Challenges

[bretwalda]

I'd rather have a challange where I can use all the finesse and tons of money AND still IS a challenge...

[Ironside]

I'd rather have a challange where I can use all the finesse and tons of money AND still IS a challenge...

Up trade income to the ports to 120% instead of 20%. The comp will earn more money than you on your trade-network.

[tigger_on_vrb]

This was really aimed at specific challenges which are possible without modding the game.

[Ironside]

This was really aimed at specific challenges which are possible without modding the game.

Fair, but that is a mod that you can make in 5 min, using wordpad.

What about only being allowed to use UM, archers, spearmen and the (former) hiers royal knights.

To spice it up a little, troops gotten by crusades and jihads are allowed.

[bretwalda]

Wouldn't it be boring? The battles would be rather repetitive... I mean you could also play ALL battles with autocalc now that would make it more difficult but not too much fun either...

Now to be a little more constuctive: what about only using fleets to protect your coastline and have ships for trading only one step (=sea territory) more?

Or you could just play the Germans and attack everybody that borders you the time you get a common border (this resembles to the ALLWAR scenario of civ3)

[Procrustes]

I started a camp as Novgorod in early (vanilla MTW/VI, used the -ian switch). I'm nearing the end of early now, and I've built every troop enhancement I can in Khazar, Volga, etc. I'm hoping to provoke a truly big&scary horde assault - just to see if I beat it. It's been a fun camp - start w/ basically nothing, economy is tight, I've been picking fights with all my neighbors, and my rulers are poor leaders. (My current heir apparant - the one that will probably be in charge when the horde arrives - is an adulterous unhinged chinless wonder-loon.) Just before the horde arrives I'm going to move a zillion men to the east in hopes that it will make the horde bigger.

[ShadowMagnet]

The way I see it - self imposed restrictions don't count for much. The game is not meant to be one of "oh-sorry-I'm-not-supposed-to-use-CMAAs" sort.
Personally if I ever again find myself playing a campaign which I only give 65-75% of my best - I'll delete MTW from my hard drive full stop. IT IS NOT FUN AT ALL. The player is supposed to use ALL of his (hers) brain power trying to overcome the odds, not bloody 70%, now, is (s)he? What is the point slacking off and giving AI an advantage and still tw**ting it senseless in the end? Trying to design a challenege for myself from the very start of any campaign is seriously frustrating. AI will still not give me a fair fight and if I start losing I know I just have beaten myself at my own game again. It's like playing chess against yourself.
The only virginal goal remains to complete turkish camp on GA/expert/high. After I've done that I just don't know what there is left for me.
This is why I beg CA on my knees:
- give us a multiplayer campaign option in the future!
- PLEASE!!
- I don't even know how it's supposed to be done but it really seems the only way to keep games alive for longer these days.
Frogbeastegg - my personal guru in terms of MTW knowledge - got tired of this game some time ago and has moved on.
Perhaps I've been enjoying MTW long enough and its the time to call it quits.