Taojah
11-01-2002, 22:09
I played as the Almohad, early on expert level.
Basically I did the following things :
- asap take the four iron-provinces in North Spain, build all the way up until I got golden armour and golden weapons (I took the two French provinces just north of my iron-provinces, just as a buffer).
- two of the iron-provinces were used to make bodyguards (I thought they were the best cavalry for me, they never disappointed me), the two others made Almohad Urban Militia
- never builded one single spy, alim, assassin or whatever (I can be wrong but I think I didn't even moved the emissionary I started with once)
- used enough peasants in every province to get 120% happiness with autotax on (that means very high). Never had any respawn and only a rebellion or two-three due to human errors
- my capital builded a dockyard and never stopped pumping boats until the game was over
- as soon as I had the boats to one of them, I conquered the 3-trade resource provinces near the sea, and start building big, bigger and biggest merchants there. I defended them with 12 AUM and 4 bodyguards and never lost any of them
- builded mines where I could and 80% farming in every province. I know in some provinces the 80% is not worth the trouble, but it was just easier to build them everywhere :-)
- did "sell-raids" : took lots of AUMs and some bodyguards in a huge pack and started to move throught the world, selling everything except the port in every conquered province. When they needed restocking, I stopped in a coastal province with a port left and let fresh troops come in.
- never used my king or any of his heirs in battle : they held court the entire game in Granada
- ended with three 9-star AUMs and 980.000 florin (still feel bad I didn't become a miljonaire)
- when I was ready I swept the world with my three major generals, together with about 40 AUM, 10 bodyguards and LOTS of peasants
- first took the middle-east, then the 3 blocks went to eastern europe, then all of them to western europe, after that one to england and two to the mediteranian. I took the papal states last
- never builded one single ranged troop
and finally :
- had alot of fun
Basically I did the following things :
- asap take the four iron-provinces in North Spain, build all the way up until I got golden armour and golden weapons (I took the two French provinces just north of my iron-provinces, just as a buffer).
- two of the iron-provinces were used to make bodyguards (I thought they were the best cavalry for me, they never disappointed me), the two others made Almohad Urban Militia
- never builded one single spy, alim, assassin or whatever (I can be wrong but I think I didn't even moved the emissionary I started with once)
- used enough peasants in every province to get 120% happiness with autotax on (that means very high). Never had any respawn and only a rebellion or two-three due to human errors
- my capital builded a dockyard and never stopped pumping boats until the game was over
- as soon as I had the boats to one of them, I conquered the 3-trade resource provinces near the sea, and start building big, bigger and biggest merchants there. I defended them with 12 AUM and 4 bodyguards and never lost any of them
- builded mines where I could and 80% farming in every province. I know in some provinces the 80% is not worth the trouble, but it was just easier to build them everywhere :-)
- did "sell-raids" : took lots of AUMs and some bodyguards in a huge pack and started to move throught the world, selling everything except the port in every conquered province. When they needed restocking, I stopped in a coastal province with a port left and let fresh troops come in.
- never used my king or any of his heirs in battle : they held court the entire game in Granada
- ended with three 9-star AUMs and 980.000 florin (still feel bad I didn't become a miljonaire)
- when I was ready I swept the world with my three major generals, together with about 40 AUM, 10 bodyguards and LOTS of peasants
- first took the middle-east, then the 3 blocks went to eastern europe, then all of them to western europe, after that one to england and two to the mediteranian. I took the papal states last
- never builded one single ranged troop
and finally :
- had alot of fun