Houserules

[PhallosMaximus]

On my first long campaign on VH/VH as England I was very effecient and it was all over by turn 80.

Then for my next campaign for France (VH/VH) I made up some houserules to stretch the game:

1. I would never attack a faction first, but only defend my self.

2. When the Pope ordered me to stop killing other catholics, I would.

3: I would never get excommunicated, no matter what.

So now I am on turn 50 and I have only 23 regions. I'm at war with 8 factions that all attacked me first, and I have followed all the Popes orders including taking Antioch and Jerusalem on crusades.

But when you have besieged 5 cities at a time, and the Pope says "NO, NO" its really hard just to lift the siege and wait... but I do it.

Cheers,

[KIllerGecko]

Lol nice, i usually play by the Attack when Attacked rule, doing that and only doing Minor retaliations (like 1 or 2 cities at most). But nice job on managing the pope, usually i just say screw it and blitz the cloest enemy that i can bottle neck. Aka, take over iberia and block off Spain-Moors and focus the rest back on europe.
But, if you're looking for a much more difficult campaign as the british, check out my sig.

[PhallosMaximus]

Yeah, now I have armies outside Leon, Toledo, Valencia, Hamburg, Vienna and Milan that had to lift sieges, just waiting for the Popes ban to run out so I can take the cities.
I'm giving them catapults and trebuchets so it will be all over in one turn, not giving the Pope a new chance to issue bans.

Btw I have stopped using spies,- they give the player to big an advantage and a lot of open gates,- no fun.

Cheers,

[lightbringer418]

If you already were sieging the cities, and the pope told you to stop, you wouldnt have been excomunicated.

Because you had already engaged your enemy. If you had laid siege during his ban, then you would fail the mission. But assaulting when you had already laid siege would not have failed the mission. You could have taken those cities.

[PhallosMaximus]

If you already were sieging the cities, and the pope told you to stop, you wouldnt have been excomunicated.

Because you had already engaged your enemy. If you had laid siege during his ban, then you would fail the mission. But assaulting when you had already laid siege would not have failed the mission. You could have taken those cities.

That is not true. I tried once as England to take Metz anyway and I was excommunicated. The ban came when I had sieged Metz for 1 turn.