Originally Posted by
lolIsuck
You're obviously doing it wrong then.
1. Do not try to hold on to the Holy Land unless it's late in game, you have secured your position on the home front and can create the best troops.
yeah hindsight smart idea. my macro strategy was to hold a strong position in western europe, and then grow my empire in the east so as not war with my christian neighbors. that didnt work so well but i tihnk i could have done diplomacy with france/denmark a little better. they just were always breaking the ceasefires.
i got absolutely demolished in th eeast and probably had 1:1 win/loss ratio. every time i battled the turks/egyptians/mongolians in the open my infantry and archers got demolished and the mailed knights are very fragile.
i just kept sending medium-strength armies to all the different places i was trying to take, from Acre... such as Gaza, Jedda (too far), antioch and aleppo(sp?). they would either get intercepted and id take heavy losses and win, or heavy losses and lose. if they didnt get intercepted id battle for the city and then struggle to hold it with half strength and rioting population. i learned that lesson though... priests before troops.
2. You must be a real bad strategist losing dozens of battles against France and Denmark, losing one or two against a huge stack in a surprise attack maybe, but if they keep attacking your cities you pump them full with whatever units you can recruit. Spear militia is fine too, they can hold lines against most enemies.
denmark and france attacked antwerp almost every turn, and there is a glitch in my campaign were the gates keep opening when antwerp is attacked... they send heavy cav and infantry always so its a grind. i had defensive/alliance policy goals in europe at the time as i was investing heavily in infrastructure over in the east. ie. ships to get there, barracks/etc.
i never fought in the open in europe but i did not realize the stakes infront of gate idea until the mongolians came.
3. Don't create too many fronts, as England you should first secure the entire British Isles so you have a good economical base, convert your castles on the island to make even more money, keep one though in case Portugal or Spain feels the urge to build another armada. Don't build useless buildings, barracks are not needed in places like Dublin. Focus on economical buildings and townhalls and brothels to encourage population growth. Taking Rennes at the start of the campaign can be easily done too as you get an army near Caen and with some troops from the city itself you should be able to manage that. After you've completed your British conquest you can attack everything like an idiot but don't do that from the start.
yeah good point. i was fighting the denmark/france alliance, and fighting the egyptians/turks/purple faction in the east ... and then i was fighting (being molested by) the mongolians speedy horses... i finally managed to stabilize the area there... and then... i got attacked up in the north by the timurs... spent waaayyy too much against them and got destroyed due to elephant glitch. could never hold cities when their attacked.
so when the timurs/mongolians/roman empire all allied they controlled well over half the board and i had no money from being torn apart by elephants (swordsman suck against elephants)... mongolians tore me to shreds and kicked me out of the antioch---gaza area. and timurs beat me right back to bruges/antwerp. i dont know where they even came from gold bar armies.
I have a few questions for you:
Do you assault or maintain siege to starve them out? I guess you assault and lose quite some men in that and then your halfdead armies are attacked.
i do assault i never back away from a fight even 1:10 odds. my problem is when i take it in the east my guys are rioting and i can only build militia, and yes half strength and pressed elsewhere... too many fronts even though it was supposed to only be europe-defense, east-offense.
What difficulty do you play on? If you struggle with the game it is of course better to lower it.
And because I'm curious, how many battles have you lost in this campaign? And how many did you win of course.
i played on very hard, campaign and battles. i dont remember how many battles id have to fire up the game, but my ratio was hovering around 2:1 by the end. half my wins were defensive seige battles, and most of my losses were field battles against mongols/egyptians(not many) and of course dozens against the timurs trying to hold back the elephants with auto resolve defeats.
Also, spamming agents isn't neccesary, you do not need 20 priests to convert the Holy Land, 5 will be just fine.
doesnt it go faster with more priests? and the assassins taking out the caliphs stables in asia was the only reason i lasted any length of time against the timurs. any battle against elephant tanks was a loss, even defensive seige with full deck.
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i think the game would have gone differently if
a) Milan didnt sink my reinforcements en route to jerusalem.
b) i knew there was a mega faction competing for the same territory i was, the jerusalem/antioch belt.
c) i could actually fight the timurs on the battle map.. my game glitched out every battle against the elephants. the result was huge spending to hold them back and still getting smashed.. i did not know what troops to send against them bc i could never fight them. i always sent swordsmen and knights (like i send against everyone else) and got obliterated.
I just lost wtf? (long post)
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