The complimentary thread regarding what countries are you going to play first in 2.0

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Yuanshu

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Bactria - Because I can test several things at once due to their initial situation ( AI of the Diadochis in the War between them, Religious and Cultural System due to the great mixture in their territory, construction system since I am a large country, liberation of states client, test the loyalty of the characters and how I can affect it, because to many disloyal characters in the beginning, I exercise because I have reasonable man power, the system of vassalage and independence, new technology system... etc )

Sarmantia - The best Nomade tribe in the game :p :p :p

Egypt - Well if I have to choose a Diadochi that is Ptolemy due to events related to religious sycretism...
 

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Syracusae is definitively my favorite country to begin as, I like this threatened position between Rome and Carthage. Also I would like to mix Italic and Greek war traditions.

Then, definitively hyped by Phrygia / Thrace, or Sparta to see the chaos :)
 
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Probably a nation with republican government, to see how the reworked statemanship effects affect elections (also Republics are a kind of middle ground for the Levies/Legions system). I'm yet not completely decided yet between picking a smaller tag as usual (greater challenge, allowing to explore new stuff without nation-specific flavour/content/rules) and Carthage/Rome (2.0 big changes will likel increase subjective difficulty in a first run, so it is one of the rare opportunities with the inevitable "size advantage" is temporarily reduced), but I'm leaning towards the latter...also because my last Rome run was with 1.2 and I haven't touched Carthage yet (pun intended: neither played them nor completely conquered them as Rome :oops: )

A 2nd run will likely be with a Tribe to go Levies only and see how this interacts with clan politics.
 
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Kreta to get the hang of new mechanics - haven't played the game in a while - and for their awesome "new" flag.

After that it's a toss-up between Armorica > Gaul, Rome, Armenia, maybe something in Anatolia, any of the Diadochi, Epirus... You get the idea.
 

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1.) Carthage
2.) Dahae into Parthia
3.) claiming the Persian thrones of Great kings as Amastris' Achaemenid line.
4.) Atropatène
5.) a chill greek colony (whether I no cb and Migrate roleplaying fleeing Greeks, or play an established polis remains to be determined)
 

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I will probably play Thrace. I had my longest / best games with them when I first played the game in 1.0 / 1.1 and i like their spot, sucessor state but also with that exciting border towards the tribal north.
 

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I really need to go Carthage as I have yet to play them! Carthage was probably my favorite to play in rome total war back in the day.
However I have yet to go Antigonid not even when they were still Phrygia, with their new missions plus all the new mechanics and changes last few patches (and this patch!!!!) They could be a real fun 1st fling into the new patch lol.

Probably one of those 2 though at some point I do want to play in Britain again as I haven't done that since the game 1st released. I do wonder where tribes are at now, I wonder if there even weaker but I could be wrong. I may just get em to a monarchy soon as I feel like I tried the tribal stuff in the new patch enough. I actually haven't played a tribe for a few patches.
And many many more intriguing options the more I think about it lol.

I also only.play for so long then get bored I have a feeling it will be alot harder to get bored now. I really like the changes in this patch (last patch was good to but much smaller in scope).
 

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In all PDX games I love trying it out by playing the most braidnead tag, so here it's prolly Rome imho, so it will be my first run in order for me to be able to get used to new mechanics while chilling.

Then I'll have to try at least 1 of the Diadochi, traditionnally my favourite has always been Seleukids, but I guess my first try will be Thrace there. Even though Antigonids into Makedon sounds nice as well.

And maybe third will be as a smaller greek tag, either Syracuse or Bosporan Kingdom
 

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Carthage. Always Carthage. And then maybe Carthage.
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