Most RePlayable Factions - Top 5 Total War 

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If you want a really fun campaign: Start as bactria in rtw2, take all your units together and then walk all the way over to britain where you take londinium. Get rid of all your settlements in the east (on legendary it solves itself because you will get attacked and you will lose them before you reach londinium). Now you have a 'king arthur' campaign with cataphracts being your 'knights' XD

I actually find the western Romans very replayable for another reason Because you have to restart so much 😂🤣😂🤣

I’ve never even beaten a campaign all the way through. I get bored by the end and start a new one. I like playing as Macedon or Greece in Rome though.

seleucids in both one and two are very replayable for me, because there are different ways to handle that initial difficulty, surrounded on all sides. The roster is also very nice, so you are not restricted to one style of battle

I think that the Byzantium is as re-playable as England as it also has lands on the both sides of a sea. Moreover it has to deal with both catolicism and islam, has the lovely Constantinople, can expand in at least 3 regions and also has to deal more or less with Mongols and Timurids not to mention the various and interesting units which allow to choose different strategies.

Playing as any faction near Mongols/Timurids, you can use "magic" of your city plaza, so you have unlimited morale, and put some good spearmen and archers in plaza. And if you won't fight with more than 3 armies, you'll win.

"exterminate populace 1 turn in" Excellently done.

What about HRE in medieval 2? It's situated in a middle of Europe and a bitvof Italy and you can go for any of your neighbours. And you can go crusading too. Also everybody hates HRE and it's roster is shit, especially in earlygame, which could be challenging

The best way to play the Western Roman Empire in Attila Total War is like this: let Britain fall to the barbarians, it's not worth the cost of defending. Withdraw that army to Gaul. Move your other armies to destroy the Suebi horde in your lands as quickly as possible. Do not attempt to defend Panonia and Illyria, you can't hold it. Withdraw and build up armies to guard the northern approaches to Italy. Make sure you hold and defend North Africa at all costs. As soon as you get an opportunity, send an army to North Africa to conquer the African faction at the South West of the map, in Morocco. By conquering their city, you remove a major threat to your southern flank. It also completes your control over that province. And it is good, valuable land too. Also, build sanitation in every province to prevent plague and boost growth. Then build churches. Then build public order buildings. Delete many of your starting buildings that are inefficient or give negative public order and replace them with better ones. Build sheep farms everywhere to maximise your income. Use priests to boost public order. You don't need to fight every battle manually; in my experience there is little point fighting battles that you know you can't win, unless you stand a good chance of at least inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. But if an undefended settlement is attacked by a much larger force, you can autoresolve. Figure out which battles are worth your time, and which are not. Also, keep an eye on diplomacy. It is sometimes possible to peace out with enemy factions, particularly if you've defeated their army in the last couple of turns. This can be a good way to buy time. But don't let hordes enter your land too far. They will attack you at the worst moment. Much better to wipe them out first, even if that means declaring war first. Those are my tips, anyway!

totally agree with this list. I would have put as honorable mention Pompey faction in Rome 2 - Augustus edition. You can literally attack in any direction. You have to, you're encircled, and this brings you againts romans+ different neighbours.

I love re-playing the Greeks in Rome 1. They have so many options in expanding, and are quite challenging against some factions due to their poor cavalry and quite static infantry. Above all, I love re-playing as them because of their glorious civilisation!

Before watching this video I'm just gonna say I better see the "United Provinces" (Netherlands) from Empire total war somewhere on this list but hopefully #1 or #2. They legit have provinces its all 3 of the different regions of the map. You can focus on India, you can focus on the Americas, you can focus on Europe to the west (France and Spain) or to the east (Prussia and Austria) or of course you can mix and match any and all of these different starts. Its actually kinda insane when you think about it. Edit: Well that's disappointing that Empire total war isn't even on this list at all but oh well lol. Not really sure why France got a spot over Prussia or Austria tbh. Being more central they just geographically get more options. And in the case of Prussia, they can choose which side of the war they join in on, which is instant replayability I think.

Pontus easily you can either morph into Turkey, Persia or just migrate to crimea or Assyria

Byzantine Empire for Medieval 2 Either go east to reclaim the eastern provinces, or west to restore the Roman Empire, or north to dominate the orthodox population.

I think Sicily is the most replayable in MTW2 because you are literally on an island in the middle of the map that can go anywhere in Europe or Africa. Plus they have a great roster and good starting general. I don't really agree with the Turks. The mongols come like at turn 80 and timurids at like 140 (never had a campaign take that long). By that time, most factions can have conquested over there to stop the invasions.

Vanilla Attila Tw must be the most underestimated total war game, l always l go back and play a WRE/ERE campaign once every few months. It's always challenging and always different.

I must have invested more hours on the ERE campaign of Attila and the WRE campaign of The last Emperor than in all my other Total War campaigns combined (Charlemagne and Camilus are strong contenders for the third place, but they are not on the same level of the other two)

I prefer Western Roman Empire in Barbarian Invasion. But hey same difference I suppose

Interesting list - and congrats on finding topics for Top 5's that LegendofTotalWar hasn't come up with yet! ;) That guy took most of the obvious ideas! There are two factions i'd have put on this list: The Seleucids in Rome 1 and The HRE in Medieval 2. Both have a lot of starting provinces, plenty of expansion options and a lot of potential enemies. As the Seleucids, you can take on Horse Archer/Light Infantry based armies to the North and East, or Phalanx, missile and chariot armies to the South. You have so much freedom throughout- do you take out Egypt first or rush Parthia? Do you then expand North into Armenia or West into Pontus? After that you can cross Africa and take out Numidia/Carthage, go Northwest and hit the Barbarians or go straight for Italy and the Romans. Your roster is one of the most flexible in the game - you can focus on Phalanxes, Cavalry, or exotic units like Elephants and chariots - I've replayed them more than any other! The HRE are even more replayable. You can pick which rebel settlements to snatch early and who to forge agreements with. You have so many different faction types surrounding you - the italian militia armies, france and poland's cavalry, Denmark's heavy infantry etc. - you can literally expand in any direction and fight so many types of battles. You can head to Iberia, the British Isles, Russia, the middle East, whatever you want. Your allies/enemies are pretty easy to pick each time - I've never had the same main rival in any two campaigns as them, whereas England ALWAYS has to take out France at some point. One playthrough i was the papacy's strongest ally and a hero of every crusade, on another i assassinated five different popes and ended up with a ruler with 10 dread... you've just got so much variety in their start position. The roster maybe isn't as varied as England, France or Spain, but their campaign is, for me, the most replayable in the game!

Pfft. How could you choose the french in napoleon total war?! Way too easy because the ai can't handle the high morale troops. Prussia is way more replayable because you can choose between fighting for/against napoleon. And you have the best infantry 💪

Good idea for a video. I like replaying in M2TW as Sicily, Moors, Danes and Byzantines among others

>playing battles to win and not to have fun absolute cringe when i last played napoleon TW i played as britain, became a republic, then allowed ireland and scotland to rebel so i could have a long-lasting and epic british civil war

Really love your videos, they are really interesting! It reminds me how many hours, days, months I spend by playing (and I´m still playing) Total war saga.

i love playing as Scotland in Medieval 2. Bit of a tough start,along with the treachery of the English(shocker...whod guess it right?lol ) when ur backs turned, the viking invasions make playing as the Scots fun for me

Rome 1: Greek Cities. Their central position allows for universal expansion, and their hoplites can double as swordsmen due to their high army. Medieval 2: HRE. You have access to northern, western, southern and eastern europe and can sail to Crusade and colonise, as well as turtle up or be aggressive. Their roster is fairly wide and allows for trying different army types as well. Empire: Netherlands. You have a foothold in each theatre, and so can experiment with European empire, colonial expansion or naval trade. Napoleon: Austria in the Great Coalition campaign. French ai is often willing to make peace, whicg gives a lot of options. Push France back? Through Italy or Germany? Naval ambitions? Attack neutral Prussia or Ottomans? Or switch sides to go after south Italy and Russia? Shogun 2: Oda. Their stronger ashigaru give them a better chance to set up with defensively or aggressively early, and their central position allows for alliances or expansion in almost any direction. And it's just close enough to the trade nodes and islands if you want to do that. Rome 2: Rome, but especially the family that gives you cheap auxiliaries. With that you can mix and match almost every unit in the game in your armies, and the geography allows for either land or sea based aggression or turtling.

I think we are twins separated at birth: totally agree with your choices; especially #1, WRE is my addiction. I keep replaying it; it never gets old. I've got the VH down to a tee - minimizing the number of tedious manual settlement defences but not ceding any ground. However, I still have not been brave enough to try Legendary, where it seems inevitable things will fall apart at the start, due to the public order penalty.

You can also add more replay value by letting the AI control your troops in all battles in Rome 1 (or Med 2). This works for sieges too. After deploying your army, select all units and group them, then let the AI control the units (Ctrl + A, Ctrl + 1, Ctrl + L). If you're the defender, just right click on where you want to position the army, and sit back and watch the AI defend the location. If you're the attacker, right click on any unit in the enemy army and the AI will handle the rest. Whenever a unit comes back from routing, add it back into the AI controlled group. I recommend setting difficulty to medium so that it's fair since both sides are controlled by AI. It's really fun and it makes you make different decisions on the campaign map since you can no longer use too much cheesy tactics on the battlefield to win impossible battles. Plus you get to sit back and watch hilarious chaotic battles and cheer on your troops.

England in Empire was a good one too. Like England in Medieval 2, you have this great grand strategic freedom. I tend to go North America for the 13 colonies, but India beckons and you could even go to Europe if you are a masochist. I like factions that can avoid predestined slug fests and given the player the freedom to choose where to go and who to fight. England is also well set up to play the naval aspect of the game - the naval batltes are beautiful in a way I don't think CA has replicated and I actually relish them more than the rather ropey land battles.

Can't disagree with the #1 pick. I've got 298 hours in Attila TW and every single minute was spent playing as the WRE. It's the most fun campaign CA have ever created in my opinion. My favourite thing to do is don't abandon any land whatsoever, try to defend the whole thing right from the start, don't go on a demolishing spree for easy money - only demolish those buildings which truly make no sense whatsoever. If you lose land then so be it. If you go bankrupt then so be it. If you lose armies then so be it. That's exactly what happened to the WRE in real life around that time and it's fun to recreate it.

By Greeks you can fight in Sicily, Main Greece, and Anatolia, and conquer in those three lands.

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For the total wars I have played. Medieval 2 - Scotland- ensuring the holy land is dining on hagis Empire/Napoleon - France - taking over America was fun Shogun 2 - takada Attila - just got it and has to be either roman faction

The seleucids are a fun replayable faction to play if you want a challenge.

Definetly agree with the first place, though I recommend using some mods(nerf the fertility and huns if you want). But yes, there are just so many ways to play WRE in Attila. Its better than R1 due to factiom variety, troops, buildings etc. You can hold onto your land, scortch yours or neighbouring countries land, or heck, go on the offensive. There are so many regions(Britain, Africa, Germany, Italy, everythinf east of the Alps) and fronts you can fight on. I think I easily speny around 100-150 hours playing this faction and it was worth it

England will always be the one I go back to since I simply enjoy my own isolated area to have in my pocket at all times regardless of what happens elsewhere.

England is boring to me because I lose interest once you conquer the island. Defending is too easy with only the occasional Danish or iberian invasion. With other factions this period is a bit longer. The moors for example offer similar expansion options but there are more enemies from more directions. Also they have relatively weak units early on, adding to fun battles.

5. England is one of my faves for that reason. It almost gives you some breathing room to prepare for a full European invasion of France, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire

yo i just play on medium cuz when i tried very hard i got screwed on some stupid crap about the morale years ago...not fun. im not trying to be a competitive player i just enjoy the game. but in rtw the carthaginians, macedonians, seleucid, and even pontids and egyptians, i'd argue, offer the same benefit as greece - elite phalanx units - but other benefits that make them more replayable. carthage is awesome because with the sacred band you don't even have to build barracks in your provinces: just build stables, the long shield cavalries are wholly competent on their own when used en masse and with proper flanking and charging. once you have a large city and can build sacred band, it doesn't even matter. better than armored hoplites but much cheaper than the spartans, i use them to block the entrances to my city centers and, ideally, station elephants behind them. not only do they lower the morale of people running into the phalanxes, but the elephant archers shoot over the phalanxes, but i swear normal archers will shoot into the phalanxes at least a little bit when shooting from behind the phalanxes at whom the phalanxes are attacking. the macedonian pikemen great, and although the bronze and silver shields are -3 defense, they are still fun because of their more varied rosters. i once did a campaign where my army was just mass pontic heavy cavalry...those things are pretty fun en masse. personally as carthage and the seleucids i've focused on getting an army out to the greek isles asap and taking over at least rhodes and getting a foothold to take greece in addition to holding off in my original lands and occasionally expanding. for example as the seleucids, after waves of egyptian attacks, the opportunity to slip your defensive force to their barely guarded city and take it becomes the easier option rather than letting them rebuild and attack you again. even on med/med you can't miss anything if you want to hold off the egyptians while focusing your expansion in greece, fortunately you do have that colony in turkey at the start. Oh also move good retainers to good generals/governors to optimize their stats but also so you dont lose good retainers when the family member dies. I had one that built sacred band in 1 turn at half the cost, so like 355 denarii and 1 turn to make a sacred band infantry. Have him move between 3 or 4 cities around carthage to continually pump out elephants, sacred band, and sacred band cavalry at half cost and twice as fast.

I also like sicily in med 2 cuz you are like in the middle of everything. You can go on crusades and destroy all muslim factions or go full reverse and take over italy including rome and destroy christian factions. Also in Rome 1 BI both of the rome factions. Do you defend everything, or leave everything and just have a few settlements and then expand again from that. Cant wait for stream also today.

A greek city States roleplay campaign trying to retake all of the historic greek colony locations would be pretty damn cool.

Can't agree with England for Medieval 2. Scotland's AI tends to never do anything so is no different than mopping up some rebels and you don't get good acces to the crusades. Sicily would be a better pick there. They can go anywhere from their central position, and with a good navy they are in a great position to deal with the inevitably treachery of Milan.

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You fool! England best strat is loading everyone on the starting fleets and invading the middle east, great fun. (In seriousness I love your vids good binge content)

Well I'm about 20% into my Scythia campaign and I can tell you that if you're trying to minimize losses, Scythia is pretty low replay value. Every battle is me running my horse archers around until Greece and the Brutii get tired, then charging them since I've run out of arrows. They lose 10-15 units every battle and they just keep coming. But now the tide has turned and I've taken Larissa and Thessalonica. The horse bois are getting cultured.

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The most fun of every faction in every Total War game is in my opinion The United Provinces in EmpireTW

Your option B for the Turks is quite accurate historically :D Go to west and leave it to Egypt

How can i re watch your streams?

Sometimes Spanish and Portugese get involved aswell. Sometimes.. Sometimes... SOMETIMES..

I totally agree with the western roman empire=D

How about Lithuania in MTW2 Teutonic campaign?

everyone: wow he has a lot of hours into these factions me: wow, not only has he been able to clock so many hours and not die of old age, considering that he has over 102 years put into one faction

What is the music from in this vid?

I agree!

Italy napoleon is a good one. Lakmids in attila tricky...

I love the british isles starting location too but hate the english unit roster. i like lots of cavalry options

I ADORE your accent

I've noticed that your videos limit discussion to strictly historical Total War games. Are not just not a fan of the Warhammer ones? There's no videos for them period.

For me med 2 would be the moors or egypt. Rome 1 seleucids and if i feel like a challenge parthia. Empire france or ottomans. I like cavalry heavy factions and even play heavily with scythia in rome 2.

How do you play England. Every time I play, I feel like I'm constantly on the defense.

As far as custom battles go and the Factions with the most interesting units (cuz im lame) my favorite so far are ( using all period units) The Turks, Hungary, Russia, Timurids, Moors, France

For me its Parthia i playing Parthia over and over again and yet its always something special ♥

Just started a WRE VH Campaign today. Never ever have I played and won so many town defenses. WRE in Atilla is truly one of the most interesting campaigns in all of total war

idk why, but Turks and HRE in M2TW.. Julii in Rome, Rome in R2TW, Atila.. playing only mods, medieval kingdoms...

Crusaders in stainless steel is my #1

What about making armys entirely out of heavy peltasts!

I actually find it fun to conquer all Europe as an African or arabian faction in rtw2 and then you start to think how they converted every European into black or brown person

Can you do a Napoleon TW As France?

I wonder if you play with darth mod for empire i found the same issue as napoleon just hit with the cannon and win every battle with darth mod big change you have to knock out their cannon but because the units dont always break you have to kill the cannon crew and protect yours at all costs as lack of cannon hurt but doesnt have much use due to high difficulty ai buffs and enemies keep coming back even the french how disgraceful kappa

Based on your number one, it sounds like you just want to play crusader kings 2 Haha

3:10 hoplite faction battles not that replayable? For greece sure, but for every other faction with exceptional phalanxes - macedon, carthage, pontus, seleucids, and egypt - have a lot of other options than the greeks. M, C, P, and S have strong melee cavalry, P, S, and E have chariots, P and E have chariot archers, P has the best javelin cavalry in the game, C and S have elephants, and S has legionaries. I like Pontus the best because between the Pontic Light/Heavy Cavalry, Cappadocians, scythed chariots, chariot archers, and phalanx pikemen/bronze shields, all of those units can be mixed and matched for combinations of tactics that work well together which to me gives versatility that i dont really notice in any other faction. Seleucids have a more varied roster, but it lacks the synergy that Pontus has with the Pontic Heavy Cav and the chariot archers. I almost never used the silver legionaries, and when i did it felt obligatory rather than prudent. War elephants are cool, but i usually just leave them behind my phalanxes to fire arrows and scare enemies because i dont want to risk losing them in melee. However the chariot archers fill that particular role better since theyre cheaper and the archers have more arrows and do more damage.

Charlemagne in his Atilla dlc.

My most replayable campaigns for Medieval 2 are Byzantine and Russia.

For me the Turks and bizantium from medieval 2 and Carthage from TWR 2

Whenever I play mtw the faction symbols are missing on the top in campaign

HRE Med2?

I just watched another one of your videos where you said Attila’s biggest problem is it lacks replay value, yet you’re number 1 is WRE and you have the Huns as an HM?

I once played as carthage, i ended up with 5-8 cities rioting a day, numidian settlements are worthless, i never ended their campaign but instead went for selucids and it was the opposite, golden weapons and free money, weirdly enough pontus manages to defeat egypt, armenia, parthia and the selucids despite the fact their armies are made out of eastern infantry.

I feel like this list is the most boring rather than replayable aside from Western Roman empire. I would put #1 Lui Hong 3k Mandate of heaven DO you let him die , do you make He Jin heir? DO you support warlords or Dynasty so many options. #2 Western Roman Empire Attila #3 Carthage Rome2 #4 Oda Shogun 2 #5 Ottomans Empire

Mediaeval 2 England, France, HRE, Poland, Venice, Milan, Sicily France, Poland and HRE have a huge amount of Rebel territory around them Rome TW Greece, Carthage, Selucid Napoleon total war Prussia, France

Northern Dunedain is excellent

England in medieval 2! Easy mode.

I just love playing as Rome. To the point other TW games don't interest me.

Bruh what about the Silucid Empire Wtf the Greeks are not diverse.

Pfft or go scotland and unite britain

The superior version of Rome Total war is definitely the mobile port. Feral just made so many additions and upgrades its amazing. Also new higher resolution thumbnails, instant Full HD resolution, new descriptions for the secondary campaigns, many additions in pathing and formations. But the best upgrade I am mindblown by how they in their latest update somehow made the AI smarter. I mean literally smarter as its copying my own tactics, keeps retreating armies if chances look dimm, flanks my cheesy bridge phalanxes if possible by a riverbank and even tries to masscav my general like I always do to them. Or if I assassinate one of their heirs or leader then they go full assassins creed on me and keep spamming assassins or buy up all my diplomats. I am very impressed. Also camera control is very smooth compared to PC after an hour of playing and getting used to it. I have spend over a hundred hours already on that damn phone port even tho I own it on pc and recommend it because more people buying it will lead Feral Interactive to port Medieval 2 to phones too

I hate Attila with a passion. Boiling all my complaints down to one: it just wasn’t fun to play. For a while I thought I liked the challenge but now it’s like I was in an abusive relationship haha

Only problem is Attila isn’t even playable, let alone replayable. Fucking most unoptimized trash even with my 2070 super and Ryzen 3700. Game freezes for over a minute just trying to auto resolve.

Too bad Attila runs like dogshit. I've been trying so much to optimise it.

I really dont like attila that much its either really easy as the huns or barbs or overly hard, also razing settlements makes the game even slower and tribes rarely ever migrate anywhere

I find England a boring start. Not nearly as interesting as Portugal, Poland, or hre.

I have issues with several of these but it's mostly personal preference greek cities: BOOOOOOOOOOOORING. I personally hate the greek cities because its just constant phalanxes. if you want a phalanx nation I'd say the selucids because a) selucid pikes>greek pikes b)incredibly varied unit roster with tons of different mercenaries c)the ability to expand in like 4 different directions france: boring, run of the mill, and too easy. I personally prefer the U.K. a good army that you need to build and actual naval combat and Austria for a diverse and light infantry centric army that encourages creative play (also light infantry is notably less vulnerable to artillery) I don't have a specific issue with the rest but SOMEONE from barbarian invasion needs to be on here. the WRE's mad scramble to avoid collapse, the ERE's increasingly desperate defense, the sassanids' vast opportunity, the hordes' search for a new home, or the settled tribes option to either try to weather the storm or become a horde themselves. one of them should have been on this list.

"Welcome to a Top 5 Total War Video, and today, we are covering the Top 5 Most Re-Playable factions in the HISTORICAL Total Wars. " Historical? Else I had said any warhammer faction....

rome total war 2 was shitties game in the world. shit interface , shit units icons , shit icons during building stuff in cities. But i like MT2 and Rome 1 Total War.

Germania, Rome 1. You can fight your fellow Germanic peoples, or you can create a fleet, sail down to Egyptian lands, and conquer Jerusalem, exterminating the population.

Unplayable faction has to be Russia in Medieval 2, very boring and their troops aren't great either. Also no Jihads or Crusades.