mod: 1220 extremely hard?

[Archize Ragni]

Anyone having a very hard time with 1220? No matter the faction, I just get rolled over non-stop.

[Hat8]

Originally posted by Archize Ragni:

Anyone having a very hard time with 1220? No matter the faction, I just get rolled over non-stop.

How have you been playing?

[Archize Ragni]

Doing this for example for England:

Take the islands as Ireland and Scots generally go to war.

Then..French go to war with me 100% of the time so far...along with the Spanish factions. Usually I am then stuck with fighting 4-5 full attacks per turn.

Meanwhile they attack me, I try and get as much trades going as possible as the constant attacks are very costly.

[ragnar2122]

Same happens to me when I play as England....France and their allies are too much...not sure if its script issue or balance issue, or if I just give up too soon...
They chased me back to UK where I tried to get some high tier stacks to counter, and then denmark lands with 5 stacks on my coast and im done....
Waiting for 1212 for another medi campaign....maybe better script....

[Archize Ragni]

Only way to counter this was to go on the easy mode...which is a shame since I like playing on legendary.

[Mac]

The AI cheats heavily in the 1220 mod, the creator even admitted that and basically said sth. along the lines of "it's a hard mod, deal with it, or not".

I did do one run with the 1220 mod about a half a year ago or so as the Teutonic Order and played till like turn 200. I remember securing some nearby provinces first at which point I already realized that for some odd reason my neighbours have twice as many units as me despite only having half the amount of cities. I then decided to make a bold move and sent all my armies to Italy in order to capture the rich cities there, including Rome. After I secured Italy and Rome I abandoned all my former cities in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe and fully focused on the Mediterranean. I captured Carthage and made it to about Egypt at which point I basically stopped having fun because no matter how often I beat their armies, they always immediately recruited another full army stack out of thin air. The relocation was also good in hindsight because the Huns? Was it the Huns? Or whatever but some nomadic faction keeps spawning in the East and no matter how many times you destroy them, they always immediately spawn back with full army stacks. I found that the artillery in the game is really powerful so if you recruit strong units along with several artillery and kind of just wait out the fight and let your artillery hammer away at the enemy then you can beat armies twice or thrice your own size.

[pilad89]

I would say very slow and fairly hard. Mostly because of the high upkeep price for most units which is a burden for small factions. I've played it with a mod to lower the upkeep price and it was much faster and much more playable.

[Nigerian Prince]

Originally posted by pilad89:

I would say very slow and fairly hard. Mostly because of the high upkeep price for most units which is a burden for small factions. I've played it with a mod to lower the upkeep price and it was much faster and much more playable.

I play with -50% upkeep mod but I play Kingdom of Georgia, and I still start out with negative income :T. Mod author is kind of toxic too

[nemanjaC]

I am also playing England and i really didnt have much problems, i conquered entire France, HRE and bunch of small states and im getting 60-70k gold per turn, pretty much impossible to lose now. France and HRE did have many stacks of armies but with help of assasins and just separating their troops i managed to defeat them, i did loose lots of full stacks also but its going very smoothly so far. I made allies with many nations and trade agreements with basically everyone that was possible, also i suggest building The fort building in religion sector to regurt those crusade armies.

[BRAN MAC BORN]

Use the Bran Campaign AI sub mod and the AI will eat you.

[λятεм]

Just play 1212 ad mod its almost the same even with better futures ;p