Hard War

[Samurai Doc]

Does anyone actually ever employ Sherman-style tactics when fighting a tough enemy? I mean like burning down all the buildings in a settlement that you have taken and then just leaving? I found in my campaign against the Moors as the Spanish that I could almost always win on the battlefield, but that it was impossible to maintain my gains without massive troops levels.

The reason I had to resort to slightly less than gentlemanly tactics was because I usually operated on two or three fronts at a time to try and split their forces. This worked to an extent in that while my main army was busy fighting the best Moorish troops, I could send small armies of heavy infantry and a few cavalry to capture their sparsely defended cities.

The problem was that I needed those small armies to be reinforcements for my main army if I wanted to make any major gains. A few times, with my main army, I was strong enough to take a large settlement like Fes, but too weak to hold out against the ticked off Moorish army approaching. So what I would do is raise the tax rate as high as possible, and destroy every building except for the walls. This way, I may not keep the settlement, but at least when it falls back into their hands, it's essentially worthless for a good number of turns.

All in all, it took me 120 years on Stainless Steel from the time I declared war on the Moors to the time I captured their last settlement.

[Sodbuster]

I've done that when I really needed the money. Sacked a city, scrapped all the buildings (don't scrap their guilds as that will make all guilds hate you), set the tax at Very High and gotten the heck out. In Stainless Steel that can make a guy a LOT of money very quickly. I've thought about sacking a city, and then letting the enemy retake it and sacking it again a few turns later, and repeating that process to see if money can be made that way. I haven't tried that yet though.

[Condottiere SOG]

Sounds about right, 120 years. At least the SS boys got that going for them.

[chaplainDMK]

Im currenty in the 100th year of fighting the french...
Whats the problem? I can easily whoope their french asses but all the time i have interfierences that prevent me from making an army big enough to take Paris (one of the 2 remaining French territories in france)
First try i fail then the danes attack me, so im in the 30th year of the war with the danes witch just wont and wont die! I think this is the 3rd or 4th time im forced to retake some Ar citiy in belgium.
Then the pope decides the french need a brake and i should attack my fellow christians (they were 2 crosses i had 7 or 8)
Now im finaly preparing to take their territory in spain and the onto paris itself!
Those frenchies are gonna pay for 100 years of war!

[Viking Prince Olaf]

lol If your England then the hundred year wars are very accurate

[wupwup]

i use this tactic loads. i once did it to a massive line across poland / hungary and constantinopel. then i gave them to the pope. i got the money. he got worthless citys and elephants.

[OdinX]

Never actually tried this, but it should help ease the load of reconquering. I'm usually so sure that I'll take it within the next siege...and I'm usually right.

[Shark112]

I always wanted to do that..but alas my computer wouldn't be able to handle me have 6 full stacks of siege equipment surrounding Rome and just destroying all buildings.

EDIT:

Whoops forgot this was dead, i was just scrolling through. My bad.

[Fremen Jones]

Indeed this is BIG fun !!

It's awesome to see a whole piece of the map in grey cause of your sack campaign

Mongols or Timiruds cruel?

NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH we do better !!