Help me decide....

**TinCow** · 03-14-2007, 21:59

If you want a difficult game, play Portugal and DO NOT attack Spain until they attack you or you pass turn 10.

**Xehh II** · 03-15-2007, 01:46

Originally Posted by TinCow

If you want a difficult game, play Portugal and DO NOT attack Spain until they attack you or you pass turn 10.

Why is that hard? I did that and it was easy.

**TevashSzat** · 03-15-2007, 01:58

How about this, play HRE and do not blitz instead take only a maximum of 1 rebel settlement a turn until turn 60. Until then, you must fight a defensive war even if someone else declares war on you. On turn 60, declare war on all of you neighbors at once and get excommed if you are faced with it. That would at least provide some very intense and large battles and would be pretty hard to do extremely well in.

**FactionHeir** · 03-15-2007, 11:37

That would be tough for any faction though and in fact easier for HRE because of superior troops. Playing complete defense and keeping to your own lands is quite boring too.

I'd still suggest playing Denmark focussing on infantry instead of trying to get chivs as quickly as possible

**HoreTore** · 03-15-2007, 12:26

Well.... As I am an infantryman, danes are no match. I don't see poor cavalry as a con, I use very limited cavalry, and you don't need anything else than order knights anyway.

And hungary, poland and russia are all dirt poor, that's why they'll be a challenge.

**econ21** · 03-15-2007, 14:24

I would imagine playing a "turtling" game as Egypt or even Byzantines would be fun. No sooner would you have endured the crusades, but the Mongols and Timurids would come along.

**TinCow** · 03-15-2007, 15:50

Originally Posted by Xehh II

Why is that hard? I did that and it was easy.

Well, frankly, they're all easy if you do them right. The hardest games are ones where you handicap yourself in order to compensate for your vastly superior skill over the AI. Get creative. For instance, try the following:

Play as England. Do not expand into any rebel territories. Immediately build a semi-large fleet and load onto it a large army with all of your generals. Sail all the way to Antioch and capture the city. Immediately disband all units in Europe, destroy all happiness buildings, pump the taxes up, and make them revolt. Play the rest of the game as England in the Middle East, with a 10-20 turn lag in development and the Mongols and Timurids fated to invade your lands. If that isn't hard enough for you, do it with Scotland instead.