Tristan
04-07-2004, 07:41
Well, I started a Polish campaign in High, which is my first serious attempt. It's on a low difficulty setting, but I'm not a great general by any means (I only won the Viking campaign by training loads of Joms Vikings, setting the battle speed to 100%, and then just running the Joms into enemy troops http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif ), and I'm in a bit of a jam.
A bit of a description of my situation. The year is 1263 I believe, definitely in the 1260s. I control from Pomerania and Prussia in the North, to Bulgaria in the south (don't have Serbia, and the Hungarians are entrenched in Carpathia), Poland and Moldavia in the East, and a string of German rebellions has left me with Swabia, Tyrolia, Bohemia, Austria, and Bavaria in the West. I also possess Sweden and Palestine as offshore rebel territory that was too good to pass up. My main troop producing territories are Poland, Prussia, Hungary, and Silesia.
My problem is pretty straight forward. The Turks are a power to the South of me, controlling most of the Middle East (well, up to the Crusader States and Syria, which is rebel at the moment). The Germans are on the decline, but have a few large stacks. Carpathia is Hungarian owned in the middle of all my lands, but is easily taken, but my troops have other worries. The English are expanding eastward, having eliminated most of Spain, all of France, and now share a double border with me (Saxony-Pomerania and Denmark-Sweden). The Golden Horde has finally finished off the Russians, and share a long border, from the Baltic to the Black Sea. They are the most powerful by far, and I had planned to let them fight it out with the Russians and have the Khan die, as is typical in games I had tried out before, which would make them easily snatchable rebel provinces. Hasn't happened, and in the last turn, they invaded (although they decided it wasn't worth it and left me alone for one day). My armies right now can't handle them, unless I sacrifice some western provinces. Should I build troops like mad in my producing provinces (two of which share borders with the Horde)? Should I sacrifice my new German acquisitions to bolster my numbers out East? I'm at a loss as to what to do. I'm the largest naval power, but that doesn't seem to help. Is it as hopeless as I think it is, or is there a way to get out of it somehow? I have no assassins who would be able to assassinate the Khan or any of his numerous heirs.
A bit of a description of my situation. The year is 1263 I believe, definitely in the 1260s. I control from Pomerania and Prussia in the North, to Bulgaria in the south (don't have Serbia, and the Hungarians are entrenched in Carpathia), Poland and Moldavia in the East, and a string of German rebellions has left me with Swabia, Tyrolia, Bohemia, Austria, and Bavaria in the West. I also possess Sweden and Palestine as offshore rebel territory that was too good to pass up. My main troop producing territories are Poland, Prussia, Hungary, and Silesia.
My problem is pretty straight forward. The Turks are a power to the South of me, controlling most of the Middle East (well, up to the Crusader States and Syria, which is rebel at the moment). The Germans are on the decline, but have a few large stacks. Carpathia is Hungarian owned in the middle of all my lands, but is easily taken, but my troops have other worries. The English are expanding eastward, having eliminated most of Spain, all of France, and now share a double border with me (Saxony-Pomerania and Denmark-Sweden). The Golden Horde has finally finished off the Russians, and share a long border, from the Baltic to the Black Sea. They are the most powerful by far, and I had planned to let them fight it out with the Russians and have the Khan die, as is typical in games I had tried out before, which would make them easily snatchable rebel provinces. Hasn't happened, and in the last turn, they invaded (although they decided it wasn't worth it and left me alone for one day). My armies right now can't handle them, unless I sacrifice some western provinces. Should I build troops like mad in my producing provinces (two of which share borders with the Horde)? Should I sacrifice my new German acquisitions to bolster my numbers out East? I'm at a loss as to what to do. I'm the largest naval power, but that doesn't seem to help. Is it as hopeless as I think it is, or is there a way to get out of it somehow? I have no assassins who would be able to assassinate the Khan or any of his numerous heirs.