Your favorite SS settings?

[Gunodd]

Well, what are they? I'm not sure what to select, maybe someone more experienced has some more info and/or advice?

[Meneth]

Personally, I use this setup:

• My sub-mod Compilation installed

Sub-mods:

• Savage AI
• Istanople
• Live Long and Prosper
• Permanent Arrows
• Historical Regions and Settlement Names

Settings:

• Early 2TPY Campaign (included in my Compilation)
• Very Hard/Very Hard
• Usually Norway or the Romans

Note: if you're new to SS and/or Medieval 2, I recommend Medium or Easy difficulty. And don't enable Byg's Grim Reality unless you want the game to be much harder and complex.

[Gogolometro]

Savage AI, options Latin Empire submod for late campaign, VH/VH. The good is like byzantines things are challanging and interesting and have the feeling things are close to perfect. Suggestion, play what you like, factions you love, trust your ways. Recommandations, try to play early, keep the RR way of game, play agresive. My factions are Teutons, HRE, Romans, France and Turks. All have a lot of fun.

[WelshDragon]

My preferred settings:

Meneth's Compilation

Sub-mods:
Savage AI
Istanople
Live Long and Prosper
Longer Assimilation

Settings:
Usually prefer Late Period 2TPY Campaigns (Thanks Meneth!)
Hard/ Hard

Factions (in order of # of campaigns): Crusader States, HRE, Leon, England, Sicily

[Ottheinrich]

My preferred settings (with Meneths compilation):

Savage AI
Live Long and Prosper
Next Heir Crown
Istanople

Early Campaign with 2tpy.

I usally play on H/H. Favoured factions are Poland, Novgorod and Sicily.

[makute]

I play with MSC plus BGR, Longer Assimiliation and Limited Actions on M/M, and enjoying every single turn.

And my favorite faction is Castille.

[Green Warrior]

I use Meneth's compilation and Gracul's aggressive AI (I do not use BGR). I usually play the Byzantines (Romans) on VH/VH. I like this set-up because I like fast and furious action -- shifting war from west to east and back again.

I think the most difficult thing about playing on VH/VH is managing money. I've learned some ways of doing that. Perhaps I'll share them in another post some time.

[Ichon]

Gracul AI

BGR Enabled

Nothing permanent

Longer Assimilation enabled- makes turns longer but seems much more realistic and slows blitz even when I'm tempted.

VH-VH

No all out favorite factions- Genoa, Lithuania, and CS played the most often. Longest campaigns were Portugal and Turks so go figure.

Most boring campaigns- England, Venice, Byzantines, Fatimids.

Most intense but also tedious- HRE, K-Shah, Hungary.

Factions not played yet- Kievan Rus, France, Moors, Castile.

[Losthief]

savage ai (occasionally gracul if im playing like england or something easy to win with but i love to play as)

no BGR

Meneths Submods Complilation installed: with next heir crown, istanople, LLP, and sometimes limited actions

VH/VH

Uhhh...factions: play most as Crusader States/Genoa/Portugal/Novogrod/Silicy/and Hungary

[Medkirtys]

MSC
Savage AI
LLP
Perm Watchtowers
Next Heir Crown
H/H
Lithuania, Byzantine uh, that's all, i'm lovin HA

[Polycarpe]

Savage AI
2TPY early era and Late era
LLP
permanent watchtower
longer assimilation
Next heir ancillary

Very hard/very hard

Favorite factions: Roman Empire, Scotland, England, Norway, Novgorod, K-Shah
Late campaign: Roman Empire (quite a challenge), England, Egyptian

[Gunodd]

Does Real Recruitment give me less or more troops? Might be a silly question but I'm just not sure.

[Meneth]

Disabling it is broken.
Download the Fixes. Link in my signature.
RR gives you less troops, yes, but the AI is bound by the same restriction.
I recommend you try it, and if you don't like it, download the NoWaiting sub-mod.