What is the last playable year

[Budwise]

What year does the game come to an end, what happens when that year comes up and can I give myself more years without changing the start date?

[Zarax]

The game ends in 1453 IIRC, you can change the date if you got VI, it's quite simple.

[IrishMike]

Don't worry about it sneaking up on you. The game gives you a reminder around 5 years left.

[Budwise]

First, how do you change it with VI, which I have and don't worry, you have five years left? You try finishing off the world in five years.

[Zarax]

Look in the campmap/startpos folder.
Find the campaign you want to play and add this under "late era start":

SetGameEndDate:: 1066

Replace 1066 with any year you want.

[Budwise]

How do you do that OUTSIDE OF VI, I want to do it in the main game.

[Zarax]

The procedure is exactly the same, you just need to copy the string in the same place for the early, high and late campaigns.

[Yoyoma1910]

It does make sense for it to end then... At least historically. What with the oncoming of the Renaissance and the age of exploration.

[Zarax]

Well, i set it at 1491... Not much later and still in theme (one year before columbus travels)

[Yoyoma1910]

1453 is the year Constanstanople fell to the turks. Also, there were advances in missile type weapons that made cannons and powder based guns the center of the modern army of the time. There was an insurgence of eastern flight to rome, bringing with it many greek and arab texts and schools of thought, changing the face of western culture immensely.

Which is, I suppose, why the game ends then.

[Zarax]

Exactly, plus renaissance and Leonardo da Vinci.

[Yoyoma1910]

Oh yes, also it was the end of the hundred years war... With France kicking out the British and fully recapturing Bordeaux. They were the first Army to use Cannon as a successful deciding factor in a battle.

Henry VI of England went mad, and the war of the roses ensued. And so, the British were no longer on the continent.

So it wouldn't be historically accurate to have your billmen and longbowmen trapesing all across greater europe as though they were Tango masters. Instead they would be caught up in the local intrigues of the Lancasters and the Yorks.

[eat cold steel]

Changing the end date will not effect your current campaign, only new ones you start.

[Lord of the Scotts]

It does make sense for it to end then... At least historically. What with the oncoming of the Renaissance and the age of exploration.
The Renaissance was caused by the Crusades, I would say that the Renaissance is before the game ends(but after it begins), durring the 1300s.