What Campaigns do you prefer

[USMCNJ]

After actually finishing each faction atleast once on Early. I tried palying on late. And i feel cheated. Even though i hate the last 2/3 of the game (you know, once no one can stop you it's just the metter of controlling the revolts.) The late game ends to soon and it leaves me with a question "what if?"

What time period do you usually start with?

[andrewt]

Early. I don't like the direction some of my provinces are taking when I do high and late. Also, late is a little too quick for me.

[Brutal DLX]

I usually like to start on Early, it is better for the player, although starting at the High era sometimes results in a more challenging game, as the AI factions get better men and buildings to start with and don't get fragmented/ rise to Superpower status until perhaps a 50 years before end of campaign.
Right now I am playing Russia, started at High, and it wasn't that easy to get going. Nice.
Starting at Late, it would be very tricky to achieve Total domination, I think that starting point was rather intended for GA play..

[Lord Of Storms]

I like all of them but I use late because I like the artillery

[troymclure]

Depends on what faction i'm using. If it's someone like Byzantium, or egypt etc. I'll go early but if it's say Germany or Italy or Turks it's High, mostly because i actually want to use their Late game units and if i start with say Germany in Early then the game is generally over by the time SAP and Gothic troops are available.
Also gots to agree that games are tougher in High and Late than in Early.

[A.Saturnus]

I like to start with the weak troops and get better and better over time. That`s why I usually play early. I`m not so aggressive that the game would end before late this way. Ìt`s just a great feeling "two years and I`ll have halberdiers"

[Basileus]

I always start from the begining same with shogun, bulding up thing as i want etc http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[The Last Emperor]

Early is the choice for me. Like to start from scratch and slowly see my empire grow. The rest r either too developed or already stablized where the fun is taken away imho.

[Praylak]

Yes, I agree. I usually start in the Early era. I've tried the high and for the most part I don't like how some countries have developed. The Italians and Germans for example both have access to iron mine provinces, but all that stands there is a fort, if that. From the early era, these provinces are fully developed when I play them out.
One gripe about the early peroid though. It's unfortunate that half the worlds factions kill each other off with peasants and urban militia by the 1200's. If they would just make more effort developing instead of swapping states, they could kill each other with some class in the high.

[1dread1lahll]

Gotta hand it to you..... I've never finished a campagin, but in multi player I like early

[ShadesWolf]

I am very selective in which factions I play.... usually it is either england, Spain, Almohad or Byzantine.

And always on early....

However,I must admit, while creating my web stuff on SP Byzantine, I really enjoys playing them in the High Period.

I should really try some other factions......

[deejayvee]

I prefer High because while the development is not quite to my taste, it's still early enough to change a lot of things. I find that if I play early, the majority of the AI factions don't upgrade enough. At least with starting on high, they start with some good units and buildings.

[Teutonic Knight]

early definitly because I like to build up from scratch

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[Satyr]

I like high better than early, but I like early a lot too.

I am in the middle of a late Russia game and while I am doing really well considering what you start with and the poverty of the surrounding provinces, I don't think I can get to 60% before time expires. It will be close, but I think I will come up about 10% short.

In early, I try to upgrade to Feudal troops really fast. I build as little as possible before I have them. Sometimes I am done before I get to high, but usually my games end around 1250 so I don't get too many high troops. This is why I have switched to starting in high so that I at least occasionally get some late troops and artillery before I achieve total domination.

[cugel]

"One gripe about the early peroid though. It's unfortunate that half the worlds factions kill each other off with peasants and urban militia by the 1200's. If they would just make more effort developing instead of swapping states, they could kill each other with some class in the high. "

You should try Wes W's MedMod v. 1.7, the factions start out with better tech. I'm playing in the high period and it's a lot tougher

BTW: Teutonic Knight Way to Spam Baby http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
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[pyhhricvictory]

I really like Early, just because I like using the smaller factions (Swiss, Danes, Poles and Novgorod) and it gives me the time to build up a decent empire by the time the good units roll around. Plus, with the little countries, it is harder to keep the big guys (like HRE and Byzantines or Turks and Almos) from destroying you. I play a lot of personally modded games trying out new things to see if they work and it also gives those time to develop.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Starting on early is more enjoyable, but can be annoying as the computer fails to tech up. Starting on high or late the AI's infrastructure is already in place, making for a more challenging game.

[LordKhaine]

I used to do Early, but now I'm starting to favour High. If you start an early game, the entire world has changed before you get any "advanced" units. I've only done one late game, and that was fun. But still.. I think I'll stick with high for a good balance, with the odd Early/Late game here and there.

[Maniac]

I haven't tried anything but Early but I really doubt I'd enjoy Late since not much time is left and less economy building is needed. High might be interesting since then the AI should pose a more serious threat having a few higher tech buildings which he is so reluctant to build http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/pissed.gif

[ShadesWolf]

Early all the way, I then have a longer time frame to conquer the world

[Heraclius]

definately early. otherwise I feel rushed trying to conquer the world and I really enjoy building up my empire myself (buildings, ships, units etc etc) and not having all of that in place when I start the game.

[FesterShinetop]

Always in early. That way you get all the control

[USMCNJ]

i noticed that people say that Late doesn't give them enough time to do their thing.
Just edit the late file, (\medieval-total war\campmap\startpos\late.txt).
Type in
SetGameEndDate:: 2003
(or what ever)
Enter it after the SetLatePErodStartDate:: 1321
make sure that there's only one tab between the"::" and the date.
p.s. late is defenetly harder then Early i resently gave late a change, and it was harder then life. You can forget about building updates untill you defeat atlest two neigborgs.

[Dîn-Heru]

Early, it feels more medieval.

[Striker]

I play mostly Early period campaigns. I've started a couple of them on High, but none on Late unless I was just going to experiment with something. When I play SP, I just like to develop the nation through all of the eras, and of course if I'm going for the warmonger approach, Early is definitely the best choice. Wish the AI wasn't so stupid about upgrading things.

[Tigger]

if you want to play late for longer just run the end date cheat so that you can play for ever

[Swoosh So]

I generally play early but im pretty bored of the single player game, All the battles seem to be too easy or the enemy has valor 10 troops 6000 of and withdraws its general so all 6000 troops will have 9 valor etc and yours have 3 valor so its no win http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[NewJeffCT]

Well, I got the game for Christmas, so am a relative newcomer, being on only my 4th campaign. However, I can't imagine not starting from "early" as, you get the feeling of building everything up from scratch - getting to get your Spearmaker's Guild in Mercia to get Billmen, and your Boyer's Guild in Wales to get Longbowmen, etc.

[Michael the Great]

does anybody play the danes other than early??

[sbreden]

I am really torn on this one. I like to playout my empire from the beginning but i can barely stand waiting for the gothic knights and etc. Some days I feel that it would be interesting to have a single unit of gothic knights or janissary heavy infantry or whatever in the early era just to see how influential they could be. It would be like the movie the "Final Countdown" or like using an m16 in the civil war. Does anyone know if there's a mod or editor out their that would facilitate this?

[Shahed]

Always early. I love to develop my empire into an economic and cultural superpower. I love to create the magnifcient buildings, and of course have a standing army that thwarts any aggresor. I like to start from scratch.

[Shahed]

Does anyone know the no end limit cheat ?

[Nowake]

Quote[/b] (Michael the Great @ Mar. 28 2003,14:20)]does anybody play the danes other than early??
Yes, I do, Michael, even if I can't use vikings (too weak), but I consider the longboat a very cheap and resourceful ship; plus, I like to fight the HRE's gothic knights.

I played in late as Byzantium and that was the finest game of all ...

[Panther]

Quote[/b] (SeljukSinan @ Mar. 29 2003,22:55)]Does anyone know the no end limit cheat ?


yes
go to the downloads goto fixes and download
MTW_julien_year1454_limit_fix

this changes the date to 1454 ( 1 year after end date) so you can play "till your peasants travel to the moon" as it says.

NB thsi can make your kings old as i found out on my first try which made my king to be 86 years old http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif which made my heirs really old luckyly one had a son then died and it passed along to line of sons until my little boy was old enough http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
so only use this VERY close to the end date

[whiskeyjack]

I had to go with early. Its way more enjoyable to build up your faction from a couple of forts to nation of fortresses. The late period i find is only good when playing GA.

[Axelthorpe]

I think it's best to start early, but the late units is most fun.

And if I start early, by the time I get to the late period there is only two or three giant fractions left and therefor no fun to continue.

[Lord Godfrey]

Until last week, I had started all of my campaigns on early to have the challenge and entertainment of building my empire. I just started a late campaign because I have never gotten the experience of using pikemen and cannon units.

[lonewolf371]

Almost always early, just the building empire process is amazing. Unfortunately, the Russians aren't available for the Early Age.

[Dr_No]

like to play from early so i get a 'full' game.. but after a while i find that i can win a bit too easily- mainly because the AI has a problem teching up quickly so i've started playing high just for bit more challenge....

[Aleborg]

I prefer also early.

And true, why Russians arent available on Early??

[lonewolf371]

Racism http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Surprise]

i like high period... glad i can post in this forum now
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