Best faction in the game?

[Ben]

I know this question applies to Empire more than it does Napoleon, but what do you think is the best playable faction in NTW? Going by effectiveness of units, Generals, etc. Leave a reply below!

[TheNightFox]

I think the French are the all around best faction.. they have elite infantry cavalry and artillery and such a huge variety of land units and ships available to them. I dont think the British have lancer cavalry? I think Prussia is also a strong contender for first place as well as the Russians. Russia same as France, but I think that they are more melee combat oriented with their high charge stats even on infantry. My opinion I guess

[USSR|Frost]

The best fraction in game, of course, France. Faultless cavalry, excellent guard, infantry with normal characteristics of morals and firing.

[Rem Lezar]

In Empire its Britain, In napoleon (not accuratley) its france.

[Ragnarok]

Depends on situation single player or multiplayer. Single player it's france. Multiplayer it depends on map and how many people are playing. France is usually good on grassy flatlands 1v1 and 2v2 but when it comes to 3v3 and 4v4 on that map prussia and great britain shine. On terrain maps france is usually pretty good at taking and holding hills because of their amazing cav, but in shootouts in trees and open light skirmishes france fails because their overall lack of good light infantry. Overall I'd have to say that in most cases Prussia is best nation with britain in close second. Prussia has cheap light cav and the 2nd best lights in the game next to portugal, as well as having really good guards and can have up to 5 guards with the 8th life regiment. Britain has 3rd best lights with best line, but lacks in cheap lancer cav making their cav not very cost effective at all. If you're going terrain france usually isn't your best bet but in open maps they're really good.

[Command and Conquer <3+˚₊]

The best facion is Prussia.

[ashyra]

prussia is the most balanced its the best but france has heavy morale

[voleur65]

I like playing Russia in campaign. I think I just like having time to organize my armies the way I like. France can be a challenge because you have to protect against nearly everyone. England or Spain for the navies. I like to play the Turks at times as well because they SUCK against European powers of equal size and it is fun to try to win with lesser quality troops. I have never played against a human so I could not comment intelligently about PvP. The best faction is the one you enjoy playing the most because in the end it is a game and if you do not like playing it, it is worthless.

Voleur

[Senior Sergeant Max]

I personally think Prussia is a pretty good Faction.
You have a wide arrangement of Farms, Trade Routes and such on the start and already start with a good army, and you can easily recruit further with even better armies.

[Antiquitus]

For the best faction, I'd have to say Prussia. They have an easily grown economy, and no enemies to start with. If you decide to sit for a few turns, upgrading your buildings, you'll soon have a very large treasury. You can (If wanted) easily form alliances with the other future-german states. Do not, however, form a strong alliance with Mecklenberg and Oldenberg, as you'll have to take their regions anyway. Only forn an alliance strong enough to have them break alliances with and hate all other countries, execpt for "loyal" Prussia, France, and each other. The Mecklenberg, always open, will forge an alliance with France, bringing hate upon them. When other nations declare war on Mecklenberg, Oldenberg will help them, then being utterly destroyed (the best nation to declare war on them is Britain, as they'll declare war on you. With British forces nearby, it should be a piece of cake to destroy France. After demon strating your power, Most of the minor nations will dislike you, and you'll be free to expand.

[=CAW=aldarions-lament]

Portugal but only as support in multiplayer

[Flippin Egg]

Of course it always depends, but as we all know Prussia is most balanced, France is cav/elite focused, Britain is line focused, Russia is EPIC-BAYONET-CHARRRRRGE focused

[Ghost]

Britain - Line Infantry
Asutria - Light Infantry
Prussia - Balanced army
Russia - Charge Units
France - Artillery/Cavalay/Elite units

xD

[Tarman]

Russia for Art in single player. Why no one has mentioned it yet is nuts.

[Chao§pawN]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von MacCready:

Russia for Art in single player. Why no one has mentioned it yet is nuts.

Couldn't agree more. In Single Player Russia destroys everything with their Unicorns, especially the 20lb ones which you should rush towards asap. Range of 550 + parabolic trajectory = win

[Marcos]

Take note of redskippers advice. Its the best of them all, though we could argue for a long time. It depends on 4 factors in my opinion; map, number of players, enemy nration selection, and playstyle. The best nations are in any case France, Prussia, Great Britan and the Ottomans. But you can use other nations very efectifly. The game is full of possibilities and army compositions and playstyles. The only thing that is not full of possibilities is the number of maps, but some are very hardly built. Aslo depens on the rules you play by which normally are no art max 5 lights. There is a big tendency on a type of camping that is not recognized as such but is a huge camping, which is everybody camps behind their firewall of lights. If you are a skillfull player, then you can play only with 4 lights usually and rely on other kinds of play style. France and the otomans are the best attacking nations, gb and prussia best slow advancing firepower nations, but vulnerbale to well coordinated attacks, And on grassy 1v1 cav is more important than anything else. Try them all and learn from all eperiences. By the way i just wanted to point one thing about prussia, their lancer cav is not as good as a unit as people usually thinks. Its pretty easy to kill due to their poor quality. In my opinion there is no such thing as a best nation, it depends on many factors.