Campaigns completed description thread

[StellarW]

Hi,

In retrospect i should have made it even clearer that these house rules were meant to provide me with added continues challenges without creating a situation where i needed to improvise to keep my attention. As for the question about forts in my original Pontus campaign i managed to seriously slow down the Karthadastim advance into the Southern Balkans& Greece ( i would have lost several more cities to that mass of stacks) so i decided that i would not use it again when i could so easily, and for so long, ward of such masses of troops by choking their approaches with depleted skirmishers manning forts. Additionally it provides added possibilities for ranged units away from cities which just hits the Ai where his weakest already.

I do use 'esc' in battle's if i need to leave the pc but i feel pausing ( stopping time, pause button) AND being able to scroll the battlefield is a advantage i would forgo in the interest of keeping things interesting.

In general most of these house rules are meant to make scouting more important ( no instant stacks of merc defenders) and battle's difficult enough to ensure that the heavy cavalry either burns a hole in your pocket all year long or that , without the cavalry, your infantry attrition keeps them from gaining much in the way of destabilizing experience.

Even with these house rules the challenge declines towards the end and the impetus to continue comes mostly from setting the fastest possible end date; many experienced stacks have gotten wiped out completely ( setting back end dates some years) in these 'rushes' to set challenging dates so i can't say it doesn't help to keep things 'fun'. :)

Basically i want to switch to medium for battles ( my tactics have 'develoved' while fighting the super soldiers) but i am not sure how to best balance that out with additional house rules.

I am thinking that retraining is out completely and that i would have to reduce training to two seasons per year but even with that and a few other things i have in mind i can imagine wholesale destruction of enemy stacks...

That is why i would ideally like a set of house rules& end date that seems on the face of it challenging enough to take on without breaking my head over coming up with them all by myself. :)

Either way thanks for the kind comments so far! If anything i hope a thread such as this one gets a few more players to complete campaigns ( and post the details& house rules here) where it might not have seemed worth doing after the initial challenges had been removed.

Stellar