some of the runs on bigbassie30's youtube page appear to be faster than the actual listed world records on this site. I went through and compared the times manually; the list is below. Hopefully it's complete, though I may have missed one or two.

third greek war 1:28, beats 1:43

spartacus 15:15, beats 19:49

queen zenobia 6:45, beats 7:59

caesar vs pirates 13.46, beats 15:31

phyrrus of epirus 9:54, beats 10:01

farming 4:18, beats 4:47

siege in canaan 9:02, beats 10:17

xenophon's march 6:14, beatts 6:19

i shall return 14:24, beats 20:46

mountain temple 21:31, beats 22:03

canyon of death 2:44, beats 3:19

a friend in need 9:34, beats 10:14

syracuse 9:28, beats 12:50

metaurus 9:14, beats 12:58

A majority of the campaign scenarios can be won without destroying all enemies, and hence involve making the fastest beeline possible to the goal.

I've been doing some "conquest" runs lately, in which I simply destroy all enemies (excluding non-war boats, which don't count toward survival). For the vast majority of campaign scenarios, doing this automatically wins the mission, even if the explicit goal is something else. There are a few exceptions, for example in Tigris Valley you still must deliver the artifacts even if you destroy everyone.

I'm curious as to how quickly some of the campaign scenarios can be done with "destroy all enemies", e.g. conquest, particularly scenarios like Coming of the Huns (which would involve killing not just red, but also yellow and orange) and also Battle of Tunes.

For example, here's a Battle of Tunes hardest/fastest conquest in about 37 min RTA, played on the demo version: ... Of course, I'm not nearly as good as the top players here, so I have a feeling if someone much more experienced took a shot at this, they could get this one down to say low 20s.

More generally, I think conquest runs of campaigns (of course, not counting the ones whose official goal is already conquest, like Lord of the Euphrates) would be interesting, since the strategies involved may be completely different, but equally, if not more, interesting.

current leaderboard says record is 8:44, but this video by big bassie is 6:28

or have I missed something?