Play Peacefully...

[Insurgent]

I started playing this way after seizing control of the world through loads of battles. I kinda got sick of fighting in that game so I started a new one as Portugal and played the game peacefully. The way I did this was by quickly selling Pamplona and my allegiance to the Spanish and my allegiance to the Moors for a fairly decent sum of money. After allying with my neighbours I started calmly building up Lisbon and making it huge and grand. I dispanded lots of troops so that I didn't have to pay 'em and after twenty turns or so I was packing a mighty Economy. After raising 300000 florins from Lisbon, I bought the fortress of Granada from the Moors for 100000 florins and converted it into a Citadel. I had Perfect relations with every faction and a 'Very Reliable' rep. When the time came I made use of my mighty economy and invaded the Americas using some elite troops. I then set about setting some merchants on Brazil and Mexico's rich resources. I would recommend this way of playing to anyone who's tired of doing loads of fighting. I found it surprisingly fun to play this way- you can build huge metropolis' in peace. Another cool thing about this is watching the rest of the world fight around you- great fun indeed!

[Old Geezer]

Was this on Medium difficulty?

[Ged]

Clicking that turn button sure is one bag load o' fun.

[boerekovic]

playing peacefully in a total war game?
Are you serious? The fun of this Game is the elegant Animations and the Beatiful units slaughtering each other,Campaign map is just there for being eyecandy and
having something to Conquer.
Also,i took the whole map with the Turks.H/H, Worship me

[Insurgent]

playing peacefully in a total war game?
Are you serious? The fun of this Game is the elegant Animations and the Beatiful units slaughtering each other,Campaign map is just there for being eyecandy and
having something to Conquer.
Also,i took the whole map with the Turks.H/H, Worship me

I took the entire map with Russia H/VH actually- that's why I decided to play the game this way. On my Russia campaign I boasted a 'despicable' reputation and all the factions hated me until I wiped them all out (except the papal states who for some reason can never be wiped out properly). After fighting hundreds of battles I kinda got tired of all the fighting. This campaign only took me about half an hour to reach the Americas anyway.

[kelvintyk]

I have taken about a quater of the map from the east through crusades with my new campaign on vh/vh. At war with almost everyone except france, papal states, hre, england and byzantium.

@kahn,
Just spam the end turn button. But truth be told.....even without fighting, 30 mins till new world is discovered seemed a little too fast?

[vonKrysiak]

It is fun type of game but I would prefer to play a game that has a bit more advanced economy/politics/diplomacy if i dont want to fight, for example Civ4, Europa Universalis.
Although everyone has different style of playing and as long as you know what you like you are gonna be ok ;-)

[Insurgent]

It is fun type of game but I would prefer to play a game that has a bit more advanced economy/politics/diplomacy if i dont want to fight, for example Civ4, Europa Universalis.
Although everyone has different style of playing and as long as you know what you like you are gonna be ok ;-)

Well, I use a variety of styles- I blitzed all the map in my prev game, but in the end I had no truly impressive cities- I spent all the money on troops, so i focussed this game on city building and getting rich.

[Sher Khan]

What's fun is engaging in constant warfare, but making no real land grabs from other factions. Just your choice of core territories to develop and wage war from. As other factions grow in size, you'll soon find yourself attacked by armies several times larger than you, but your development will see to it that you can field highly advanced armies - moreso than your neighbors who simply waste their time on landgrabbing - that are outnumbered, but not outmatched at all.


It's quite challenging, and sometimes near impossible depending on the faction you choose and the "core" territories you decide to take and develop (The Turks may need at least all of Anatolia west of Antioch and Constantinople if they want to have a decent change at surviving against larger odds, whereas Milan can make due with a very compact kingdom with just Marseille, Florence, Bern, and Ajjacio due to its small land size and cheap militia force.

[vonKrysiak]

I would advise trying some mods - Deus Lo Vult or lands to Conquer for example make it WAAAAAY harder to get money and both construction time and costs are hgher as well. All that makes for more interesting and longer campaign game - if you are no after battles you might give it a try. makes the game completely different and adds a lot roleplaying content as well...

[Stuntdawg5]

Alright I have a question that is slightly related to this. The guy that made this thread said he had only 2 territories till the Americas. If you lose (As in another faction gets 15 settlements and destroys the designated factions) can you still continue playing? Or do you have to stop? Same question with if you run out of turns.

[Romano B.]

Alright I have a question that is slightly related to this. The guy that made this thread said he had only 2 territories till the Americas. If you lose (As in another faction gets 15 settlements and destroys the designated factions) can you still continue playing? Or do you have to stop? Same question with if you run out of turns.

Yeah, actually, you can keep playing as long as you'd like. You can even keep playing until the year 2000 for all I care.

[zznɟ ǝɥʇ]

I had a great game as Genoa with the Sicilian Vespers where I sat on Sardinia for half the game, watching, except I had no money and the HRE kept on chucking armies at me...

I finally lost when all my generals rebelled and it was just an old geezer king.

[AaronJBC]

I recently played as Portugal as well on H/H, just captured Silves, and other nearby rebel settlements, secured alliances with everyone but spain and moors and aragon, went on a crusade 2 feet away to Cordoba, then waited. Was favored highly with pope, relations were very trustworthy, and I kept trying to bait an attack from Spain or Aragon and they just wouldn't attack.

[Old Geezer]

It's beyond my ken how one can play Medieval 2 for over 25 turns and have a trustworthy rating. Is this a mod called Sims: Medieval 2? Does the AI just hate me only? Can one really play "peacefully" on medium and easy difficulties? What country had a peaceful 200 years during the relevant time period? Two hundred years of peace! Dang, I'd almost just as soon watch "Lost" or "Dancing with the Stars".

[malcolm mcdowell]

going strong a spain doing nothing really... bought granada and oporto from moors and portugal, and have taken all the rebels except silves (now portuguese). just chilling, i suppose will eventually have to kill portugal and aragon, but no plans to move off the peninsula as of yet (except when america comes along). am veyr rich!

[Kahn]

Half hour to reach the Americas?

Could somebody tell me how this is possible, please?

[Insurgent]

Half hour to reach the Americas?

Could somebody tell me how this is possible, please?

Before you start the game, get rid of the tick in the 'show character movement' box then put your cities on auto-build and hammer the turn button. However doing all the diplomatic stuff with your neighboring factions will add on another 10 minutes of play.

[Selifator]

Now that has to be the most boring way to spend time in a TW game....

[Insurgent]

Now that has to be the most boring way to spend time in a TW game....

Nah, it was pretty fun: After building a massive economy and built up a huge city I used my mass economy and power to recruit loads of awesome quality troops and launched attacks on the aztecs and some of the other factions around me (except my allies- the Spanish and Moors).