Hooray! (I won)

**Greek Fire 19** · September 20, 2006, 05:50 PM

I was only playing on M/M (because I was fed up with losing all the time) but given the difficulty of ATW, I'm still a bit proud of myself. The hardest battles were against the angles. They had a couple of full stacks that came out of nowhere at one point, when I had just lost a big battle, and took 2 or 3 cities off me before I recovered. It's a very different game to playing as the germanic factions. With Dumnonia I was relying on heavy cavalry almost exclusively to win my battles. Infantry mostly just held the enemy while my cavalry got behind them.

**Shazbot** · September 20, 2006, 06:02 PM

Very nice, do it on H/H and I'll be impressed.

**swabian** · September 20, 2006, 06:07 PM

hmm... 67 rounds... did you update to 0.62?

**Greek Fire 19** · September 20, 2006, 06:49 PM

uh...You mean the latest one? With Sprites? No, I didn't, In fact I finished with this campaign almost a week ago, It's just I only got round to posting it today. The reason it's still so early in the game is because everyone kept attacking me (I really wanted a bit of peace to build buildings and roads and stuff, honest) so I had to invade them, and after I got out of debt I was making a lot of money per turn, as you can see from my treasury, so I was able to buy all the mercenaries I could get my hands on, and train troops constantly. After I beat the saxons and the jutes it became a lot easier because all my wars were along my northern border. It became easier still when I'd taken east anglia.

**Gaius Baltar** · September 20, 2006, 07:32 PM

With Dumnonia I was relying on heavy cavalry almost exclusively to win my battles. Infantry mostly just held the enemy while my cavalry got behind them

Thats excatly how I am fighting with Dynfeint. Saxons are very tough though, their infantry can often take a cavalry charge, expecially in the woods. I have to outnumber them to beat them.

**Aristocrat** · September 20, 2006, 07:43 PM

Try VH/VH, now thats a challenge, as the Connacht I had to resort to assassins to eliminate the other Irish factions (and I bribed the Dal Riada out of Ireland.....that cost me so much money that the family member must live in a golden palace on a mountain made of gold....).
Either way I am the king of Ireland...if in name only considering half of it (or more) is still rebel, but nevertheless, hail to the king...the mad, gay, sodomising, drunken, King. (My faction leader has issues).

**swabian** · September 20, 2006, 10:41 PM

hoh damn.. guys. 062 is way way more difficult... try the Jutes with 062 on H/VH.. it's just awsome. I currently have a DRAMATIC campaign with the Jutes, after i have given up on VH/VH with the Saxons. The economy in 062 grows very slowly and the factions are much better balanced. I think even M/VH can be challenging with 062. I'm very very contentious with this build :] Next we'll add naval behaviour for Mumainha and whatnot and new... extremely cool TOP SECRET stuff is to expect in following patches

**Agraes** · September 21, 2006, 12:11 AM

I won my Gwynedd campaign around 520 AD in VH/VH started on 0.6. It was way too easy at the end with the heavy cav, now in 0.62 it will be really different :tooth: