succession game

[_Tristan_]

I'm OK for the VH battles, especially in Vanilla Kingdoms...

However, I fear that playing the Byzantines we'll have a walk in the park against the AI... I would advise playing either one of the Crusader kingdoms or better yet change the setting and go for one of the smaller factions in the Britannia campaign or Lithuania, Poland and Novgorod in the Teutonic one.

Lithuania, particularly, could be fun confronting the players with the choice of keeping the pagan ways or switching to catholicism at some point. Plus Mongols are already there !!

I'll go with Byzantium if that is what everybody else prefers but I fear it will lack the challenge we might expect...

[Cecil XIX]

I'm OK for the VH battles, especially in Vanilla Kingdoms...

However, I fear that playing the Byzantines we'll have a walk in the park against the AI... I would advise playing either one of the Crusader kingdoms or better yet change the setting and go for one of the smaller factions in the Britannia campaign or Lithuania, Poland and Novgorod in the Teutonic one.

Lithuania, particularly, could be fun confronting the players with the choice of keeping the pagan ways or switching to catholicism at some point. Plus Mongols are already there !!

I'll go with Byzantium if that is what everybody else prefers but I fear it will lack the challenge we might expect...

I am quite sympathetic to this logic. What's the hardest faction in a Kingdoms campaign, Norway in Brittania?

Oh, and uh, I would like to join.

[phonicsmonkey]

you guys could always set yourselves some house rules along the lines of some of the hotseat rules designed to rule out battle map exploits.

that way you wouldn't be able to take out huge AI armies with a few horse and the like. You could even play an autoresolve-only game where you aren't allowed to use spies to open the gates and where siege engines are only allowed to open the gates of certain levels of settlement.

this would slow it down and allow the AI to get rolling before you crushed it.

[phonicsmonkey]

or, what about working together in a succession game to accomplish this challenge?

[Zim]

Hmmm...I don't know if we need to do anything too elaborate as far as creting a challenge, although if other players like those rules I'm willing to give them a try.

With the Byzantines I was thinking the Mongols would provide a challenge great enough to outweigh an easier start, although i admit never facing the Mongols down in the Crusades Campaign so I don't know if their armies are as big as in the Grand Campaign.

Norway or Wales are probably he weakest two Britannia factions, and Lithuania could have some challenges. I'd go for either of them (or even playing the other after finishing the first succession game! ).

Anyone have any strong faction/particular Kingdoms campaign preference?

[_Tristan_]

I can't stand purple !!

[Zim]

I thought Lithuanian troops were purplish...although it's been a long time since I played Kingdoms.