Blasted Scandinavians

[Somebody Else]

Playing Wesmod... England, Early, only on hard - I'm new to it after all. I've had both the Danes and Swedes charging at me with hordes of Landsmenn. Managed to lock the Danes up in Aquitaine But the blasted Swedes have gone and taken the entirety of England. And I can't get my armies back there to kick them out due to their control of the shipping lanes. So I'm stuck with most of France and Scandinavia... How daft is that

Enough of that. It's a good change though, usually I've got it too easy, now, somewhat more difficult. Perhaps I just have to get used to it.

[Ragss]

Yeah those guys are bastards in medmod. They bought the welsh rebels right from under my nose when I started, along with some landsmen and karls.

[ChaosLord]

You just need to exploit the Danes weakness, their lack of cavalry. Playing as Russia on Hard i've crushed the Danes over and over again with armies consiting only of cavalry. I use heavy cav head on to lock them while my faster cav swings around to hit them from behind. Since the Karls usually have low morale I aim for them first to get them started routing. Once they go its onto to the landsmen who put up more of a fight but slammed from a few sides they usually give way. Since the Danes are on foot its usually easy to catch their general and capture/kill him too to help with routing the rest of the army.

[katank]

that's quite true although many factions don't have as ready an access to cav as the Kiev Rus.

It can still be a problem for other inf factions like the italians.

[Seven.the.Hun]

blah, lack of cav is always bad

[PseRamesses]

Quote[/b] (Somebody Else @ May 21 2004,11:54)]So I'm stuck with most of France and Scandinavia... How daft is that
That´s one of the more unrealistic feats with this game. One should think that the AI would try and re-conquer homlands more vigilanty instead of raging all around like a drunk man in a porselain shop.

[katank]

to swap homelands and thus only be able to build hordes of spears is kinda annoying.

so much for challenge when often my longbows just mow down packs and packs of danish and swedish spearmen.

they often displace each other's homelands and no more decent units to face http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/angry.gif

[Xiphias]

Look on the bright side, they could be attacking with Viking Huscarls instead.

[Somebody Else]

Well... it took a load of an earlier save, but now I've dealt with them. I have but to crush the final opposition of the Danish king.

I suppose it would help if I didn't dislike cavalry quite so much - I'm too much of an infantryman... But claymores seem to work, and I've got plenty of good generals to lead them.

[katank]

if you really dislike cav, then maybe you should be playing the Danes or the Swedes.

Italians might suit you too.

I must say all of these are a bit overpowered. No offense to Wes, but I've gotten tired of Danes and Italians sharing HRE within a decade or so. It's not that balanced.

[Oaty]

Quote[/b] (Somebody Else @ May 22 2004,19:22)]Well... it took a load of an earlier save, but now I've dealt with them. I have but to crush the final opposition of the Danish king.

I suppose it would help if I didn't dislike cavalry quite so much - I'm too much of an infantryman... But claymores seem to work, and I've got plenty of good generals to lead them.
Shogun is the answer there. Just about every campaign I played I ran into very little cavalry myself and the A.I. almost always had a problem teching up to cavalry. The reason I never teched up to cavalry is all the infantry had that valour, my starting provinces were teched up for good infantry, cavalry has more requirements in the tech tree and if I had teched up to them I'd be cutting off funds and the time in buildings for infantry. I just found it a hinderance to try to tech up for cavalry.

[garion]

well if you want to fight cav you should do the hsitorical campaign of oda nonabunga and fight agaisnt the takeda clan, then you should have enough for years