interesting faction to play?

**apostolosm** · January 25, 2009, 11:26 AM

Ideas?

I want a faction with many units... A lot of green fields... (no islamic fanctions).. Dont care about cavarly much...

How is flanders? Want some kickass infantrly and archers...

Any proposals??

THX

**Taiji** · January 25, 2009, 12:06 PM

Venice.

**Jonni_g_n** · January 25, 2009, 12:08 PM

Well Sicily is awesome, they tend to be quite cav heavy though.

Haven't tried Flanders. But for field you want to go for Italian City factions, only problem with these is you spend so long fighting over the Corsican islands thay you dont get a chance to invade anyone

**apostolosm** · January 25, 2009, 12:19 PM

i have played as milan and i read somewhere here using the search buttons that they are all alike...

**TWmadman** · January 25, 2009, 01:33 PM

venice is challenging, france also

**Kjertesvein** · January 25, 2009, 01:33 PM

You should pick a region that you are geographically familiar to, speaking real life.
The question is, do you want it to be difficult? Or have great army(units) who easily crush everything in it's path?

Lets say you come from around the north sea: UK/skandinavia. Then you pick either:

Scotland, Irland, Flanders, Norway. [Hard/Slow] Norway got solid offencive Inf. and good early archers.

France, , Denmark, England. [Easy] England got alot of armour pirc. Archers. Solid billmen inf.

Western factions got settlements tighter together and you got the Americas to test out your command skills.

**apostolosm** · January 25, 2009, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by blackleaf

You should pick a region that you are geographically familiar to, speaking real life.

The question is, do you want it to be difficult?
Or have great army(units) who easily crush everything in it's path?

Lets say you come from around the north sea: UK/skandinavia. Then you pick either:
Scotland, Irland, Flanders, Norway. [Hard/Slow] Norway got solid offencive Inf. and good early archers.

France, , Denmark, England. [Easy] England got alot of armour pirc. Archers. Solid billmen inf.

Western factions got settlements tighter together and you got the Americas to test out your command skills.

No I want a variety of units and prerty good infantry,,,,,and not an islamic faction... Dont care about the best units...

Norway???hmmm

**Galloglaich** · January 25, 2009, 01:48 PM

I'd say Scotland or Norway. You can decide.

**Bacus** · January 25, 2009, 02:01 PM

Ireland is fun, the Scots also. If not, you could try Armenia which is really hard cause of the crapy units they can muster.
Gorgia is really fun! or lituania. the grim look those hardy soldier have is wicked! i just love them

**Taiji** · January 25, 2009, 07:21 PM

Denmark is one of my favorites but norway is good too, norway has a very good 2h sword unit and some good spearmen but then for denmark norse axe are plenty stronger than sami axe and they get obudshear, my favorite halberd unit.

HRE is a very very nice faction but it lacks the decent bows you desire, the fun of using reiters and gothics might make up for that.

Byz have everything you're asking for, varangians are very dangerous inf, heavy spearmen are unusual and overpowered at the moment.... work in progress. Their bows are very good, great horse archers, great cataphracts, etc. etc. Byz have it.

**cvo99** · January 25, 2009, 08:01 PM

france is great for all around, but you have to wait till late game. England is nice too, good archers, good enough horsemen, plenty of billmen.

**Wartower** · January 26, 2009, 12:55 AM

I'll throw you a curveball here. Interested in great infantry and a hard as hell faction to play? Be the Pope. Papal States baby. When you get the offer of Templar Chapter House, click Accept and you're off and running. Papal Guards available from the start, Italian Militia units, then Templar units, viola! Add in no family tree, no babies, no room for expansion, and no real control over yourself (as the Pope) and you have a formula that's guaranteed to make you pull your hair out, but still have the satisfaction of fielding armies that can really kick some ass.

Recommendation (optional): Have Tylenol and throat lozenges near your computer.

**mattgonzo** · January 26, 2009, 06:47 AM

i LOVE the east roman empire(Byzanz) and milan....i guess byzanz has the strongest infantry of them all and one of the best cavalries even better than the islamic factions....

**mattgonzo** · January 26, 2009, 06:50 AM

byzanz has also the most units of them all and one of the biggest town of all at the beginning: constantinoble....

**ivanhoex** · January 26, 2009, 12:29 PM

kiev.

constant struggle at all fronts and good economy.
ALL types of enemy units in front of yours. every unit in the game will face you.
beautiful own units. excellent unit variety production, featuring horse archers, light cavs, very heavy horses, heavy long range archers, heavy axemen, heavy spears, swordsmen... only lacking in pikemen (not anymore due to mercs).

strong starting position.

surrounded by green steppes for miles

cons:

no pope. but you still get crusaded and mongol´ed.. you can even manage to get jihae´ded