Thank you for tis excelent scenario. This was my first foray into Civ mods and fan-made scenarios, and this entire web site, basically. What an excelent place to find online! My thanks to the entire community in general, and especially to the mod//scenario authors here.
I played Hungary at Monarch level. I slogged it out to a domination victory with about 10 turns to spare. Hungary was never really pressed hard, but OTOH I benefitted from a few early breaks.
I sent one third of my starting army to face the Ventians, and the remainder south to capture barbarian lands. Trieste fell very early thanks to a very lucky opening attack, in what was a very uncertain assault. After that a small screening force patiently laid siege to Venice itself for a half-century or so. I was thus freed to apply my army to the southern front and a sequence of limited wars with the barbarians, Byzantines, and Ottoman.
As I reached mid-game, I delayed my planned attack on the HRE behemoth by a 2-3 turns in order to build badly-needed garrison units. During that delay the Ottoman empire struck my southern border. I was thus spared from a two-front war.
Later on the exact same thing happened in reverse. I had to delay the final war to clear out the south. In the 2-3 turn delay the HRE decided to launch its atempt to recapture Graz. Once again the mighty Hungarian army found itself launching an offensive in exactly the opposite direction as was expected.
Absent these breaks, Hungary might have found matters rather more difficult. Her mixed Catholic/Orthodox population give her trouble with popularity. Many city have scarce farmland, so growth is slow.
OTOH, she has small, highly-fragmented opponents to the west and south, and freidns to the east and north-east. So long as the HRE to the north-west remains neutral, Hungary significantly outweighs any one of her enemies, Venice, the Ottomans, and Byzantium. Hungary might be one of the easiest positions to play.
Oh, as for technology, I was was able to run at 80-100% science for most of the game. Conquest is very lucrative. Hungary has early problems, but those cleared up very quickly in my run.
Perhaps the Ottomans should be less fragmented at the start, perhaps taking a barbarian city and making it Ottoman? And even one more starting garrison unit in Tireste would complicate matters for Hungary in 1380.
I do not mean to sound critical. I just want to offer some feedback in exchange for the wonderful work you did here. I want to give it another go, with Scotland maybe, or Good King Wencesla.. Wenclese.... Bohemia!
Thanks again.
why not include more of the rest of the world, add like israel, the different Caliphates( or how you spell it in English) or something.
