favorite faction

[Caeser The III]

please vote your favorite faction, i if i forgot one just tell me and ill edit,(if i can)

[vegetable]

The Seleucid Empire (of those I've played so far, i.e. the Roman ones and the Seleucid Empire).

Large variety of units, money pours in like there's no tomorrow once you conquer Egypt, good variety in your early enemies (Egypt are tough to beat, as are the other Greeks). And I usually play rather slowly, yet I finished the long campaign by 237BC. So yeah, they're excellent.

[Paradox]

The Berbers, Greek Cities/Macedon, and Rome.

[guineawolf]

Mighty Carthage!!!i love their standard custome and square shield of libyan and poeni!

[Charge]

Of course Rome! Julii in particular...

[Barbarian]

Of course Rome! Julii in particular...

The same. Also the first faction I played

[Paradox]

Speaking of the Julii, why is it that you can't play as Gaius Julius Caesar in the Imperial Campaign?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Speaking of the Julii, why is it that you can't play as Gaius Julius Caesar in the Imperial Campaign?

Although you can't play as Julius Caesar in the Imperial Campaign, the original CA plan was to include a Provincial Campaign (basically a small campaign focused on a certain region) which focused upon his conquest of Gaul. In the end this was unfortunately dropped due to a lack of time time to implement it.

[Paradox]

That would've been great, it would've been more realistic for you to start by unifying your own region before going on to conquer the world. IIRC, he was included in the tutorial right?

[Lysander13]

Greek Cities and Macedon.....Although, i hated the way they were portrayed in Vanilla RTW....Thank the gods for EB!!!

[Monsieur Alphonse]

Carthage, Greek Cities and Macedon. I like all of these three.

[vegetable]

Playing as the Julii is kind of boring. At the start you usually just fight barbarians.

I started with the Julii, but after a while my save games got corrupted somehow. So I abandoned that and never completed the campaign.
Then tried the Brutii, played for a bit and got bored. They get to fight Greece and Macedon though, so it's great.
Then when I got around to giving it a go again, I chose the Scipii and finished the campaign with them. Carthage was the only cool enemy then.

I also think that if you run around the other Roman factions and capture the territories they're looking to expand into, they kind of get stuck and don't really expand, making them easy pickings when the confrontation with Rome arrives.
For example, I conquered the northern Italian territories with the Scipii and the Julii never went past those Patavium, etc. provinces. So when I attacked Rome, they hardly had 4-5 provinces.

[Shieldmaiden]

Britannia, aut vincere aut mori.

Let loose the Chariots, and let Gaul and Rome kek in fear at the thunder of the Britons!

[Hound of Ulster]

The realm of the King of Kings, Parthia!
but only in SPQR and RTR.
the Greek Cities, scythia/samaritia, the Gauls, Britiannia, and Julii/Rome also get a look-in as well.

In BI i go Sassinisd, Eastern Empire, the Goths and the Celts.

[mrdun]

Romans all the way. Julii and Scipii over Brutii though. Has anyone noticed the battle map units go a little strange near Corinth? especially when chasing routers?

[Gaius Scribonius Curio]

Definitely the Kingdom of the Parthians!!! Some of the World's greatest cavalry, and an excuse to be sneaky, underhanded and backstabbing. And its an acheivement to come from nowhere to rule the world!
(Or maybe I'm just biased cos I did)

[missik]

Greek Cities would be my favourite followed by Gauls.

[Galain_Ironhide]

Carthage!!

It has been some time since I last played RTW (about a year I think). But of all the campaigns I played. Carthage held the most entertainment for me.

I loved the Sacred Band Infantry and at the latter stages was pumping out hordes of them. I also loved smashing the lines of the enemy with the War Elephants too.

The only thing they lacked were archer units. But beggars can't be choosers I think.

[Slug For A Butt]

A perfect choice Ironhide.

I love them too, Scred Band, Elephants, and for some reason I love slingers so the lack of archers doesn't bother me (I think I just love the noise as the rocks strike ).
Plus, you get the chance to get down and dirty with the Romans nice and early.

[Moosemanmoo]

Greek Cities and Macedon.....Although, i hated the way they were portrayed in Vanilla RTW....Thank the gods for EB!!!

[Afkazar]

Seleucid. Their Phalanx + Cataphract/Chariot combo is unbeatable.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Carthage has a sort of attraction to me over the other nations. This has something to do with the trial version of Age of Empires - The Rise of Rome expansion pack which I played in the late nineties (it came with the Windows 98 SE CD Sampler).

As some may know, the trial, which was my first ever experience of an RTS game, contained three campaigns containing Carthage's first fight against Rome in the Mediterranean - the First Punic War.

Despite later buying The Settlers III, which kept me enthralled for a fairly long time, I never forgot this introduction to the world of RTS. For some inexplicable reason, these memories made me rather interested in playing as Carthage under various circumstances. This is an opportunity which I rarely get (Carthage isn't really famous enough to end up in most games), so I usually exploit it wherever possible.

[Charge]

Seleucid. Their Phalanx + Cataphract/Chariot combo is unbeatable.

And what's the point? Too hard AI for you? I would play rather inferior faction (rome inferior to ai on vh anyway), instead of watching them routing only at the sight of me...

+ you forgot their Immitation legionaries

[mrdun]

I suppose Charge fields armies of peasants every game

[paul_kiss]

I was hesitating over which nation to vote for. I played for a bunch of them. Brutii, Egypt, Parthia, Scythia, Germania, Carthage, Macedonia... But out of all these it's my Egyptian experience that I remember the most.

[woad&fangs]

Do I really have to say it?

[Caius]

I was good at Scythia in RTW Vanilla. I was able to outlaw the Thracians in less than 10 years. But there a lot of factions that deserve to be mentionated.

[Caeser The III]

nice job

my favorite are carthage,greek and rome

[Punicus]

Definitely Carthage. Lots of different kinds of enemies to fight against, they have decent units, etc.

[caravel]

I had to vote Rome, Brutii in particular. The reason being that if I don't play as them then the AI turns them into a juggernaut!* I would prefer the Gauls but I find that later in the campaign they get rather dull, as their tactics pretty much amount to warcry and charge for all directions.

*If I play as the Brutii then I can do more to help maintain some balance - though the Britons can still be a major problem.