Which is your favortie race to play and why?

[darkside]

I'd say I like undead as the name says they are badass. They drain hp and turn everyone to zombies, what is cooler than that?

And my second pick would be loyals just couse all of their units can move quite fast and I often have this image in my head: there is a poor wizard on the field and then whooot out of nowhere comes horseman just whams him with his spear.

[Kalajel]

Favorite faction huh? Didn't we had a smiliar thread not too long ago?

Anyhow, mine would be undead, simply because I always end up playing undead in any game that has them… I'm just an undead-type o' guy…

[Hulavuta]

Uh, drakes or undead. Drakes because I enjoy the leadership strategy, as I believe they are the only race with leadership besides Elves, or the Lieutenant, who you can't recruit. They are very powerful, and the leadership ability gives it a real army feel. (Commanders leading squads or battalions of soldiers into battle.)

I enjoy Undead, because they have so many resistances. (Mainly Skeletons, which ROCK) It limits the enemy's unit choices, since they won't be effective.

[Captain_Wrathbow]

Favorite faction huh? Didn't we had a smiliar thread not too long ago?

You mean this? If that's what you're thinking of, yes, it's similar, but not quite the same.

To answer the OP's question, I'd have to say my favorite's undead too... I like the unusual style they force you (and your opponent!) to use and how there's no single strategy for them but you have to improvise and play differently in each matchup.

[TheGreatRings]

Personally I am very fond of elves, but the shear diversity of human units kind of puts them ahead.

[Limabean]

Knalgan Alliance by far. Dwarves are simply the best defensive units in the game, period. If you're smart, you can make a line of units on 60% or 70% defense, PLUS they all have kickass resistances, hp, and retaliation damage.

Also, gryphons are one of the most mobile units in the game. They can strike from almost anywhere, and they pack a big punch.

Finally, my favorite thing about them is the ulfserkers. They're useful in defense to intimidate an archer heavy enemy. They're also perfect in offense because if there is any kind of weakness in the enemy line, an ulf is guaranteed to turn it into a hole. After that it is a simple matter of using "regular" dwarves to preserve and widen the hole.

[Caphriel]

Knalgans. Almost all of their units are the best unit for their role, and are very specialized, which makes playing them interesting. They have speed with the outlaws and gryphons, staying power in the dwarves, and some of the best punch in the game with the ulf and thief. Their only gaping specialist-lack is something to remove melee units from high defense.

[Velensk]

Knalgans for the same reasons as Caphriel and Drakes because of the style of play they use.

[Cloud]

Knalgans, because I'm proud of the animations I've committed for them.

Well my true favourites are the Ulfrskalt, but they're not mainline so...

[thespaceinvader]

Northies fit my play style best, but I invariably play random, when I have time to play.

However, I will fairly shortly have some new favourites, of my own devising...

[Gambit]

I'm really fond of Ageless Era's Wood Warriors. They have really nice, fully complete, art (mainline quality and style), and they have yet to make their way into any other addons, so they have that underdog factor going on.

[Dunno]

hm maybe undead cos they really are badass
rebels are also cool. I mean almost every unit has a ranged attack which is awesome. In LoW I killed yeti in one turn without even getting hit. I love when players watch their units dying and can do nothing about it!

[ahyangyi]

I'm really fond of Ageless Era's Wood Warriors. They have really nice, fully complete, art (mainline quality and style), and they have yet to make their way into any other addons, so they have that underdog factor going on.

I think the original version of Wood Warriors is in Italian. I saw an Italian posted about how he liked an Italian faction, which is essentially what we know as Wood Warriors. Checking the file names of Wood Warriors in AE also confirms that.

By the way, BEEM also contains Wood Warriors isn't it?

My favourite default faction is Drakes for it's simply cool. The Saurians comes with them are also useful, unique and interesting.

I like to play MP factions, but tend to criticize them afterwards. The faction I like best are Wood Warriors, Free Saurians and Eventide.

[Tonepoet]

Northerners are great at attrition because of the regeneration/poison dynamic. Most often when you hit that end turn button it's a flurry of eights and sometimes even tens just bouncing across the board. Poison on ranged is particularly nice because it leaves a lot of targets open. I do quite like how the archers are viable against every level one in the game too. I think perhaps my favorite part of the faction is how Wolves are so defensively oriented for a scout, allowing them to pack a rather nasty bite on the field and survive long enough to retreat to the normally inaccessible rearmost villages. There are some rather nice finesse oriented tactics to be had playing Northerners that most people overlook, which makes it interesting to me.

Drakes have been starting to look nice to me once I got a fair bit more experience too though, for the mobility aspect. It's simply amazing how Burners and Fighters can move. The extreme speed and high attack power makes them play a bit like a fatally graceful tornado of destruction, you could say.

[5dPZ]

I need to throw the loyalists in there because no one mentioned it.

Spear/archer combo is cheap and durable.
Mage/Horsemen can dish out big damage.
Merman Fighter is perhaps the strongest unit in water/swamp.
Leadership/heal bundled starting at lv 2.

It is my fav faction when playing survival games vs AI.