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    Misanthropos Member I of the Storm's Avatar
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    Default huge size settings

    Hi all,

    I used to play with standard size, but especially in XL mod you end up with megatons of stacks-of-doom on all sides towards the middle of the high era, which is a bit of a fun killer for me. So I tried huge and after I got used to the completely different gameplay due to the doubled recruitment times, I started a vanilla HRE campaign on huge. I must admit that I'm very suprised. First of all, the gameplay is very different. You have to plan much more ahead concerning recruitment. Then there aren't that many troops around so losses hurt much more and retraining is very important. You gotta learn to fight your battles, especially border protection, with fewer troops. The pace of the game seems to be way slower than with smaller unit sizes. It wasn't until the 1170s and the demise of the Italians, Poles and Danes and the crippling of the rest of my neighbours, that my empire was somehow secured and I could afford my first crusade.

    Any of you have experiences with huge size in XL mod? Will there be similar changes of pattern (I'm asking because after all XL's economy is a bit different) in pace, troop amount, maybe AI aggressivity?

    Opinions and other impressions are welcome.

    Edit: A minor annoyance is the fact that the starting units of each campaign seem to be defined for standard size. Is there a way to have them adaptable to the size settings? If not, what file do I have to look into in order to make them full strength under huge size settings?
    Last edited by I of the Storm; 12-20-2007 at 14:27.

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