what's your favorite faction

[Theodotos I]

Pahlava definitely. I've finished campaigns as Baktria, Qarthadastim, Getai, and Pahlava(all 1.0), but they were the best. Horse archers are incredibe. Armored horse archers even more so.

[tapanojum]

Hayasdan! Because it's the only faction that I never seem to be able to win as!

Started a campaign as Saba today, in the 250's BC. Really fun starting position, once you get past the initial boring decade of building mines in your cities and having almost no fighting done!

[Aaldaemon]

Almost no one seems to like the Sauromatae (bar the I like them all people) hehe. I wonder if that's because of a lack of city improvements/city size cap, horse archer hatred(in some cases), or lack of identification with them hmmmm....

I myself wasn't a big fan till I started playing them , but my favorite faction remain ever the Seleucids... Semper Seleukeia!

[Barae]

Hayasdan and Casse!
Hayasdab cause I love the persian way of fighting and Casse cause they simply are fun to play

[Eyes330]

Saba!
Mainly because I like fighting against overwhelming odds and an army based around skirmishers and light infantry. It's also quite satisfying when you win a battle with inferior troops and send the greeks scurrying back to their safe cities.

[Jurdagat]

Hayasdan so far, can't praise my recent campaign with them enough.

But finding my current Makedonia campaign interesting to. :)

[Irishmafia2020]

1. Baktria - I just love the concept of "indo-Greeks", plus the campaign really has a frontier feel to it...

2. Makedonia - Like Rome, but harder and more Hellenic...

3. Saba - How can you not enjoy conquering Ethiopia?

[tapanojum]

3. Saba - How can you not enjoy conquering Ethiopia?

That just made my day

[gamegeek2]

Saka (I had a great campaign which inspired "Of Mail and Men" a while back, search the forum for it), because of their challenge and amazing empire-building capabilities for a steppe faction.

Arche Seleukeia because I love doing a Persian redux with Hellenic units to boot.

Qarthadastim because they are the first faction I played as, their units look so awesome (and their capabilities are as good as their looks), and they have so many options, from African expansion to "Colonizing" the mediterranean by taking random cities along the coast, to just landing a fullstack next to Rome.

Honorable mentions: Koinon Hellenon, Sweboz, Getai

[The Celtic Viking]

Arverni (quelle surprise, huh?), followed by Aedui, Sweboz and Casse. Their story, their units, their location and the heroic feeling that the Celtic units give me is just what I like. I also like Sab'yn.

[Happy balroae]

casse and sauromate
casse because i like the heroes and british regional units
sauromate because of the horse archers

[Victor1234]

Arche Seleukeia.
1) Amazing unit roster
2) Satrap system
3) Lots of ethnicities for generals
4) Hellenic building tree
5) Founder-cult worship
6) No waiting for reforms
7) Very difficult at start
8) Very difficult as you expand (due to distances)

Definately the best faction out there for me.

[AlexanderVII]

1. MAKEDONIA (Rulers of the world) always

maybe in the future other Macedonian factions:

2. Arche Seleukeia

3. Ptolemaioi

Always with one goal. To unite Macedonian empire again and kick Roman a...s

[Logarth]

Sweboz!

[QuintusSertorius]

Epeiros are great for doing a Hellenic migration campaign, since after 270 or so they were irrelevant and thus don't upset the historic balance of power in Greece by removing them.

[Swordmaster]

I only play Rome.

Epeiros are great for doing a Hellenic migration campaign, since after 270 or so they were irrelevant and thus don't upset the historic balance of power in Greece by removing them.

[Aaldaemon]

Epeiros are great for doing a Hellenic migration campaign, since after 270 or so they were irrelevant and thus don't upset the historic balance of power in Greece by removing them.

Aye, very true, I'm thinking of relocating them to India for fun. My own version of an Indo-Greek Kingdom starting 272BCE.

[QuintusSertorius]

People change, even me.

What's really worked is that Pergamon, despite being a Hellenistic Successor didn't use phalanxes. Plus they're in an interesting location.

[Swordmaster]

People change, even me.

What's really worked is that Pergamon, despite being a Hellenistic Successor didn't use phalanxes. Plus they're in an interesting location.

I'm sure phalanxes will become your mainstay once you become a Seleukid strategos. It's an acquired taste, much like horse archer-based warfare is, but a very rewarding one, too. Perhaps, one day, Quintus.

[QuintusSertorius]

I'm sure phalanxes will become your mainstay once you become a Seleukid strategos. It's an acquired taste, much like horse archer-based warfare is, but a very rewarding one, too. Perhaps, one day, Quintus.

Not sure I can see it. I've got a real loathing for pikes and phalanx-tactics. Something distinctly unheroic about them, which is kind of the point.

[||Lz3||]

Not sure I can see it. I've got a real loathing for pikes and phalanx-tactics. Something distinctly unheroic about them, which is kind of the point.

too true... I've never liked phalanxes either...

and about my faction.... I'll have to go roman

although there's something about baktria that keeps me interested in starting a new campaign (those late bodyguards...)

[Swordmaster]

I didn't like phalanxes either, until I started playing with them. There's something tragic about seeing an elite phalanx being eaten up by pesky skirmishers, much like the Seleukids being eaten up by their pesky neighbours.

[||Lz3||]

why this was posted here?

we should make this a poll in the main page ,kinda like "what's your age" thread , it could bring interesting results

[Socy]

Definitely the Seleucids. I just love the idea of a huge Empire that houses a myriad of different cultures within its borders. And I've always had a soft spot for the orient and the "East". A faction wich have the strong, disciplined armies of Alexander mixed with local "persians" and locals is just kick-ass. And I love the roleplaying-possibilities with the Seleukids. With all the different ethnic groups and soldiers under your command the possibilities are endless! And ofcourse, the Hellenic governmental system. And, most important, the colours on their "uniforms". The black/white/gray/brown/red colours on the Hellenic units are just to die for . Makes them look "imperial" in a sense of way, in my opinion.

But the Macedonians are also pretty cool I think. I enjoy fielding armies of Pezhetairoi combined with Taxeis Triballoi and Thraikioi Rhomphaiaphoroi. The Pahlava are also pretty neat. They're also a very cool "eastern" faction, but with more focus on horse-archers and cataphracts, wich is fine by me! Besides, their horse-archer armies simply steamroll everything, awesome!

[Pinkkiller]

Saka they just slaugther every1 on the battlefield with their archers ...and Getai
:D

[Kuningaz]

Gotta stand up for Sauromatae right now^^. They're just awesome! I just love uniting the steppes from the black sea to the sakas first and then going down to the south and crushing all those hellenes from the east. Really awesome to sack and destroy all those huge cities you don't have to keep. (I made almost 100.000 mnai by looting Seleukeia!!). Besides I just like Sauromatae better than Saka, don't know why.
Other cool factions: Carthage, Sweboz, Arverni and Koinon Hellenion (really nice to kick those makedonians out and then 'rescue' the greek colonies all around the Mediterrinian)

[Tiberius Aurelius Cotta]

Romani...

since yesterday, the Pedites Extraordinarii make that faction totally worthwhile for me

[Chirurgeon]

I love the 1.0 Lusotannan faction. There are some new additions in 1.1 which I really would like to play

[Satyros]

Koinon Hellenon not for the obvious reasons , but simply beacuse I really enjoy the hoplite armies , mind you without the spartans in them .

I hail from the land of the helots .

I also enjoy very much the Arverni and the Aedui and Sweboz , my kind of "barbarian" warfare , and I recently realised that horse archer armies even though they are killer against the computer ( and I imagine in the MP also in the hands of a very skilled player ) are not my kind of thing . I enjoy more to clash head-on with masses of infantry, and depending on my mood I choose either the KH or the Arverni/Aedui/Sweboz .

If we're talking about cataphracts , well , that's another thing , I sure like cataphracts .

I also dislike the slow moving phalanxes of the Maks, Epeiros , Seleukos and Ptolemaios though as a KH player I envy the Makedonian cavalry . Besides , my peltasts shred phalanxes . yay .

Satyros

[Constantius III]

I'm definitely a Mak player, although Baktria is a close second. Phalangial armies and I just sort of go together - they're either a steamroller or they lock up a portion of the battlefield, and everybody just loooves the hammer and anvil. Makedonian ability to recruit those killer Thraikioi Rhomphiaphoroi right next to the homeland is really awesome too. Baktria I like because they have most of the great Seleukid units (except the higher-end phalangitai and those insane armored thorakitai monsters), plus they don't need a reform for their kataphraktoi, and their starting position is a lot easier for me to manage. I like to start small and get big; larger starting factions like the Qarthadastim, AS, and the Ptolemaioi are kinda hard for me to ease into.