Peasant Campaign - DONE

[totalwar_legend]

Hey Everyone,

After about a month of gruelling gameplay, I have finally finished my peasant campaign. I have all 112 regions just shy of about 30 turns left. All nations - except Papal States - are dead. I'll be getting on these videos when I've finished editing my blitz series.

If you're thinking of trying this challenge, here is my review of it.

Rating out of 10

Fun - 1/10
Difficulty - 9/10
Time consumption - 9/10
Frustration value - 10/10




Just a refresher on what the challenge was:

1. You are only allowed to purchase peasants - Muslim peasants are the worst, so I chose Egypt
2. You are allowed to purchase boats and use them however you please.
3. You are NOT allowed to use generals in any way. Since you do need at least 1 in order to keep your faction alive, you may keep them in a fort. They are not allowed to do anything.
4. You are NOT allowed to purchase agents - not even priests/imams
5. You are allowed to fight the battles in any way you see fit, even if it is downright dirty or cheap. However, all battles - aside for the odd tiny brigands that pop up from time to time - must be manually fought
6. You are allowed to save and reload. This is vital because you are bound to get a low authority faction leader at some point and the last thing you need is a whole stack of peasants turning rebel.
7. You may only make diplomatic offerings if the other faction initiates.
8. You are NOT allowed to call Crusades/Jihads
9. You are NOT allowed the sally out glitch - this would make the game too easy. Just in case you don't know, this is where the enemy sally out but right before the battle begins, in the first 1 or 2 seconds, you exit the battle, and it is declared a null battle. Would be easy to take out whole rebel settlements with 1 peasant.
10. All other glitches and non-cheat exploits are allowed.
11. Difficulty must be set to VH/VH.
12. No modifications. Must be Vanilla 1.03.
13. You must have all 112 regions by turn 226 and have defeated all factions - except papacy.

[Comrade Roboto]

Congrats man!

[Skald]

Huge work, congrats for your achievement!

[Vissewalde rex de Gerzika]

HArd earned rep coming your way. When or will you even be uploading this?

[totalwar_legend]

HArd earned rep coming your way. When or will you even be uploading this?

Thanks heaps. I recorded every single step I made on this campaign. All 280GB of it all. That's about 5 times larger than my blitz campaign. lol. I do intend to upload the peasant challenge series, but first I need to get back into finishing the blitz videos, which I have neglected this week. When I do get to the peasant challenge series it won't be as in depth as the blitz campaign because so many of the battles were similar or boring - or even worse - insanely long. Although, I am quite proud of some of them.

[grouchy13]

ha ha excellent a truly astonishing feat of TW skill and ingenuity +Rep, I look forward to your encroachment onto Warscape it appears that there is little left to prove in M2TW!

[Grymloq]

How did you managed to defeat Elephants?

[totalwar_legend]

How did you managed to defeat Elephants?

Canon Towers. The Timurids were no problem to defeat. They didn't take any of my settlements. The faction that gave me the most trouble was the mongols because they arrived before I could get canon towers set up.

[Rijul.J.Ballal]

Great achievement man....

[Dr. Conquest]

Next challenge . . . ballista campaign! Same rules as before, different unit.

[Vissewalde rex de Gerzika]

Next challenge . . . ballista campaign! Same rules as before, different unit.

Can balistas break down walls in vanilla?

[Dr. Conquest]

Can balistas break down walls in vanilla?

Nope. Only gates. And just you try using them as your exclusive melee unit . . .

[totalwar_legend]

Nope. Only gates. And just you try using them as your exclusive melee unit . . .

Uh, yes they can. A single unit of balista can knock down huge wall. I don't think this would be as hard as peasants. Balista troops have pretty average stats. Peasants have the lowest possible stats. Also balistas can be trained from castles and cities. Peasants cannot. Not going to try it though. Peasant campaign was too exhausting.

[Vissewalde rex de Gerzika]

Uh, yes they can. A single unit of balista can knock down huge wall. I don't think this would be as hard as peasants. Balista troops have pretty average stats. Peasants have the lowest possible stats. Also balistas can be trained from castles and cities. Peasants cannot. Not going to try it though. Peasant campaign was too exhausting.

There are far too few men in ballista units to do as much damage as a unit of pesants.

[snarst]

Rep you also need a beer

[Highlander of Scotland]

how about an agent challenge, you must eliminate every other faction in anyway possible but can fight no offensive battles, you can only build a max number of units for defense and can take a basic number of terriories. From their you can not go aggressive on every other faction but must destroy them. Try that as the moors, byzantines, spain,portugal or scotland.

[Vissewalde rex de Gerzika]

how about an agent challenge, you must eliminate every other faction in anyway possible but can fight no offensive battles, you can only build a max number of units for defense and can take a basic number of terriories. From their you can not go aggressive on every other faction but must destroy them. Try that as the moors, byzantines, spain,portugal or scotland.

That wouldnt be all that hard actually, you just need enough assaisins to kill the family members in a single turn. If you leave some alive then it wont work as the AI will always adopt a few more to give you more headaches.

[totalwar_legend]

how about an agent challenge, you must eliminate every other faction in anyway possible but can fight no offensive battles, you can only build a max number of units for defense and can take a basic number of terriories. From their you can not go aggressive on every other faction but must destroy them. Try that as the moors, byzantines, spain,portugal or scotland.

yeah I might do this one day. But it doesn't sound hard.

[Highlander of Scotland]

yeah I might do this one day. But it doesn't sound hard.

playing as scotland would be because you woud have limited contact with other peoples making it very hard to destroy them without a fight, think how are u going to take out the mongols with only agents, you can take your and dublin but must buy the rest or bribe them.

[complete noob:(]

playing as scotland would be because you woud have limited contact with other peoples making it very hard to destroy them without a fight, think how are u going to take out the mongols with only agents, you can take your and dublin but must buy the rest or bribe them.

Using only agents wouldn't be terribly hard.

Bribe a few settlements. Build the brothel line. Get a horde of assassins. Camp next to where the mongols will spawn. Kill the generals.

Same thing for every other enemy faction. All you need to do is assassinate the generals