MR & SP

[Boron]

magnate said:
Boron - no, I confess that I've not played every single theme! I will continue to explore them all, but I have to say that so far I've not found the theme to make much difference, providing I capitalise on its advantages and play around its weaknesses. I am playing pretty crowded maps though, where capitals are often only 2 or 3 provinces apart. In my last game I was stunned to hear Atlantis wiped out on turn 10 or so - it turned out they'd started two provinces from Ulm and Ulm's stronger dominion had snuffed them. Interesting. I will try S&A and New Age and see how they go.

Wow that's pretty good winning crowded maps vs. impossible AIs. I always find that quite difficult .

You could do the following to quickly improve the AI a little bit more:
Add this line to one of the mods you are playing, best to Zens Scales:
"#supplymult 1000"
This way there is 10 times more supply than in vanilla.
Furthermore you can also add
"#resourcemult 1000"
then there are 10 times more Resources too. This will help yourself too but at least the impossible AIs tend to build at least 20, rather 40-50 national troops per turn in their Capitol, their only fort.
Especially Ulm or Jotunheim are then much more dangerous earlygame since they will attack you with "hordes" of black knights or Jotuns.

This will help you at least a short time and then hopefully The_Paladin has published his tools, then you can make the AI as challenging as you want .