Poll: How fast do your 'turns' go?

[Hermann the Lombard]

OK, why can't I vote in a poll that was started today?

Anyway, you asked the wrong question. With me it's a question of how many hours per turn. I sometimes wish I was joking about that. Anyway, you now know that I would have voted "high field" and I think my average time per turn is about one hour.

[Edit: TODAY it let me vote. Go figure. Naturally I picked #5.]

[Foz]

I suppose it really matters if we're supposed to consider the battles in with this or not. I'm assuming yes. Battles can lengthen turns considerably, and I prefer to play them all out unless there's some reason not to (like it'll be boring because one side is a 10:1 favorite). So a typical turn for me is probably in the 5-ish minute realm for management, but then there can be battles on top of that to make it so much longer.

I'm also with Kobal2fr about the turn length - the early ones go incredibly fast. Once you play early time period a few times it becomes completely obvious what to build to kick-start your economy, and you just sorta do it naturally. The middle turns come into all the less obvious choices. You've also usually got only a few rebel fights to deal with in say the first 30 turns as you grab up all the rebel provinces, where later on factions attack you out of the blue and you can count on pretty much constant war. That IMO is what really bogs the mid-years down - all the fighting of battles.

Anyway that should give some idea for now. I'll see if I can remember to record my turns and the passage of time when I next play to see how much I'm actually getting done, and how quickly. Should be pretty revealing.

Of course I'm not really worried if I discover it's taking me forever: time and progress are measured entirely differently when you're on the battlefield, which IMO is how it's possible to play such time-consuming campaigns and still enjoy them the whole way. The duality of the game in campaign map vs battle map is so great that it actually creates interest where you would otherwise become bored of either one independently. You finish a battle... but suddenly, you have to rule! You make executive decisions, and now you have to defend your territory. They're so vastly different that playing one makes you appreciate the other anew when you finally get back to it.

[alpaca]

Well for me the turns have such a huge variance I don't even want to give a mean, just a range:
2 minutes to one hour

The reason for this is that if I don't fight battles and don't have anything much to do (and not too many settlements), I can just zip through turns, whereas if I have to fight two or three difficult and important battles in a turn it can take really long, and I usually need a break in between two large battles.

[DVX BELLORVM]

I voted for #2 (6-12 min/turn), most of the turns would be in the lower end of this range.
But this is without battles. When I have battles, it may last up to one hour, since I never auto-resolve.

[phunkbot]

im between 3 and 2 myself (excluding battles), but when I own half the map and still try to manage everything and use lots of agents I've ended up playing a single turn over 2 days or so, especially when i dont have that much time to play