Quickest Victory

**Oskoui** · January 04, 2007, 09:20 PM

I just completed the victory conditions for the HRE playing VH/VH in 38 turns. This was with not reloading battles. I had started off trying to take venice which only got me embroiled into a long conflict with them which led to me getting excommunicated by the pope. To retaliate against the pope, I conquered Rome only to have the new pope declare a crusade against the city. With a crusade declared against me, almost every other catholic faction went to war with me. The strategy I took then was to defeat every other catholic faction as quickly as possible concentrating my forces against them one or two at a time (I didn't stand a chance in a long war as the other catholics had me outnumbered 5 to 1 in military) and destroy the crusading armies sent against me. By turn 38 I had fulfilled the victory conditions, destroying 6 catholic factions in the process. Has anyone else had quick games?

**Demon** · January 04, 2007, 10:55 PM

Wow, never heard of anything like this. Never even knew it was possible, big respect from me mate. Pure owange!

**Sub-Zero120** · January 04, 2007, 11:04 PM

dude thats outragous

**Scorch** · January 04, 2007, 11:08 PM

Ownage. =D Pure. Simple. Ownage.

Very nice, must have taken some serious micromanagement. How long did it actually take you in hours?

**danes** · January 04, 2007, 11:34 PM

hehehe.. 38 turns huh? will try to top that in the future..
i noticed u modded the year.. did u mod anything else?

**Oskoui** · January 05, 2007, 01:44 AM

This was playing with 1.1 vanilla. I'm not sure what you mean by modding the year. The game starts at 1080 and 37 turns later I'm at 1154 which holds to 2 turns a year. The number in the bottom-right corner denotes number of turns, not years. It took me about 30 hours of playing time since I fought almost every battle.

**jajknight** · January 08, 2007, 05:45 PM

this is a perfect example of how stupid the battle AI is. Try doing this by auto-resolving every single battle.

**AcidJiles** · January 08, 2007, 06:23 PM

my last was 45 turns with turks so longer distances to cover.
although I auto resolve alot of the battles if I actually played all the battles it would be faster.