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    If you click on the crown icon it shows you a list of your heirs. Only Princes can become Kings, so no queen matildas :(. The heir at the top will become King once your king dies.

    "I train troops in France and England, send them to specialist provinces which build armourers, master weaponmakers and valour bonuses, then send them to spain to get their attack bonus. Currently my specialist provinces are upgrading to fortress and my training grounds are preparing for when I reach the high medieval period, in 1205. I am training feudal seargants and archers with a +1 valour bonus from master spear and bow makers, they also get a +3 armour bonus and just recently a +2 attack bonus. So my feudal seargants are the equivalent of men at arms -1 defense and +1 armour, I think."

    I have my unit size set to maximum, so cavalry units get 80 cavalrymen, archers and melee infantry get 120 men and spearmen get 200 men, per unit. However this means it takes 2 years to train one unit, so I made this organization so that I retrain a unit per turn in provinces which give armour, valour and attack bonuses.

    So instead of trainined a unit in a stat boosting province in 2 turns I retrain a unit per turn in the province. I don't worry about fighting with armoured units in the desert, I just attack quick and once my knights are tired I use the ol' archers and spearmen tactic to kill the rest off through attrition.

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    Oh! I see now. Yes, that is a very efficient system.

    One more question: can you choose which prince is at the top?

    nd Aquitaine, and I may have to abandon Brittany to have any hope of doin
    The crusade to Aquitaine met no resistance, and my combined defensive armies from Navarre and Aragon took Toulouse. After a few turns of reorganization, I attacked Brittany and Anjou in the same turn. They abandoned Brittany but decided to defend Anjou. They had about 1700 to my 950, but they were all peasants, archers, urban militia, with a few militia sergeants (and some hobilars and royal knights that entered the party late that I wasn't aware of). Still, I figured that my solid force of feudal troops could carry the day. Once I got to the battle screen I realized that I had greater problems than I realized. I had forgotten all the archers, and I only had one unit of men-at-arms. The attack went extremely poorly; my feudal sergeants held but could not win, and some rear charges by my knights did not have the effect that I had hoped. My general (who was also a 5 acumen governor) was killed, and I lost over 700 troops (to the enemy's 500 or so). I'm not sure now whether I can hold Toulouse and Aquitaine both, and I may have to abandon Brittany to save one of them. I'm building more troops and may try another crusade to regain the offensive. And this time I won't forget the archers. The reason I had no archers was that I had shuffled and added to make good defensive armies in both provinces; the rest of the units in Toulouse were just lumped together while I decided what to do with them. I forgot their poor balance, however, and sent them anyway. My good offensive army is in Brittany, but I expect that it shall have to be recalled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by littlebktruck
    By the way, how can you tell which prince will become the King? Is there any way to affect the selection? It seems to usually go to a young one, I guess so he has time to have heirs, as it doesn't seem that princes have children. I could be wrong about that, though, as I have seen it where I had heirs after someone just took over the throne.

    Go to your family parchment. Whoever is listed at the top of the sheet (he should be in red lettering instead of black) is the guy next in line for the throne.

    The Germans may be an exception to this rule, however. I believe the next emperor is "elected" by the nobility, and they may choose any man of royal blood.
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    This picture gives you the general impression of my power. As you may have noticed I crusaded into Russia about 50 years ago, but the situation here is similiar on all my other conquests. Here, the Novgorods noticed their impending doom as I began to eradicate the rebel states borderring them and decided to charge south into Smolensk with it's garrison of 20 men peculiarly at exactly the same turn as I blitzed into their pitiful realm. When the year was ended an army of 4000 loyalists appeared in a region of the planet not traditionally associated with England and the last scrap of land held by the Novgorods.



    Smolensk was sparsely populated during the 12th century, so it's my guess that the 4000 consists of peasants whom out of their own free will decided to take up arms in the event of a Novogorodian invasion. I'm not going to let them fight though, I'm going to lift the siege using my conventional forces and send them into western europe to be properly trained :). My only challenge now is to complete the 100% conquest before 1205, which will be quite difficult as I have to kill the pope before I invade Hungary and I have to time it right so I can claim the entire of europe to be mine before the pope reappears. The Italians have an army of 3000 and a lvl3 general in Naples, but my armies are so advanced and my anti-computer early medieval warfare skills so fine tuned that I cannot possibly lose.

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    Last time i got that far my king died and the biggest ever civil war occured and then at least 2 factions reappeard; spanish and egyptians if i remeber rightly. I was not a happy man. Getting 100% is difficult, well at least ive always found it hard.

    Anyway good luck with 100

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    Interestingly enough, the game crashed as I was going to save right after the battle that I lost badly. I reloaded the autosave, which didn't record my horrible loss. How fortunate!

    This time, I sat tight and prepared troops for a go at Egypt. After sinking their navy, I declared a crusade to Palestine (I know that the trading provinces are richer, but it just felt more...appropriate). In the same turn my armies in Cyrenacia invaded Egypt. Both provinces fell after I defeated counterattacks. The Egyptians declared a Jihad against Egypt, but it has always retreated instead of attacking. Last turn, though, Palestine was invaded from all directions by a force of 4100 men. I only had 1800 (and many were a bit too heavily armoured), but I decided to fight it. There were some tense moments early, but I beat back their first wave and sent the Sultan fleeing. They sent wave after wave after my position, but most of their troops broke and ran before they even made contact. They would then regroup to approach again, and would again flee before hitting the lines. My troops saw little fighting after dispatching the first wave, and most of that was at my initiation. This lasted about an hour until (mercifully) the timer ran out. While the casualty count was many times in my favor, the fact that they didn't fight much meant that the victory was far from decisive. As you can see in the picture below, Palestine is still surrounded by hostiles.

    On the French front, I sent a second crusade, this one to Flanders. After taking Flanders, I blitzed troops from Flanders to Normandy; from Aquitaine to Brittany; and from Toulouse and Aquitaine to Anjou. The French retreated from all attacks, so I've managed to take most of western France without a single battle.

    Spain in 1188:



    Plans:

    Probably another crusade against the Egyptians, probably to Antioch or perhaps somewhere in (very lightly defended) Asia, which will help spread the Egyptians out. Acheiving that, I will move my armies slowly up the eastern deserts, hoping to avoid battles until I get into a more favorable position. Also, I hope to avoid offensive battles as much as possible, as I'm completely inept at attacking.

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    What types of units do you have? What ypes of units do the Egyptians have? I think you should do a proper invasion, you should take Silesia as it is a choke point into north Africa and you appear to have naval superiority. Then you can combine your forces to invade Arabia and Syria. If you succeed the rewards will be great, you will be in a position to pound the Egyptians to death. You will have 2 provinces to defend whereas the Egyptians will have 4 or 5 provinces to defend aswell as the provinces you can attack by sea. Everytime you see a province poorly defended you can drive out or kill the army and if the province has no castle you can loot it, then leave and use the barren province as a forward for your future invasion (this might not be a good idea on coastal provinces). If you keep on doing this you will certainly make progress somewhere and will probably eradicate the Egyptians in 2 decades.

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    My units in Egypt are remnants of an early army, with Jinettes, archers, and (mostly unupgraded) feudal foot troops. My units in Palestine, and my possible reinforcements, are upgraded feudal foot troops, archers, and feudal knights. Despite their local superiority, I think another large infusion of troops will knock them back on their heels. I could send it away from the Levant and hope to split them up, or I could use it to reinforce my holdings and unite my forces, hopefully pushing them back into Asia. I think I also have the upper hand in France, as they just launched an attack at a province (Anjou?) that cost them 1600 troops. That was a big hit to their strength, and almost all of their melee troops are peasant militia anyway.

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    Counter attack vs the French immediately and drive them into 1 province and let them rot, or if you think you can prevent them from reappearing after you eradicate them, do so.

    Use spearmen to lock the Egyptians into position then attack the rear of their units methodically with your knights, engage quickly and you should be able to get your knights up an elevations and do this effectively. Watch out of their armoured spearmen, it might be worth bringing along 2 units of feudal men at arms along with whateer masses of seargants and knights or other cavalry you can muster.

    Also

    VICTORYYYYY VICTORRYYYYYYY!!!!!




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    I've passed on into the High era, and my troop-producing provinces are now producing arbalesters, CMAA's, chivalric sergeants, and chivalric knights. I've advanced up the eastern coast of the Med some, and I've moved further into France. I attacked Sicily so that I could get my Papal warning and then hit France. I'm also attacking the English. The Egyptians and French have both suffered from rebellions, and the Turks reappeared in Armenia with 2 stacks and then proceeded to bribe the Egyptians in Georgia. With the Horde coming in 16 years, I think I'll let the Turks live as a buffer between my lands and those of the Horde. Meanwhile, I'll try to take the rest of Asia and more further into Western Europe.

    Spain in 1214:


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    Quote Originally Posted by PittBull260
    damn thats pretty impressive
    hey!here are my best ones:

    1-Bridge Battle..Expert..Turkish..Early..(it's my Favourite )(damn futuwwas are really cool )



    2-I don't remember,possibly a land battle..Medmod-Hard..Italians..Early...
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    Wow! You killed 1045 without a single casualty! I always seem to get at least 1 casualty.

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    yep!it was very funny battle..but i have to say that these futuwwas are damn cool..
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    I started a campaign today as the Bosnians, and here's the info

    Faction:Bosnians
    Year:1131
    Plans:Take over the Pepacy and leave them Sicily to starve on :)


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    Are you sure its not the Croatians?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Blind King of Bohemia
    Are you sure its not the Croatians?
    :p I changed it cause I'm Bosnian, mwahahah

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    Fair enough mate. Its nice to see some pics of the mod. Hope your enjoying it

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Blind King of Bohemia
    Fair enough mate. Its nice to see some pics of the mod. Hope your enjoying it
    oh I'm enjoying it :)
    oh, can u tell me how to change a faction's religion?
    if its too long/complicated then u dont have to tell me :)

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    i just wanted to show this sweet swiss campaign from the super duper awesome BKB super mod :)


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    The Italians: I started a campaign with these, it went pretty well. I expanded north, into HRE, until they were completely eradicated. I then proceeded to blitz all of the French provinces, beating them within 3 years. The English quickly went the same way. Then i proceeded to invade Denmark, only to get exocommunicated. Started to move east and south-east into Poland, Russia and the Balkans. Eliminated Poland within 5 turns, and destroyed Hungary within 10. Was doing quite well with all the rebels out in Russia when suddenly the entire empire fell into bits within one turn, due to the fact that there was civil war and the re-emergance of HRE and the French, all in one go. I ended up defeated with about 20 turns, because i picked the crap side by accident. It said they had the most men, but they were all rubbish....oh well...better luck next time, ey?
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    here's how my swiss campaign's going, i attacked the english and got me a few extra provinces cause i needed the money


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    Quote Originally Posted by PittBull260
    here's how my swiss campaign's going, i attacked the english and got me a few extra provinces cause i needed the money

    Cool. Who's the light green over by the Turks, by the way?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Martok
    Cool. Who's the light green over by the Turks, by the way?
    that's the Ikhanate i think, a muslim faction.

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    here's a small taste of the Pipe & Musket Mod still in progress
    I am playing as the "Roundheads"(English) and the year is 1687
    this mod is great, the battles are crazy, everyone should try it!

    the french have been trying to take flanders back for decades, but my great musketeers and artilery won't allow that ;)


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    Is there a reset date cheat? My Novgorods have almost conquered the world but have only 20 years to take Africa, Spain, and parts of France.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evil_maniac from mars
    Is there a reset date cheat? My Novgorods have almost conquered the world but have only 20 years to take Africa, Spain, and parts of France.
    the end date is 1700 i think, u better hurry up then lol

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    I'm not playing a mod, for Medival, full patched and unmodded, the end date is 1453.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by evil_maniac from mars
    I'm not playing a mod, for Medival, full patched and unmodded, the end date is 1453.....
    oh thought u were talkin about the mod
    and no i dont know of any reverse date cheat sorry

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    A piece of information.

    PitBull - if you started in 'late' of PMTW the closing date is 1800 - I extended it for some factions.

    IN future I might add few years more in 'late' because of two new very demanding factions I am going to add - Barbary States and Montenegro.

    BTW - I can see that the Portuguese defeated the Spanish Georgia somehow survived clashes with the Ottomans but who re-appeared in Ireland ? I don't remember this colour scheme Cavaliers ?

    My regards Cegorach
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    Quote Originally Posted by cegorach1
    BTW - I can see that the Portuguese defeated the Spanish Georgia somehow survived clashes with the Ottomans but who re-appeared in Ireland ? I don't remember this colour scheme Cavaliers ?

    My regards Cegorach
    yea the stupid cavaliers anoying little turds, i'll take care of em soon lol

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