World domination

[Patricius]

I never go beyond the win conditions, or only slightly. Late in the game most hordes factions are gone entirely, and the other kingdoms seem so feeble.

[symball]

I have gone for world domination once (and only just managed it for a turn) and it it not all its cracked up to be- days of crushing poor forces and wiping out rebbellions for a single moment of acheivement. I rarely get as far as fifty regions now as by the time you have thirty- fourty 'good' ones the challenge has gone- I have saves of most factions now waiting for the day when I want to finish them off. I never do.

[Manstein]

The only time where I took over the entire world and destoryed all the factions was when I was playing as the Brutii. There were always 5-6 provinces that were rebelling at any time, and the endless battles with rebels is boring...

[gardibolt]

I did conquer the world on my first Julii game. It was fun but tedious, especially when it came to the impoverished Scythians and Parthians, where it took five turns of movement to get to the next town. That meant most every turn was just fooling with putting down the endless rebellions across the map.

So every game I've played since has just been until I won (or a little past winning, to kill off a particularly obnoxious faction).

[Slug For A Butt]

I never complete a campaign (even though I keep promising to) because it is obvious that I have become the No. 1 power and it's just tedious from that point onwards.
When I become too dominant there is no challenge, so I split and start a new one.

[professorspatula]

I don't tend to complete a campaign either. Aside from perhaps wanting to see it through to the bitter end, it's all but over after taking 30 provences or so. Heck, really you know you're on the path to victory once you have secured your borders and weakened your neighbouring factions. The best part of any campaign is probably the opening 20-30 years, so I'd sooner start over once my faction is the obvious super-power in the game and enjoy a fresh challenge, than just continue the long and tedious 'clean-up' operation that is to attempt 50 regions or total world domination. I suppose with BI you at least got loyalty and hordes to add a continuing challenge throughout the campaign (although at times those things don't add up to much), but standard RTW has nothing to warrant playing on for more than necessary as far as I'm concerned.

[Krauser]

I've only one with a few of the factions because as soon as you get to a certain point it gets really boring. The beginning and mid-game are the best when you have lots of enemies and are fighting on many fronts at once. At a certain point, it's just a matter of getting your armies where you need them to win. There's no challenge after that so I stop. I think I'll try to world dominate at least once but not for a while.