How did you keep interest this times?

[Charge]

So how you folks are keeping interest now? I cant play even 20 turns...
I know that the point is competition in both campaign and battlefield maps. But if they aren't exist for some reasons, what do you do? Playing different mods, different campaigns, ...

[CrazyGuy]

I must admot I am the same. Especially when playing as a Roman Faction there comes a time, usually just after the Marian Reforms when everything is progressing nicely and I accept 'I will win from this position' and quit.

To this day I've yet to experience the Civil War.

[SpartanPhalanx]

So how you folks are keeping interest now? I cant play even 20 turns...
I know that the point is competition in both campaign and battlefield maps. But if they aren't exist for some reasons, what do you do? Playing different mods, different campaigns, ...

Sounds like you need to find a new game to play

[woad&fangs]

EB adds a unique challenge to the gameplay. You could also try playing vanilla with a challenging faction. I personally found Numidia very difficult.

[ixidor]

The problem with this type of games is that, as soon as you enter in the fase 2 (when money starts coming and coming, and you can start recruiting good units) the interest also starts decreasing, because you simply know that the game is already won. It was good if, for example. in which game the AI chose a faction far enough from the player to be an empire, an empire that could rival with you, thus providing an awesome battlefield of very large parts of the map, then the fase 2 would also be cool. But true is that, when you can conquer 50 settlements in less then 100 turns with almost any faction, there are times that it starts to get boring.

[Benandorf]

I generally start the lose interest that late in the game, too, but I think if you get lucky and find an AI enemy that actually has an empire, it become very fun. In my recent Brutii campaign, I'm having a slug-fest with Pontus, which owns 90% of the near east. I'm winning without too much problem, which is kinda dissapointing, but there are enough of them that is has some challenge with it, and is therefore quite entertaining.

If you really want to have a big enemy empire, choose someone far away from yourself (and from Rome, cause they stop other AI empires easily), and once you get to the point where you have waaaay too much money (generally around turn 30-50, depending on your faction), give them a bunch each turn for 5 or 6 turns (or more, depending on if you have trouble keeping under that 50k limit, and how big you want them to get), and then do this again every 20 or so turns for a few times, and you'll have a big enemy empire to kill.

[ixidor]

Hmm, interesting theory. The problem is that, most of the times i play factions close enough from Rome, so we eventually clash against each other. Now I am playing with Carthage, not only because is my favourite faction but also because it's quite a challenging faction in the first 10-12 turns, but the problem is, by the time the Etna explodes i am already conquering the gaulic cities in the north of italy, attacking Numidia and defeating the last settlements from Spain... And since i don't like to reach the 50k level i start gathering more and more troops and conquering more and more lands and soon it's all over... It's stronger then me you see, the romans are right there and i am playing with their worst enemy, i have to take them damnit

Anyway, i guess next time i will try Parthia, i think it's far enough from Rome. Also, it has quite good cavalry (and i love cavalry). Maybe i wait until Marian Reforms, maybe this way i have an ancient version of a World War.