My idea/strategy how to fight anemy factions

**Sitarus Originalus PM-30+** · November 26, 2006, 01:43 AM

ok here is what i think is the best tip of attaking an anemy faction:
your early attacks should be on the castles, so you can recrute more and bigger and better armies then your opponent, who just lost a castle. castles are also eazily to defend, wile cities are harder to defend! If you manage to concour all anemy factions castles early he will have week army wile you will be able to recrute armies in hisown terithory and you will have no propblem reinforce your troops that will eventually take ower cities (at the time you start attacking cities anemy will no longer have much to support his troops in the city)

Also every castle and city you concour is in my oppinion best to loot and gain some exstra money.

About crusades that are far away from your empire:
If you have to ocupy a city that will sooner or later be a death trape for your armies i suggest you to loot and before anemy has a chance to attack you and lay sieage on your new city you should destray every building so anemy will have little to work with in that particular city. then you have to try to attack badly defended castle nearby and cncor it as it is eazily to defend and also that way you can create a resting point for your armies and wait till your armies will get reinforcement or any other chance to attack anemy cities, castles!

Using this strategy which was also used in practice (by me

) i managed to have no problem facing anemy factions in Europe... neither on East against mongols or timurids.

I hope you will discuss this topic and if anyone has a better idea or a question, please tell as i feel we can all learn better strategy this way.

**Spart** · November 26, 2006, 07:33 AM

Working tactics, mate.

When I go on a crusade, I loot every settlement on my way to the target (not friendly settlements of course) and destroy all the buildings I can. Then i just leave the settlement and sell it to some idiot (like pope :p). Usually it just riots and they lose it pretty soon. Did it succesdully in my Spanish campaign, I went to Jerusalem through north Africa and sold all the settlements to pope.

I also try to take only castles on crusades, cities will riot pretty soon, because they're usually so far away.

Yeah, taking castles destroys enemy armies, but taking cities destroys their economy. I took Venice from the Venetians, and they were pretty helpless then. During first 50 turns or so, most factions get same level units from castles and cities anyway. Also, the Turks get mostly better troops from cities, which is exceptional.

I'll go back to conquer some castles from the french now, we'll see how they do against me with militia.. =)

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**Tao** · December 05, 2006, 02:08 PM

Nice strategies. I agree

To add some of my own stuff here...

I'm currently using many spies and assassins with my Egypt campaign. I've been at war with the Byzantines pretty long now but I've been hardly fighting military battles with them after some time. I just perfected my spies and assassins after long waiting to attack their settlements one by one starting from the nearest of course.
I basically make those settlements riot by sending in many spies and destroy the buildings that increase public order with my assassins. Buildings creating income are good targets too. I also assassinate any important characters with my super assassins who can kill most of them. At some point the settlement turns into a Rebel one and there ya have it! Heh heh. Gotten rid of some of the enemy power using patience and lots of sneakiness

At the moment with my Egypt play I've got a couple of super spies and assassins picking of any possible character and settlement all the way in EUROPE. Their royal bloodlines -- even neutral ones -- are decimated significantly. Worked well on Denmark 'cause they were on a Crusade against my Islam power, heh heh.
Man, I even assassinate allied factions, just for FUN!

For instance the Turks who are of course weakened a lot in the campaign are my nearby allies. To keep my faction's reputation high enough I didn't plan to conquer them by military force, but to use that same strategy of sneaking in spies and assassins to turn 'em into rebel settlements. Thing is there's hardly any effect . Too bad. I think I'll just try the plague technique on them.

In diplomacy when the enemy priority is Peace I try to demand as much money as possible. So if you propose Ceasefire and you receive a Very Generous notification I fill in a number of cash every time as high as possible and it has to be just below Balanced, so you'd get Generous. If you're lucky enough they'll be bankrupt. Then again, they usually are bankrupt or their cash is meagre, heh.

Well, that's all I have to add for now

**juliusceasar** · July 15, 2010, 10:27 AM

i like ur stratigy

**Paladin94610** · July 16, 2010, 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by Tao

Nice strategies. I agree

To add some of my own stuff here...

I'm currently using many spies and assassins with my Egypt campaign. I've been at war with the Byzantines pretty long now but I've been hardly fighting military battles with them after some time. I just perfected my spies and assassins after long waiting to attack their settlements one by one starting from the nearest of course.
I basically make those settlements riot by sending in many spies and destroy the buildings that increase public order with my assassins. Buildings creating income are good targets too. I also assassinate any important characters with my super assassins who can kill most of them. At some point the settlement turns into a Rebel one and there ya have it! Heh heh. Gotten rid of some of the enemy power using patience and lots of sneakiness

At the moment with my Egypt play I've got a couple of super spies and assassins picking of any possible character and settlement all the way in EUROPE. Their royal bloodlines -- even neutral ones -- are decimated significantly. Worked well on Denmark 'cause they were on a Crusade against my Islam power, heh heh.
Man, I even assassinate allied factions, just for FUN!

For instance the Turks who are of course weakened a lot in the campaign are my nearby allies. To keep my faction's reputation high enough I didn't plan to conquer them by military force, but to use that same strategy of sneaking in spies and assassins to turn 'em into rebel settlements. Thing is there's hardly any effect . Too bad. I think I'll just try the plague technique on them.

In diplomacy when the enemy priority is Peace I try to demand as much money as possible. So if you propose Ceasefire and you receive a Very Generous notification I fill in a number of cash every time as high as possible and it has to be just below Balanced, so you'd get Generous. If you're lucky enough they'll be bankrupt. Then again, they usually are bankrupt or their cash is meagre, heh.

Well, that's all I have to add for now

Hey, there is a thread I posted the same idea as you!!

Link: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...t=Terrorism%3F