RollingWave
08-17-2003, 14:19
Well.... my main gripe is with the Egyptians and Turks in early..... the game says the Egyptians are easy while the Turks are hard.... it's like the other way around
I beat the crap out of the Byzantians and later the Egyptian easily with the turks in early... because neither have sufficient calvary that can catch your turcomen ... you could easily beat the crap out of them with your tucomen horse running them around and exausting them and then send in the rest of your stuff for the kill.... Your starting province are pretty good... Syria can attack a ton of Egyptians province which will force the Egyptian to hold a long border..... Rum has a relatively decent build up (as the turks you can build some pretty good troops with a low build up anyway) and Armenia of course get you the added valor AHC (which is pretty good until you start to face CK)
While it's the opposite for the Egyptians... the Turks can strike at many of their vital provinces from Syria... you have a horribily low build up early on... with only Egypt being able to pump troops (and only beodians and nubian....) while you have a very long border and few troops..... you are also facing the Turks, the Almos and the Byz... all 3 just happen to be the best early faction ....
Your Coastal province are mostly very rich but also very Crusade attracting... which will also mean you'll be at war with the Italians a lot which will seriously limit yoru trade capability......
it takes you a while just to build up to Saharan cav.... (at least 4 turn... that's considering you don't build anything else in Egypt... fat chance...) before that you have abosalutely nothing that can deal with the horse archer hoard of the turks... you have to hide on hills and forest and let them exaust their ammo.... if you charge a unit it's as good as gone usually being ganed up and fired upon from all side by horse archer then knocked dead by AHC....
I only manage to kill the turks by building a inn in Arabia ASAP and hire a ton of merc and hit them unsuspectingly in syria... and then had to use even more mercs to weather several huge counter attack... meanwhile slowly building up so I can acturally build real units....
Luckily the ALmos also start with a tiny garrison in teh east and I can focus on the turks... and the Byzantians honored our alliance and didn't drive down the middile east with their powerful army...
And this was suppose to be easy HAH.....
THe Danes are also one funny faction... it can either be incrediablly easy or incrediablly hard to play them... if you try to take on the HRE its' probably one of the hardest campign in the game... but if you just take scandanavia and build up boats it can be really really easy (huge income and small garrison.... )
I beat the crap out of the Byzantians and later the Egyptian easily with the turks in early... because neither have sufficient calvary that can catch your turcomen ... you could easily beat the crap out of them with your tucomen horse running them around and exausting them and then send in the rest of your stuff for the kill.... Your starting province are pretty good... Syria can attack a ton of Egyptians province which will force the Egyptian to hold a long border..... Rum has a relatively decent build up (as the turks you can build some pretty good troops with a low build up anyway) and Armenia of course get you the added valor AHC (which is pretty good until you start to face CK)
While it's the opposite for the Egyptians... the Turks can strike at many of their vital provinces from Syria... you have a horribily low build up early on... with only Egypt being able to pump troops (and only beodians and nubian....) while you have a very long border and few troops..... you are also facing the Turks, the Almos and the Byz... all 3 just happen to be the best early faction ....
Your Coastal province are mostly very rich but also very Crusade attracting... which will also mean you'll be at war with the Italians a lot which will seriously limit yoru trade capability......
it takes you a while just to build up to Saharan cav.... (at least 4 turn... that's considering you don't build anything else in Egypt... fat chance...) before that you have abosalutely nothing that can deal with the horse archer hoard of the turks... you have to hide on hills and forest and let them exaust their ammo.... if you charge a unit it's as good as gone usually being ganed up and fired upon from all side by horse archer then knocked dead by AHC....
I only manage to kill the turks by building a inn in Arabia ASAP and hire a ton of merc and hit them unsuspectingly in syria... and then had to use even more mercs to weather several huge counter attack... meanwhile slowly building up so I can acturally build real units....
Luckily the ALmos also start with a tiny garrison in teh east and I can focus on the turks... and the Byzantians honored our alliance and didn't drive down the middile east with their powerful army...
And this was suppose to be easy HAH.....
THe Danes are also one funny faction... it can either be incrediablly easy or incrediablly hard to play them... if you try to take on the HRE its' probably one of the hardest campign in the game... but if you just take scandanavia and build up boats it can be really really easy (huge income and small garrison.... )