So what do all of you think regarding the number of provinces? In order to conquer the world you have to take over 100 provinces The sheer number of battles this takes is immense, between attacks, defenses and barbarians, you're looking at about 300 battles. At about 20 minutes a battle that's roughly 100 hours of gameplay to finish the campaign.

I skipped the battles about 90% of the time, but had to suffer much bigger losses because of it.

Did anyone actually fight all the battles and still conquer the world?