Best place to settle

[Black_Rat]

Just wondering what everyone thinks the best area is to settle as a tribe and why?

[Budoshi]

On top of my head, i would say any places that it's not surrended by factions on all sides with good fertility, and next to the sea for trading ports because they bring a lot s of gold, so i guess spain. brit isles, africa, italia and nearby isles, greek isles.

[Voth]

Spain, has a bottleneck in the north and south, good fertility, and resources. It's easy to defend and build an economy in.

[rudizzle]

Italy, Spain, and north Africa all seem like good choice from my experiences. I did have a lot of fun settling in aethiopia also.

[Tacticat]

The only problem with taking spain, which i did and all of north africa, is the starting faction. The mid level victory areas are usually right in the center/northern greece with huns going crazy in that area.

i had about 100 turns to declare war on so and so faction and the huns..

you can do it, but it's a hell of a battle.. and you will be leaving spain and norther africa wide open to invasion while your armies rush to secure the victory location in northern greece of the migrator starting factions.

this time i'm taking a portion of eastern greece and then taking out the rest of the eastern roman empire in turkey... holdings constantinople as a choke hold and surrounding that area with freed nations.

[Wh!plash]

Spain imo.
Bottlenecks, fertility, and easy winters. Way out of the reach of the huns with the ability to control the straights of gibraltar gives dominance of trade leaving the med.

Puts you slightly out of the reach of the western European chaos, with an easy route to get involved if you so choose.

[-=EGS=- Gaminglord99]

well i play Ostrogoths and i have a lot of fun in the Balkans i dont really play to "win" i just have fun i allso had alot of fun in Shoutern france as the Ostrogoths

[Tartarus]

Me and friend settled into greece area, after it became total warzone of multiple factions we migrated again and now as ostrogoths and visigoths we are traveling to the east through ERE area sacking and razing :) maybe to the africa via land route? :)

[Vharzul]

From my Experience and Strategic point of View the options of Spain, Africa, Italy and Britannia are great, but also around were the Eastern Roman Empire is, for instance the Anatolian Penninsula, make Ancyra your Home as the Region is Fertile or one down is Ereuphes or what ever, take over right over to Armenia, and Moutians, as its a Bottlleneck thier for instance, keep a 2 Group Navy, 1 North in the Black See and other in the Med... your Eastern Boarder towards Sassanids you can Bottleneck too, and your Navy keeps your other end Safe from Crossing anywere..

Recources arnt bad either, but you could go for Greece in General as you can use Navy to secure also, and add too that Bottleneck the crossing from were the Gepids area is, and the Western are 2-3 groups you can also easly keep..

Greece area and Anatolian area I prefer as its very Central on the Map as a whole and you can spread evenly into the West and East without having to travel from say Spain right over for to long

[76561198062962191]

I took over britan as the vandals, this worked well for me. then i established trade agreements and a defensive alliance with both roman empires.

[Helveteskapning]

i love to settle the far north ruined settlements. far from danger and can make an empire without starting a war.

[Coldsnaps]

I would say Spain or Britan. The victory conditions usually give you a good idea of places to go as well.

[Cullen's Hound]

The place that is one of your victory conditions with the best resource is where you should settle.

[Green Raven]

Playing as the Ostrogoths, I made a beeline for Egypt. Figured the most fertile spot on the planet was as good a place as any to ride out the Apocalypse. Turns out Egypt also has gold, spices and some very weak nighbors.
A single army in Alexandria secured my eastern border, leaving me free to focus all my energy moving west across Africa, mopping up scattered desert tribes and rioting Roman settlements. Another army positioned at the straitts of Gibaltor and my empire was a fortress. A very rich, fertile fortress. As for the Huns...never encountered them. My rivals sure had a hell of a time, though.

[Imposter]

apparently no-where, it ends up having fertility rates go down the crapper after each movie cut scene so, you are better with like goats and stuff later on, so it doesn't really matter where especially when one A-Hole NPC burns a segment of a region you settled in; it breaks down the fertility anyway.

Really awesome start points can be the middle east(or africa) for fertility, believe that or not and it is highly secluded and protects you with the harsh desert around. Spain is meh, because you would soon be surrounded by settling idiots plagued with problems down the road. It really is a ♥♥♥♥♥ to defend, there are too many ports in that peninsula to worry about.

[Azoniar]

in my visigth campaign I settled on crete, in late game it has the best fertilty and is very easy to defend(the ai prob wont send any armies there aways