Most desirable settlement?

[Prince Constantius]

Please post here a detailed list of your top three favoutirte settlements,why they are crucial,and which factions they effect the most.
These important settlements can be cities,castles or capitals.......

Thank you for your time,and contributions

Prrince Constantius

[Mb Perseus]

All of these are best as cities.

1. Constantinople - good for any faction that controls or has trade rights with the northern asian territories, the balkans, islands in the mediterranean and eastern europe, you can make loads off trade and with Constantinople you can easily control the entire surrounding seas, and it's hard to have an enemy take any cities behind you aswell.

2. Antioch - if you can gain the surrounding settlements or at least become friendly with them you can make a great deal trading, but the best thing about Antioch is that if your western european nation your merchants can make huge amounts of money off of the Middle East, within 10 turns you can be getting 3,000 + per turn in merchant trade and that's with beginning merchants alone.

3. Venice - once more a great trading city in my current campaign I'm making 5,000 + a turn around the year 1300 over and 3,500 of it is trade, one of the best bonuses for Venice is the bridge that leads to it, if you need to defend it station some units right in front of the city and fight a bridge battle, also the best roads to eastern europe run through northern Italy, ie Venice, a well placed fort can easily block Milan and French expansion, and finally if you can secure a high level merchant you can forever be getting acquisitions because of the huge amount of merchant traffic through Venice.

[Zhou]

I agree with Perseus on a couple of the settlements. My choices (in preference order) would be:

1. Stockholm -- It's great for any faction actually because this is the top trade income city in the game. I was able to get Stockholm to generate up to 9600+ florins per turn.

2. Constantinople -- Agreed with Perseus.

3. Antioch -- Agreed with Perseus.

[Sher Khan]

Constantinople, Nicea, Iconium, Adana (turned into a city), Antioch.

These cities, if held and with proper city building will all net 5,000 florin income per turn. On a mediocre turn, that is. Sometimes these cities will spike to around 6,000 and even 7,000 florin incomes. However, Antioch, in my latest Turkish campaign, nets me 8,500 florins per turn - 6,000 from pure trade income.


After these cities I recommend all the Italian cities as most dssirable, followed closely by all the island territories (Palermo, Rhodes, Cagliari, Nicosia, Crete, and one other island I forgot).

The islands are very useful for trade incomes and also as fortress-islands where you can attack with impunity before escaping to safety like a pirate.

[Prince Constantius]

GREAT!
Have any 'break-point' settlements that you favour.
I once held out in Trebizond against four consecutive(not simoultaneous)Mongol attacks, as an example.
If you do have a favourite 'break-point' settlement,do tell me....

[parvus]

Timbuktu - i like merchants
Florence/Milan - nice foothold gainst the italians
Jerusalem - central egypt gainst the turks
Constantinople - in the centre du monde

[CtrlAltDe1337]

Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Timbuktu (for the merchants) are great settlements.

Sorry if I misspelled anything, I'm in a hurry :/

[Rickard R]

stockholm, timbuktu and the town left of it.

Dont know jut likes them

[Real]

Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Timbuktu (for the merchants) are great settlements.

Sorry if I misspelled anything, I'm in a hurry :/

You didn't.

Portugal - Because I'm a patriot. It affects any faction who wants to control Iberia (Portugal, Spain, Moors and France).

London - I play as the Scottish many times, and this city determines my power.

Paris - Keeps the French from backstabbing me in every game!

[Silent Assassin]

I would say Vienna and it`s a landlock city. In my campaign with Hungray I made about 6500 florins per turn it has two silver mines on it and if you place merchants there the incom get`s a lot bigger. I had two merchants on thoses mines and they made about 1500 florirns per turn plus what the city did.

But all of the mentioned cities are good also

[scottishranger]

Constatinople and Nicea give you complete control of the Bosporus and subsequently, the Black Sea if you have any kind of navy at all. These also can give you huge trade income.

[PooFoo]

Timbuktu, Arguin, Dongola. And later on all the cities in the Americas. Most coastal cities will make plenty of money when fully upgraded so I don't see trade in and of itself as a big problem, merchant trade can give you quite a boost however (which is limited to just a few provinces, namely the ones I mentioned).

[Broomish0]

London - Because i'm english and patriotic.

Paris - Because playing as england i love nothing more than to wipe out the french. When i take a nations capitol city a feel a warm tingle inside me. Then i realised i needed a ****.

Rome - Because i've never controlled this City and i hate the papacy.(i wish there was a way to create the church of England which is historically accurate)

[Ippius]

Rome - Because i've never controlled this City and i hate the papacy.(i wish there was a way to create the church of England which is historically accurate)

I reckon it should have been an event or something...but Im guessing that's too hard to incorporate into the game...

[Tajir]

I don't know about you folks, but I don't like trade much, I like to Farm my way to Success! You can get blockaded, but you hardly ever lose your farms!


I like places with High Fertility (very rare):

-Trebizond (I just love this place sooooo much)
-Cairo
-Alexandria

[Cassy]

Caffa. Antioch is best for trade but is constantly attacked and not easy to control as a western faction. Caffa on the other hand is usually small and managable, easily defended against sparse enemies, has the slave resource and controls all trade in the Black Sea.

[Samuel Adams]

Caffa. Antioch is best for trade but is constantly attacked and not easy to control as a western faction. Caffa on the other hand is usually small and managable, easily defended against sparse enemies, has the slave resource and controls all trade in the Black Sea.

Yes, but I always manage to control Antioch by capturing it then instantly taking my remaining crusading force and taking the castle to the east, upgrading it to porduce heavy units and those two settlements are generally stable long enough to give me a foothold, even as a fledgling HRE with only 3 ports in the Med. Ocean.

Then I take and fortify Jerusalem and Acre, then Gaza.

Sometimes I take the Crusade city, and turn around and give it to the papal states if they'll accept it. Makes em happy, too...

One time I got away with bargaining away Antioch, Gaza, and Tripoli way west, keeping Acre and Jerusalem (Alexandria and Cairo were already taken by another Western faction) and being thus protected from the Mongols and Islamic factions by a buffer of other European tools.

[Mr Longbowman]

Rom

[Tajir]

Rom

Can someone say EXCOMMUNICATION!

[Jackster]

Jurusalem, because that is the only city i need to take now to win the long English campaign, Death to the Infidels!!!