Im curious, i have the mod from 0.72, and i played it a lot, now i noticed there are some faction i never played, and i never tryed too, why? well, i dont know, but im curious to know other experienced player faction that they haven't played yet.

here's mine:
Ptolemaioi: total 0 minutes spent.
Baktria: 0
Seleucids: 0
Makedonia: 0
Epeiros: 0
Getai: few turns
Arverni: few turns but played Aedui a lot.
Casse: few turns.
Saba:very few turns
Armenia:very few turns

from the list ive understood, im not so fascinated by the successors (now that i think on, the faction that i never thought to play in EB, neither in RTW, neither in other mods, was Makedonia, really it has the smallest appeal on me, cant say why, the second faction on the list of the smallest appeal is Ptolemaioi i have to say)
while im more a Easterns/Latin/Nomads/Barbarian/KH/Semitic kind of guy...

just curious on others players' list, you can discover somethink about yourself!

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i play Romans Carthage and the Hellenistics. eastern and "barbarian" factions dont interest me they dont fit my battle tactics

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Ptolemaioi was a very fun game for me in 0.74, aside from the Sand War with Carthage. With the Saba now I imagine it would be even more of a challenge. There is a lot of territory to cover so you really need to strategize turns ahead of time and figure out what you're willing to lose if it comes down to that.

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Getai, Getai and only Getai. I love their mix of troops. I dont ever spend any time playing another faction, even when I am researching for EBCIV!

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Pahlav, Carthage, and most of the Successors . I've played them but never more than a few (10-80) turns. Barbarians and some of the eastern kingdoms really fit my style of warfare .

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I only played Romans, Casse and Sauromatae (completed a campaign with the Casse and will complete my Sauromatae one in the coming weeks, the Romani one ended in ~200 with a CTD in 0.8). Tried the Lusitans but after playing the Casse I got lured by the steppes. I\m waiting for 1.0 to play a great Getai campaign.
I never found the Greek factions or the Successors interesting so far, I find phalanx vs phalanx warfare boring, but I will play a campaign with one of them in 0.9 which will hopefully be released in July (just a hunch).

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Strange, me too think the successors a bit boring, but not the KH, that i played really a lot (in 0.74), pheraphs because it has not uber phalanx? (anyway in my case, it is somehtink more related with the appeal it has on me, not related with the game mechanics)

Me too i have planned to start a getai campaign in the 1.0

it happens to me that every new EB build, i restart a new campaign from one of the same 4/5 favorite factions... and i dont go to see what's new in some of the other factions... pheraphs it is the mod that is too huge...

Usually as it appear a new version of the mod, the first think i go to check, is if there is somethink new to Chartage, Pahlav, Rome, Sauromate, Lusitania, Gauls or KH and then start a new campaign with one of the 4/5 favorite factions.

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Only played the Romans so far. And I dont want to play with any other as long as i havent finished the roman campaign.

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Seleukids: campaign in 0.80.
Baktria: campaigns in 0.80, 0.81
Pahlava: a couple of turns only.
Armenia: never.
Pontos: never.
Ptolemies: campaign in 0.80
Saba: couple of turns.
Epeiros: about 60 turns.
KH: campaign in 0.80
Makedon: campaign in 0.80
Getai: campaign in 0.81a, almost completed, dead because of persistent CTDs.
Sweboz: never
Casse: never
Aedui & Averni: couple of turns
Lusotannan: half a campaign
Carthies: never
Roman: campaign in 0.80 and 0.81av2.

Next campaign will be a Sauro campaign. Had enough of the "civilized" factions.

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I only ever play AS, saba and the romani. I like to keep the others a mystery.

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I've never played the Ptolemaioi. All others I've done at least a couple of turns with. I'm now doing Casse again. Next up will be either Macedon or the Seleucids, again too.

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The main factions I like playing are Carthage, the Iberian one, Rome, Makedonia, Baktria, and I had a multiplayer game going with Kionon Hellon, where we would alternate faction leaders, so one would die, the other play would advance his goals, then I'd get it back and fix it in line with what I wanted to do, but then I never got the turn back.

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I have never played the Saromatae, Saka, or Parthians because in custom battles, I do not much like running around with horse archers, waiting for them to finish their arrow supply, then run around some more and charge. However, the mystery of these factions are growing on me, and lately I've been wanting to try out Parthia so that should be a great, refreshing campaign with a fighting style I am not overly familiar with with units I am not familiar with .

Overall, I'm a heavy infantry type player. I love the northern barbarian factions, and have had many a fun campaign with the Sewboz, Aedui, Arverni, Casse, and probably my most fun campaign was with the Getai. Those are my main factions that I do play with. Currently with Lusotana I am around 30 turns in and things are going well. Hellenistic factions and Carthage I've played them all. Seleucids and Bactria have a great and varied roster, some of the horse archer fighting style, and they are very fun to play. Rome is great, but I think it would be more challenging/rewarding if the Aedui or Arverni reached supremacy in Gaul sooner so once I arrive, they put up a great struggle against my Polybian armies. Regardless, who I play, its always fun, and I am looking forward to trying out the horse archer faction soon.

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