Re: SS Grand Campaign [estrategy and save games]
Alright I think this is going to be my focus once we start up the Campaign.
Its 1230 and we are in a position not of strength, but not of weakness either. I will guide us thru our infancy as an Order, and with your guidance build a strong foundation in which we will conquer the pagan and orthodox east. Our power will eventually draw the attention of our jeleous catholic brothers, so we must be on gaurd always. We dont want to end up like those poor Templar bast@rds will in about 77 years.
Ive taken it upon myself to make a few changes for the sake of getting this campaign going, besides Ataegina's mini mod (which is pretty sweet so far) Ive deleted the gaggle of clergy and given us a unit of Order Spearman. Ive changed the turns per year from one to two, for more accurate aging and more turns for all of our players. As well as editing the descr_character to add movement points to all, but mostly to agents. I hope these will be acceptable for all, as it improves gameplay imo. I will release these two files at the bottom of the post. To be plaid on VH/VH with large unit settings.
Ive decide, taken advice from a few of our compatriots that ambushushing the Lithunians is our best chance of gaining territory that isnt a boat ride away. Which Ateagina and a few others have pointed out that keeping a navy even of 2 ships will cost us close to 500 a turn and that would push us over the edge financially. I will let Denmark and Russia occupy themselves with those three rebel provinces. While we build our strength beating up on pagans they will be battling each other for provinces that will be ours in the long run. After succesfully taking Vilinius, a little over a quarter of my term, I will continue to destroy Lithuania to give us 2 castles and 2 cities to build our empire upon. This will strecth our defenses for the remainder of my term, as I will not declare war on a Catholic faction and in most cases only defend our postions, unless those Poles leave there Castle south of Konigsberg open for counter attack. As for Russia I will try to keep them friendly towards us with trade trights for as long as possible, a war with them is not what I want during this early period, but we may be at war with them before my term is up.
As for building I plan to expand our economy thru out. To build up our treasury and improve settlement growth. That means a port and farms to get us to the next wall level, which treasury willing I will build asap.
Our diplomat will head south to Poland, from there to HRE, France, Denmark, and Norway, maybe even England if they have landed on normandy by this time. Then return home to Konigsburg to head to Hungary, Kiev_Rus, Byzantium, Venice, Milan, The Pope, and then Sicily. Honestly I will talk to anyone I can to get trade rights from everyone. As far as Alliances I plan on getting one from Poland, HRE, Hungary, and The Pope. I dont think we should get to many as our reputation will start to suffer from our allies going to war and us decideing which side to side with. I have yet to decide what to do with the merchant we get. I would like to get him to the Gold in southern Hungary, but Im sure he will be a two bag merchant and we will end up losing him and the 550 florins it costs to get him. So I may wait until we can truly afford to get into the merchant wars.
So without further ado and/or any objections here are the two files I was talking about and we are writing our own history.
EDIT: Just saw that Chalapaku's Map Mod is out and Think it should be added in before we start. I'm downloading and will have a look at it. I dl it and its for the early campaign, With some modding we could use it for the Late campaign. Or switch factions to the Templars. Also Queen Annes Revenge has released a traits file that would improve all characters with less bad traits and ancillarys. What do you guys think?
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Originally Posted by Americanus Supremus
