Nothing more to say than: Holy (crap), dude.
Nothing more to say than: Holy (crap), dude.
Amazing thread; keep 'em coming.
Amazing, just amazing. What faction you were playing Babagitta??
And was that SS 6.1??
CHEERS
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أسد العراق Asad al-Iraq
KOSOVO IS SERBIA!!!
Under the proud patronage of the magnificent Tzar
Aragon needs a new Leader!
Here's a fresh Empire if you like to continue playing. Follow the link and download my save (turn 87).
Have fun!
http://rapidshare.com/files/137010149/Aragon_turn_87.sav
Details.
The Empire is stable with a healthy economy (150.000 flos).
Game: SS6.1 (clean - no sub mods)
Difficulty: hard/hard
Allies: None (I've been excommunicated 4 times so forget the alliances).
Pope: Paranoid (a high skilled assassin is watching him).
Regions Controlled: 78.
Forces.
Scottish Highlands: 2 armies.
Ireland: 1 army (Dublin).
Central Europe: 5 armies (Saxony, Magdeburg, Nuremburg, Francia, Salzburg).
Balkans: 1 army (Durazzo).
Alexandria, Cairo, Damietta, Gaza and Jerusalem are under our controll and our forces are moving south to Luxor.
There are plenty of money so you can create powerful armies and use any kind of strategy.
Good luck!
Babagitta, the Templars are still alive at turn 86? I've never seen them live past 30. Did you Crusade there really early on or something?
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Shenryyr
I have just started a Dane Campaign on M/M, I know lightweight, first proper game. Tell me what did you do with the Norwegians and HRE? Were the Poles a pain?
I have just called a Crusade, thinking sending an army overland and sacking Byzantium on the way? I hire as many Viking Mercenaries as I can, they seem to be excellent troops.
One question for all of you who have more than uh, let's say 20 settlements at once. How do you manage all of them? I can never do it. An empire of 10 settlements is troublesome enough for me.
I'm no Shenryyr, but... I'm playing Danes on M/VH. Don't worry abour HRE, first capture Hamburg. This is the most important thing, once you capture Hamburg and put some garrison to defend it, your entire future empire will be secure. Then move up North to capture Oslo, now that you have the choke point, Norwegians can't advance East. So send an army to wipe them out, or you can conquer the 4 settlements to your East, then wipe out Norwegian, your choice. Alliance with Poland and Russia so they won't invade your East and hopefully they'll be busy trying to get rid of the Lithuanians.
After you secure your empire, send your army south. DO NOT call a crusade on HRE unless you know, for certain, that your crusade army can get there first, because if you don't, then you'll have another faction's full stack in your way (which is not good).
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Once I get to about 20 settlements, i'm generally well off with money so I put all taxes to Low (if they wern't already, I usually play my games all the way with low taxes). Then I just build up my settlements (as I generally turtle until I get huge cities and my best units at this point). Usually I just see to settlements simply by going onto the Construction scroll that pops up at the beginning of each turn. Anywhere where something is finished, I build something else.
After enough settlements, i've generally got so much money I don't know what to do with. Bar building crucial buildings like churches / wall upgrades, I don't build anything (except my core settlements, the huge cities). I just spam recruits (of well, anything) on any settlement at my borders and then wage all out war (if i'm not bored yet).
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Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
I manage each and every settlement, changing tax levels and building and recruiting. I do not allow any automanage as it builds too much and the wrong things. I toggle between each settlement , have a piece of paper, pencil, record if there is a General, what I build next, how much it costs. This is the only way I personally feel I can keep in touch with what is going on. Once a City is in a safe area, no chance of attack I reduce the Garrison to minima. I am tight with spending and generally do not hire Mercenaries. I want the MONEY!
It was a surprise for me too! They are doing well after I came into that area.
After I took Alexandria I called a Crusade to take Cairo. That was my one and only Crusade.
I was unlucky: 4 excommunications and only 3 allies (Moors, HRE, England).
Btw, you're doing very well in your campaign!
Finally finished my Aragon campaign. My AAR is in the subforum if anyone wants a more indepth look.
Never beat the entire map in vanilla, let alone with SS until now. Was surprisingly easy going after gaining normal victory. Kinda disapointed that the Mongols didn't do anything to me though. They just sacked about 4 Khwarzemi places and that was it.
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Thats crazy dude. Turn 131 and you took all over the place? By that time i would have at the very best taken only half the map. But again, i only got past turn 50, 2 times in SS. And most of the times i only march with top tier troops. Hate doing mass spearmen-based battles.
Also - you guys always do automatic or manual battles?
Nice screenshots. Nice to see Aragon conquer the whole known world.
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أسد العراق Asad al-Iraq
KOSOVO IS SERBIA!!!
Under the proud patronage of the magnificent Tzar
Depends. For example: If I attack a castle which only has 1 unit in their defence and I got a full stack, i dont think its worth to load a whole fight. I usually automatic those battles.
But if its a big fight, I always manual fight them myselves since CPU messes up battles for you lots of times.
A lot of battles late on for me were simply spammed infantry troops (Spear Militas, Light Men at Arms, Almughavars, whatever), and autoresolve. I'd use my elite armies of Tercio Pikes + Gendarmes to take out any full stacks in the field, otherwise most of it was just autoresolve after the halfway point.
Give a man a fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of the day.
Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.