Favorite Faction to fight against?

[Jambat]

A twist on your favorite faction topics, but as I was playing earlier in the middle of a couple of scraps against the HRE I realized they are my favorite faction to fight against in the game. They have a deep and interesting roster that covers all the bases, and they keep up with the times well in all facets; Ranged, Melee, and Cav. Plus, some of their units are just great to see on a battlefield.

So who is your favorite enemy, and why?

[Marcvs Antonivs]

My favourite enemy is ERE, because I dislike them and like to crush them to pieces with their pseudo-superior roster muahahah. Pseudo Romans!

[chris7ian]

My favourite enemy is ERE, because I dislike them and like to crush them to pieces with their pseudo-superior roster muahahah. Pseudo Romans!

I have to agree. Nothing like defeating an unreasonably superior enemy with an obviously castrated faction (HRE).

[W1Z21]

nothing like being the crusaders and killing the islamic's foolish enough to touch my cities!!

[Isack Citees]

Poland. They always seem to give me one, giant and glorious charge with their cavalry which I struggle to fight off...
...but then my reserves pretty much kick their infantry.

[chris7ian]

Poland. They always seem to give me one, giant and glorious charge with their cavalry which I struggle to fight off...
...but then my reserves pretty much kick their infantry.

The Poles have proven more difficult than most to me as well. Their HA's are very effective as well as their HC. I like to play with Poland, but it makes me sad having to fight the Teutons.

[luciferleigh]

The Romans if in playing as the Italians, or the Italians if I'm playing as the Romans xD

[Marcvs Antonivs]

Apart from ERE, I also dislike Genoa and France, specially Genoa since they're so despicable and can never maintain their word... Geeze!

[Thefallenhun]

Well there are two things. There is my favorite faction to fight against, because I whip them like dog and send them packing. Then there is my fvorite faction to fight against because they frustrate the hell out of me and make me scrap to the wire. For the former I would have to say Hungary or Poland, since their missile cav never quite acquits itself well. But for the latter I would have to say Sicily or a late era france.. This is because Im on a kick where I'm playing non catholic factions without discplined early era armies like Lithuania and Egypt, and heavy cav combied with strong spears and infantry gives me a headache. though as I'm playing Lithuania (rapidly becoming my favorite faction) I'm realising their mass of AP units can give me an upper hand.

[Ferdiad]

France...grrr It's their Lancers, they make me go , and when I haz a I get

[Ichon]

ERE, HRE, or France, maybe Castile. Depends on my own faction and the era. In early era ERE is fun as they can be well balanced roster and strong cavalry. If HRE survives they can be interesting in later eras with very strong infantry and cavalry and it seems they don't deploy as many missile units as other factions which make fighting them tougher as most factions you can kill 25% of the enemy with few losses when they put all their missiles way out front.

Castile and France in really late eras are also fun- few outright weaknesses and many strong cavalries. France with Gendarmes and Lancers while Castile usually ends up with lots of religious knights.

[thespaniard]

genoa why bescause they are the milan of SS

[Lanier]

On one hand... I really hate fighting the Byzantines as they have some tough early units. On the other hand... they are really fun to kill.

[jahjeremy]

I like killing elite Crusader State infantry units with horse archers. That's always good for a laugh.

[dowdpride]

i like fighting against the spanish or the french as the moors. i love them having their armoured units and i just butcher them with my spear men and swarm them with all the units i can make when i make 15k a turn! muhahahahahhha

[Ferdiad]

Anyone else despise fighting longbow spamming England?

[Jambat]

Anyone else despise fighting longbow spamming England?

Depends who as. When I was playing a highly infantry specialized army like Norway, I dreaded having to slog through that fire, while my French campaign - Spikes and all - I found them to be nothing as I had enough cav to break off some, swing around the army, and hit the longbowmen where the precious spikes couldn't save them.

France...grrr It's their Lancers, they make me go , and when I haz a I get

Haha, I can totally feel the Lancer hate.

On one hand... I really hate fighting the Byzantines as they have some tough early units. On the other hand... they are really fun to kill.

One of these days I'll have to try to take them out with ground power. When I've fought the Romans, I've always made sure to have a good cavalry showing, and decent cav seems to roll right over them. However, they manage to pump out some major HA armies later on that can be a huge P.I.T.A.

Apart from ERE, I also dislike Genoa and France, specially Genoa since they're so despicable and can never maintain their word... Geeze!

I've found that Genoa is seriously moving up on my list. I don't remember them being this aggressive in earlier SS games, but now it's almost a given that they snatch up half of the French southern lands, move into HRE areas, and even test the waters in Iberia. With the money they can get from those lands they can get decent zergs going, and they can get some pretty interesting armies going. I hate fighting them early on though when you have to match armies that are mainly spear levy and archer levy vs their 100+ urban spear units and mass crossbowmen.

[Radiso-FIN]

I would say Seljuks, especially when I'm playing as Romans.
Khwarezmians are nice too. When I have managed to capture whole Anatolia, the situation is pretty much similar to late Antiquity when Rome fought numerous wars against Sassanid Persia.
They usually offer a nice challenge.

[prima legio]

if i play with danemark,poland,genova,my first enemy is always hre....but i like fight against lituania or bizantini too.

[HolyDevil]

since the ai is pretty much the same..

the first faction to be dumn enough to attack me FIRST (i forgive most of the wanna be scavangers who declare war just to be on my to do list xD) usually end up to be the most hated, and i do everythng i can to kill them (for good, as in COMPLETELY DESTROY THEM!!)