End of Campaign

**Byg** · May 30, 2007, 12:48 PM

Despite playing total war games for years, I have rarely completed one. However, this Templar campaign is gripping and doesnt seem to suffer from getting easier as I progress ( the major failing of vanilla and most other mods) so I may stick it out.

Will I get the option to continue playing once the end date is reached or the campign conditions satisfied?

If not, how can I make it continue?

**htothehh** · May 30, 2007, 03:29 PM

Getting easier as the game goes on? I always find it hard and tedious as the game goes on. I love mid games, early games are eh, and late games are a pain in the ass to play.

I think in the vanilla campaign you do get to continue after the campaign date, not sure about SS but my guess would be yes.

**chapman104** · May 30, 2007, 03:35 PM

yeah i agree with that late games are boring cos you just end up engaging in a contest of who has the most armies and money with the other great super power of the world and the fruitless war goes on for like 200 years

**Favre** · May 30, 2007, 05:25 PM

Yeah, i've got like 25 turns left before my Templar campaign expires. I've conquered from Mecca to Barcelona. Need to take northern europe now!

**j4k3** · May 30, 2007, 06:04 PM

So does the game ends once you do NOT meet the conditions (take 55 settlements or something in xx turns)?

**htothehh** · May 31, 2007, 02:46 PM

My guess is that despite whether or not you meet the conditions, you still get to play. Can someone confirm this?

**Mike13531** · May 31, 2007, 04:41 PM

i'm not sure... I continued to play on BigMap and Vannila version before.. but i hasn't gotten that far with stainless steel

**redalibi** · May 31, 2007, 04:57 PM

I've played every TW game extensively and I think I've only completed *maybe* 2 campaigns. Not because they're hard, but because your advancement has a snowball effect. Once you get over the early hump of breaking a neighboring faction and acquiring its territories, you just get exponentially more powerful as you take over towns. So I have a habit of quitting my campaigns around mid/late game after I've become a pretty invincible force (usually around 15-20 settlements).

The Templar campaign is a different story though. On H/VH I had to fight tooth and nail to wipe out Egypt. Getting Alexandria, Cairo, Thebes would usually make you an economic powerhouse (thus ending the campaign), but pretty soon I had the Turks and Mongols on top of me, which kept the campaign really fun into the late game.