Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger
yes... do the original Medieval solution. one turn is one year, or you just ahve a thousand turns in a campaign... doesnt matter... just slow the game down a bit, more provinces and armies, such things...
If you actually play with it a while it works very well as it is.

Any slower would kill the game - in my last three campaigns i won before gunpowder was invented, even on the default timescale...