Sit back and relax...

[Geox]

I've decided to change my gaming style:
I've decided to take a faction (The Spanish), Clear the Iberic peninsula from the moors and the portoguese, type the Toggle_fow cheat and... sit back and evolve
What do you think? will I have a chance?


P.S. I'm using RTJ mod.

[Lykaor]

Depending on your strength, you'll hold out some time.

[Skyler]

No you will fail! .

But on a serious note, using the fow cheat takes alot of the strategies away from the game, because you can counter each army that comes your way.

I only use the cheats every 20 years to see how everbody is doing.

[William the Bastard]

I've decided to take a faction (The Spanish), Clear the Iberic peninsula from the moors and the portoguese, type the Toggle_fow cheat and... sit back and evolve

I knew I should have patented my game style!

[thoscme]

how do you toggle fow off and on? always wondered, never found the answer
or is it something about a preferences.txt?

[eggthief]

Go to your console and then type toggle_fow. dont forget to use backspace when u opened it the first time to remove the `

[thoscme]

yeah, i know how to use toggle_fow, but how do you change back? if it is possible..

[Lusted]

You enter toggle_fow again.

[Skyler]

hey thoscme,
Repeat post #6 to turn fow on again.

[Irishman]

I did the exact same thing (minus toggle fow) and I was very advanced, rich and I was never defeated, but the Danes won, they achieved the victory conditions. That sucked...

[Lubeck]

I tend to use this strategy. Too easy to win if you just go out blitzkrieging. Like your spanish strategy of securing an easily defensible position I will conquer a region around my starting area and then let the AI go at it.

But I throw in a twist. Rather than sit back and be bored for a hundred years I play "power broker".

What is that? That is creating alliances with factions you like and using your own personal armies to further their needs.

Example you ask? As Sicily I decided I would be Lord of the Med (keeps the naval battles which are BS anyways to a low) and let HRE be the Lord of Europe. So once I had the western Med secured I started fighting battles with the HRE (keep a stack next to their armies you fight together). Now 200 years in HRE controls most of western Europe while I control the Med and Iberia. Sure I will eventually have to wage war on HRE to conquer Europe but they will be a very strong opponent. Nice to set yourself up for a massive war.

[Little_Mikey]

the precious no like the cheatsies,

No seriously cheating is ....... wrong, but it's your gaming experience to ruin.

[Plutarch]

it would take so long to watch all the factions make their moves on big maps lol

[Aristocrat]

Moved to Battle Planning.

[UhOhIt'sAnArrow]

I always thought about doing that. I think if your cities are weatlhy enough, and you have good enoguh trade you could at least keep yourself from getting annihilated if you built up those same cities

[Geox]

I also think that when the new world is discovered I'll have all that i need to conquer it :p

[Geox]

After 100ish turns I started, finally, to make some money and have a 2 or 3 huge cities.
The moors sit (stupidly) by their side of the Gibraltar strait and the Milanese which conquered all the southern coast of France are allied with me; the Scottish and the French fought together the English and defeated them in 3 turns!
The HRE instead is getting excommunicated 3 times a turn even tho they have the biggest territory, while the turks, that started really well, are getting crushed by the Egyptians.

[UhOhIt'sAnArrow]

Do you use the cheat to see the whole map? or do you just constantly get map info?