Have you ever lost a campaign?

**andrewt** · 06-14-2007, 20:46

My very first campaign as Venice, I did the council missions and hit the rebels in the immediate east hard. However, I paused and only started building troops and attacking the Byzantines after they attacked me first. Needless to say, I was unprepared when Milan double crossed me so I restarted after they were on the verge of capturing Venice. I think the HRE attacked me as well and the Hungarians were close to attacking.

I restarted and hit the rebels and then the Byzantines immediately. After conquering Thessalonica, I slowly conquered the Byzantines and was able to defend Venice.

**Kraggenmor** · 06-14-2007, 20:55

Oh yeah, I've lost more than one!

I can't count how many times I restarted as Spain while re-learning the game.

I stepped up to M2 from MTW having never played Rome. So, there were some new concepts to deal with and I took some serious lumps early on.

Having gotten more grounded in the game now, I haven't lost one in a long while.

**TinCow** · 06-14-2007, 20:59

Abandoned due to imminent loss. Like several others on here, it was my first attempt at Venice. Here are my comments on it from the Venice Guide thread:

I grabbed Zagreb and Durazzo almost instantly, with Florence and Rhodes following shortly. I made alliances with everyone I could and was raking in money. Unfortunately, my military forces were relatively minimal, with the only sizable force capable of taking the field located near Venice. Hungary and Byzantium allied and both declared war and besieged Zagreb and Durazzo respectively on the same turn. Both stacks were massive and I had no chance of defeating the assaults. I sent my large army from Venice to try and help Zagreb. Both cities fell the next turn, before my relief army could arrive. With the main force diverted to the east, Milan (my allies) declared war and besieged Florence. Hungary also moved on Ragusa. I turned the army back around made for Florence, but it too fell before I could get down to help it. HRE then declared war, defeated my main stack and took Venice. I had managed to assemble a large force on Crete and could have attempted to invade Greece and survive that way, but instead I declared defeat and started over.

**andrewt** · 06-14-2007, 21:06

I think almost everybody who lost their first campaign in MTW2 or restarted it before they lost picked Venice.

**Ferret** · 06-19-2007, 19:31

I started a campaign as the moors and got carried away by sending all of my troops on a jihad only to see it crushed by pesky jinets. I was forced to quit in disgrace.

**atheotes** · 06-14-2007, 20:58

Never lost one... even before i played my first campaign in the TW series i had read a guide so knew not to ignore economy... but i barely managed to win my first campaign... but since then completing a campaign has not been the challenge.