Okay, I beat the short campaign. What is the point to continue?

[Rozanov]

If you haven't experienced the joys of conquering the new World or explored the non-christian regions before completing a campaign then it's worht playing on to discover how to fight against other factions, discover new trading resources etc.

(probably not worth doing too many times though!)

[Budwise]

If you haven't experienced the joys of conquering the new World or explored the non-christian regions before completing a campaign then it's worht playing on to discover how to fight against other factions, discover new trading resources etc.

(probably not worth doing too many times though!)

Okay, that sold me, I will continue until at least the patch comes out and I should have all of that taken care of then.

[rosscoliosis]

I'm obsessed with the idea of total domination, so I always continue on after the quite trivial "victory". Admittedly, however, I've never actually reached that goal (in M2TW or the others) due to getting fed up the amount of micro-management required when you have that many settlements, haha. Right now I'm mostly on a break from M2TW because of waiting for the patch, though. The horrid cavalry pursuit AI for routing units just gets too frustrating. It still boggles my mind how things that were fine in Rome became broken in this game, ha.

[Furious Mental]

Evidently you don't have the megalomaniacal motivation to conquer the world for the sake of it that drives the rest of us.