Do you have any addictions???

[Ed TW]

Running down routing armies with calvary.

Assassination, especially the pope after I get excommunicated.


Using artillery on the first turn to take a city/castle before the
pope knows about it.

[Andrei]

Is humiliating everyone that calls me friend stand as an addiction???

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

I agree with Ed TW's. i have about 1 group of heavy cavalry mop of several hundred routing infantry, i mainly like to watch them fight to the death in impossible situations.

[Galain_Ironhide]

My biggest addiction as a result of this game...... the Guild!

[Genaral Julis]

War. I'm never at peace for more then 20 turns. Theres nothing quite like seeing your armies destory the weakened and out numbered enemy.

"Alright men, lets show them what a overly bloated runaway miltary defense budget can do!!"-Me.

[Dead Guy]

I'm also addicted to having a perfect, full strength army of elite troops, and retrain units that are totally capable of fighting, march units to that remote castle with swordssmiths guild and armor factory just to maximize their effectiveness.

I remember in RTW, if you played Scipii it was possible to get troops with gold armor and weapons with a foundry and the right pantheon, plus some experience from the start, then I pumped out Urban Cohorts and Praetorian cavalry from that city :p

But my main addiction is probably limiting casualties as much as I can. It's weird how much I care about my imaginary soldiers! I especially HATE those mailed knights I routed that come back 15 strong and charge my no longer protected longbows, AAARRRRRGGH!!

I'm also addicted to incinerating people on bridges with that perfect catapult ball of flaming death. Getting a ballista lined up to the side of a pike line is also very rewarding =)

[Genaral Julis]

You my friend have a blod lust to match my own..

[Old Geezer]

Does anyone else count the number of flaming bolts being shot by siege equipment to be sure that the game isn't cheating you?

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Now my addiction is to keep the council of nobles as happy as possible, the pope may give you 500 gold at odd times, but the council of nobles gave me 3000 gold in 2 turns, right at the start of my campaign with milan, i captured flourence, gave it to the pope, then captured ajjacio, and now im moving on to bern, just to keep the council happy

[imnothere]

getting and making marriage alliances with every possible fractions - even if i have to find excuses to bump off my existing princes and kings to the Lord's Judgement.

[Subedei]

1. Getting really good horse-archers to hunt down Templars, Hospitaliers and the like....just like back in the days.....
2. Erasing city walls with a massive bombardement.
3. Hunt enemy kings/generals/family members on battlefield with trebuchets & canons to see them "enlightened"....oh, most of the times some of my men get bbq-ed to...well....
4. Hunt the pope! Just like old Frundsberg or the Hussites....
5. Danish war clerics just simply rule! When playing that faction I always love to have some of those....
6. Nasty, unknightly but well experienced Pavese crossbow-men postitioned well are able to do funny things to enemy lines.....love to watch that too....

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Its a shame that whilst playing Egypt you cant make your son have more wifes, in a book im reading, the pharaoh had about 200 wifes, all of them around 16-30, how nice it would be to field and army of generals bodyguards, the good old days

[Henry707]

Hey All,

I've playing the Britannia campaign as England & when William Wallace turned up I knew I had to get him.

I waited until he was in a nice fort with loads of highlanders - sieged the fort & brought up 4-5 mortars.

I then proceeded in true English cad style to just bombard the hell out of the compacted Scots...there was tartan & haggis flying in all directions....

It was a dirty way way to get rid of a major character but hey it worked!

Henri

[Vladimir]

I would rather call it an obsession. I'm obsessed with keeping my missile units at full strength, meaning none of them gets killed during a fight. I'm fine with my infantry getting killed, and possibly some of my cavalry, but not my archers. They MUST keep full strength so that I may unload a full unit's load of arrows in the battle and thus save more of my men.

It's so hard to get their experience up that when they die it sets you back so many years.