So anyway, I just finished my English campaign... And while smoking a fattie and listening to "Rule Brittania" with a phat smile on my lips, I noticed how many, if not most, members of this forum use various house rules to make the game more interesting.
Here are some of my ideas, those tested and yet to be tested.
I dont claim originality to any of the ideas, I might have picked things up in various threads (if you want cred for something, just write it mate).
1. Dogs of war!
Rules:
* You are not allowed to train troops.
* You must set taxrate to "very high" in every province.
* You must leave a city/castle at once when you have taken it (with all troops and generals).
Basicly, this means sacking will be your only way of getting money, and mercenaries will be the only thing you can recruit. Should result in some very intense fighting, and the whole world hating you![]()
Victory condition: Kill off all other factions.
PS: Untested... This will be my next experiment
PPS: I came up with the idea while my brain was as logical as a tree full of monkeys on LSD...
2. The divine shield!
Rules:
Always try to make sure you'r border provinces are given to the pope...
I tried this with Denmark, making sure I gave the pope all the land between me and my neighbours...
The pope (contrary to other AI factions) wont attack you if you are catholic, unless you screw up badly.
This leads to a much more controllable game, with far less moronic AI attacks. I noticed how diplomacy and such suddenly became much more realistic.
Also, The pope will grow quite big, and might start challenging you to get to crusade targets first etc (specially since he'll always be closer to them than you).
Worth a try if you havent!
3. The penn is sharper than the sword!
Rules: You are not allowed to train ANY troops (you might however bribe others troops).
Untested, but I guess it's doable with some effort. Victory MUST thus be achieved by economic supremacy, and of course uggly tricks such as marrying into other families and then assassinating the rest of the royal family so you get all the lands.
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