What's the best campaign

[Napalm]

Hey guys, started the Joan campaign and so far it's pretty fun but I'm wondering what to start next. Let me know what are your favorite campaigns to play.

[Heinrich]

just avoid Le loi , Suryavarman and Jiyad. These three campaigns are lame. You find yourself waste time unnecessarily.
I guess other age of Kings and conqueror campaigns are recommendable

[Coupleader]

Do age of kings ones, they are most entertaining !!!

[ilam]

Just avoid Asian Campaigns except Genghis Khan and Tamerlane
Most of them are designed truly hard to play and no any interesting things you will encounter.
But if you like to play with challenge, you can try them on hard. All of them have no any fun made by triggers, only econ growing up/speedrun you can do. Ultimate conquest is the only thing.
Among all Le Loi will be the insanely hardest for you, AOK, FE, Last Khan Campaigns are not that hard at all.

[Capybara]

I'd say half of the original campaigns are just standard conquest games, either 2v2s, 1v3s, 1v4s, 2v3s ... with the objective to either destroy enemy castles or just flatout beat all opponents

AoC and the expansions' campaigns are more interesting in that regard

[Napalm]

How do I know which ones are dlc? Are those age of kings missions dlc?

[Napalm]

Same with conqueror campaigns, how do I know if the campaign I choose is from the conquered dlc?

[Sarah~Lafayette]

When you hover over a campaign it gives you the description. at the top of that text box is a colored bar that will tell you with DLC (or the base game) it is from.

[Kourosh]

Ivaylo has good story and all kinds of gameplay, if you're into that kind of thing. If you just want to focus on fighting, then Kotyan Khan is fine. Also, the Mongols campaign is to me the most classic.

[Karl Perkins]

Attila the Hun has always been one of my favorites. Good scenarios and great naration (in original)

[BlackScorpion333]

My favorite's are Ghengis Khan, the Huns and Saladin. Great stories.

[super]

Originally posted by Panzerfaust:

Hey guys, started the Joan campaign and so far it's pretty fun but I'm wondering what to start next. Let me know what are your favorite campaigns to play.

well i think the newly remaked Forgotten Empires campaigns are pretty good too.

[Jooooo]

Kotan Khan, de los cumanos. Sin dudas, de los mejores del juego y teniendo en cuenta que este ha sido uno de los nuevos.

[Pev]

Attila the hun was most fun of all i think

[HEKTOOR]

Ivaylo for sure

[mickeyjim2]

All 3 of the Last Khan campaigns - Ivaylo (Bulgarians), Tamerlane (Tatars) and Kotyan (Cumans) are excellent. The Aztec and Hun campaigns from the Conquerors are also great, though I'm not a fan of El Cid personally since its the Spanish campaign but you play as Saracens for a 1/3rd of it.

I disgree with the comment that said you should avoid the Asian campaigns. They're all great but they are some of the more challenging ones. The Vietnamese, Malay and Indian ones are quite challenging but they are enjoyable overall. The Mongol campaign is also a classic.

The Forgotten Empires campaigns are a mixed bag. I loved Alaric (Goths), but didn't really enjoy Sforza (Italians) since every single mission is Italians vs Italians which means you never actually get to use gunpowder units (the Italian civ's strength) because your opponents are all spamming Condotierros. Dracula could have been good but most of the missions have some sort of gimmick attached which I found got in the way of my enjoyment of the mission. It also makes you switch civs multiple times from Turks to Magyars to Slavs to Magyars again which I'm not a fan of.

The African Kingdoms campaigns were the ones I enjoyed the least. The Berbers one is set in Spain and France, which makes sense in terms of the story they chose but I personally wanted a campaign set in North Africa. Its just strange for me to be using camels in lush green forests and snowy mountains. A more legitimate complaint is that your main opponent in the Berber campaigns is Goths, so you want to make camel archers and heavy camels as berbers but those units are useless for most of the Berber campaign since you're fighting huskarls and pikes. There was only mission in the Portuguese campaign that I liked - the one in Zanzibar. All the other missions have you heavily constricted in some way, be it scarce resources that force you to make it to imperial age to make fetioras, population caps or even physical space, since the 2nd and 4th missions you begin with a tiny base that's already full of buildings and there's nowhere to start your economy. Yodit (Ethipoians) was the most annoying campaign in the entire game for me. Again, you never get a chance to utilise the Ethiopian tech tree to its fullest, since most of your opponents are also Ethiopians, and some of the missions have some really annoying gimmicks like infinitely spawning bandits in the 2nd mission.