Anyone Else Feel Rushed in the Campaign?

**Quickening** · 02-23-2007, 14:15

I have no idea how some folk manage to complete a long campaign in the time they are given. Im playing a short campaign right now and I'll be lucky if I manage that in the timeframe.

That aside, I don't like to feel rushed in a game so I think I'll be playing with the 0.5 timescale from now on.

Anyone else feel rushed in the campaign at standard?

**guyfawkes5** · 02-23-2007, 14:27

No, but I can understand where you're coming from. If you like to turtle and upgrade your forces fully before sending them out, you may find yourself in a losing battle against time. Certainly mod the game, the reason CA made the files so accessible was so that people could enjoy it as they saw fit. :)

**rvg** · 02-23-2007, 14:45

I use the 1ypt time scale, and that gives me WAY too many turns to finish the campaign even if I take it really slow.

**Quickening** · 02-23-2007, 15:28

And it's not just the pace of the campaign either. To me, six months per turn makes far more sense when it comes to building times and movement.

**dumas** · 02-23-2007, 15:35

I play pretty fast, because it's easier to blitzkrieg and roll over a faction in a few turns rather than giving it time to build up again for more fair battles. It's not at all historical and maybe it can even be seen as a mild exploit against the AI, but I just don't have the patience and it's certainly easier. If you have the patience, more power to you: I'm sure your games are more interesting than mine.

**Carl** · 02-23-2007, 15:46

I too prefer a slower campaign, my average "grab rate" is about 1 settelment every 5 turns. The biggest issue is that it takes forever to get to gunpowder and the New World...

**caius britannicus** · 02-23-2007, 15:59

I felt rushed in vanilla. I like to take it slow. For instance in my vanilla sicily campaign I held only 8 settlements when gunpower arrived. Why? because I like to give the AI a chance to fight back. I only attack new settlements with full armies and a general. If I have no general to lead the army I don't send it. So I was always always rushed in the vanilla campaign near the end. Now however I use LTC or 1 turn per year and I'm not rushed at all. at 1 turn per year I have played about 140 turns and am making good progress not feeling rushed and thoroughly enjoying the campaign.