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    Just want to get a thread going, on which faction(s) you think are the ugliest in M2TW - including Kingdoms campaigns, or even some of the mods (but please specify a little as to why if so).

    A poll would of been a little too large, and almost certainly I'd forget them on the list.

    They can be your personal choice as ugly for whatever reason you like, but for me it's based entirely on A - the colour scheme. B - the unit roster.. and most importantly C - how their armies and soldiers actually look on the field!

    Wales and Lithuania -- these are my top two ugliest factions.

    wales has too many random units just kind of thrown together and bundled -- I don't understand why their Merriyonid spearmen couldn't of just been "armor sergeants" ... and I can't understand why the Welsh Longbows (saethwyr) looks so barbaric and ugly, meanwhile their 'welsh hunters' look so simple and professional . It should be other way around with the unit models. The Welsh Raiders seem completely silly - why are they wearing that fancy Elf Armor, but didn't even bring a shield !!! guh. so dumb.

    Lithuania, it may just be on my computer but the blue looks almost neon at times and clashes too much with the red -- they seem to have a huge mismatch of soldiers, and they mostly all look ridiculous - the only saving grace is that they do have wicked looking Chivalric Knights (if they become christians).

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    Pretty much the only reason I dislike certain factions is their color scheme. Yep, I'm that shallow I want my soldiers looking badass as they lay on the hurt. That said, the ones I can think of off the top of my head are Hungary and Antioch from the Crusades campaign. Hungary's colors seem meh and Antioch's top infantry have terrible baby-blue uniforms. I actually ended up modding Antioch to phase out all their units with blue uniform with equivalents sporting colors of the Knights Hospitaller and those Edessan uniforms.
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    Vanilla eastern factions.

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    Russia and Hungary from vanilla.
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    Scotland, Hungary and the Byzantine Empire (only in vanilla, in Kingdoms they're great)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grymloq View Post
    Scotland, Hungary and the Byzantine Empire (only in vanilla, in Kingdoms they're great)
    Why kingdoms but not Grand Campaign ? -- does Byzantium have new skins / new unit models n stuff? BEcause I thought they just used everything the same but -- created units with a mace instead of sword, a 2hander sword instead of an axe.. etc etc...(just switch-a-roo with the same old)

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    Every faction that isn't the Holy Roman Empire.
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    Hungarian colour scheme. Though Magyar team has fixed them very well.

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    Hungary, Eastern factions and also the orcs in TATW

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    ugliest color schemes and unitsd: hungary in vanilla, novgorod in teutonic and mongols everywhere.

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    * Hungary, Milan and the Turks (both stem from my dislike of the colour green in these games (with the exception of Ireland), which started with the Brutii in RTW) and Denmark (okay they're not really ugly as in just plain boring) in Vanilla

    * Tarascans, Tlaxcallans, Aztecs and Mayans in Americas, all with the exact. same. unit. roster. At least the Apaches and even the Chichimecs had gunners and horses. It wouldn't hurt to give them some variety and some units from the colonising factions. Say, crossbowmen and mounted crossbowmen for the Tlaxcallans (apparently some Tlaxcallans were armed with crossbows by the Spanish), cannons for the Mayans (and possibly the Aztecs), Mounted Eagle Warriors for the Tarascans, and muskets for the Aztecs (I'm not sure what the Aztecs did with any armour or weapons the Spanish lost or left behind during La Noche Triste)

    * Scotland in Britannia (but only for getting no gunpowder infantry or cavalry), Teutonic Order in Teutonic (only for the whole high religion = good units thing).

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    Definitely the Timurids and Byzantines.......next time take a closer look at the faces on their spear infantry
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    Are you referring to the bronze-colored face masks that the Mongol/Timurid troops have?

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    i think he is referring to the exquisite "tans" the, supposedly european, byzantine units sport.

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    I would go with the Apacheans from the Americas Campaign.
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    Quote Originally Posted by King William the Conqueror View Post
    I would go with the Apacheans from the Americas Campaign.
    I think the apacheans look awesome, with all that warpaint and stuff... What I don't like much is the look of the Cuirassers/Conquistadores. It looks like they're using a metal cap on their heads.

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    Poland.

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    Definately Byzantine, maybe it's just my settings, but the purple is WAY too PINK for me...

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    The purple is pretty purple IMO

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    Default Re: The Ugliest Faction(s) !

    Am I the only one who actually liked the Hungarian colour scheme?

    As for the ugliest faction, well, I'll say Poland.

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