My Denmark Campaign Report

[awisler]

Well, after playing 50 turns with england, i unlocked the danes and gave them a try. very fun so far.

I started off taking Hamburg, then the castle southeast of it(mitlzburg or something), and finally stettin on the coast west of hamburg. i did this first because i knew the northern rebels wouldnt be invaded any time soon, and i could gain a better foothold.

i didnt want to risk losing troops so i starved each settlement in the south which resulted in the enemy not even trying to attack me at hamburg. i had immediately allied with poland and the hre. once i conquered oslo and stockholm, i just built up the economy while i made 3 priests, two of which are now cardinals. im making about 3000 florins/turn with around 2 stacks scattered throughout my southern provinces. all of my settlements are cities, aside from hamburg, and oslo to the north. hamburg makes infantry, and oslo makes cavalry/archers. all the rebel settlements were cakewalks(no surprise )

currently im on turn 38, and the HRE backstabbed me at about turn 30 i believe. at Mitlzburg(or however u spell it :hmmm: ) i defended the wooden walled city of 3 mercenary crossbow and 3 mercenary spearmen garrison versus i think 937 HRE infantry, with one mailed knight unit. they have sent a few small armies to siege it in the past 2 turns, but one was easily fended off, they didnt reach the walls. the other they saw me moving reinforcements to the city and lifted the siege.

my castle at hamburg was besieged, but was easily fended off by 3 archer units, a general, one mailed knights, and two militia spearmen. they only had about 500 men, and i had fun watching my archers slaughter their men before they got to the walls.

after that, i recruited 3 units of norse knights, retrained a weak spearmen unit, and headed out towards the imperial capital just southwest of hamburg(is it nuremburg?im bad with city names ) anyways, i sent them to hide in the trees just passed their border near the mountains. i hired a mercenary spearmen and mercenary crossbow units. i sent them to the west, and a half stack army of the hre guarding the mountain pass near my main army chased them. i then walked through and besieged the capital. at this point my army was two milita spearmen, 3 dismounted norse knights, 2 peasant archers, 2 mercenary crossbows, a general, and a milita knights unit.

i was attacked right away as the 1200 men in the capital rushed out to me, with the half stack army that was guarding the pass returning to them as reinforcement.

being the tactical genius that i am, of course ,after a small skirmish between our archers/crossbows, i bullrushed the 1200 man army before reinforcements could arrive. i managed to get my army in a somewhat U shape around theirs, and had my archers/crossbows shooting in the center of them, which resulted in only 5 or so friendly fire accidents. my two cavalry flanked around the army, and just as the enemy noticed and started to run it was too late. i almost instantly decimated two militia crossbow units, and the other two routed. i charged into the back of the U shape my army had already formed, completely surrounding them and almost instantly killing 100 men. their whole army turned into the fighting to the death symbols, so i stopped my surround allowing them to rout(to minimize casualties for the other half stack army reinforcements almost at me)

i formed up my infantry and archers/crossbows to face the reinforcements, while my cavalry destroyed 5 more hre infantry units, and decimated several others. by this time, the next battle was starting, my crossbows/archers inflicted around 100 casualties before the enemy got to me(very lucky, probably won me the battle) i charged my remaining 43 spearmen and 120ish dismounted norse knights into the enemy army. my cavalry was ready to flank, it had 15 left in the general unit and 22 in the mailed knights unit. they sent their general to take care of my cavarly, but i destroyed them and their general with a combined loss of 8 or so.

at this time, my infantry were somehow holding up versus the hre that outnumbered them by 300 at least. i manuevered my crossbows and archers around to the side. it seemed i was still going to lose, after coming so far, but when i charged my remaining cavalry into the enemy's rear, units started to rout. i chased them down with my cavalry to prevent them from coming back to fight, and my infantry and archers finally cleaned up the last two infantry units that didnt rout. i chased down all the routers, with great results.

i had 933 prisoners caught on the day, with i believe 400 something of 700something lost on my side(not 100% sure of what i started out with)

the enemy managed to escape with 150 or so men left. my dad had been watching since he wanted to see how this game looked on my new laptop(which is great btw,all on high settings w/ no lag ) i asked him if i should ransom/execute/release, and he said execute so....

i had to send that army back to be retrained, but it will soon be marching through the hre with even more men, as ive reinforced hamburgs with several norse archer units and some feudal knights.

i will probably play some more tonight, but i wont update again until tomorrow. if anyone has any questions/comments please let me know

or if you want to discuss tactics for the danes or just tactics in general.

[Kroz]

Don't forget to have plenty of huscarls.

[awisler]

Don't forget to have plenty of huscarls.

yea i havent had the funds to get them lately. ive been busy trying to build up my economy. atm im going to just try and hold out for a bit still i can get more profit, currently about 2.5k per turn i think, im aiming for 4k profit per turn, so that i can build up a larger force and try to keep at least a 2.5k. upkeep seems to be much worse in this than it was in rtw.

yea tomorrow i think ill try and put some screens up i took. hopefully i can find something free that works-imageshack= for me at least

im just kind of scared of expanding all the way through the HRE, opening my borders to their allies, france and milan, with venice and hungary on the other side, and in my experiences venice backstab a lot. i dont have to worry about poland though, im marrying a 2nd princess into their family soon, and we have been allied w/ trade rights since turn one. im also currently in good relations with england, so hopefully if they dont conquer scotland yet, i can take scotland after the hre is dealt with.

it seems that antwerp and the town just west of it recently rebelled and france/hre dont seem to be making a go for them, so i might expand out to antwerp or maybe both if i find the time.

do you guys think i should take the hre capital and hold my front or expand even more? i just dont want to have to defend my border almost all the way around.

[Nutsack]

Haha.. execution the way to do it!

Was fun to read about though we could sure use some pictures My dad also watches sometimes but he usually prefers what makes you money, which is ransom in M2TW i assume (enslave in R:TW after city conquer).

[Kroz]

My dad would probably say release them. He's more merciful than us here.

[militia]

awesome. i'm playing at the danes as well. first i tried the turks but trying to get the janissary units were taking too long.

i'm happy with my foothold in northern europe but those damn inquisitors started showing up at my doorstep.

btw, i'm playing on hard/medium.

[The Mongol]

The Danes haul ass!

I started a new campaign with them and they are incredible. Definately the best early infantry in the game.

[Aristocrat]

If you hadn't executed then you would have had to quickly deal with them again as the AI would have rushed them to lift the siege.
Also, pictures would be nice

[SIlver General65]

so are you saying there late units are weak muhahaha *plans hre campagien game*ill hopfuly have game tomaro dam ups dident deliver owell..

[awisler]

no both denmark and hre have strong late, i just dont want to own the hre( ) and then have that new border surrounded by its old allies who already hate me(france, milan) and also venice who doesnt like me much either. if i was in good relations with france and milan i would no question be owning the hre right now. ive been defending on purpose for 10 turns or so, killing thousands of them at the loss of a few hundred of mine, yet they wont accept a ceasefire lol. the pope also hates them, so he wont mind. they arent excommunicated, but have one cross(which is described as "the pope thinks these people arent good enough for eternal damnation in hell"