What are GA goals for Almohads?

[BalkanTourist]

I am planning on playing my first GA game and wanted to know what the GA goals for the Almohads were, beside from Homelands and Conquest. Any detailed help would be appreciated. Thanks, guys

[Doug-Thompson]

The Red Palace, a citadel in Granada. I believe that's all.

[Edited P.S.: Scratch that. There's a Moorish Civilization goal where you have to have many buildings in Grenada and Cordoba, but I've forgotten the details. Sorry.]

[BalkanTourist]

Thanks, so how does a GA game differ from a TD game? Should I still try to whipe out other factions or should I just chill in my homeland and build?

[Doug-Thompson]

Quote[/b] (Czar Ivan Asen II @ May 12 2004,15:51)]Thanks, so how does a GA game differ from a TD game? Should I still try to whipe out other factions or should I just chill in my homeland and build?

Frankly, there's not much difference. You should wipe out the Spanish ASAP and then get ready for war with the Egyptians. You may want to let the Egyptians suffer from Crusades first, though.

[Maychargewithoutorders]

To be honest domination is still a viable method of winning in GA mode. Wiping out the other factions means that you will always lead on points Personally i have got bored with the excessive management of a large empire and the GA game allows you to win without such headaches.

My approach is usually to target the current GA leader whilst keeping the rest allied/neutral. In my current game i've yet to eliminate a faction, just reduced them to a few provinces that are not their homelands. It makes for much more an interesting game, plus you can get lots of money rolling in through trade

[katank]

there's also an Iberian civilization GA in which you want as many buildings in Iberia as possible regardless of who owns it.

AI is stupid and broke since they can't manage economy so I suggest taking over all of Iberia and running that yourself.

steep slopes of Navarre/Aragon makes for an ideal chokepoint to defend against incursions.

hordes of AUMs charging down the hills of Navarre after the enemy got shot up by DAs is simply beautiful.

After that is secured, look to Cyrenacia and leave it mostly empty to tempt the Eggy to attack you.

Cyrenacia is a giant sand trap and you can retaliate by hitting Egypt and Sinai.

You can go all the way to Syria and war on the Turks and even take Asia Minor for Ghulam cav and AHC valour bonuses.

However, that is strictly optional.

You can use a lone saharan cav to guard border with eggy as they get into scrapes with Byz, not you early on.

before 1100, they will most likely not attack you.

By the time you do, your forces from conquering IBeria should be back.

Whatever you do, don't conquer Portugal early as it's a pain in the @ss to hold and is a giant drain.

The reason the AI almos always lose is because they go for Portugal too early.

It weakens them for the Spanish.

However, it also tends to immortalize them as they would come back often as Portugal will definitely rebel sooner or later.

[ah_dut]

as the almos in early you have far superior unite than in any other time of the game. your aum's sgould cause some big time havoc on the spanish apart from their damnable jinetes. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/angry.gif so kill themwith high valour murabitin infantary, well your javelins or desert archers. you outrange them. you need the entire iberian peninsula by the high period at least. This means you have a stable base of wealth. the iberian peninsula is risch and has iron. so whack the spainiards

[katank]

I would say all of Iberia except for Portugal before 1100. It's a bit hard but you can afford to leave all your provinces bare except for saharan cav in Cyren.

Attack Spanish in Leon and Castile as soon as khalif gets to Cordoba and can command an attack.

pump AUM from Cordoba and DAs from Morrocco for the attack and peasants afterwards so that loyalty can be maintained and you can carry momentum onto Aragonese.

I find Berber camels to murder jinettes with ruthless efficiency as they can outrange them with arrow fire and even beat them in melee.

a few murabitins might help with the RKs.

[mercian billman]

One game I did have Egypt attack my force in Cyrencia, they sent roughly 1000 peasents, nubian spears, and some camels against 2 Saharan cavalry, so the rule Egypt won't attack is not always true.

Still, the best strategy is to eliminate the Spanish forst even if it makes you vulnerable to the Egyptians.

[katank]

I never said they never attack but very rarely before 1100 and they don't steam roll all of NAf so you can focus on taking out the Spanish and Aragonese first followed by consolidation of Iberia before going after them.

BTW, I managed to win a similar battle on timer I ran my saharan cav around the map and nothing they had could catch them.

only problem was constant retreat penalty starting to take a toll so I ran them into the flanks of some peasants and quickly disengaged before other units could get into range every now and then.