How do you use the Sicilians?

[Sir Zack de Caldicot]

Your tactics and stategies here please:anxious:

THank you

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[Cebei]

Have you tried Sicilian gangsters(gains +1 in Sicily) to blow up Pious' Pizza House?

I admit that was too bad. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-wall.gif

[Sir Zack de Caldicot]

Quote[/b] ]Have you tried Sicilian gangsters(gains +1 in Sicily) to blow up Pious' Pizza House?

I admit that was too bad.

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[Monk]

Just make sure you have a good trade fleet and you will do fine. Use your ships to make war upon North Africa taking Tunisia (gold) and Egypt (trade province), and Naples (mainland Route). Keep building good units and strengthen your positions there, then use your ships to invade greece and/or Constantinople.

The Key is (Always) have a good Navy as the Sicilians.

If you don't use your navy, then you might as well play as the HRE.

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[fruitfly]

The last time I played as the Sicilians I adopted a very high risk strategy, but it really paid off in the end.

I began by building another ship, since you need three to get this to work properly. Then I started churning out peasants in Malta and built an inn to recruit as many mercs as possible in Sicily and took out the Byz in Naples before they could link it up properly with the rest of their empire and reinforce it.

After that I dumped all the peasants in Naples to keep it loyal and shipped the mercs across to Greece. After taking out Greece and reinforcing it with all the other troops I had left, I went on to Constantinople and forced the Byz to retreat from there.

Unfortunately by this point I was almost 2000 florins in debt due to the excessive upkeep costs of my troops, but while I'd been on the rampage the Turks had started beating up the Byz from the east and they were very keen to sign a peace treaty with me, enabling me to disband some of the mercs and get my economy sorted out properly.

I got lucky at the end though and it could have all gone horribly wrong.

Either way, I think the best opening move is to conquer Naples ASAP. Then make sure your ships are away from any Byz provinces and you'll automatically be at peace with them, but have another rich province in the empire and still only one border to defend.

One approach then would be to sit back and start building up a trading network, then either take advantage of your small size to hit the Italians and make sure you're the only naval power in the region, or start crusading to secure the wealth of the holy lands.

[mercian billman]

Conquer Naples right away, and begin building crusades from there asap. Send your Crusades through Italy, and the Paple States hopefully you will be able to capture Serbia. With Serbia you don't have to go through Byzantine or worse Turkish lands where you may lose troops, or they may deny you entrance.

I was able to create a crusader kingdom with Palestine, Tripoli, and Antioch. With only Siciliy, Malta, Naples, my crusader kingdoms, Tunisia, and Serbia. I was earning over 20,000 florin a year.

Hire as many mercenaries as you can, and put them in your crusades; you do not have to pay for them.