Confederation via Diplomacy can really help that early expansion if you can convince factions to join.īaktria is one of the best factions but is also fairly suitable as a learning campaign: you do have to be careful of the Parthians & Seleukids plus horse-archer raids from the North but you start off on the Eastern edge of the map, once you've secured the initial position you expand West and don't need to worry about some big Empire threatening your Core from the other side and its got probably the best unit roster in the game. Iceni is a good intro to 'Celtic' factions: you get to secure the two provinces of the British Isles as your base before expanding onto the Continent. Factor in my tiredness for today letting the Auto Resolve settle the Gauls and see my army effectively wiped out.and yeah, things have gone sideways a bit.Īfter the Prologue, Lepidus or Octavian Roman factions in Imperator Augustus Campaign would be good start for Rome (actually Rome in Grand Campaign is probably good too): you have decent size starting empires with I believe good early expansion options, most of the map starts out Roman culture so you don't have to worry about long pacification periods once you get to fighting the other Roman factions.įor an easier Greek start than the normal Greek factions try Massalia (I think it was a free faction?): you're kind of stuck between Rome, Carthage & Celts but you do get reasonable chance to expand & secure some flanks with diplomacy, solid unit roster with some Celtic influence helping round stuff out.Įgypt is also a good starting Campaign: you start with a decently wealthy empire in relatively secure location (give or take Seleukids & desert tribes), becomes very secure and wealthy after a fairly small expansion and it has a really good Macedonian style unit roster. Pushed up to the Samnite capital with my two armies, and then revolts just started firing off like mad. In any event I decided just to actually sit down with the Prologue campaign and have been having a lot of fun, even if things are starting to go wrong. Plus the fact I really didn't care for the uber-generals, uber-treasuries, slower research speeds, and units that exist because the philosophy is "More Units = Better Units!" There's something fundamentally off with the idea that people had such a love of independent governance they were willing to fight to the last random joe citizen to preserve it. Regardless, DEI got thrown right out the minute I figured out the insane 3000 man garrison of Athens was not an outlier but the mod "working as intended". Yeah - I've played other TW games (Actually with the latest sale, I've played almost all of them save for the first Medieval, Shogun, Empire, and Thrones of Britannia).
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