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    I enjoy the romans (Juli) I find recreating the roman empire to be fun and it might be the hardest of the romans with the economy of Gaul/spain/britian who are most likely to be your starting targets (they were mine).

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    greek cities are ridiculously over powered. i love em! FTW armoured hoplites for the win!
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    im the only one to vote for parthia???
    there cataphracts and camels rule, there lucky enough to get elephants, and expert horse archers, with brill foot missiles,who needs hoplites when you have that? many fights ive had and horse archers pick hoplites off, and the few that remain can ger overcome by a caaphract charge, there silk roads r useful too, well at least my modded version is anyway

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    I'm the only one who voted Thrace?!

    Couple reasons:
    1) The color
    2) Starting location (walk right up and take a rebel controlled Byzantium on turn 1 or 2? Yes, thank you.
    3) Good mix of Greek style units along with a barbarian-esque Falk unit, AND the ability to build siege units. (I think they are unique among barbarian tribes for this?)
    4) The Romans have to go through Greece and Macedon to get to you, giving you time to consolidate
    5) Good water control cul-de-sac
    6) Easy to pop both armies or emissaries across the strait to get trade going with Pontus, Egypt, Armenia, Parthia, Seleucids etc.
    7) Scythia is ripe for the taking
    8) People seem to like you and make deals with you much easier than when you play the Romans. As Romans I almost never get anyone to allow me military access, for example.
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    I don't play RTW much these days but when I do it's almost always as the Greek Cities.

    They represent an old-style (relative to the game) of waging war. As the factions tech up and become more advanced, Rome especially, the tactics of the greeks become increasingly difficult to use effectively. Their biggest obstacle right out of the gate is finding a way to defeat the Macedonians to the north who utilize pikemen while the Greeks use much shorter spears. There you're forced to rely on your (woefully) outclassed horsemen to be the difference maker.

    The Greeks are a campaign where once one challenge is mastered another presents itself, and even if that one is mastered, your way of doing things is quickly becoming outdated.

    It's the faction you play when you feel like telling kids to get off your lawn.
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    I must admit that I've never had any problems steamrollering the Macedonians as the Greeks. I think this comes down to tactics more than anything else. The AI is hopeless at deploying and using phalanx properly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aries777777 View Post
    im the only one to vote for parthia???
    there cataphracts and camels rule, there lucky enough to get elephants, and expert horse archers, with brill foot missiles,who needs hoplites when you have that? many fights ive had and horse archers pick hoplites off, and the few that remain can ger overcome by a caaphract charge, there silk roads r useful too, well at least my modded version is anyway
    Second Parthia fan here!

    My favourites would be a tie between Greek Cities and Parthia. The reason why the Greek Cities are awesome have already been said, Parthia I also love because horse archers are awesome, and Persian cavalry is by far my favourite horse archer unit (or any cavalry unit, for that matter)-- excellent range, decent melee capability, and they look cool. The Parthians lack decent infantry, but who needs them when there is such an awesomely awesome selection of good cavalry?

    I do hate how they only have one temple though. And their starting position: bleh.
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    i love Carthage because of their elephants, i also like their melee troops
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    My vote would have to be a tie between Pontus and Gaul.

    Gauls, because I love lurking about in the forest with huge stacks of uber warcryness. There's also something satisfying to sack Rome as them, I get the same feeling as Goths or Vandals in BI.

    Pontus I love for the fact they have Cappadocian Lancers, an unit which I seem to love for some reason; I loved them in RTR as well... Plus, their unit mix is nice, although you could say the same about some other factions in the region.

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    pontus is gr8.
    they have chariots, calvary, skirmishers, archers, pikemen and regular infantry. In other words. every unit type available except elephants.
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