Faction you hate (or dread) fighting the most?

[DaciaJC]

Any of them ;)

2 Pet Peeves:-

1) I've expanded as far as I'm going to in one particular direction, and my now my well balanced, super chevron garrisoned army, keeps getting beseiged by some 3/4 full stack's of crud every other turn. If I auto-resolve, I win with horrible losses (often 30% or more) AND half of their guys escape. If I auto-win it , I still take around 20% losses AND again a lot escape. So I have to spend 40 minutes fighting a very careful and canny battle, which kills most of them and I take less than 5% casualties.

Every....other.....turn...sigh........ makes it really, really hard not to say "oh frik to this, lets just go and wipe the annoying so and sos out completely, so I get some peace and quiet"..

2) The above situation. Spend 5-10 minutes sallying out, getting in perfect formation, then they all run away without a battle !!

This. Every single word is truth.

I haven't met a faction that can stand up to a combination of Komatai Thorakitai Stratiotai, Drapanai, Rhomphaiaphoroi, and Tarabostes (well, except the nomads, but the Getai have excellent archers and HA to combat them as well). A case of Yellow Fever can become rather annoying, though, as explained so thoroughly by Drewski above.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

I hate to fight anyone who holds Iran. Conquering Iran is a pain in the ass, everybody uses gigantic amounts of archers that inflict you horrible casualties, retraining is difficult, distances are large, the landscape is rough and unpleasant and the populace is really difficult to keep in check.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I hate to fight anyone who holds Iran. Conquering Iran is a pain in the ass, everybody uses gigantic amounts of archers that inflict you horrible casualties, retraining is difficult, distances are large, the landscape is rough and unpleasant and the populace is really difficult to keep in check.

I second that. I stopped my Romani-campaign AS-grinding when I reached Iran. Plus, I heard those guys have weapons of mass destruction...

[Vasiliyi]

Hmmm, that also happens with me, although in significantly smaller intesity. Whenever I initiate a battle in Iberia, there is a roughly 2/5 chance I will have a CTD while the battle is still beginning to load. That is about all the CTDs I ever get in my campaigns, which makes it all the odder. And only in Iberia. I wonder why...

Does anyone else have the same problems in Iberia?

Oh, thats what the Eb team did to stop us from conquering Iberia, or atleast slow us down. Massive CTDS will wear you out a lot faster than those javelin wielding skirmishing infantry of the Lusitania. Iberia was difficult to subjegate anyways, but those mines are so tempting... (im joking about the EB team statement btw)

[delablake]

Sorry, but what the hell do the Romans/Trojans have to do with the Ptolemies?
Maion

Well, maybe they are my enemies? The Yellow Fever? Ever heard?

[HunGeneral]

Hmmm, that also happens with me, although in significantly smaller intesity. Whenever I initiate a battle in Iberia, there is a roughly 2/5 chance I will have a CTD while the battle is still beginning to load. That is about all the CTDs I ever get in my campaigns, which makes it all the odder. And only in Iberia. I wonder why...

Does anyone else have the same problems in Iberia?

Havent fought too much in Iberia till now: but if you are playing 1.2: have you tried the official fixes? I quess the one with unit sprites solves the problem that some Iberian (and other untis) in an army will cause a ctd while loading the battle. That one saved my first Makedonia campaign

[miotas]

Plus, I heard those guys have weapons of mass destruction...

Yeah, they're called Hetairoi Kataphraktoi, best tanks in the game.

[Maion Maroneios]

Well, maybe they are my enemies? The Yellow Fever? Ever heard?

Well, why did you say then you hate them because you're a Roman and thus a descendant of the Trojans? I understand if you hate the Ptolemaioi, I just couldn't make the connection between peoples that existed hundreds of years apart.

Maion

[satalexton]

shh... it's just part of another barbaroi conspiracy to make themselves seem less....barbaric

[Maion Maroneios]

shh... it's just part of another barbaroi conspiracy to make themselves seem less....barbaric

*Maions looks around suspicious, then turns to satalexton*

OK mate, I got it. Bring the rest of the Romaioktonoi and make sure this guy gets on the list...

Maion

[Africanvs]

Any of them ;)

2 Pet Peeves:-

1) I've expanded as far as I'm going to in one particular direction, and my now my well balanced, super chevron garrisoned army, keeps getting beseiged by some 3/4 full stack's of crud every other turn. If I auto-resolve, I win with horrible losses (often 30% or more) AND half of their guys escape. If I auto-win it , I still take around 20% losses AND again a lot escape. So I have to spend 40 minutes fighting a very careful and canny battle, which kills most of them and I take less than 5% casualties.

Every....other.....turn...sigh........ makes it really, really hard not to say "oh frik to this, lets just go and wipe the annoying so and sos out completely, so I get some peace and quiet"..

2) The above situation. Spend 5-10 minutes sallying out, getting in perfect formation, then they all run away without a battle !!

1) I avoid this by bringing my army home from each campaign for retraining and the rp reason that they would indeed only campaign away from home for so many years before they went back. I also build forts along my new borders and recruit garrison forces from nearby provinces to man them. This at least keeps the enemy from repeatedly besieging your towns. You can then bolster the garrisons in the forts which get attacked most. If they relentlessly attack you every turn you can try force diplomacy mod to make them ceasefire when it is obvious that they would do so, or crush them for good.

2) That is annoying but if you have some archers you can kill a bunch of them from behind as they run away. And on the bright side, the battle was a lot shorter hehe.

3) I like the AS, Ptolies, and Rome. I like to let them become strong simply to enjoy the challenge of defeating them later. With too many factions, I will destroy a couple of initial armies, and then their whole country is open to invasion. This is not the case with these three. They will fight you tooth and nail with stack after stack until you have crushed them. I do however detest fighting armies rich with mounted archers or skirmishers. I like infantry battles and chasing skirmishing units all over the map is not my idea of fun.

[Atraphoenix]

I love all that bows me, I hate all that sends me full stacks of endless armies that I have to fight even 6 battle in a just single turn!

but my revenge is painful click it how to revenge :

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I have modded my game with zero recruitment time! and after I have more than 30 cities whatever faction I play with I love all even against all gray blue any fever, divide, conquer, annihilate who resist destroy all buildings (except wonders, even I, not a vandal like that) then give the puppet one or two cities to pay you tributes. I never wipe any faction. They are more useful under your protectorate!
and use alex believe me you feel a real difference but do not forget EB team scripted AI recruitment they do not lose manpower but you have no chance after you finished your population other than trusting mercenaries so first use mercenaries and recruit wisely always exile to boom your population. use wisely this advantage can be a bumerang if you fail!

[miotas]

this advantage can be a bumerang if you fail!

LMAO

What a bummer that you don't know how to spell boomerang.

[Atraphoenix]

you will laugh more if I say I work as an English Translator in the real life!

[Vilkku92]

I hate everything that uses large numbers of horse archers. They are hard to catch and very hard to defeat with small casualties, and sometimes you want to shoot at footmen too. Very annyoing.

Romans are irritating too. It's fun to fight medium-sized armies of heavy infantry. It's not fun to fight superpower that sends those armies against you by the dozens every other turn and doesn't care even about alliances, let alone ceasefires.

[syct23]

I play as Rome so the ptolies only because by the time we meet our troops are each silver chevrons but they just have far more.

[syct23]

Havent fought too much in Iberia till now: but if you are playing 1.2: have you tried the official fixes? I quess the one with unit sprites solves the problem that some Iberian (and other untis) in an army will cause a ctd while loading the battle. That one saved my first Makedonia campaign

This is correct sir I just saved my Romani campaign with this.

[AqD]

iberia and sw.... (german). It's not their soliders but the trees....... CA should allow me to cut down all the damn trees!

[seienchin]

iberia and sw.... (german). It's not their soliders but the trees....... CA should allow me to cut down all the damn trees!

Ｉｔｓ　isnt CAs fault. Vannila has no Problem with trees... Its the EB Team, who made that incredible amount of trees.
By the way the Team made rivers in the forests which causes CTDs if you ambush an army there....

[Aulus Caecina Severus]

I want Illirian faction instead of hate Saka
And another german faction instead of Britons
I hate Britanni because they are very powerful against my poor Aedui.

[Tarkus]

Nothing really new here...but I...hate...the Saka. I'm in a Baktrian campaign and they just won't die. Their HAs are killing me.

[IrishHitman]

In my current campaign:

1. AS.
They bore the hell out of me.
Easy to beat, but doing so is like a chore.

2. Pontus.
Cheeky bastards, they are.
Not hard to beat, just show up at inopportune moments like after a long siege by AS, then taking a city for a few turns before my counterattack....

3. Sarmatians.
Sarmatian noble cavalry aren't just arrow-proof, they're f***ing bullet-proof!
It's damn easy to take their settlements though, but they're just not worth the trek north....

4. Lusotann.
Not normally annoying, but they've managed to forge a massive empire in France and Spain, so they've become a second AS. Tediously boring repetitive stack wars in the Alps and Po Valley.

[HunGeneral]

It looks like most of us aggree that AS is a greek for "huge country spanning many continents with an endless stream of thre troops heading towards you..."

It also seems most of us agree on the old saying: "Never mess with the nomads and if you do then expect the worst..."

[IrishHitman]

It also seems most of us agree on the old saying: "Never mess with the nomads and if you do then expect the worst..."

I messed with the nomads.
I love messing with the nomads.
I need to mess with the nomads to gain steppe armies necessary to fend off annoying barbarians on my Western front, on the cheap.

[HunGeneral]

Sorrry, I must have mispelled something.

What I meant to write was: "Never mess with the nomads and if you do then better not underestimate them or expect the worst..."

I think I read a better one somewhere else but I can't remember where..

[HunGeneral]

I messed with the nomads.
I love messing with the nomads.
I need to mess with the nomads to gain steppe armies necessary to fend off annoying barbarians on my Western front, on the cheap.

With which faction(s)?

[Maion Maroneios]

Actually, funny thing is I've never actually fought a nomad faction. I always play "civilized" nations and Makedonia to be more precise. I'm too spoiled with elite infantry and cavalry, I guess But it seems people are actually having a tough time against them.

Now that I think of it, I've actually had my ass handed to me once by Scythia as the Greek Cities, back when I used to play vanilla RTW. I was all full of confidence, and when I finally started marching my Amroured Hoplites-based army north of Hellas to the steppes, I got owned bery badly by the horse archers...

Maion

[Ca Putt]

i realy like the units of nomad factions. But i realy dread every confrontation with them, because i know i will loose more troops than justified by the cost of horse archers D:

on the other hand i hate(not dread) fighting the AS, mainly because of those endless waves of phalangites. I have become rather good at confronting phalanxes but it always takes so damn long to fight those fullstacks, as Phalangites are overrated in the auto resolver(that being the reason for me to fight those battles on the battle map). on top of that i can't raid their cities from the coast, exept for those in which they maintain a reasonable garrison :(

[IrishHitman]

With which faction(s)?

Sarmatians.
I crushed the Getai recently, and I'm having trouble with stack after stack of a Gaulo-Iberian Empire that keeps trying to invade Italy. I can't send my Macedonian forces over quickly enough.
Steppe armies do the job quickly.

[soup_alex]

Nothing really new here...but I...hate...the Saka. I'm in a Baktrian campaign and they just won't die. Their HAs are killing me.

Indeed >:|

I might just pack in my Baktria game (temporarily, at least), because they (Saka) are just so flipping annoying. I've gone as far north as I care to, for now, am maintaining a peace with the Pahlav, and grinding my way through India and Iran. Naturally, the unbelievably-wealthy Saka Rauka have quickly rolled over the local independent tribes on their borders, and as they're perfectly content to remain at peace with Pahlava and Sauromatae, Baktria is the poor sod who has to deflect their attentions every time they're feeling a little braver.
If I'm lucky, I might be able to manoeuvre an army into position to fight a bridge battle against them, and only have to pay about half a stack of regular troops in order to scare them off (in order for this strategem to stand a chance, I have to bring about an even share each of the most veteran slingers and the best-armoured phalangites I can afford, plus FM). If not, they'll either rampage through my farmland and/or block trade lanes, or lay a siege (which, while they cannot win, being ALL CATAPHRACT HORSE ARCHERS OF DOOM, will cost me dearly, and them hardly at all).

Sometimes, I dream of the old AoE "torpedo#" cheat...