Scotland Guide

**Alla** · January 17, 2009, 01:42 PM

Now then, maybe everyone thinks this is going to be copied, but its not, its my own, and it will be as good. I would also like to point out, that if I need reference I'll put on the top off the Paragraph so you haters can skip it.

Introduction
I have a link to a guide, I suppose I copied the name.
Scotland, a strange faction to write a guide on, but it maybe you'll want to try it, and be successful. This faction wont be easy, alot of work in the early period will be needed, and the know how of the economy, if you don't know it well then I'd suggest this guide to economy, read that and start your campaign.

The Start off

Take York quickly, siege it from the start off with your southern most army, Prince Edward I believe. Take it quickly and don't run their supplies down build hell loads of spear militia and send them up north and take Inverness and upgrade and build troops, send them down south to York, build troops and send a horse unit to scout England, make sure you haven't got relationships, you wont want them.

Take 'em by storm! Whack Nottingham hard and fast with a lot of units. This way they'll have no troops, on the Island, while doing this grab trade rights with France and if you can get an Alliance Perfect, if you follow this most of the way through then you wont attack France till High-Late Period so it should help to have a alliance.
Next up is London, not hard it isn't usually hard but half a stack will do.
I'd recommend playing this battle if you don't play all because its good practice and if your English you can watch your country burn!
Next Secure The British Isles and keep Only Nottingham and Dublin as Castles, as Dublin gets a few Heretics so its public order will go down, and if a Danish Invasion arises you've still got back up.

Crusades
Crusades are important, You'll want them so you have a reason to walk through the last English Territory and sack it, you can make them a vassal but I found them a tough nut to crack, maybe it'll be different.
The route I found easy was shipping to Europe, walk to southern Italy and then ship to the Holy land (Only if its the Holy land, if not then Adapt I only had Crusades to there.) From there if you win you'll have all the Crusades to yourself, I found that you should take a full stack as they'll take the rest of the Crusades. Once here Take out Africa and The Moors by calling Crusades or just Plain Slaughter.

Taking on Europe

This will be completed later due to Personal commitments, sorry its a slow project but it'll be finished soon, once life sorts itself out and if I don't get banned.
Alla

**France** · January 17, 2009, 02:27 PM

I'd love to see this guide completed, as I just started a Scotland campaign on H/H and I'm already seeing frustration with the English

**Last of the Mohawks** · January 18, 2009, 08:53 AM

Nice guide, shame to see spam on a good guide, cant wait for completion.

**Alla** · January 18, 2009, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by Last of the Mohawks

Nice guide, shame to see spam on a good guide, cant wait for completion.

Thank you kind Sir, I'll try to update at least once a day

**France** · January 18, 2009, 03:23 PM

Perhaps for your next guide you should try one of the orthodox factions, haven't seen a guide on one of those o.O

**Last of the Mohawks** · January 19, 2009, 11:27 AM

I'd like Russia guide, the AI seems to expand like mad, where as I cant seem to find the units and the cash to expand like they do.

**Alla** · January 19, 2009, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Last of the Mohawks

I'd like Russia guide, the AI seems to expand like mad, where as I cant seem to find the units and the cash to expand like they do.

Once I finish this I'll do another Russia campaign or 2 then have a break from here and finish up the rest so I can defeat the Russians in combat. I'd guess you'll have soon but not in January or mid Feb. Anyway, next update coming up!

**Pink Beard** · January 18, 2009, 03:58 AM

oh nice a scotland guide

to bad scotland is easy for me I don't need a guide for that.

i'm still interested in how other people would deal with stuff playing scotland.

after this guide I was hoping your doing a turkish or an HRE guide (soon?). or perhaps convince me to play Byzantium. my guess is I have the trait "dislikes Byzantium"

ps: please peeps do not start ranting on alla in almost every topic he creates. It could be considered spam. please pm messages or make a special topic somewhere about the copy-paste thingy.

pps: no i'm not a moderator why you ask??

**Reynolds** · January 18, 2009, 05:45 AM

Nice choice of faction for a guide mate

**Vince Noir** · January 18, 2009, 02:57 PM

Scotland eh? Should be interesting. Although they pretty much the same as England after a while. If I could recommended Alla, once this giude is done of course, perhaps taking on a faction that is considerably harder to play with.