Easiest Faction? Most Difficult Faction?

**Greyblades** · 03-14-2009, 04:13

Originally Posted by Marquis of Roland

Also, I don't know if this is the case for other factions, but as GB, certain regions let you recruit "localized" units with different skins than your units in europe, which makes for nice visual variety

That is true but sometimes not for the best, Those hats the East India Trading Company troops wear...

**DisruptorX** · 03-14-2009, 05:24

Originally Posted by Greyblades

That is true but sometimes not for the best, Those hats the East India Trading Company troops wear...

...are incredibly stylish? Its the proper attire for any gentlemen to wear as he brings the iron heel of imperialism down upon the natives.

**Megas Methuselah** · 03-14-2009, 05:30

Hanover was rather difficult to start with. I had to really be wary of Sweden, who wiped Denmark off the floor. Also, engaging with the Prussians during my expasionist policy was rather difficult; I only won my battles through clever use of artillery and cover.

**Namarie22** · 03-14-2009, 08:06

I found Spain to be interesting, yes, they are big, but their lands are really plopped down all over the place. If you get a game going where the AI actually does something, its very fun.

Sweden has been easy as pie all three times, but in those campaigns the AI never did anything much (H/H, VH/H, VH/VH),

**Polemists** · 03-14-2009, 08:46

This really all depends on your campaign and your faction.

Short Campaigns are not to bad for any faction.

Long Campaigns are hardest for Poland, Austria and Prussia. The reason being the condition require you to take out 3-4 factions that arn't really near each other, and claim alot of land, which keeps you in steady wars as time goes on if you want to win.

I would actually say go with Global, I find it far easier as there are less specific territories you have to take and your more free to take what you want in your own time.

For instance Poland's long conditions means they have to take Istanbuhl (Ottomans) Austria (Austria) Berlin (Prussia) and Sweden (Sweden), which means you also have to conquer all the lands on the way to those places. Which basically means you have to conquer all of eastern europe.

The reason GB, France and Spain are slightly easier is you start with trade able provinces and a navy. As Austria, Poland or Prussia you do not, and in the earlier two cases (Austria and Poland) you have bad relations and it will take you time to build up any kind of naval presence.

**BeeSting** · 03-14-2009, 08:59

So far I've played United Provinces, Great Britain, and France.... Of the three I found France the most challenging. I am still playing it through 1757. I couldn't play GB past 8 turns because I could see that it was going to be too easy and didn't want to just go through the process taking one province at a time.

There's still a lot of Beta testing to do in this game, let's pick out some more bugs and problems for free.

**Fisherking** · 03-14-2009, 10:52

I wouldn’t swear to it, but don’t the AI personalities change from Campaign to Campaign?

While they may have a similar attitude, subtle differences in how they act can have an impact on how difficult or easy a Champaign turns out to be.