I NEVER LISTEN /PAY ATTENTION to victory conditions

**The Useless Member** · July 07, 2013, 09:38 PM

Whether it be from Rome Total War to Napoleon Total War, I never pay attention to that. My way of playing is to take down weak factions and whittle-down the ones that piss me off while trying to build a stable and strong empire. There might be rare instances where I do try to finish it, but the freeplay outweighs the other way massively.

Anyone else do this?

**Emperor Hantscher** · July 07, 2013, 09:59 PM

ABSOLUTELY! I always just try to build my empire how I want and attack factions I feel like attacking. For example in Medieval 2 Broken Crescent mod, I playing as ERE went to war with Rum because they kept crossing a bridge to go through my territory to one of their cities. So I blocked the bridge and they just found another way so I invaded! So I only fight for reasons like that, or to help an ally or just defending myself. I also try to avoid war whenever possible, in the same mod for M2TW a faction sent a full stack into my territory, so I placed a FS of my own in front, then they sent another, I did the same. The arms race went on until they had six stacks and I had 4 it ended up being the bloodiest battle I ever experienced ever. After I won I asked for peace and gave the territory to my ally. Eventually the enemy attacked my ally and then the two of us teamed up on them.

**Asgaroth** · July 11, 2013, 02:41 PM

Me to, I never try to follow the victory conditions , but I always first put the short campaign and after it is over the long campaign starts. In this way I get more time to play the game...

But usually I expand my Empire in the way I want, I don't follow what the game tells me...

**The Useless Member** · July 15, 2013, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by Asgaroth

Me to, I never try to follow the victory conditions , but I always first put the short campaign and after it is over the long campaign starts. In this way I get more time to play the game...

But usually I expand my Empire in the way I want, I don't follow what the game tells me...

I'm looking forward to Rome 2's multiple ways of winning option.

**❋ Flavius Belisarius ❋** · July 17, 2013, 05:40 AM

Since I like to turtle a lot I do not care either.

**Kataphractos** · July 20, 2013, 09:45 PM

I pretty much go for total conquest or until I get bored with the map. So long as the AI doesn't accomplish its victory conditions, I don't really care what happens.

**ChewieMuse** · July 20, 2013, 10:53 PM

I never through any of my total war games have tried to reach victory conditions, I rarely ever do the missions! Honestly Shogun 2 was the first total war game to give rewards that were worth doing a mission for, but other than that I didnt give a damn about the conditions, I just wanted total domination.

**Sleeping Bear** · July 21, 2013, 04:30 AM

I don't really follow the victory conditions either. I just tend to take the regions I want, which sometimes are listed in the victory conditions.

**mrmishka66** · August 07, 2013, 10:11 PM

In M2TW, whatever faction I am, I ally the Papal States so I automatically become like popes best friends, then I declare a Crusade, win the crusade, take over all of the middle east, then I make my way up from there, casually destroying any factions that become exiled, kill rival faction popes by assassinating them. Then at the end I have conquered the world! (After fully betraying all of my allies and the papal states of course!)