Multiplayer Campaign - head to head

[Marakus]

Hi all,

There is plenty information to be found on multiplayer campaigns. However I can't seem to answer my question with certainty (that's probably my mistake) :) anyway here goes:

Myself and a friend would love to play a multiplayer campaign, which one doesn't really matter.

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We would want to be able to work together. So the mechanic as in the co-op campaign where you can lend forces per battle for your friend to use is awesome! However at some point we would want to see who of us is the biggest and strongest and start battling each other and that's something you definitely can't do in the co-op campaign (RIGHT??).

So that means the 'head to head' multiplayer campaign is the better(?) option for our "end game" plans. However, is or isn't it possible to fight together in the h2h campaign? It I am right the co-op variant (lending forces) is not possible, correct? But is it possible when allied to join in with a army as reinforcements or something like that? Or is h2h really only against each other?

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Well, I hope you can shed some light on this :) I guess it is fairly common that players want to work together but also want the option to fight each other at some point?

Thank you in advance!

[BlackTeo]

This works this way:
Battle begins with 1st Player army vs AI army, 2nd Player can either watch the battle (and 1st Player can give him his troops to play), or take the AI army under his control.
Even if its called "head to head", you still can make an alliance and fight together, but you cant take AI army under control until alliance is broken.
So you can work together and in the end face each other in massive battle, and also fight each other with AI armies until you make an alliance (then you can reinforce each other and so on).
Personally i think "Head to head" campaign is better, but i recommend to install a mod what changes victory conditions in "Head to head" campaign (capture 100 settlements or kill other player in Vanilla, some mods change it too 400 for example) because it will end fairly quickly if you planning an epic end game.

[Marakus]

Cool, thanks! It is clear now, head to head it will be :)