Nation/Era with less micro

[Makinus]

As the title says, wich nations/era have less micromanagement for the player?

Obviously blood nations are out, as they have a lot of micro, but from the other nations, wich ones you need to micromanage less?

[Foodstamp]

Giant nations such as Niefelheim. Instead of massive armies, you run around the map with Jotuns and Jarls.

[Sombre]

Blood nations don't /have/ to have micro. Just play them with labs in every hunting province. Less effective by far, but also less micro by far.

[thejeff]

And frankly, blood micro is annoying but doesn't really take very long. Even with a lot of hunting provinces, it's only a few minutes of clicking every turn.

The real time hogs for me are more fundamental to the complexity of the game. Scripting for large battles. Setting up boosters, protection and gems for dozens of mages. Then changing it all next turn, when I've researched a new level.
Equipping 5-6 thugs/SCs a turn and forging gear for next turns set. Especially when they all have different needs due to different paths and/or enemies.
Running out of room in the lab, so all the gear for the above has to be offloaded onto other characters and then searched through when I need something.

That's where the hours go in my lategame turns.

[Gandalf Parker]

Auto-generators such as late Ermor and early Pangaea save alot of clicking for late game on larger maps. There are also spells which insure extra PD. Playing on maps which limit or even remove the independents can save on MM as can lowering the number of magic sites in a game.

[Sombre]

Late age Ermor involves MORE micro, as does LA Rlyeh (probably the most micro hell nation).

[elmokki]

Eriu doesn't need a lot of micro. Simple A/N (mostly anyway) mages, simple troops. The usual raiding thugs take some micro, but that's pretty much it.

That said, Eriu is pretty much an one trick pony.

[Squirrelloid]

... and that one trick sucks. I mean, raiding is good, but by itself isn't anything special.

Play on small maps. Seriously. Its the best way to reduce micro.

(The second best way to reduce micro is to make gem generators unique - either via CBM 1.6 or modding it yourself if you don't want the other CBM changes. Its hard to fill your lab in one turn just off global and province gem income - especially if you play on reasonably sized maps!)

[elmokki]

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid

... and that one trick sucks. I mean, raiding is good, but by itself isn't anything special.

Well, yeah, it's kind of obvious that any sort of one trick only nation will suck as it's not hard to guess what you'll have to counter

[Makinus]

Thank for the recommendations people... i´m having fun now with LA Utgard (sp?).

As i mainly play SP (using CBM 1.6, All Ages mod and Difficult AIs) it´s fun without too much micro....