Yeah, that is my real problem actually. The number of playable factions.seem to have caused a little uproar...sorry I'm not more active on the forum, little too busy.
Anyways, I will admit to loving Empire, especially after I got Darthmod running on it. After that, all of the games became less and less complex, and it's begun to turn me off of the series. The biggest pains for me are the fact that only 8 factions will be allowable in vanilla until the DLC comes out and the 1 turn per year deal. Maybe I'll get it and it will knock me off my feet, but what I think would be fantastic is the most historical start possible, followed by an absolute brawl. That's why your mod is so amazing, because you guys have added more historically acurate factions and such like EB did, which I've never really been able to play due to some wierd installation problems. And I will still probably purchase R2:TW, I just want to wait a while to be sure of the features.
They say that there were 9 playable factions(without unlocking! ) in RTW I. I completely agree with all those people, but what they cannot see is that we had 9 playable of 21 total factions. Put that on the paper and you will see that we had around 40 % of all factions that were present playable, which is quite descent.
If you do the same thing for Rome II you will see that you have 8 factions playable out of total 50-60 factions.
If there are 60 factions total and 8 factions playable , if I calculated right you get to play as less than 15 % of total factions appearing in the game ! That is really sad for a game that is appearing in the late year of 2013. I don't care how unique are the 8 factions, it is just a shame.
Even better, if there are 50 factions total and 8 factions playable, if I calculated right you get to play as right 17 % of total factions appearing in the game, which is again, sad.
The only thing I put my hopes into is that the CA will give us the tools for Rome II or that somebody finds out how the game could be modable so I can choose to play like factions as Pontus, Epirus, Illyria, Nabataeans or maybe some different eastern faction that wasn't playble in the original game.and so on.
I hope you saw the new faction on the first page to.