Strategy Guide For BC 2.3

**The Turk** · October 21, 2011, 12:15 PM

Hi Everyone,

I was just wondering if anybody knowns of somesort of strategy guide for BC2.3, especially when it comes to AOR, balancing your budget and what to build in general. Also for a beginner, what a good civ to play as?

Thanks!

PS. What submods do you guys play with, that you think are essential to improve the game?

**Harith** · October 21, 2011, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by The Turk

Hi Everyone,

I was just wondering if anybody knowns of somesort of strategy guide for BC2.3, especially when it comes to AOR, balancing your budget and what to build in general. Also for a beginner, what a good civ to play as?

Thanks!

PS. What submods do you guys play with, that you think are essential to improve the game?

The easiest to play by my opinion are as follows:

egypt
Yemen
Kypchak
Georgia
Roman Empire
Ghurids
Khwarezimd
Seljuks
Koj

so if ur a beginner, egypt will provide u with a good intro to all kinds of units ( a very good mix) and economy. The kypchak and Yemen are isolated, therefore easy to expand. Georgia is overpowered and so is Koj which is good. The Roman Empire starts a bit rough, but if played well u can conquer the middle east in no time.

**medhma** · October 21, 2011, 01:40 PM

Hi The Turk,
If you're searching for the easiest faction in my opinion, it'll be without doubt the Abbasid Caliphate : they have a great starting position with wealthy settlements, few enemies to dual with and a good units.
Now strategy: as Abbasid take two rebel settlements (using your heavy cavalry and your faction heir: just charging the infantry) then send a diplomat to the Seljuk of Iraq make alliance with me (giving castle as it'll take you infinite time to upgrade them to citadel and will make the deal good enough to the Seljuk to accept then when they are ready to be upgrade just buy them back)then make alliance with the Seljuk of Rum and Ayyubid. Now you are ready to go, just disband all your military unit and build your economy. After a few turn you'll be the richest faction, I remember once I have reach more then 4,000,000 and of course no faction could stop you.

**Dash** · October 21, 2011, 01:58 PM

medhma: You can also just completely bumrush the Seljuks of Iraq and THEN disband your units. Free to expand without any sort of opposition.

**medhma** · October 21, 2011, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Dash

medhma: You can also just completely bumrush the Seljuks of Iraq and THEN disband your units. Free to expand without any sort of opposition.

See Dash, I'm a very peaceful man so I don't like to have to fight the Georgians that why I keep the Seljuk to be sure that I won't be stabbed in the back

and I keep showering them with money to insure their loyalties and their existence.

**The Turk** · October 21, 2011, 08:43 PM

Thank You for your advice Medhma and Harith! I think I'll start off a campaign as the Abbasids now!
But are there no formal strategy guides, like the ones for each faction in Stainless Steel?

**Harith** · October 22, 2011, 03:32 AM

Originally Posted by The Turk

Thank You for your advice Medhma and Harith! I think I'll start off a campaign as the Abbasids now!
But are there no formal strategy guides, like the ones for each faction in Stainless Steel?

not really, just be careful of the yemenis to the south, georgians to the north and koj to the west.

I have a campaign for the abbasid, almost conquered anatolia and most of the middle east. I used the strategy of employing mostly cavalry army and expanding quickly to northern territories as well as eliminating the yemenis and sieze their cities because even though they are hard to maintain, they pay off at the end. each now produces minimum 30000 florins

**Dago Red** · October 23, 2011, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by The Turk

PS. What submods do you guys play with, that you think are essential to improve the game?

RBBR. Essential.

**The Turk** · October 23, 2011, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by Dago Red

RBBR. Essential.

Whats RBBR? And may I ask why its essential?

**wudang_clown** · October 24, 2011, 03:21 AM

Real Battle, Buildings, Recruitment (RBBR) for BC 2.3.

**Dago Red** · October 24, 2011, 11:36 AM

Wudang more thoughtfully linked you so you can read about it and the large amount of work rusnmat put into the submod.

But in short, for me, the highlights are:
Fixed missing recruitment for several missing units from Kipchak, KoJ rosters.
Made workaround for bugged swordsmen, correcting the balance of the game (without addressing the animations).
More complex building pros and cons
Player buildable, perma stone forts (for extremely high cost, but you have the option now of raising a small castle anywhere you deem necessary)
and perhaps most important, realistic recruitment.... multi-turn recruitment for elites and others, along with other tweaks completely prevents large scale stack spam.