How do you play your campaigns?

[Schwarzenegger]

Do you go for the victory conditions?
Do you play until it becomes too much to manage and each turn is like a mini campaign in its own?
Do you give yourself a timeframe such as you play this faction one week and then another next week?
Do you attempt to recreate the historical boundaries of your faction?

The possibilities go on and on.

Me personally I tend to play with no real goal in sight. I just expand as much as possible and eventually if I get tired of it I'll start up a new campaign. Take my last Macedonian campaign for example. I owned the whole map except the Parthian regions, the Indian regions, most of Iberia, the British isles, Saba, and of course the unconquerable regions. Each turn must of took at least an hour and honestly I had been fighting the Scythians for a long time and fighting another horse faction was not something I wanted to do again .

[TM Is Back]

I just play the game. If a plan shows up in me, i do it. Or if a faction declares war on me. I always try to counter attack my enemy's.

So no i dont follow the victory conditions... i dont give myself a timeframe....nope no historical boundries... I just play untill i get bored and then start another campaign.

[Balikedes]

I do the same thing, I don't think I've actually made it past 200 BC for around 7 or 8 months now. I love the beginning, the turns are short and exciting. Though I also like the post-Marius armies, they've got a lot more color.

[Scutarii]

Same as Balikedes, I haven't actually played past 210-ish for quite a while, the start is quite intriguing and I like trying out new factions, particularly when changed by DBH.

[Spartan198]

I don't really follow any historical boundries, but one thing I do is always garrison foriegn cities with indiginous troops (e g Italic troops in Italian cities).

[Stilgar CG]

Do you go for the victory conditions?
Nope.

Do you play until it becomes too much to manage and each turn is like a mini campaign in its own?
Yeah, something like this. Stop when fun stops.

Do you give yourself a timeframe such as you play this faction one week and then another next week?
Yeah, playing 2-3 compaigns simultaneusly is a very good idea. I often play one civilized and one barbaric faction.

Do you attempt to recreate the historical boundaries of your faction?
With Rome and Macedon/Seleucids/Ptolemies (Alexander empire) is both challenge and fun, with others makes little sense.

I am a planner: I enjoy setting some long- and mid-term goals and persue them. That gives more satisfaction. But surely, I often have to improvise and adjust the tactics and short-term goals.

[Webba]

I don't tend to worry about historical boundaries but I do like setting up protectorate kingdoms. I have a weakness for Greek civilised factions. In my last GCS campaign I gifted a huge chunk of my empire to Baktria to save them from the Parthians. It worked really well too.
Recently I've started trying out exodus campaigns. Trying to move Baktria to Greece, Rome to Gaul, Carthage back to the middle east. A nice challenge and good fun.