Quote Originally Posted by loony View Post
It would be very nice to have the AI play the game for some time and then the player takes over.
Something like this was a mod to BI in Rome, a way to get to play emergent factions, I think....

maybe we get something like this from our modders...
You could do that in the origonal Medieval as well using the console {I forget the commands now} and -ian {debugging} mode . You would start a game , set the A.I. to "fully automatic" and it would chain-resolve turn after turn untill you toggled it off then you could chose whatever faction you wanted {through another console function} including emergent factions . Some of use used this to play the Mongols from their first turn of arrival .

A propper Eras setup would be a good way to allow the game to start in the middle of certain wars and I'd like to see such with full troop numbers deployed from the onset {would make for some interesting starting possitions with some factions} .