What faction you have played were the biggest challenge for u? Why?
(Prefer answers from those who played on h/h or vh/vh )
Austria
Sweden
Russia
Prussia
Poland-Lithuania
Great-Britain
France
United Provinces
Marathas
The Ottoman Empire
Spain
What faction you have played were the biggest challenge for u? Why?
(Prefer answers from those who played on h/h or vh/vh )
Prussia for me. The age-old "attack something" something strategy can cause some very quick headaches, as trying to take neighbouring territories means attacking big nations or small nations with big friends.
I started with Prussia due to it's easy-to-oversee 2 provinces (as I learnt the game mechanics), but I had to do some significant diplomatic ground work before I even considered attacking Poland-Lithuania and joining my two territories with West Prussia. Got Sweden and Russia on my side so when I attacked, Poland was very quickly fighting battles on multiple fronts.
I have to disagree - the best policy is to knock Poland out of the game within the first 10 turns. I have a slightly different approach to this than the following thread, but in my experience, this SHOULD work too: http://etw.heavengames.com/articles/...ampaign-guide/
I tend to use the extra cash to appease Austria and certainly focus on artillery research, but other than that, I agree almost totally
Hope this helps you and the other people who find Prussia difficult!
Nobody vote GB ? o_O
GB is like the easiest.
Great army, great fleet, and you're on an island...
I don't know which one is the hardest. I'm playing with Russia and already got sweden parts and parts of Balkan, so it aint that hard.
Already a thread here:
Your favourite faction?
Haven't you seen the announcement in BIG BOLD LETTERS?
Attention! --- Do not start a new thread!
Hardest = favourite in most cases. If you would have seen the gazillion threads I've seen in the RTW and M2TW forums, you would know they always are. For example Kingdom of Jerusalem.
It is utterly pointless to start a thread with a very similar topic, as about 8 other threads were merged into the first one I linked. Not topicworthy btw, Prussia will win, yaay.
Last edited by Aldgarkalaughskel; March 07, 2009 at 12:03 PM.
@powerwizard: i disagree. a thread about the hardest factions may have different results and provoke players to post different insights... also if you just look at that other poll the results are very different... sure prussia might be on top but what about the rest.
I played Prussia on Hard/Hard in Short Campaign made all needed goals to win i have found the campaign was to easy i will try out Very Hard now !
hitler like moderation on this forum is getting out of hand if you ask me
unless you guys running out of hdd space for new post.. in which case.. kill the graveyard..
or if you really believe that similar posts should be in one post.. so others can search for it.. search function will manage to bring 2 posts instead of one too
its ok when you merge xx post with another post.. but when you delete it , specially with negative information about ca.. without merging or any warning.. its just silly
Ottoman empire, so much micromanagement, every turn must take half an hour, I hate those kinds of factions..
United Provinces is pretty hard. Just started a new campaign with them last night. I was making 10K per turn but since going to war with France it's dropped to about 4K. Playing on H/H, by the way.
I am trying to take out France. I captured Paris but they took it back after like 2 turns with a full stack army. Arrgh.
I lost as Prussia, which surprised me to say the least. First courland nabbed East Prussia and then I engineered a revolt in Berlin which left me commanding the worlds smallest revolutionary force. Bad mojo. The dutch campaign is easy for me by comparison.
Really? My first campagin as Prussia was easier for me than the Dutch.
I actually had a revolution very early on while playing the Dutch and am now a constitutional monarchy.
I usually prefer not to initiate a revolution. While yes it raises your standing with other nations, it lowers public order making thing like researching enlightenment policies very difficult along with industry due to it raising you ever closer to rebellion every second. I was able to do tons of I couldn't normally do in a constitutional monarchy with my Republic. United Provinces is hard to start out with but once your on a roll, boy you are on a roll. They are an economic power house. I am playing N/N and have knocked out Spain and France, took some time to rebuild my economy and have just recently invaded lower India around the year 1760, rebuilt my navy during the rebuilding of my economy due to having a weak navy for the first 60 years and being subject to numerous trade route raids. Biggest allies are great Britain and Westphalia. I only keep those two as allies, as any more allies and I would be dragged into wars I don't wish to be dragged into aka Less allies, less costly wars. I destroyed France and Spain in a fit of rage as they kept declaring war despite numerous treaties and trade agreements. Quebec, Mexico, and Gran Colombia rised from their ashes which I proceeded to befriend with trade agreements while everything west of the thirteen colonies became either rebel nations or were reborn as native nations(which had been killed of earlier.