Teutonic Campaign

[timis]

I am not sure what to do. There are only 3 strong factions left. Me, the Danes with Scandinavia and the old HRE lands. Poland, with half the mongol and half the lithuanian lands plus their regular lands. And Teutonic Order with the other half of lithuanian land, their normal lands, and all of novgorods land.

I am the weakest military wise, but with the strongest economy so i can field an army quickly. I am wondering whether to be an aggressor and attack poland or TO, or whether to wait and let them make the first move

[In3x]

If in doubt ALWAYS attack, the AI will be unable to deal with this.

[Macunaíma]

If you plan to attack, be sure to be devastating. Develop your economy some more and attack more than one settlement at once. Blitz them. I remember I did this to Byzantines in vanilla and wiped them in like 5 turns (they had islands).

[florin87]

step one: decide who you want to attack. i would go for the teutons as their units are stronger so an alliance with poland will help prevent casualties, poland on the other hand is easier to defeat one on one.

step two: develop your economy and a plan of attack that will have you take the largest number of settlements within 5 turns. meanwhile cultivate your relations with the other faction while recruiting agents and a nevy (to reduce the impact of a potential backstab or declaration of war).
as soon as the ai factions declare war on each other or your forces are in position attack.

step three: profit.

if you follow the always attack advice you'll find yourself fighting on two fronts or fighting a war you can't afford/win. simply being able to field an army quickly means nothing if you can't give a devastating blow early on.