SP benchmark

[rdonj]

Glory of the gods is *way* too big for me to play on. In SP I stick generally to maps that are 200 provinces or less. And 200 is TOO BIG for me to finish. I don't think I've ever conquered more than half of Shahrivar, which is a mere 165 provinces. Anyway. Right now I have an SP game on Riverlands (235 provinces) where I own ~80 provinces and am basically invulnerable, so I've largely given up on that game. It will take a while to win, but I have 0 possibility of losing at this point and literally thousands of gems and blood slaves sitting around that I'm too lazy to use. This is with Sylvania, which I consider a very slow nation in SP. I've also got a game on a 60 province map in about mid year 3 where there's only 16 enemy provinces left and I'll win eventually, but I probably won't finish it for a while because I'll be artificially delaying the computer's demise. And I recently won a game conquering everything on sixlands (90 provinces) in year 5 or 6, despite at one point basically not playing for something like a year trying to let the AIs advance a little because I had been crushing AIs left and right for most of the game and wanted more of a challenge for my armies. Sadly I didn't get it. (I also was waiting for them to attack me, which is something of a house rule I have for fighting the AI, I always wait for them to attack first. It could be noted that I waited until year 3 to attack any AIs in that game as a result of that rule)

A 480 province map like glory of the gods I would never, ever finish. The multiplayer version would be pretty similar to riverlands, except I hate all of the mapmove 1 terrain on that map so I'd probably give it up earlier :P