How I'm playing the English campaign

[Spear pleaze]

Basically, I don't have enough resources to fight off the Irish, Welsh and Scottish at once
So my tactic has been:
1. Offer a ceasefire immediately to the Irish, in return you give back all but one of the Irish territories (before giving them back, strip them of all buildings you can)
2. Send diplomats to the scottish to open trades links, ecetera and generally maintain the peace (they will be busy with the Norwegians for some time so shouldn't come at you)
3. Concentrate on crushing the Welsh, using the forces no longer needed in Ireland to cross the Irish sea and attack the Welsh from the west
4. When that's done, you can now turn back around and attack Ireland
5. After defeating Ireland, you should now have the resources to take on William Wallace when he arrives (assuming as they have in my campaign that the Scots have battered Norway into a negligible factor)

[BruceAlmighty]

A over-all good strategy but you could do it a bit faster, atleast I did...
1) You strip all not frontline settlements of all but 1-2 units and send them to welsh border, this includes stripping places on border w/ ireland because 1, there worthless, and 2, they will more than likely attack norway, but do offer peace and trade anyway.
2) you Zerg ireland with the troops stationed there. Now this will require some superb planning, strip all places expect to 2-4 units, strip ALL units from the forts, and join them up and strike north and take the Irish settlement there, with some good planning this is doable, altho it will not be without causlties.
Next after you have all settlements North of you, Reinforce your settlements and send any surplus troops to caevroon, (bad spelling,sorry) I believe its the welsh capital, more often than not it only have 2-3 if not 1 units in it, build all you can in 1 turn and attack, unless u are a dimwit or attacked when it is well armed then it should be an easy victory, assuming you'r not attacking with 2 units, if that is all you have reinforce a current army.
3) at this point you should have delt with the Welsh, you don't need to worry about there armies in the field unless there near a settlement, just take all they have and they disappear or become small rebels.
4) it should be turn 10(if you are as good as i an >.o) to turn 20 if you like to take your time. Its time to try to make peace with ireland, and get trade, if not then go all out on them. Deal with there castles first to stop them from getting good units. If you can get trade, then you turn north, you want to, of course, get peace and trade with norway, once you do take all the poorly guarded citys and you should soon draw the attention of there big armys that by now should be on the islands, after taking two or three of there petty settlements big armys should start heading your way, find a fort, sit in it, and send a spy around to find near by armys that are one turn away, you dont want to get stuck in the open where it becomes a 880 Vs. 3259 -.-(me vs them) anyway. you should be pretty bankrupt right about now.. so its time to attack and sack all citys you can find. leave the castles to norway, who should have some breathing room now, get peace with scotland and sit tight for a while, dispand exess troops, and let your economy grow. about the time edwards gets back from his crusade, (if you let him go, if not then when wallace arrives) you should have a stable economy, wallace has a worthless but trained army, try to ambush him, if not then just kill him, its easy, after that, leave scotland some places so it can continue battling norway, that way they keep eachother weak. Now, buy all the troops you can and send them to ireland, this is a 3-5 turn campaign. ireland has 3 settlements. armys of 10 should suffice to take each of them, and take them all in the same turn, so you have no possiblity of counter. After elminating Ireland all thats left is to deciede if you want to take norway or scotland first

Sorry for the wall of text, i kind of got into this a little to much lol

[lakota]

A over-all good strategy but you could do it a bit faster, atleast I did...
1) You strip all not frontline settlements of all but 1-2 units and send them to welsh border, this includes stripping places on border w/ ireland because 1, there worthless, and 2, they will more than likely attack norway, but do offer peace and trade anyway.
2) you Zerg ireland with the troops stationed there. Now this will require some superb planning, strip all places expect to 2-4 units, strip ALL units from the forts, and join them up and strike north and take the Irish settlement there, with some good planning this is doable, altho it will not be without causlties.
Next after you have all settlements North of you, Reinforce your settlements and send any surplus troops to caevroon, (bad spelling,sorry) I believe its the welsh capital, more often than not it only have 2-3 if not 1 units in it, build all you can in 1 turn and attack, unless u are a dimwit or attacked when it is well armed then it should be an easy victory, assuming you'r not attacking with 2 units, if that is all you have reinforce a current army.
3) at this point you should have delt with the Welsh, you don't need to worry about there armies in the field unless there near a settlement, just take all they have and they disappear or become small rebels.
4) it should be turn 10(if you are as good as i an >.o) to turn 20 if you like to take your time. Its time to try to make peace with ireland, and get trade, if not then go all out on them. Deal with there castles first to stop them from getting good units. If you can get trade, then you turn north, you want to, of course, get peace and trade with norway, once you do take all the poorly guarded citys and you should soon draw the attention of there big armys that by now should be on the islands, after taking two or three of there petty settlements big armys should start heading your way, find a fort, sit in it, and send a spy around to find near by armys that are one turn away, you dont want to get stuck in the open where it becomes a 880 Vs. 3259 -.-(me vs them) anyway. you should be pretty bankrupt right about now.. so its time to attack and sack all citys you can find. leave the castles to norway, who should have some breathing room now, get peace with scotland and sit tight for a while, dispand exess troops, and let your economy grow. about the time edwards gets back from his crusade, (if you let him go, if not then when wallace arrives) you should have a stable economy, wallace has a worthless but trained army, try to ambush him, if not then just kill him, its easy, after that, leave scotland some places so it can continue battling norway, that way they keep eachother weak. Now, buy all the troops you can and send them to ireland, this is a 3-5 turn campaign. ireland has 3 settlements. armys of 10 should suffice to take each of them, and take them all in the same turn, so you have no possiblity of counter. After elminating Ireland all thats left is to deciede if you want to take norway or scotland first

Sorry for the wall of text, i kind of got into this a little to much lol

Uhh wow, I got 1/4 of the way and quit reading ...

[Hunter Makoy]

Ireland has always attacked me withen the first 3 turns or so. And in that time i never got them to make peace.

[Armoured_Crusader]

In Brittania campaign, Ireland is very hostile, I found that it helps to ally with the Welsh and Scottish, then move up to Ireland and beat them all up with a superly powerful army!

[saggsett]

With Ireland you should abondon the whole country for it self destroy every building possible put taxes to Very High so you can get maximum profit until they go rebel and make one full army (of profesional soldier) disband the rest, don't ally or make a ceasefire with ireland just leave them alone and if you try to hold the settlements there check the culture before you do anything. Ok for the mainland all that is needed is roads and farms, queue up roads first then farms or only farms or only roads if they have one of them and organize your military in to two (full) armies and disband everything else except one unit in each settlement train one extra if it drops to blue or lower after this set everything on very high (not in the settlements without walls they need growth so put those on low) then just gank Wales invade Scotland drive out my homeland ;(
(Norway) and invade Ireland.

[saggsett]

Srry for double-posting but as I said don't make peace with Ireland is because of their low-tech.
they use the same brute force as the scottish but they have their best units in gunpowder age (trust me I have beaten the campaign on VH/H) When you invade Scotland Norway and ireland watch out for culture Wales does not count as you should usually take some time to tech up after they are destroyed And if you need a much more detailed guide check Totalwar.com (official site) where it is a britannia guide for every faction and of course everyone (including me) forgot Barons Alliance Well they're your counter part but with less regions so be sure that when they come you most stop ANY invasion. And remember the Welsh event that gives them reinforcements after you have taken one of they're starting settlements (wich should be they're only city and not a castle) Good War to you