Question about Iberia

[jtareb]

Whether playing as Castile or Aragon in a early or high era campaign I always seem to end up facing stack after stack of Moors. Is it possible to blockade the Gibraltar straits with ships to slow down the onslaught?

I'm using 6.4 and the bugfix additions.

[+Marius+]

You can build a fleet and take their ships out after which you blockade their ports.

[Zanze]

Use the bridges to hold them off. Their quantity doesn't matter when they cant get past the bridge. Early on the Iberian's are a bit short of strong infantry, but nothing a few mercenaries or holy order swordsmen cant fix. After that, its just a matter of having enough ranged firepower to mow them down as they stack on the bridge. Always have a few javelins for this as their killing power is tremendous; especially against the Moorish generals.

[LuckyPistol]

As said before, bridges are your ally. Archers and javelins will tear the mostly low-armored units to shreds, just be careful about their Arab Infantry with your cavalry. Call a crusade on Granada (if late campaign), as that's a fortress. During that take their main city in Iberia to contain them in Africa.

Iberian Catholics have a hard time early on because most of your effort is pushing a juggernaut of a fact back from invading, then conquering the rest of their empire. Though after you kick the Moors out of Spain, things get a bit easier.