I usually create my own faction of the race of "Men" and play a created sov of the race of "men".  Why?  They can use most of the gear in the game.  Lame reason, but its the truth.

Thank you guys. I love creating my own Races or factions. This is just bonus now. I didn't know we could make our own factions.

I must be an idiot (don't answer that). I had no idea you could create your own faction, although I've always used a custom sov. I'll have to try that out.

There is little or no differentiation between the default factions, so you really *need* to roll your own if you want some personality injected into the game.  Even then, you are stuck with the default races (even if you use the faction "creator" - it has some pretty narrow constraints) so everything ends up feeling the same.  You'll find there is a limited set of strategies, and they all play out the same no matter what faction you use.

Now I'm sure someone will post "But they're going to make it better!"  Sure.  That's why I'm still here.  But the game in its current state is bland.

Too bad the Sentinels are cripples, they have the worst stats of any soldiers if memory serves me.

agreed... i think angels , demons, goblins , undead (vampires,witches, ghouls) should be always part of the fantasy 4x game. infact i really hope reguardless if they are part of lore or not that KAEL will add those as core factions to the game if not for EWOM put on fallen enchantress.

The fantasy genre (4x game or not) doesn't need elves, undead or anything like that. Hey, I like them (hell, I use my own versions for my mod) but they should never be a "must have". At least as long as whatever "races" are offered by the game are actually interesting and offer differences in the gameplay.

That said, I hope that Stardock, once things start really to settle down, can offer some models for other races and/or a modded new race that follows the "traditional" pattern of "elves, dwarves, trolls, orcs, goblins, skeletons, zombies, angels, demons, etc". Much like was originally planned as part of the support for modding.

In the main menu's Workshop option, then select Faction Creator.