whats your favourite faction

**Harve** · 03-27-2007, 10:36

Originally Posted by Kansas Bear

HRE, not bad, but every one and their dog can/will attack you

England, nice island to build forces and send them to the continent

Scotland, if you really dislike the English...

I am English and my favourite faction are the Scots! Arrrrggghhh!

**HoreTore** · 03-27-2007, 13:15

The turks! Gotta love the ottomans... Besides, they let me jihad, which is sooooo much more fun than crusading.

**JCoyote** · 03-27-2007, 13:52

Originally Posted by Imperator Palustris

There's this cool mod that let's you play with Flanders! I'm Flemish, so I love it! Long live the Lion of Flanders!!!

Stupid Flanders...

Sorry had to say it!

Portugal! Their starting position is interesting and the roster is astounding.
Aventuros (top notch pikemen and damn good general melee)
Musketeers
Portuguese Arquebusiers (gunpowder than can melee is fun)
Swordsmen Militia (you mean I can have cheap, effective swordsmen defend my cities for free?)
Jinettes (perhaps the single most awesome unit in the game)
Basilisk (there goes the neighborhood... there goes another neighborhood...)

And don't forget the infantry javelins too! Oh yeah... not to mention Conquistadores.

Portugal in control of Iberia can be an impossible nut to crack, and their units are amazing. The tactical diversity of the roster allows you to field armies using a variety of tactics, or armies that mix them all. Portugal is perhaps the best nation for combined arms tactics. That's especially sweet because any mercenaries can easily find a use in any Portuguese army without changing your tactics.

**rvg** · 03-28-2007, 20:17

Byzantines. They're old school.

**PrestigeX** · 03-28-2007, 21:29

I really liked playing as spain and portugal. I think that they can have a bit of trouble in the early period because you get javelins, then amulgahvars which is annoying because u'd think an upgrade would get u some decent spear man or something...
but once u get going and get new lands.. Amulgavars on the walls are wicked because the javelins kill a lot when the enemy is in range and they can do well in melee. Also, putting ur javelins behind ur heavy infantry helps so that while the enemy's 3rd. 4th ranks are waiting to fight they are being hit with javelins while my heavy infantry is fighting their 1st-2nd line.
The both have jinettes and a good variety of horse/infantry and missile.

**Scot's Pike General** · 03-29-2007, 01:24

SCOTLAND! You have to love the scots noble pikemen!

**Frederick_I_Barbarossa** · 03-29-2007, 01:30

Currently having a blast as Milan...

So many factions, so little time...

**Bobo** · 03-29-2007, 19:06

I've played England and Milan, where I liked Milan the best.

**Frederick_I_Barbarossa** · 03-29-2007, 21:53

I just tried Portugal for the first time late last night and WOW...talk about a ton of fun...so much more fun than Spain

**Csargo** · 03-29-2007, 21:57

English since that's the only faction I've had time to play with :D

**Rocketman** · 04-17-2007, 23:27

Originally Posted by King of Kings

Mine is HRE mainly because its says its Roman (and i know there German),and it actualy gives your faction leader the title of Emperor.

Forgive my ignorance of M2TW, but does it not give the Byzantine leader the title "Emperor"?

**adembroski** · 04-18-2007, 03:51

Scotland... despite my love of heavy cavalry... probably because I'm Irish-American, so I have twice the reason to dislike the English;)

**steev** · 04-18-2007, 16:59

I've only properly played Scotland, England and now Spain. Scotland and England are both too easy as you're fighting out of the corner. Spain is entertaining as you acquire the Pope by default - you have to pump out priests to stave off the heresy and they quickly turn into cardinals. Look forward to playing Turks and Egyptians, but havent wiped them out yet.