Just wow. The first sub 1 hour Original Campaign. I have seen the trick where you aggro the pots to the corner of the royal castle before. The ale trick was pretty cool. You can squeeze out a few more troops. The one optimization that really blew my mind was splitting armies on Rose. Even though you had the bad spawn on Germany, that was still a very solid run on that map. The A.I. didn't get out of control like they did on my last run. I'm not going to lie, if I had an Italy like yours, I probably would have restarted the run there. Lol. You are right about the cart in Trebizond. That was like finding a unicorn in the wild.
You might have already read my comment. I deleted it because it looked like it double posted. Well anyway. The tricks were the pot aggro, the battering ram blocking troops in the royal castle, and I moved the battering ram using the "1" on the keyboard instead of clicking on it. The game automatically assigned that hotkey to the ram. The ale definitely helped me get some extra troops out. The Rose optimization was only for that county and it isn't faster than if you spawn in the right or left side and do it normally. The bottom county gets the merchant later and you have to move from left to right or vice versa so I came up with that to avoid having to start over. You are right my run on Germany was pretty solid despite not getting a nice county there. My best time for Germany thus far has been about 12 minutes. This one was in about 14 minutes. Luckily it was fast enough to get me under an hour.
Just wow. The first sub 1 hour Original Campaign. I have seen the trick where you aggro the pots to the corner of the royal castle before. The ale trick was pretty cool. You can squeeze out a few more troops. The one optimization that really blew my mind was splitting armies on Rose. Even though you had the bad spawn on Germany, that was still a very solid run on that map. The A.I. didn't get out of control like they did on my last run. I'm not going to lie, if I had an Italy like yours, I probably would have restarted the run there. Lol. You are right about the cart in Trebizond. That was like finding a unicorn in the wild.
You might have already read my comment. I deleted it because it looked like it double posted. Well anyway. The tricks were the pot aggro, the battering ram blocking troops in the royal castle, and I moved the battering ram using the "1" on the keyboard instead of clicking on it. The game automatically assigned that hotkey to the ram. The ale definitely helped me get some extra troops out. The Rose optimization was only for that county and it isn't faster than if you spawn in the right or left side and do it normally. The bottom county gets the merchant later and you have to move from left to right or vice versa so I came up with that to avoid having to start over. You are right my run on Germany was pretty solid despite not getting a nice county there. My best time for Germany thus far has been about 12 minutes. This one was in about 14 minutes. Luckily it was fast enough to get me under an hour.