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[Ice]

I'm curious to hear what campaigns everyone thinks are fun to play. I gave up on my Roman campaign because I didn't feel like going into Germania and destroying the Germans (what had to be done if I was ever going to be able to have them stop attacking me).

[Warmaster Horus]

Well, if you're having endless stacks of german warriors coming at you, you should try one of the various money scripts in the "Unofficial modifications" forum.

As for a new campaign, well... I'd recommend one of the Diadochi (Successors) such as Makedon, Ptolemaioi, Arche Seleukeia, Baktria. I mean, as Makedon, you can get a new Alexander, and really re-do his journey, massacring the Arche as he massacred the Persians...
Casse is nice too. The beginning is perhaps slightly annoying, since you've got to build up extensively while not having much money, but you have one advantage: you're not at war with the Eleutheroi.

[Swordmaster]

Depends on your playing style of course, but I think most campaigns can be fun. Try something far away from the Sweboz if you've got enough of them. I recommend Qarthadast, a campaign I've particularly enjoyed.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I have the most fun when I'm trying to reach some goal in a campaign. Like building the Roman Empire with the Romani. Or reclaiming Alexander's Empire with Makedonia. I had a real fun one, trying to rebuild the Achaemenid Empire with Hayasdan.

[geala]

I never played the Romans because of a certain lack of sympathy, so I'm not sure but I think playing a Greek faction would offer you a different style of battles and a new experience. As Epiros (my favorite) or Makedonia you sit in the middle of the world and can go in every direction and choose different enemies (beware, they will choose you too ). I prefer Epiros and Makedonia over KH because I like the strong cavalry but that's a matter of taste. Or choose AS or Baktria and fight eastern foes (sometimes frustating, I hate horse archers... ) if you have moved more in the west before.

Edit: if you play in the near of AS one of the money-script mods helps to preserve your nerves a lot.

[larsbecks]

I always go back to Bactria when i want to have some fun. Mines galore.

[Ice]

Hmm, are the people in south west Arabia complete enough to play? I think I'll try them, but if not, I'll do the Ptolemaic Empire. They look pretty fun.

Edit: Arabia, not Saudi Arabia. Doh. That would be Oman.

[Karo]

If it's between Saba and Ptolomaies than choose Saba they are on of the thougest campiagnes there is bt they are alot of fun

[NeoSpartan]

KH is freaking awesome!
Bactria seems like a LOT of fun. I plan to play it in the near future.

And, if u want a REAL change in battle tactics and strategy play Pahvla (sp) or Hayasdan.

BTW.... next time DO NOT let the AI send stack after stack into ur lands and just play defencively. Like I've said several times before, build a couple of stacks and 1/2 stack for reinforcements and start Exterminating cities. (Hell this is how I financed most of my Aedui campain and my old KH campain)


OR.... another thing u could do is play VH/VH with the Romani !!!!
Throw all the "RULES" out the window and just FIGHT
(oh beware of the Gaestae on VH, they are GOD)

[Ignopotens]

in my first major campaign I had kind of considered the Gaestae overblown, but I hadn't had to fight them until I ran into the Sleukids who had a small number, and jeez, they're just about impossible to kill, even with large numbers of ranged units raining missles on them

[Ice]

Well I decided to play the Saba because their starting area looks cool. I was right, it is totally different than the Romans, but I like it. I installed a money and merc script so hopefully the silver death doesn't destroy me.

[Warmaster Horus]

Well then, good luck!

[Ice]

Well then, good luck!

Lol, I got destroyed on VH/M. I'm retrying M/M.

[noosh]

Hayasdan is a lot of fun. Essentially you have almost no money and as soon as you capture 2-3 slave towns that are your neigbhours the Selucids will try to destroy you. But fortunately you have access to Horse Archers so even though he has pretty beefy phalanax troops you can, through superior tactics, really make a lot of Heroic victories...I've been playing, until a stupid CTD at the gates of Selucid capital, for a bout a day and it is quite enjoyable. Especially when you run into a bunch of pikemen and your HA just chew them up.

[Musopticon?]

Try Casse.

Full-stacked Eleutheroi towns can be really ominous when you have just Ictis and Cassemorg(or whatever it's called in 0.8) and can only afford a halfstack before going to debt.

I made a couple of back-up saves, just in case it wasn't a good idea to start building an army in 260 BC' autumn. Hell, nearly a half stack of Botroas, along with 6 units of Cemmerhain, two units of Cwmer and some Gaeroas facing my meagre 5 Iosatae, 2 generals, 6 Botroas, 5 Gaeroas and some straggling levies to fill in as ram-holders/garrison...feels like a big massacre coming on. Especially if(read: when) Ratae sallies.

Then again, I'm playing on H/M.

I guess I'll try the good old "run like hell and hope they don't go after the slingers"-tactic. Or the little bolder "run like hell to the gate and chock it full before everyone comes out and hope for the best"-strategy. That worked with Ictis well enough, even though I was seriously outnumbered and facing a 7-starred monster Governor without a General.
First time a suicide-run has turned into a shining victory for me.