England Guide

[Alla]

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[Mythlacar]

As England I found cavalry completely useless against me. I made a pentagon of Longbowmen, put stakes out, making a pentagon of stakes around my 2 Trebuchets, and packed in all my heavy infantry around that. Enemy has 2 choices, get destroyed by trebuchets and force me to march with hundreds of Heavy Infantry at them, or charge my compact pentagon of 5 groups of longbowmen, 2 units of Trebuchets and a metric crap ton of heavy infantry!

[Alla]

I could only really use my experiencing of English Cav from Custom battles because of I'm a fan of Infantry slug fests, and I usually fight the spanish in CB and they have rubbish infantry so that impaired my guide a bit, but when I do have cav I flank all the time so I fnd them handy.

[Jianadaren]

I've read this somewhere else. Are you the original author?

[Alla]

Yes, I'm on many forums under many names, though I wrote most of it a lot of research came from the internet (With permission).

[Pink Beard]

Yes, I'm on many forums under many names, though I wrote most of it a lot of research came from the internet (With permission).

read this

[Alla]

uh......dont mean to be rude. but havnt you just copied and pasted this:

http://medieval2.heavengames.com/m2t...d-1/index.html

And I very much doubt you got permission from the authors of this site.

Yep, I'm on more than one site, and yes, some isn't all mine, but I've got permission from them and I helped them with it.

[gaius colinius]

Yep, I'm on more than one site, and yes, some isn't all mine, but I've got permission from them and I helped them with it.

BS

By Gaius Colinius.

You did not get permission from the author, who happens to be me and even if you did, I would have expected you to provide credit to the original author and a link back to the source.

[Alla]

BS

You did not get permission from the author, who happens to be me and even if you did, I would have expected you to provide credit to the original author and a link back to the source.

Now really, did you just think it was funny to take the name, or are you him?

[Moon]

Great tutorial, out of curiousity in what year did you finish the campaign? I just turtle along in mine and micromanage everything, never bother doing any blitz campaigns.

[Alla]

Great tutorial, out of curiousity in what year did you finish the campaign? I just turtle along in mine and micromanage everything, never bother doing any blitz campaigns.

I blitz British Isles and Northern France and then I like to turtle along until I get to Northern Africa because you need to rush to keep out Egypt as they tend to attack Moors on my campaigns.

[Jianadaren]

Excellent guide. One thing that I like to do when invading England or playing as England is to ignore Caenarvon at first. London, Nottingham, York, Edinburgh, and Inverness are all in a straight line and most are accessible within one turn of the previous settlement. I find taking those five in a rush is a very efficient way to defeat the Scots and expand the empire. Once those five are taken care of, then clean-up and take Dublin and Caenarvon.

[Wheelchair]

Here is a video I made to help people get started with England, It's a video guide with narration, It should add some detailed insight into Alla's post

[Furion]

Nice guide, but I would say england is to easy to make guides for xD
Though its a very popular faction.

[taw]

I have to disagree with the guide. You should never stop a campaign just because the Pope says so. Either bribe the Pope to get 8-10 crosses, it which case the worst that could happen is losing 1-2 crosses, or just get excommunicated - it's only 10% happiness penalty per city, very easy to live with. It's theoretically possible to get crusade called against you, but in never happens in practice. You can easily fix excommunication later, by diplomacy, or in the worst case by attacking Pope stack or suiciding your leader as death of either one ends excommunication.

[Viking Prince]

I have to disagree with the guide. You should never stop a campaign just because the Pope says so. Either bribe the Pope to get 8-10 crosses, it which case the worst that could happen is losing 1-2 crosses, or just get excommunicated - it's only 10% happiness penalty per city, very easy to live with. It's theoretically possible to get crusade called against you, but in never happens in practice. You can easily fix excommunication later, by diplomacy, or in the worst case by attacking Pope stack or suiciding your leader as death of either one ends excommunication.

In the particular positon as England -- I would not worry about the excommunicaton. This is one of the very few times though. The pope will die and all will be forgiven. As taw observes -- you relationship level with the pope is important in whether you will be excommunicated or just lose standing. I will add that the differences in that relationship with your adversary is also important. The real issue is that the English cannot get a diplomat to the Vatican early in the game. Unlike the Spanish or the Italian factions -- it takes way too much time and if you are already at war with a faction, options of alliance are out of the question.

btw -- Wheelchair's vidieos are both fun to watch and informative. Check them out.

[Geordie-warlord]

aye it's a good sound guide it's basicaly allong the lines i do most games.
i try'd it with a different twist in my current game i waited and built the british isles up to the late period so i have the first cannon's and i'm now rampaging through europe and the pope cant stop me because i'm ignoring the silly threats that little man makes.

[imb39changedmyusername]

I hate defeating the scots quickly though, it makes a much more interesting game to play with them at the top and just concentrate on your economy first, and then you have some pretty brutish battles with the scots.

[Grimmy]

Nice guide.

My own strat with England is... well... to turtle too long. Bad habit that. But once I do switch to conquery mode, I usually go after the Danes first to secure trade to those ports and prevent the blockades that usually come from the Danes.

Then, I follow my trade routs to the continent and secure those ports. Expand from there.

I do like expensive armies so I tend to fight along merchantile lines of approach.

[Alxaro]

What I usually do is to secure the British Isles, destroying Scotland and Ireland (I'm playing SS 6.1) Then I establish random colonies around the world and then join them to forge my empire.