Honestly don't think I've ever finished a TW campaign to the end and I've been playing since Rome 1 released.

>>1896287
it's always been the journey and not the destination for me
i only ever finished 1 rome total war campaign as brutii

>>1896287
>conquer entire world in medieval 2
>what's this?
>an entirely new continent spawned

>>1895915
Who would win?

I just keep playing until I get bored or win by accident.

>>1897117
I love the World is Round event. Shame that almost every M2TW mod cuts America off

I hate siege assaults so fucking much, bros.

The AI isn't interesting enough to play against for a long-term campaign. It tends to just turn into me snowballing after the first 20 turns (if not sooner) after which point I quit.
>difficulty mods
no, they just give the AI mega aids cheats so they shit out billions are armies.

>>1895915
>pick short campaign
>play until win
>continue playing until finished/bored

>>1896287
i think i'm about to finish my first ever long campaign after playing rtw on and off for 15 years. i'm playing as the scythians and have been reading up on scythian and sauromatian/sarmatian culture which has helped sustain my interest since i can appreciate them more. i'm also playing on rome remastered with danymok's unit mod which fleshes out the faction rosters a bit in a vanilla friendly way (like a variant of cataphracts for the scythians and more mercenaries so i can fill out my roster with local anvil fodder), and that has also made the playthrough feel fresh

I like the way TWWH3 does it with the Immortal Empires campaign. You don't pick short or long campaign, you just pick your faction and it gives you a short, long and "ultimate" goal. So you don't have to decide for how long you want to play the game, you can simply start playing and go on until you reach a short victory, all the way to full map domination, or anywhere in between.