Your Most Enjoyable Faction For Campaign?

[BLUESTORM2112]

As above. Not necessarily the best, most overpowered or easiest. Just which factions you found fun, which may well be the most overpowered. Would be interested to see which factions people took to.

[Rampage]

Im loving my Salamis (ajax) campaign but I only tried Achilles before that so I dont have too much experience. But I like all his mechanics, getting unique units from the paragon system and being able to have factions become friendly through his games organization is great as well.

Much better then being screwed by achilles moods all the time for sure! (which was still bugged when I played him as well)

[BLUESTORM2112]

I've been enjoying Hippolyta the most so far. I like the roster with the skirmish cav and archers.

Also, the way units are upgraded through rites. It's pretty cool being able to take the same unit through the whole campaign, and watch them grow and improve alongside the named characters.

I was initially leaning towards Penny because I like her roster a bit more. But I'm not a fan of horde gameplay and the whole I just want to watch the world burn thing. Seems fitting for a Chaos faction in Warhammer, but not something like Troy.

[TheOrangeBox]

Originally posted by BLUESTORM2112:

I've been enjoying Hippolyta the most so far. I like the roster with the skirmish cav and archers.

Also, the way units are upgraded through rites. It's pretty cool being able to take the same unit through the whole campaign, and watch them grow and improve alongside the named characters.

I was initially leaning towards Penny because I like her roster a bit more. But I'm not a fan of horde gameplay and the whole I just want to watch the world burn thing. Seems fitting for a Chaos faction in Warhammer, but not something like Troy.

Playing as Penthesilea (Amazons DLC) - solid performer and reminds me a bit of Attila. I found it's a fast play and the gameplay's more focus on building/upgrading your armies and moving through towns. Did my first run with Agamemnon in historical mode but that was a bit too lengthy of a campaign.

[dulany67]

Aeneas was probably my favorite campaign but that was pre-mythos. His starting position in NE allows him plenty of time to consolidate and grow strong. Hector, Paris, and Troy take the brunt of greek attacks and eventually are easily confederated, which then changes the scope of the campaign for Aeneas.

[NamThunder]

MIne would be either Sarpadon, Oddyseus, or Hippolyta. I just like playing a major faction that is far away from other major factions. It meant more room to expand, and no other major faction to compete with, allies and enemies alike.

Take Paris for example. That one was a nightmare. Hector literally stole any potential lands I could get, even confederate a minor faction before I could. And the Greeks kept on coming, keeping me from expanding effectively to the point that I ran 4 +10 stack armies while holding only 4-5 settlements, about to starve me to death with food shortage. Thus the only hope was that I can get King Priam to favor Paris for the throne and confederate Hector's territories in the process to balance things out. And that was still a long road ahead.

[Max]

I think Oddyseus was most enjoyable for me.

[BLUESTORM2112]

Interesting to see that people so far are favouring the side characters over the major players. No Achilles, Hector, Paris, Menelaus or Agamemnon.

Danaan factions seem less popular so far as well. For me it was their mechanics seemed fairly boring and they all started pretty much on top of each other barring Odysseus.

[Keith 'Blood' Hanson]

Menelaus would probably be my favorite mechanically; instant colonizing of faraway factions and military alliances allow you to recruit that factions' units? Yes please. Although for the Denaans I would likely go with Achilles. Getting higher tier units just for beating up pretenders, the arguable protagonist of the Illiad, and he's far away from the cluster of other Denaans.

The only Trojan I enjoy is Aeneas, but he might be one of my faves of the lot. Both of the Amazons are good though for different reasons, but they both definitely have one of the most balanced unit rosters; there was never a time when I thought their unit choices sucked, unlike quite a few others who only get good when you get to T3 settlements.