Multiplayer campaign tactics/help needed

[lsteve]

I'm playing a multiplayer campaign against two others. They are twins and working together (as in they remain neutral among them, while both attacking me).
I'm playing Turkey, one is Spain, the other one Scotland. On the left minimap is the situation now. Only Denmark and Sweden is from Scotland too.



On the right map I painted some regions:
Light green: Tripoli and Halych (?), I lost them after I destroyed every building, and now I recaptured them.
Pink: I lost 4 of them to Spain, only 1 to Scotland (Vienna). Spain lost all those territories, exept Ragusa (Castle) to rebellion. All buildings were destroyed.
Red: I created 3 Jihad armies and they went sacking and destroying through the Mediterean. Converted Tunis and Palermo into cities. Spain recaptured his castles off Bordeaux and Toulouse in time.
Light blue: The remnants off the southern army besieged Angers on the final push. Angers, Caen and Paris fell on the same turn, spies , and Angers was turned into a city aswell. A northern army skipped by the Hylach castle (2 enemy armies), they sacked Thorn, Stettin and Hamburg. Thorn and Stettin are now cities too.

I'm preparing some new armies in the holy land territories, and some are on their way.



The Jihad city hasn't fell yet (Antwerp), but I suspect it will rebel any turn now. (nice, letting a capital rebel).


I'm doing my best, but against both off them its difficult. Spain has sunk several ships (with armies), Scotland is hard to reach over land.
Both armies seems to be tougher than mine. I sustain a lot of casulties, and its a long way to retrain.


Can you guys give me tips, tactics I didn't think off, ideal army composition against one (both) off them? Any help is welcome.

Here is a typical Scotland army:

[Platomasso]

Those scottish pikemen are screaming to be shot to bits by arrow, bullet or cannonballs.. Perhaps you should try to keep a one front war. Focus on one of two factions while playing defensively against the other..

[Dewy]

Make a line of castles and cites and don't destroy buildings. This is were you are going to recruit your men. Make this line behind your border castles and cites. Pike men die easy from archers, and for spain use hit and run, and some spearmen as a last line of defence.

BTW are you guys cheating? havn't dev console on

[lsteve]

Those scottish pikemen are screaming to be shot to bits by arrow, bullet or cannonballs.. Perhaps you should try to keep a one front war. Focus on one of two factions while playing defensively against the other..

I use Ottoman and Janissary archers, but not so frequent because of the armour they have. In the moment I'm building a lot off JA, I'll sent them to the front asap. Gunpowder is not discovered yet, we are in the year 1160.
Only 80 turns before the Mongols come.
I can't focus on one faction, because they both push on me, altough they are not allied now.

Make a line of castles and cites and don't destroy buildings. This is were you are going to recruit your men. Make this line behind your border castles and cites. Pike men die easy from archers, and for spain use hit and run, and some spearmen as a last line of defence.

I destroyed the buildings in the cities I lost so they could not recruit themselves. My guys are mostly top city buildings: JHI, Saracen militia, JA.
Castles are not so important, only for naffatun, qualipoku(?, heaviest cavalry) and ottoman archers.
Line off defense was first Durazo, Ragusa, Zagreb, Vienna.
Now its more: Corinth, Tessalonica, Sofia, Bran, Iasi, at top speed producing units.
I don't know why Spain waits at the walls off Thessalonica, but there are three stacks on their way to help defending.

I like horse archers for the hit and run,but not in auto-resolve.

Sacking the west european cities and destroying everything in their empire isn't that good for me?

BTW are you guys cheating? havn't dev console on

Console is off. so no cheating.