Surprisingly Easy Faction?

[Zapp Brannigan]

For me it is Spain. I've played many Empire games with various countries, but only recently tried Spain. I kind of expected an empire in decline, like the Ottomans but not so bad. But Spain is really quite easy! Substantial holdings in the New World, with quite an easy mission to get all of Mexico/South America on your side.

Add to that an easy conquest of Portugal, and a natural jumping off point for an offensive against Morocco and then all of North Africa. Plus, all those pesky little Italian and Med. countries seem to like Spain quite a bit. And of course you have an extremely strong alliance with France, which is a mighty Continental power.

Spain has been a surprisingly easy game for me thus far.

[walt]

I would have to say Prussia...I was a bit concerned about playing them due to the lack of regions, trade and the fact they are planted in the middle of multiple factions meaning war is pretty much imminent...

1st turn however you can simply just invade 2 regions, Saxxony and an Austrian region and then simply take Warsaw and request peace with Poland. Once that is secured you have gained 3 regions in no time at all and can focus on fighting Austria. The lack of sea trade then turns into an advantage as GB will block off your one trade route which brings in very little.

[spitfire23]

The Maratha confederacy are rather easy to play as and so are the brits as long as you take the thirteen colonies and have a good strong navy you'll be fine. Russia is also fun since you aren't sorrounded and if you can take that Swedish provence then you are set. Also, Poland tends to be a powerful ally and a good buffer state freeing you up to fight at the Northwest and Southwest border and the Krimean Khanate is relatively easy to beat especially since you have the Ukraine there ready to mass produce an army to get their area. The fur trade is lucrative enough to keep ya afloat too :3. The French are also easy since they don't have to worry much about an invasion thanks to Spain protecting two of their borders. And if you can take over the Dutch right away then their lands in South America become easy pickings and you can focus almost exclusively on North America until the war of secession comes around where you have to fight Austria. However, they tend to fight their neighbours and the extra pressure weakens them, especially if you ally with Poland :3

[Zapp Brannigan]

Yeah, I think if you handle Prussia right in the first 5-10 turns, then you really start to roll. Their line infantry is very good, so if you develop them you can make up for your poor strategic position at the start with brute force. And I agree, not having to worry about/fund a navy is oddly a benefit.

[Zapp Brannigan]

Have not tried Maratha yet. I agree that Russia is actually pretty easy as well. So much territory to develop w/out conquering new territories, and no worries from the West, or even the South really.

[eXistenZ]

Ikea-land

I mean sweden

[Red Warlord]

France is definitely the easiest of all the factions in empire total war. There are many colonies overseas, income is huge and there is also the strongest army in the game right from turn one.

[Syrealle]

Surprisingly easy I would say was United Provinces. I just finished a campaign w/them using Realism mod http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?1346-Empire-Realism and it was surprisingly easy. I should have played a short campaign, as its only 1745 and I have 65/25 regions and am rolling in at 200k a turn.

I think what was surprisingly easy about it was UP's 3 theater start made money for me sooo quickly. Rolling India and the pirates so quickly allowed me to build rapidly in the few regions I had.

It was a fun campaign though and I enjoyed the development of different alliances-value of various regions to UP's power. Owning India so early made having to deal w/hordes of sword wielding melee troops later a non-factor.

[Zapp Brannigan]

I also had a good time with UP. Protect your limited territory in Europe and prosecute war in the colonies. Good time!

[RuthlessMate]

Dude United Provinces is definetly the easiest. All you have to do is roll Paris early in the second turn and get ready for the spanish counter attack then you have one the entire game. Check out my screenshots for a pic of my world domination.

[happs515]

brits

[|FTG|Mouth of Delorian]

i might try being as the UP. i always thought that it would be hard but it seems not.

prussia is easy to be as, just make a couple of armies and start the invasion. done!

[walt]

The thing about Prussia which shocked me was that you don't even need to make a couple of Armies, the soldiers you begin with can take the regions you need, really enjoyed playing as them and been going well so far

[|FTG|Mouth of Delorian]

i so far own most of central europe and i have needed to make a couple of armies to fight the russians who before the war began had a few stacks on my border. with darthmod the russians are brutal. they've lost about 9/10 of their men trying to take 1 land. i lost about 7/10 defending it.

[walt]

Sorry I worded that badly. What I meant was that the Regions you take in the first few turns can be done so by the starting armies. I am also using DarthMod, luckily Russia was an Allie however they disliked me, so I had to build 1000s of troops, position them at every region capital Russia had and in 1 turn took them out.

[|FTG|Mouth of Delorian]

oppostite to me that. russia loved me and they had lots of armies in my lands until they were kicked out. they lost 9000 men trying to take 1 land and i was on the defensive loads. now i'm on the attack and i'm doing a sneak assult by taking out georgia then using that as a place for me, the ottomans and the persians to hit russia. its going to be a long campaign.