posted 29 June 2008 19:04 EDT (US)
NOTE - I DID NOT USE CHEATS! I ONLY TURNED OFF THE FOG OF WAR BEFORE I TOOK CONSTANTINOPLE SO I COULD SEE THE ENTIRE MAP IN PERSPECTIVE TO MY EMPIRE!
Byzantines it is! Expect an update every few turns.
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The Holy Roman Empire
Well, I finally set my personal all-time record for a long-campain victory, 39 turns.
Settings -
Battle Difficulty - VH
Campain Difficulty - Hard
I could have gotten it in under 34 turns, but the bloody French just refused to die, so I turned at the Byzantines and probably could have still beat it by 36 if I hadn't wanted Constantilople as my final city so badly.
My first goal was obviously Italy, as it is the Greece(Rtw) of MTW2. From there I immediatly turned on the Pope, securing a some-what more centralized center. After taking Denmark, Sweden, Present Day German, Italy, and Scicily, I turned my attention to Europe. I was making more than 20k a turn, so I started a war on 4 fronts, and it went quite smoothly. Each turn I took at least one settlement, and none could appose the mighty Deutsch Legionen (German Legions) as they stormed through France and Eastern Europe. The French did resist my effoerts wit 4 full stacks defending their final 3 cities, so I abandoned hope after wasting 4 turns. I turned my attention on the Jihad-weakened Byzantines, and wasted another 3 turns securing Constantinople as my final city.
As you can obviously tell, The HRE is by FAR my favorite faction. They don't have the best of anything, but the Dism. Fuedals, Teutonic Knights, and Pavise Crossbowmen are hard to beat with ANY unit combination in the first 40 turns.
Another thing that made it a LOT easier was the fact that I was excommunicated. I got a 24 year old general to full dread and 7 command stars on his campains through Poland, Hungary, and Greece/Byzantium.
I had no Allies at the end, a Decietful reputation, and lead every category by far. I was enemies with every faction in the game, and I had another 9 cities I took after I ended that turn.
I do NOT plan on continuing with my Campains across the world, I find the next hundred-or-so turns boring as once you get that many cities, it becomes tedious to manage the cities and that many armies.
Note - This took me 5 days to do, with ZERO auto resolved battles.
Pics -
Leben sie lange und gedeihen meine freundes.
Live long and Prosper my Friends.
http://rtw.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=17,7675,0,10
^39 Turn VH/H HRE Long Campain Victory
Norwegian AAR
http://rtw.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=10,7690,0,10
Well, I finally set my personal all-time record for a long-campain victory, 39 turns.
Settings -
Battle Difficulty - VH
Campain Difficulty - Hard
I could have gotten it in under 34 turns, but the bloody French just refused to die, so I turned at the Byzantines and probably could have still beat it by 36 if I hadn't wanted Constantilople as my final city so badly.
My first goal was obviously Italy, as it is the Greece(Rtw) of MTW2. From there I immediatly turned on the Pope, securing a some-what more centralized center. After taking Denmark, Sweden, Present Day German, Italy, and Scicily, I turned my attention to Europe. I was making more than 20k a turn, so I started a war on 4 fronts, and it went quite smoothly. Each turn I took at least one settlement, and none could appose the mighty Deutsch Legionen (German Legions) as they stormed through France and Eastern Europe. The French did resist my effoerts wit 4 full stacks defending their final 3 cities, so I abandoned hope after wasting 4 turns. I turned my attention on the Jihad-weakened Byzantines, and wasted another 3 turns securing Constantinople as my final city.
As you can obviously tell, The HRE is by FAR my favorite faction. They don't have the best of anything, but the Dism. Fuedals, Teutonic Knights, and Pavise Crossbowmen are hard to beat with ANY unit combination in the first 40 turns.
Another thing that made it a LOT easier was the fact that I was excommunicated. I got a 24 year old general to full dread and 7 command stars on his campains through Poland, Hungary, and Greece/Byzantium.
I had no Allies at the end, a Decietful reputation, and lead every category by far. I was enemies with every faction in the game, and I had another 9 cities I took after I ended that turn.
I do NOT plan on continuing with my Campains across the world, I find the next hundred-or-so turns boring as once you get that many cities, it becomes tedious to manage the cities and that many armies.
Note - This took me 5 days to do, with ZERO auto resolved battles.
Pics -
Leben sie lange und gedeihen meine freundes.
Live long and Prosper my Friends.
http://rtw.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=17,7675,0,10
^39 Turn VH/H HRE Long Campain Victory
Norwegian AAR
http://rtw.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=10,7690,0,10
[This message has been edited by HereticPope (edited 06-30-2008 @ 11:26 AM).]
Too bad you weren't the Chancellor of Germany in WWII. Good job! 
