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Easiest Attila factions

The game rates 5 Grand Campaign factions Easy: Garamantians, Langobards, Sassanid Empire, Sclavenians, Visigoths. The hardest it rates Legendary: Western Roman Empire.

Every playable faction with the difficulty word the faction-select screen shows for it, and how it starts. Sort by any column.

Grand Campaign (395 AD)

#
1GaramantiansEasy2DesertSemitic paganism
2LangobardsEasy1Western GermanicGermanic paganism
3Sassanid EmpireEasy10SassanidZoroastrianism
4SclaveniansEasy2Eastern GermanicSlavic paganism
5VisigothsEasyHordeEastern GermanicGermanic paganism
6AksumNormal2DesertEastern Christianity
7BurgundiansNormal1Western GermanicGermanic paganism
8CaledoniansNormal1CelticCeltic paganism
9EbdaniansNormal1CelticCeltic paganism
10GeatsNormal1Northern GermanicGermanic paganism
11HimyarNormal2DesertJudaism
12OstrogothsNormalHordeEastern GermanicArian Christianity
13PictsNormal1CelticCeltic paganism
14SaxonsNormal1Northern GermanicGermanic paganism
15SuebiansNormalHordeWestern GermanicGermanic paganism
16VenediansNormal2Eastern GermanicSlavic paganism
17White HunsNormalHordeHunnicTengriism
18AlamansHard1Western GermanicGermanic paganism
19AlansHardHordeEastern GermanicArian Christianity
20DanesHard1Northern GermanicGermanic paganism
21FranksHard1Western GermanicGermanic paganism
22HunsHardHordeHunnicTengriism
23JutesHard1Northern GermanicGermanic paganism
24LakhmidsHard1DesertEastern Christianity
25AnteansVery Hard2Eastern GermanicSlavic paganism
26Eastern Roman EmpireVery Hard38Eastern RomanGreek Christianity
27TanukhidsVery HardHordeDesertEastern Christianity
28VandalsVery HardHordeEastern GermanicArian Christianity
29Western Roman EmpireLegendary68Western RomanLatin Christianity

The Last Roman (533 AD)

#
1Visigothic KingdomEasy18—Arian Christianity
2Frankish KingdomNormal10—Latin Christianity
3Ostrogothic KingdomNormal33RomanArian Christianity
4Roman ExpeditionNormalHordeRomanGreek Christianity
5Vandalic KingdomHard11RomanArian Christianity

Age of Charlemagne (768 AD)

#
1Kingdom of AsturiasEasy5RomanChristianity
2Kingdom of MerciaEasy4Western GermanicChristianity
3AvarsNormal6SarmatianTengriism
4Emirate of CordobaNormal12SassanidIslam
5Kingdom of the LombardsNormal8Eastern RomanChristianity
6Kingdom of CharlemagneHard16Western RomanChristianity
7Kingdom of the DanesHard3Northern GermanicPaganism
8WestphaliaHard2Northern GermanicPaganism

Difficulty, settlements and religion from each campaign's start position file (FACTION_INFOS and the world it starts). A horde holds no settlement and moves as armies.