I'd say, Byzantine empire is quite difficult, cuz they'll get attacked by, Venice, Hungary and Turkey, right off the bat, which is very difficult to fight against.Īnd how do you plan on funding an army to take any rebel settlements or England? How do you plan on upgrading your economical buildings? Stuck at the north point of an island, small economy, early game the Scots are facing an uphill climb to say the least. England will focus mainly on France, that's also were most of their forces are, and Scotland starts with a, big army, so you can easily take a few settlements. Still, these are always fun to debate, yes? Whatcha think of these thoughts?Īlthough, if you're a decent player, you can easily kill England and you'll have a decent empire with good trade possibilites and acces to new expansion versus France, or even against Denmark. Early on, no melee infantry if I remember. On a side note, I'd also suggest Spain/Portugal. Russia also isn't on the far end of an island, either.

As in, modern warfare tactics can be done with them, and these are an early unit with Russia. On a side note, horse archers are a little on the OP side. Sure they got some expansion possibilities, but early on, they'll end up at war with them. Isolated from all the world, except for England. Originally posted by Jack Skellington:Check out Scotland. Then when you're finally settled in there's always the chance the Mongols might show up in Baghdad or Yerevan ruining your entire party alongside the Crusaders. Anatolia is difficult to traverse, even when you're unobstructed, so armies have to take a long walk. I'd also wager that Turkey has a rather rubbish starting position. So that's a long while before you can feel safe for your settlements. So even if you do manage to expand quickly, your economy is trash and all your settlements are liable for a naval invasion, that is until you take out Spain, Milan, Venice, Byzantine Empire and France.

Sicily has by far the worst start, everywhere you expand to are castles on the coast.

Their starting position however do make it easy to take the British Isles. Scotland is not really something to write home about, their units are subpar to pretty much every other faction out there. The Russian infantry, while stat wise perhaps not on par with their western counterparts have something their western counterparts lack Armour Piercing. You can expand in many direction and all those castles can easily be converted to cities because well.nothing ever threatens them.

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