Faction impression - name a babushka faction!

[Falaris]

Several factions are a bit like a babushka doll, where you open up new layers constantly.
Name one faction you think have a lot more depth than you first thought when playing it.

[Blaise_art]

Kobolds, kobolds and kobolds.

[Black Hammer]

Cultists, for me.

Your rituals are very very powerful, but you don't ever get enough sacrifices to get everything you want. So you're choosing between powering up casters, summoning armies, or saving up for the big rituals. Then you get to pick whether you're going out to sea or not. Then some of your better summons are Slow, so you have to think more about army composition.

Your "freebie" units are basically trash that trickle in so slowly they can't even hold off independents that get frisky, but some are amphibious and you can always use a few more of those.

[minamikaze]

OP clearly meant matryoshka, not babushka. And every faction here felt like that for me. Even the simplest Troll King once his mommy arrives.

[Chameon]

Senate. Revelers now are your economy lords, Renatus are absolute monsters vs Undead and can very explicitly spend some small coins to teleport into Hades (Albeit randomly, in spite of the spells description) and they have a few secret tricks that it'd take some real exploring of other planes to find out. I'm currently lightly trying to figure out a way to delve into the Celestial plane and a few others to find out if there's any 'New' extra planar trickeries the Senate can do.

[meglobob1]

Kobolds have precisely 5 layers!

[Falaris]

Originally posted by minamikaze:

OP clearly meant matryoshka, not babushka. And every faction here felt like that for me. Even the simplest Troll King once his mommy arrives.

From wikipedia:

Matryoshka dolls (Russian: матрёшка, IPA: [mɐˈtrʲɵʂkə] (About this soundlisten); also known as babushka dolls, stacking dolls, nesting dolls, Russian tea dolls, or Russian dolls[1]) are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size

[junta]

Just to be clear, no one says "babushka" in RUnet referring to those dolls.
PS atm for me it's Cloud Lord with his titans (all of a sudden)

[Falaris]

Originally posted by Tiltsen:

Just to be clear, no one says "babushka" in RUnet referring to those dolls.
PS atm for me it's Cloud Lord with his titans (all of a sudden)

I am aware they are strong, but do they unlock anything?

For me, the necromancer, with how you suddenly can become a lich, go to hades etc. added a lot more than I saw on the surface to the necromancer, was a good example of a class with more depth than expected.

ANother is the high cultist 'the harmless fish cult' - it's when you summon the great old ones and realize... yeah, the high cultist is just a minion, these are the real lords of the faction.

[[Mi.Sa]Skullduggery]

I'm surprised warlock isn't in yet as you once you get going secure easy access to sky and agartha then to inferno. Not sure if the demon drowning trick still works or not in 5 but if it does they are strong contenders for securing the inferno and its juicy mines. Then on top of that I believe they can get themselves into the elemental plains and if you can reach one I'm pretty sure you can get at all of them via the nexus. Correct me if I'm wrong on anything its been a bit since I committed to some extra planar warfare.