For Necromancers, on the first week, should you build a Lich or Vampires?
This is, again, if you're very lucky and you find Sulfur. But what if you don't find it? After all, it could easily turn out that there are no separate resources nearby, and breaking through a mine guarded, for example, by Ogres or even Orcs, is not that easy, especially with a complete lack of ranged units.
The same story applies to the Tower of Mages for the Conflux faction, only it's even harder and more challenging to build them. If it's 160% difficulty, you'll have to run around the map, collecting all types of resources. And if they aren't there either? Development stalls, and you inevitably fall behind your opponent.
The Conflux faction doesn't have these problems. At least, you'll most likely have levels 1-4 on the first week, and level 2 will almost certainly have a ranged attacker. A little more time, and Ice Elementals appear in the army, further increasing the firepower. :)
I'm just saying that everything depends on the circumstances and luck. And to say so definitively that "one faction is better than the other" is wrong.
Badping invented an interesting type of siege weapon.
And a weapon, by the way, too. :)))