High Era campaigns (XL/Tyberius)

[chris34au]

i've noticed that the build time on most improvements has been drastically reduced with the Tyberius patch and i was wondering if this helps to make a High Era campaign play more like a campaign that starts in Early.

i'd love to play a campaign with the Teutonic Order, Bulgaria, or Byzantium in the High period but i've always worried that i'd feel rushed to expand and/or not have enough time to build up infrastructure. i guess what i'm asking is if you can basically use the first 100 or so years of a campaign to settle into a few provinces, tech up, and still have plenty of time to make a major push across the map, once the Late period rolls around.

if there's any other High era campaign advice that anyone wants to throw in here, that's cool too. TIA

[Roark]

Dude, with the Tyberius mod, you could probably gain access to every possible available unit, plus maxed valour agents plus citadels everywhere within 50 years, let alone 100.

I generally start in Late period, and within 20 or so years, there is nothing to shoot for in terms of units, so I just attack attack attack...

Anyway, my main point is that - with the reduced build time in Tyberius - I sincerely doubt you will feel rushed.

[chris34au]

thanks. that's great to know. i like the situation and faction selection a lot better in the high era but i also like to know that there's plenty of time to expand, build infrastructure, and finish a campaign.....especially with factions like the Teutonic Order that start out with only one province and that one province doesn't even have a Citadel yet.

[Roark]

Yeah, there is one Era (can't remember if it's High or Late) where the Teutons have it really tough to start with. Basically, a superior hostile pagan Lithuanian army next door that always attacks in the first turn. (This is mainly because Tyberius modded the Lithuanian starting armies to give them a chance against all the Christians). It takes some pretty nifty fighting just to prevent your Grandmaster from being defeated and forced into a siege by Turn 2.