I have a few favorites.

Julii, same as one of you already. RED!

Scipii, I like the temples of Vulcan and Neptune. They provide me with superior armor, as well as a superior Navy which I need to expand before the "War of SPQR Aggression" begins. After the war of SPQR Aggression starts, I kick the Brutii out of Italy, and move North against all other enemies.

I also enjoy playing as Germania and Scythia. I would like to have more civilization development with them though. As is stands, technology remains barbarian, or else there is a culture penalty.

I also like playing as Egypt. My drawback with Egypt mainly is that many times I will retrain a unit, and I know that I have the proper buildings to bring them to full strength and armor upgrade. I look at the unit card and it reads fully manned with the upgrade. However, when the same unit goes into battle, many times on the battle map, their unit card loses between 4 to 8 men before the battle even starts. The right Egyptian Units themselves however are excellent.

What I notice here, is that all of my favorites tend to have strong long distance archers which I like to use to whittle the enemy down to size before I close with them before committing my infantry.

One of the funniest campaigns I played was as Scythia. I would have horse archers on patrol along my territories, and would constantly be attacked by large groups of Dacian Falxmen. That was where I learned to appreciate and use the Cantabrian Circle. The Dacians literally chased me around the battlefield, losing men all the way. Once in a while, one of mine would get caught and dragged off his horse, but at the end the casualties would read something like Dacia, 1,200 and Scythia, 2.

Strength and Honor

Celt Centurion

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