Open blitzkreig challenge

[d3nn16]

askthepizzaguy

I asked that because I just finished my second campaign as Venice and my style of play is same as yours : save/reload, no battle time limit and no auto managed settlements.

Just wanted to know if doing all upside down would add some challenge.

With a bit of imagination you can find that AI uses, in a way, auto managed settlements and the AI faction agents don't have a second chance either. So disabling some of your super skills as human would bring you close enough and still superior to the AI level.

I think the same way as Budwise about battle time limit.

About the auto managed settlements, you can only manage if you have a general inside, I find that it's quite realistic because generals at the time that went on campaign didn't know what was going on in their castles/cities and they had some difficulties when they returned home. Also adding buildings in queue will be equivalent to a general in medieval times giving some orders and guidelines before leaving.

I'm going to try a campaign with this new challenge (no save/reload, battle time limit and auto-managed settlements). Who else takes the challenge ?
The winner is the one that achieves victory in the smallest amount of turns with a given faction with the official 1.2 version.

[d3nn16]

Forgot the VH/VH condition too (was too obvious).
I don't know what condition to put on battles auto-resolved or manual.
Who's willing to try at least ?

[John_Longarrow]

D3nn16,

If you really want it to be a challenge, autoresolve every battle that does not contain your current faction leader. That would put you in the shoes of the leader of a nation, thus limiting what you can do to a larger extent.

This way you would have to plan things out a bit better ahead of time so that you go to fight those battles you think you really need to win while you entrust your generals to take over lesser settlements.

[d3nn16]

That's a plus in difficulty but not as important as avoiding save/reload which I think is more challenging.

I didn't start a campaign without save/reload yet to see how it's like (very hard I suppose).
Did you start one like this yourself Longarrow ?

[John_Longarrow]

I've been toying with the idea. I've also been toying with the idea of only allowing units or building to be put into a production queue if there is a general present (and only then can you change tax rate) but I ran into a couple problems with this. First it requires more micromanagement of generals than I like to do. Second, it doesn't make sence that a General couldn't get someone to carry instructions for him back to a castle over a two year period of time.

For the autocalc, I've tried it but I've gotten a little bored with it. There are too many fun fight that happen to not have a general present to skip.