England too easy?

[Anthammer]

The action is all around the med i have decided. Thats where this game is at.

[Von Nanega]

Nonsense. Even the Orca couldn't eat a whole country!

Ha Ha Ha. Thanks, I went up and edited for spelling.

[gingergenius]

dunno bout anyone else, but I prefer a long game developing my empire rather than blitzing through.

To make the English more fun and longer to play, lay down some simple rules for yourself.

1) Change the turn settings to 0.5 & get BigMap Mod
2) No attacking any faction unless they attack you first
3) When they attack you, which they do frequently, counterattack and only end the war when you have at least one of their cities under your control - this can be done via diplomacy.
4) Only take a city if it is joined to your empire - ie. only go to Ireland/ Tara if you control Edinburgh in normal or Dumfries in BigMap
5) Attack neighbouring rebel cities ASAP
6) Always occupy cities and Ransom prisoners.

My English campaign, I'm at 1130 and have all of England, Wales and Ireland plus Dumfries. I have Caen, Rennes, Angers, Paris, Rhiems, Metz, Frankfurt, Bruges, Antwerp, Hohenstauffen, Hamburg, Arhus and Uppsala.

All of this has been slowly accumulated over 100 turns and it has given me a chance to develop my characters and guilds how I want them.

[LordKhaine]

To be fair I've found Milan and Egypt easier than England. Egypt has decent cavalry to rush in the early game, and a safe and rich position (until the mongols arrive at least). And Milan is easy simply because if you play your cards right you're very rich. And as we all know.. war needs three things...

[Alcorr]

Yeah, England has the best starting position by far. I owned all of central and western europe by turn 70 playing as them.

[Artorius Maximus]

My first campaign was a Venice one, but I tried England, and they seem to be much easier than Venice, also, if you are Excommunicated by the Pope as England, then it would not be as bad as Venice ( which is very close to the Pope, thus making him more dangerous ).

[LordKhaine]

My first campaign was a Venice one, but I tried England, and they seem to be much easier than Venice, also, if you are Excommunicated by the Pope as England, then it would not be as bad as Venice ( which is very close to the Pope, thus making him more dangerous ).

I dunno about that. If you're right next to the Pope it's easier to deal with him (but harder to ignore him). Just sent over a stack of good troops or some decent assassins and you can cut off the head of the serpent. As England you no doubt have land in mainland europe somewhere which is very vunerable to attack by other catholics, so it's not as if England is in a position it can ignore the pope.

[GoodApollo]

England was definitely one of the easier factions I faced while conquering Europe