Factions you miss the most

[Eduorius]

Vanilla Thrace, Scythia, and New Kingdom of Egypt.

[Maeran]

I miss Numidia; Carthage needs something to balance things out in Africa. A scripted defender of Numidia would be good, and we know that's possible.

That's about it. Notice that a lot of answers are based on gameplay rather than nationalism? Nice, isn't it?

[iberus_generalis]

i miss the rabid War Dogs.
i Miss the swines....bring back the pigs to EB in historically and anatomically correct skins=p give Hogs of War to EB=))))))

[Beefy187]

No the dogs and the piggys are way over powered. If they come back on EB members would have to reintroduced the screeching women and the canon elephants and a bartix stick warriors to balance it out

[Gazius]

Dump the worthless Casse to create a shadow faction [for rome]. The Casse are interesting, and I by no means wish to in any form degrade the work that has gone into them, but with the RTW engine I feel that they're a misplaced decision on the balance between gameplay and history.

[Hooahguy]

all the EB factions, especially Baktria!
i miss EB already....... my computer is down and i dont know if it will work again......

[Pharnakes]

Dump the romans, and create a shadow faction for Pontus, just in case anyone ever feels bored....

[Ludens]

Dump the worthless Casse to create a shadow faction [for rome]. The Casse are interesting, and I by no means wish to in any form degrade the work that has gone into them, but with the RTW engine I feel that they're a misplaced decision on the balance between gameplay and history.

Except that the Romans were hardly the only ones to suffer a civil war. In fact, they were remarkably stable until Sulla, and their civil wars don't seem to have impeded their expansion that much. Unlike, for example, the successor kingdoms, who had major internal loyalty problems.

[Morte66]

1. A Helleno-Skythian faction in the Crimea. Hoplites and horse archers, plus unique Bosphorian archers, with potential opposition including the Sauromatate, Getai, Pontos, Armenia, Galatians, and the Daidochi. A unique military with a mix of several different military machines to fight. Supremely interesting gameplay that's different from everything else in EB.

2. Syracuse. Classical Greek military between Carthage and Rome, giving them a different mix of opposition from the other Greeks. Starting position is thoroughly viable for a player faction, and they usually outlast Pontos as an AI faction.

3. Massilia. Helleno-Celtic military between Gauls and Romans. Again, would bring gameplay that does not currently exist in EB.

Not Pergamon, who are basically the same as the KH (hoplites fighting Daidochi) and add little to EB.

[blacksnail]

Dump the worthless Casse to create a shadow faction [for rome]. The Casse are interesting, and I by no means wish to in any form degrade the work that has gone into them, but with the RTW engine I feel that they're a misplaced decision on the balance between gameplay and history.

The factions that were released with EB 1.0 are permanent members of EB1 and will not be removed. This is not to say that a minimod couldn't do it, but what you see is what you get for EB1.

Beyond this I believe shadow factions require RTW-BI as a base, which we do not support. EB1 is designed for RTW 1.5.

[svramj]

Mauryan Empire of course

[Cadwalader]

Norway, Iceland and the Sami.

[CirdanDharix]

Pergamon, Herakleia Pontika, Kappadokia.


Obsessed with Asia Minor, me? No way!!!

Okay, so what about Pergamon, the Bosporan kingdom, and the Northern League (led by Herakleia Pontika and Byzantion), plus dump the Koinon Hellenon and replace them with just Rhodes. Dumping a faction that rarely ammounts to much in the game, such as the Casse, could also make way for Syracuse. Obviously, you'd need to remove a province (isn't Gotland a one-island province that never gets conquere dby the AI?) to make way for Herakleia Pontika and her territory, and you'd need to cut Pontos off from the sea at game start (unless they already held Amisos? when did they gain this city?).

[PershsNhpios]

I would have the Cantabrian Iberians, as four factions in Iberia with Medieval Total War was very interesting, either this or abolish the two Aedui and Arverni, and divide Gaul in partes tres.
Though it would create a violent and strange war, I think having a Thracian faction could be interesting, or a theoretical Hellenic League encompassing Massalia, Syracuse, Chersonesos and Byzantion.. by god that would be a challenge, but a true trading empire.

As an aside, Sassem, it is a terrible mistake to pronounce, "Vici" as vee-see, though you may defend yourself with the rebuttal that it was relevant to your jest.. However this borders on the unforgivable! Simply imagine pronouncing, "Victory", as, "Vistory".

Curse the Hundred Years War!

[antiochus epiphanes]

Numidians, Boii, and the yuezhi.

[marodeur]

Numidians!!!
And also Illyrians, Boii, eventually India

[Pezlu]

My choices:

• An indian faction would be an interesting interesting change
  
• Thrakia? Don't know much about Thrace in this period but they were divided in tribes AFAIK, so one of the thracian tribes would be good... a bit too many factions in that area however :P
  
• Helvetii, they already have a nice list of regional units

Honorable mentions: Galatia; another germanic tribe (but it would be too similar to the sweboz i fear); a greek city somewhere else (like Syracuse or Massalia)