors - Because it is great opposite of HRE . And i love camel gunners
And i want try wti Turkey (i player with them in EUII )

[455trt43trg]

England.

[Gen_Lee]

Portugal only.
Luckly with a mod done by Portuguese that corrects a lot of historical inconsistencies of vanilla map.
Portvcale v1.1b

[danfda]

Russia. I love camping and letting the rest of the world develop, and Russia is great for that. They get absolutely terrific units (cossack musketeers are panzers in sheep's clothing) and have a wide array of foes to face. Mongols, Timurids, Catholics, Orthodox...Games as Russia are never boring. Plus, it's just fun to conquer rediculously huge, empty provinces.

[Tristrem]

so far my favorite faction has to the mongols. I downloaded a mod that lets me play as them, I forgot the name, and they are my latest campaign. I rp'ed the starting force as one of the small nomadic tribes of the stepp. When the real horde arrives, I will unite my tribe with theirs, and create a glorious empire that reaches to the new world. Plus the mongols fulfill my need for large horse archer armies. Happy hunting!!

[Skott]

I chose Denmark but its really a tie between Denmark and HRE for me. I've played more Denmark campaigns so I used that as a tie breaker since we can only choose one.

[Artorius Maximus]

I voted Sicily because they have great melee units; Sword and Buckler Men, Norman Knights, and of course, Arquebusiers ,a gun powder unit!

I like Venice too though for their Heavy Infantry, and Spain for their Javelin Class units.

[Illidan87]

France defiantly. Sexy crossbowmen, Powerful Calvary, and enough infantry to fill you wildest dreams.

[Agent Smith]

I love the Russians, mostly because I'm a Ukrainian-American Needless to say Kiev becomes my capital when I take it.

That aside, I like Scotland as a close second. I love Greek Phalanx's and Scottish pike give me as close as I can get to it.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Venizia!

Cool mix of eastern and western styles, nice starting position, untouchable island base south of greece.

they are almost too easy; the HRE just cant take em out before they get too strong.

[Naviriel]

Byzantine empire as you have to fight everyone close to your borders from the very beggining till the end.

[where's yur troosers]

Byzantium for me. You are surrounded by enemies and are likely to fight wars on several fronts but have the units and economy to manage. Superb horse archers, good foot archers, decent infantry and cavalry. The roster is marred only by the dreadful spears and near total lack of gunpowder.

Second place goes to Scotland. You start stuck on the edge of the map, you most sensible first target is bigger and Catholic, you have no horse archers, the poorest selection of foot archers, weak heavy cavarly, and limited gunpowder units. On top of that the stand out unit (noble pikemen) is very tricky to use effectively. What's not to love.

[Vladimir]

Living dead girl!

I like Venice because it gives me everything I want; and for historical reasons.

[Thaddeus]

Hellsbells, that's a tough one. England for Longbowmen, Turks for Janissary troops, Byzantium for Varaengan Guard and if you get swordsmith guild in Constantinople you can hold off the Crusades and Jihads forever, Milan for spear militia, Venice for the same reason plus I like their colour haha, Poland for the Strecznys, Denmark for been able to take Stockholm quickly, Scotland coz I'm Scottish and for the pikes, Papal States for the Papal Guard, France and HRE I've never played a proper campaign with them after 3 years (didn't have the patience to wait for Scots Guard until now...just about to start a game with France, don't like the Mongols, but want to give the Timerids a proper go.

If I have to pick I suppose it's England. rampaging through the world with my trusty Longbowmen is a blast and they are the only Nation I have completely taken over the world with.

[Alrik]

Hmm... I like a challenge, so I thought Denmark was pretty fun seeing as they start small and helpless and I really like the idea of warlike clerics and best of all the Obudshär! Heheh, who doesn't like to have a "host of bad omens" on your side? Doesn't hurt that they really are bad news for anyone opposing them. I'm not sure I'm all that keen on the whole, no castles though as they are of no use to the danes, the best rangeweappons they can get are mercenaries and with all cities and a deacent hand with money they can afford them.

Milano was fairly fun because they are so overpowered, they are danes on steroids, anything the danes have the milanese have ten times better, it's sick really.

Oh, right, my vote goes to the Russians. Weak ass crap to begin with, they can't make money even if people throw them at them, but given time they can both bark and bite. (Seriously I think the cities made TWICE as much florins when I held them with Milano, not different cities, but the very same ones, the Russians are useless with money and that shortage makes things a tad harder.)
Yeah and they are their own masters, no pope, and no cheat jihads. Which means you can't jihad your way to awesomeness geting both gold and chevrons every 10 or so turns and since no one is Ortodox, you can't just conqure, but have to convert the populace as well. I don't understand the people who go "Oh I need non christians to attack, buhuu..." When you're catholic you have the world as your oyster, everything is catholic so you just have to take it, no need to waste time converting, just take and be done. (Which obviously make things a lot easier for catholics.) Once you're the sole catholic left (yeah take Rome) then the Pope will be your bitch any day of the week.

[dakar97BG]

with my the mod Bulgaria total war its the Bulgarians of course Im a Bulgarian they have really long ranged archers and have the max of 31 missile attack and in real we really had pretty good archers,weabout the mod its The Germans(Holy Roman Empire)and France really cool shooters and heavy infantry+Gothic Knights,Really cool,fast,tough and strong Knights man

[dakar97BG]

The Bulgarian Empire

[gollum]

Welcome to the org dakar, enjoy your stay.

Can you give a link to your mod?

[Myth]

Welcome to the org dakar, enjoy your stay.

Can you give a link to your mod?

It was featured on the main page a while back. I'm personally annoyed at Bulgarians coming to M2TW communites only to spurt out "BULGARIA YEAH!" when this game has nothing to do with our country and nobody else cares. It's very frustrating...

[gollum]

Right, thanks Myth.

The Tsardom of Bulgaria did play an important part in the middle ages, but M2TW doesn't cover all of the period and unfortunately the scale and scope of the grand campaign was such that only major major powers would be included (and some minors for marketing purposes :). Of course the Kingdoms campaigns rectify that to a certain extent, but a balkan campaign unfortunately wasn't included therein.

The Arab sieges of Constantinople and the golden age of the Tsardom of Bulgaria when the Byzantines went through a lot of hard time and grief i think deserve a TW campaign in its own right, and having a mod for that is great.

Another interesting period for a TW game at the area is that of the twillight days of Byzantium, approximately 1280-1380, with the Ottomans looming over the balkans and teh Venetians expanding their influence as the various peoples of the Balkans were independent powers that squabbled and only very occasoinally coallesced to fight the Muslim invaders but at the same time were fighting against each other to extent their influence.

[SaneCube]

Spain and the Moors (mostly Spain)
I don't know why, but they're awesome

[Bow-wow-wow]

Its so hard to choose, they are all great but I think I have to go with England. Those Billmen and Feudal knights just make it the best.

[edbenedict77]

I'm not sure if you can start playing as Portugal, but Once i win the game as my present faction HRE i intend to play as Portugal :) but my Fav is HRE, awesome generals :) beat back an attack of 5 units of norman swords of sicily with 3 units of sergant xbowmen with a 6 (total) star general :D and presently i got six, 5 star generals of 20 yrs of age. They all attained knighthood with 3 stars!!! wicked!!!

[Barra]

My favorite is Portugal, their units are awesome. I really like javelins. They kill anything. And their starting position is better than Spain. I also like eastern european factions (Poland, Hungary and Russia). Danes are also great, their cavalry is weak but great infantry. More challenge to me :p

[Marshall Louis-Nicolas Davout]

I see.

France already in my MTW2 campagan has become powerful.

Francce is a really good faction,The Holly Roman empire has a great range of units,Spain's my fav and Denmark and VENICE.