Anyone Else Feel Rushed in the Campaign?

**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.

**Whacker** · 02-24-2007, 01:27

I never played vanilla, I always modded my game to 2TPY. When you mean rushed, do you mean that in general you feel rushed to meet your goals, or rushed in that the AI keeps harrying you? As for the first, I've never felt that because I play a 900 turn game.

As to the second, I'd have to say it depends honestly. Playing at my own pace and selectively going to war with certain factions works out fine and I can progress at my own pace. However, there have been a few instances where I bit off more than I can chew, and I start a war with a neighbor (or vica versa) and the others smell blood and all jump me. In that case, yes I'm hard pressed to fight or maintain several fronts. Invariably when I start winning, I have to make the choice of whether or not to expand and if so where, and along what fronts. Given the right opportunity it's very easy to overextend yourself.

Cheers

**Quickening** · 02-24-2007, 01:41

Originally Posted by Whacker

I never played vanilla, I always modded my game to 2TPY. When you mean rushed, do you mean that in general you feel rushed to meet your goals, or rushed in that the AI keeps harrying you? As for the first, I've never felt that because I play a 900 turn game.

As to the second, I'd have to say it depends honestly. Playing at my own pace and selectively going to war with certain factions works out fine and I can progress at my own pace. However, there have been a few instances where I bit off more than I can chew, and I start a war with a neighbor (or vica versa) and the others smell blood and all jump me. In that case, yes I'm hard pressed to fight or maintain several fronts. Invariably when I start winning, I have to make the choice of whether or not to expand and if so where, and along what fronts. Given the right opportunity it's very easy to overextend yourself.

Cheers

Yeah I meant rushed to meet my goals. I'll soon be joining you on your timescale and I'll be glad. I like to take time to manage my empire and have the right men for any given job. I like to develop my cities into lovely places. I just love to savour every aspect of the game.
With the default timescale it just seems you have to just keep on attacking as relentlessly as possible. I know this is Total War not Europa Universalis but still, I enjoy empire building as much as conquering.

**Whacker** · 02-24-2007, 01:48

Originally Posted by Quickening

Yeah I meant rushed to meet my goals. I'll soon be joining you on your timescale and I'll be glad. I like to take time to manage my empire and have the right men for any given job. I like to develop my cities into lovely places. I just love to savour every aspect of the game.
With the default timescale it just seems you have to just keep on attacking as relentlessly as possible. I know this is Total War not Europa Universalis but still, I enjoy empire building as much as conquering.

Join the crowd, I like taking my time and building up a big high tech empire too. I seem to recall reading somewhere that CA stated they aimed to make it 2YPT to aim this at the (supposedly) larger audience that wants a quick fix and "more action". There was a poll back when M2 was released asking how many TPY folks use, 1 and 2TPY took the lions share by a long shot, hardly anyone played at the default.

**RoadKill** · 02-24-2007, 01:55

I myself felt rushed when i started off with the 2 year per turn timescale but i hanged it to 0.5 years per turn time scale and I found that i could take my time destroying other factions lmfao