Samauri and roman like factions.

[Nox]

What factions would be the closest?

[Draken]

Samurai would be the Bakemono factions.

EA Yomi, MA Shinuyama, LA Jomon.

I think Ermor is basically Rome.

[Big Dog]

There is at least 1 Roman faction in each age. There is a samurai faction in each age.

The Roman ones are usually called Ermor or Pythium. The Samurai one has different names in different ages, I think it's Yomi, Jomon, and Shinuyma (this one is definitely spelled wrong)

[Uncle Al]

Early age Yomi is demon samurai, middle age Shinuyama is goblin samurai and late age Jomon is human samurai.

Early age Ermor is very Roman, and you have Arcoscephale in the early age too, which has a classical Greece flavour. Middle age Ermor is Rome if the Romans starting worshipping a death cult and all turned into undead (I'm have a suspicion this is the developers' humorous reference to Rome adopting Christianity. It is a death cult after all). Pythium is influenced by Roman mystery cults.

Note that MA Ermor is very weird and doesn't play like normal nations.

[Mormacil]

Fall of Ermor literally revolves around a failed attempt to reanimate the prophet in white who's buried under a shroud. It's not subtle resurrecting Jesus went wrong.

[Colonial]

Ma Pythium is Byzantuim, La Pythium is like the greek speaking part of rome with its mystery cults

[Mormacil]

Originally posted by Colonial:

Ma Pythium is Byzantuim, La Pythium is like the greek speaking part of rome with its mystery cults

So Byzantium? :P

[Chris]

In EA alone:

C’Tis is kind of “what if Egypt, but everyone is lizardmen?”

Pangea is “what if Dionysius/Bacchus lead a nation?”

Berytos is fantasy Phoenicia/Carthage.

Ulm is essentially the Germanic tribes.

Marverni as heavily inspired by classical-era celts/Britons.

Lots of options if you want a Rome-themed game!

Oh! There’s also Therodoros, which is essentially “what if legendary Atlantians turned to ghosts when Atlantis sank?”

[Lord Adorable]

The Samurai factions are Early Age Yomi, revolving around Oni who are stupid, destructive & gluttonous. Most of your fighting power relies on the building of temples and generating unrest, but this also means you're often starved for money. On a positive note, most Oni are semi-immortal as well as powerful sorcerers and fighters.

Middle Age Shinuyama is the Japanese Goblin faction, full of different Yokai summons. A lot of stealthy little buggers and good heavy infantry. Lots of magic diversity too.

Late Age Jomon is the 'true' Samurai faction, with plenty of humans ranging from warrior monks, Ninjas, priests and Shikigami-summoning Onmyodo. A crapton of 'national' summons too including shapeshifting animals and various Kami. You also get Dragon Kings and shark warriors from underwater forts.

As for the Roman Empire, the closest would be Early Age Ermor. It's also present in the Middle Age, but got several breakaway factions due to things going very wrong when they got too cuddly with Death magic.

[badatthis]

I started with Ermor in Early Age and it's probably the closest I can imagine to getting to the Roman vibe.

[Sniperjolly]

Dominions 6 has so many roman factions it took ten comments to mention Sceleria or Lemuria.

EA Ermor is a composite of the middle republic and high empire, with Hastati, Principe and Triarii existing alongside a new very not-christian faith. It's the patriarch of the Ermor clan, dabbles in death magic that will eventually destroy it. It still has the native mages from before the saint worshipping, death magic practicing people took over outside forts. Its big stompy footprints are all over later ages since it's lore-wise extremely successful

MA Ermor is the result of EA Ermor doing too much death magic. It's a skeleton army with a roman theme. Very unique gameplay, everyone will mob you in multiplayer. Also has a big lore footprint being one of the defining features of the age.

MA Pythium and Sceleria are the byzantine brothers. Pythium went into therugy, the magic of angels extremely hard while Sceleria chose to reign back death but try to keep the positive balanced with the negative. Since Ermor exploded without experiencing military reforms, Pythium and Sceleria use the same Hastati, Principe and Triarii. They use big communions of astral mages to do death/astral things or heavenly things.

LA Pythium survives long enough to morph into the late empire after the crisis of the 3rd century, but has managed to flip from being very christian to being pagan in the process, becoming a perfect mirror to EA Ermor. They have recruit-anywhere heavily equipped 'Limitani' militia, Comitatense field armies and sacred Hydras.

LA Lemuria is the Scelerians getting their own MA Ermor, becoming Ghost Romans instead of Skeleton Romans by thinking they'd learned from Ermor's mistakes.