Let's see, temple of snakes: a fundamentalist, totalitarian, autocracy (most likely headed by a patriarch) that relies on mass numbers of well armed fanatics. New Hope Alliance: a democratic republic that relies on technologically advanced weapons to win its battles. All in all the temple is far easier to play as. 5/5 never the less
if they make a sea of fire 3 it would be awesome if they added a larger variety of operations like covert, propaganda, and assassinations in addition to the full fledged military invasions.
It would have been nice to play as the mongols during their invasion of japan, or any other of the continental powers during this time, like the jin or sung dynasties.