1) A little story on how you came to get the game.
2) Which of the three Roman factions you first picked.
I was out at Walmart after Christmas in 2007 looking for new war games. I had played all of the Age of Empires games and all the versions they had out. I saw Warhammer 40,000 and thought it look completely boring and stupid. I played Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution and I liked it, but it was very boring after an hour of playing. I saw Rome Total War and was immediately intrigued. I got it, took it to the register and paid for it.
Once I got home I downloaded it immediately. The first faction I chose was the Brutii. The two reasons mainly I chose them was because their color was green (my favorite color) and because it was in the south and the thought of conquering what is now modern Greece.