Least favorite Conquest

[Tavenier]

Fall of Rome. Only one I didn't played 10 turns with. Just disliked it. Can't tell you precisely why.
Second worst would be WW2.

I like all the rest, especially Napoleon and Mesoamerica. Mesopotamia is good too.

 

[Lord_Sidious]

WW2 it's very boring.Why?
Playing as the US the japnese always deafeated me
As japenese the US always deafeated me

 

[Punkymonkey]

I feel like the Age of discovery is kinda thrown together and doesn't do a good job of accurately potraying the era. However thats just my opinion

 

[The Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Rolo Master
WW2 it's very boring.Why?
Playing as the US the japnese always deafeated me
As japenese the US always deafeated me

This surprises me, because in my experience, this is pretty much the Conquest the AI is worst in. When I played it as the Japanese, the Americans went totally passive after I took Hilo, which made i kind of easy beating up what remained of the rest of the allies in Indonesia, Burma and China.

Despite this, it was a great fun.

 

[Rushton]

I found The Fall of Rome to be extremely irritating and the most difficult to win even on an easy level. First I took out the Western Romans and a couple of other tribes but lost to the Eastern Romans as they hit 35,000 points just before I could wipe them out

Then I worked out that both the Roman civs needed to be destroyed first......great but I was still 10,000 points short (and I thought this was called the Fall of Rome ) All the other civs were flooding the world with units and I had to kill off half of them and lose a few cities myself to win.

It's just one large irritating boring blood bath at the end

 

[ummmm........]

The end of Fall of Rome is gets a little better at the end if you rely on diplomacy to wipe out your big rivals. The rogue state doctrine works REALLY well in this one. Still a little boring with all the units running around.

 

[t3h_m013]

Originally posted by The Last Conformist
This surprises me, because in my experience, this is pretty much the Conquest the AI is worst in. When I played it as the Japanese, the Americans went totally passive after I took Hilo, which made i kind of easy beating up what remained of the rest of the allies in Indonesia, Burma and China.

Despite this, it was a great fun.

i agree that its not hard, admitadly i only played it on warlord (the only conquest ive played so far as im into epics) but as commonwealth you can just slowly produce units and work your way up from thailand. what im doing anyway.

 

[lord42]

Fall of Rome was the worst. No victory after killing them... Just space baring for 30 turns... maybe I should try it again, oh well.

Oh and midages rocks.

 

[unscratchedfoot]

Middle Ages blows big style cause it is way too big and my computer pretty much stopped on it. Also, it is too easy to win for those who cheat by doing the cheesy ROP rape.

Napoleon conquest is best!!!

 

[Cuivienen]

Least favorite? Fall of Rome, followed by WWII Pacific. Sengoku and Age of Discovery are also not that great.

Fall of Rome's problem is that the whole game is fighting. Diplomacy is not terribly effective, and the constant risk of losing 8 cities make the game very nerve-wracking. The game is poorly thought out and you can't play as Rome. Enough said.

WWII Pacific is just my general hatred of the Modern Age, Railroads, Airstrips and Airports. Such fast movement makes the game extremely boring, and all of WWII Pacific is island-hopping.

Sengoku isn't exactly bad, it just isn't that different from the Epic Game. Not really worth playing.

Age of Discovery is bad because the AI has no concept of how to win the scenario. In addition, the whole thing seems thrown together and haphazard.

 

[holy king]

ww2 ??????
why ?
i think its great, try to play as china!

 

[unscratchedfoot]

Originally posted by holy king
ww2 ??????
why ?
i think its great, try to play as china!

Yeah, and is better you turn off air transfers which is unrealistic. And you can shut off railroads too which I do cause they are also unrealistic with instant movement. Tinker with the units a bit so the AI uses soldiers and tanks, not just flamethrowers for everything.

 

[Aggie]

Originally posted by Cuivienen
Least favorite? Fall of Rome, followed by WWII Pacific. Sengoku and Age of Discovery are also not that great.

Fall of Rome's problem is that the whole game is fighting. Diplomacy is not terribly effective, and the constant risk of losing 8 cities make the game very nerve-wracking. The game is poorly thought out and you can't play as Rome. Enough said.

Nerve-wracking is the thing that appeals me in this scenario! But the fact that the end of Rome doesn't mean the end of the game makes it a strange scenario. And therefore it's also my least favorite.

Middle Ages with the Vikings also isn't very interesting. Even on deity you can easily take two relics very early in the game (in the first 10 turns, the AI hasn't got a lot of troops by then and the berserk/longboat are Uber-Units). And you start with enough longboats and berserks to then sail to Jerusalem and drop them off. Imho there should be a restriction to make it impossible for vikings to capture and drop off relics.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Have to agree with Aggie; though the fact we were able to win Middle Ages easily at Deity with the Danes don't make that a bad Scenario, we just picked the easiest Civ.
Surprisingly, I really like FoR. And you can play as Rome, if you use the 'Rome Everlasting'-Scenario; but considering most people complain about not being able to win FoR ("It's a bad Scenario, because East Rome beat me!" - Hey, they even won in reality!), it was a wise decision to not make them available in the original Conquest....

My least favorites:

Mesoamerica. Faaaaaaaar worse than anything else. Cool concepts (Sacrificing!), but absolutely Yes or No - up to DG, I win without any thinking, above I loose.

AoD. Unlike Sacrificing, the AI simply wasn't teached how to use tzhe Shipments. Nice Scen otherwise, but too easy without selfréstrictions (like no own shipments).

RoR. Tedious micromanaging until the Dom level.
Sengoku. Yamabushis.

But in fact, I enjoyed everything except Mesoamerica.

 

[AdHHH]

Napoléon is certainly frustrating me the most, although I just couldn't get into Rise Of Rome, so I plumped for that.

 

[Eyeoftiger]

I don't like the WWII conquest. If I have another battleship losing to another freaking transport I'm going to scream!!

 

[pirke]

Mesopotamia is my least fun, but I haven't played them all, currently doing the napoleonic and haven't done ww2 yet.
this napoleonic is one of my favorites, as is age of discovery when it is played good by the ai. Fall of Rome is pretty fun, after Rome just kill the others. Medieval is also a great conquest.

 

[Vizurok]

Sengoku... Its just an epic game, and its totally foreign for a Europan like me!
As Mesoamerica, but I hate the jungles, too.

I cant understand whats the matter with WWII, that's my favourite. As holy king said: try with China, it is not island jumping!

 

[ummmm........]

The jungles aren't so bad in Mesoamerica. They don't cause disease, and they produce like a bonus grassland (2/1/0). Plus, you can irrigate or mine them, just like any other tile. Plus, once you learn irrigation (comes with terrace farming, I think) you can irrigate any tile for the +1 food, including mountains. An irrigated mountain looks kinda weird, though.

 

[Masquerouge]

Fall of Rome I really didn't like. It's just that I expected to play roaming hordes that crushed everything on their way, and guess what ? You start with lousy settlers, a handful of naked horsemen, and you have to go through the tedious process of BUILDING cities and infrastructures even though you're a HUN !!!!
It would have been much more fun if you started with, say, 100s of awesome fighters with a lot of MP BUT you couldn't get settlers. The only way to have cities would be to grab them ! So if you loose too many fighters, you're in trouble !