Pirates are your friend!!

[park2086]

Just wanted to share my experience with English campaign that I started today(Early Era).
I took York as soon as the game started.
After that, Scottish gathered over 90% of their powers and was hanging around Edinburg.
Somehow they got onboard with their fleet, and next turn, a pirate ship comes out of nowhere and sinks the Scottish fleet to the bottom of the ocean

I love those *brave* pirates!!
Anybody had a similar situation before?

[ferretboy]

NO,now invade Scotland then Ireland and then France to hell with the pope

[Navajo Joe]

Now that will be now all to very dull, with the Scots having lost 90% of their army, its going to be too easy.
My advice is to end the game now and restart and fight the Scots, the way it should be

[PerXX]

Yes, never take advantage of a lucky stroke. In fact, to experience the proper challenge of SS, you should always be blindfolded while playing! Atleast 10 beers should have been comsumed (rapidly) before starting the game, and during battles, you should play at 6X speed, and only touch the mouse with your feet!
If at any time you manage to win two battles in a row, you should start a new campaign.

[bɑne]

Now I know what I did wrong...

[Holy winter]

damn
All my campaigns are worthless. I have to restart everything.

[Birk]

Just wanted to share my experience with English campaign that I started today(Early Era).
I took York as soon as the game started.
After that, Scottish gathered over 90% of their powers and was hanging around Edinburg.
Somehow they got onboard with their fleet, and next turn, a pirate ship comes out of nowhere and sinks the Scottish fleet to the bottom of the ocean

I love those *brave* pirates!!
Anybody had a similar situation before?

When i besieged Angers an ally (Leon-Castille) got stuck next to the castle. All i did was sending two rams to the gate and some ladders to the west wall. Then my allied did all the crap work.

[park2086]

cool.
Well, I continued playing! Scotland has one settlement left and I've been excommunicated for what I've done.
Things are getting interesting because looks like I need to concentrate my troops in Caen as soon as possible.... (if you know what I mean.. )

lol, PerXX

[Fakir]

I like loading my less fortunate agents onto a galley unit - preferrably one that is already somewhat depleted - and sail about hoping to encounter pirates.

[Deadly Rabbit]

yep, not a few inconvenient family members offed that way. I saw a pirate fleet take out an inconvenient fleet of venetians outside the golden horn once... I had a fully tricked out garrison in Constantinople, so I was actually pretty disappointed. Serves them right for sending a full stack of crusaders in two wargalleys.

[ferretboy]

The Scots always send there main army to Belgium any way,that's one thing wrong with this Game they should be programed to invade England

[Goofy]

The Scots always send there main army to Belgium any way,that's one thing wrong with this Game they should be programed to invade England

They also destroy the Kingdom of Norway in every campaign, at least in Late Era.

[Birk]

The Scots always send there main army to Belgium any way,that's one thing wrong with this Game they should be programed to invade England

Not if you play SS 6.2. Ireland and Scotland will invade England. Unfortunately I destroy Kingdom of Scotland before that happen (Early Era)

[park2086]

I actually quit playing the campaign. I guess it is not fun without real power of scotland (as you guys warned me :p)
I am playing as denmark. It's been about 60 turns now and just wanted to see how the world looks like.
So cleared the fow, and wow, scots took out england from the island! They even have the Caen.
England has 3 settlements on the mainland and barely hanging, except for one of them.
I assumed england would take scotland, but I was wrong.
This mod(6.1) is so unpredictable. Love it!!

[bɑne]

You made a good choice with denmark but to keep it interesting you should think about jumping (sailing)
west or east and create some colonies there if you haven't already or you might end up hammering the
holy roman empire into oblivion which I found extremly boring after a time.

[Ichon]

You made a good choice with denmark but to keep it interesting you should think about jumping (sailing)
west or east and create some colonies there if you haven't already or you might end up hammering the
holy roman empire into oblivion which I found extremly boring after a time.

I am playing Danemark in compilation mod and so far not getting bored hammering HRE though to be fair playing the 1350 campaign HRE grabbed all the nearby rebel settlement except Stettin so they control 14 regions now vs the 12 I had at max expansion when I got DoW and sieged by 5 different factions in a single turn. Never had 5 sieges on me simultaneously before when I have less than 20 regions. They are not even allies... HRE was my ally actually and backstabbed me but got excummunicated for their trouble. So they are still interesting to hammer. Especially since I am using staff militia and norse archers vs German Knights and Handgunners and Zwei handers. The norse archer range is so pathetic the hand gunners can reach them. So it is coming down to mercenaries. Prussian Pikemen for the win! lol

[Point Blank]

I am playing Danemark in compilation mod and so far not getting bored hammering HRE though to be fair playing the 1350 campaign HRE grabbed all the nearby rebel settlement except Stettin so they control 14 regions now vs the 12 I had at max expansion when I got DoW and sieged by 5 different factions in a single turn. Never had 5 sieges on me simultaneously before when I have less than 20 regions. They are not even allies... HRE was my ally actually and backstabbed me but got excummunicated for their trouble. So they are still interesting to hammer. Especially since I am using staff militia and norse archers vs German Knights and Handgunners and Zwei handers. The norse archer range is so pathetic the hand gunners can reach them. So it is coming down to mercenaries. Prussian Pikemen for the win! lol

Norse archers are about double the range of handgunners.

[Sir Walter]

I usually find the Germans quite unscrupulous in their alliances... I've played Venice, France and England and they always attack you, and on the French and English ones I had a marriage alliance. In fact, I had to quit the English one because I was sick of the war... every two turns they'd demand a few castles and vassalage, and refuse a straight ceasefire, reducing my reputation. That made the Pope angry and I couldn't risk an attack on France because the Spaniards and Danes (in total control of their respective peninsulars) would jump on me... I might put the map up, it's weird - Britain and a strip of France one region wide from Brittany to the Mediterranean...

[bɑne]

The position of the HRE denies them expansion into non-catholic territories so they are quickly forced to expand against catholic neighbors. Seeing as most mods boost the campaign AI and gear it towards attacking the player its no surprise this happened. In my experience its always best to force HRE into a campaign against venice or hungary which should keep them occupied.

[Sir Walter]

Fair enough, they fight Milan often enough as well...