Great Campaigns - Medieval

[Panzermeyer]

Hey Gents,

I wanted to post in the Main Hall to this thread, but seeing as how I am a newbie it would not let me post a reply. So I thought I would start this topic here and see what all us newbies are up too.

I am playing vanilla MTW/VI. I am on my third campaign in a few weeks.
Took some of the tips and pointers I have gleaned from this forum and put it to use.

Well I am playing:
Danes - Normal mode
Early Era

Having quite an adventure.
I started off taking over Scandanavia and then building up a trade network. When I finally got a trade network going, I attacked and took over Ireland. Early on pretty much all the Catholic factions allied with me (except for the English and the Italians) as well as Byz. I have honored those alliances especially considering how little I have at this point.

Finally I decided to make a move. Against the HRE that left a back door open. After an initial conquest I discovered that the HRE is getting hammered by the Polish empire and the French empire as well as me. So within a few years between the three of us the HRE is only left in Pomerinia and we are now at peace. I found myself in posession of most of the heart of Germany. France knocked out the English conquoring the whole island.

Soon after that, the Alhomnds had conquered Spain, Aragon, and started taking southern France. Seeing where they where heading and what would happen if they took over all of France, I decided to attack. I was able to retake Switzerland, Flanders, Lorraine, Burgundy, and Il De France from the Alhomands. I weaked them considerably (at least their attack drive.) The sea battles have been hard, as I am trying to manage a naval power for trade and to supply a large enough army to win some battles.

Shortly before this was completed, The English revolved from the French and where able to take back about half their proviences. Between the Rebels, the English resurgance, and the Alhomands the French are not doing so well. They are left to Champaigne, Wessex, and Scotland.

I was about to spend some time consolidating, when the English foolishly attacked me. In three years I was able to take over all three of thier French possessions (Brittany, Normandy, and Aquitine). By this time I have a well consolidated Empire, but the need for a large army due to the English and the Alhomands is getting to me. I have a steady 2000 Florin income, but it is not lending itself to much expansion. Thank God Poland and Hungry have been good Allies and not attacked. Italy is in the southern border and will not ally with me but they are remaining Neutral. However Italy is getting crushed between Hungry and the Papal States.

However with this respite the Alhomnds have amassed a large army in southern France and are preparing for attack. And I have been seeing this coming, so I have been trying to build a large army to either attack or defend against the Alhomnds. I am hoping to take over southern France and only leave him with two proviences to attack, and then turn and deal with the English, or maybe I should try and deal with the English through subterfuge?? That is an idea. Break up the kindgom and allow the French to come back (By now they are only in Scotland and Champaigne).

I think the Alhomands are going to be attacking me before I can get to them. And he will not make peace. With I think I prefer since I will not have to chase them around the field. They have a lot more cavalry than I. So with more archers now, and som cavalry of my own, I think I can defeat his main force and the string out his reinforcements and defeat them piecemeal. I mean he has like 3-4 full stacks at my front door.

So the next few years are going to be a hair raiser, but I am looking forward to them. I am trying to get my church system built up enough so I can build some crusades to use against the Alhomands, but it is not looking like it is going to happen fast enough.

So that is where I am at.

Any one else have any great games going on out there??

[Monarch]

Sounds like loadsa fun. I actually play Rome, but MTW sounds lots of fun. I was just wondering if you could toggle fog of war off for a second, take a screenshot of the situation. I am very interested in what sort of factions are dominant in the Holy Land and such. Picture paints a thousand words after all :)

[Ianofsmeg16]

Sounds like an interesting Campaign..

*digs out M:TW and blows the dust of it*

P.S. Salt Lake City is a beautiful City Panzermeyer :D

[Panzermeyer]

P.S. Salt Lake City is a beautiful City Panzermeyer :D

Yes it is. I am very much enjoying the snow. Never lived in the snow. And the mountains are awesome. Love hiking those beauts.

[Panzermeyer]

Sounds like loadsa fun. I actually play Rome, but MTW sounds lots of fun. I was just wondering if you could toggle fog of war off for a second, take a screenshot of the situation. I am very interested in what sort of factions are dominant in the Holy Land and such. Picture paints a thousand words after all :)

I know there is a cheat that will allow you to do just that. I will figure it out and get you a screen shot. The map certainly has changed quite a bit after last night.

I was about to attack the Alhmonds and beat them back taking all of southern France. This combined with a few bishops incited mass rebellion in Spain. With that rebellion the Spainish king reemerged and reformed his kingdom. Then the Alhomnds sued for peace. I did one land grab, sending a force to Granda (Gibraltor) and surrounded the citadel there. However a rebel uprising is causing me some concern, with a spanked navy at this point I have no way of reinforcing the troops there if I do not win, and they consist of some good quality troops.

I took Wessex from the English, and now am camped in southern England. I do not think the english will be doing very much at this point. I have a strong garrision there and will keep it so. I have some assassins and inquistors working some of the generals in Wales. Unfortunely thought the English have a ton of heirs to the throne.

Also during this time, France my long time ally, had a case of the sillies, and declared war on me. So I finally took champagne, capturing their king, so they are left with only Scotland. And their navy is crushed.

Unfortunately at this point however the Egyptians have attacked me with thier navy. We have no land contact at this point, but I am hard pressed at the seas. Fortunately however I have just ended the Middle Ages and have better ships available to the tide is turning. I am just hoping to gain control of the seas so that I can get into the meditereanen and build up my trade network and get some more cash. I have a feeling that I Egyptians are the next strongest faction, I have seen them attack the Hugarians, so I think in a few years I might be having a serious war. With being allied to the Alhmonds now, they also declared war on the Egyptians so hopefully that will keep them busy.

[Samurai Waki]

The cheat to turn fow off is .matteosartori. (you have to add the . before and after you type out the cheat. But it can't be turned off, unless you save, and then re-load your campaign.

[Martok]

Sounds like a fun campaign, Panzermeyer! Yeah, the Eggies are usually one of the top 3 powers in any given game, so it doesn't surprise me that they're already starting to knock on your door. Chances are very good that you will end up in a massive war with them for ultimate control. I wish you luck!

[dagiz]

The last campaign I had in MTW was probably my best, in terms of battles, alliances, trade, everything.

The last 50 years really got jumping. To start, I play almost exclusively the Byz. Sometimes Russians, but mostly Byz. It was about 1345 and I had consolidated the entire mideast, parts of eastern europe, and all provinces around the black sea (that took a while due to fanatical mongols). To the South, the entire North Coast of Africa was under new and better management (at least I thought so). All island provinces were under Byzantine rule, I controlled the Mediterranean.

Peace was strenous at best, but it was there. Both the HRE and the Spanish had control over most of western Europe. The Hungarians were left with very little, but served as a buffer between our nations. England was left with the British Isles (except for Ireland which acted as my Command for the Northern Armada). With Marco Polo's exciting discoveries, trade was up considerably.

A ceae fire was in effect with Spain and the HRE was consdiered an ally. The Hungarians and the Russians provided princesses for my gerneals and princes. And the Danish, were well, they always had a ton of princesses. The Papal States and I had an uneasy truce, knowing that it would be broken.

When the first Crusade started, by the HRE, we met in Serbia, where 4,000 of their finest troops fell to 1,500 of my best. Luring them into a sense of false security, they were soon demoralized when a large rock came flying from one my trebuchets and killed their general (one hell of a lucky shot). After the Crusade was stopped, another one started, this time with the Spanish. Again against overwhelming odds, this time in Croatia, they were soundly defeated. For the next 25 years, this was the pattern. With all attention of the Spanish towards their Eastern Front, I moved in from Morocoo and quickly and decisively took over the Iberian Peninsula.

After seeing this occur, the Hungarians joined in the fight, they too learned what it meant to attack the Byzantine Army. Within five years, they were decimated, not one living hungarian left, and I had an outlet to the Baltic Sea. With potential enemies to the East, I decided to use my Eastern Army of about 8,000 troops to attack from Khazar and once and for all deal with the Mongols. In this case, I left 1,500 to defend Khazar, hoping to bait the Mongols into atacking with their 4,000. I looped the other armies to the North and waited. Within a year, they took the bait and attacked. Given an optimum choice of terrain, with a road leading between two hills, I rained arrow after arrow after arrow upon the army moving towards my main one. this was followed up with a hailstorm of boulders crashing into their army. Soundly defeated, they retreated and within ten years were no more. The Russians, seeing this occuring made the mistake of leaving Finland. They too found out what it was like to cross the Byz. With my eastern front totally under control, I turned my attention west.

By this time, riots and civil disobediance was a regular occurance for my enemies. The HRE were constantly battling rebels as were the Spanish. I waited out the turmoil and would make a quick strike, devastating a province, move back. More often than not, the people of the province were loyal to thier new rulers, even without any buildings or the presence of an army.

My armada's than began the systematic destruction of any sea going vessel that did not fly the Byz. Flag. This led to more rebellions with the Spanish, and soon, my armies marched from the Iberian Peninsula and destroyed what was left. The HRE clung stubbornly to the belief that they could take any provinces without fear of repercussion. Having a massice navy in the oceans, I was able to move my Western Army to attack from Sweden, I took them on and they were lost.

During this time the Papal States, seeing what was occuring decided to take action, first by attacking my navies. That did not turn out well for them. With only the English left to destroy (the Danes were done in by the HRE) I turend my focus on the Papal States. With them out of the picture, a feeble attempt at a truce was made by the English. Knowing that no such peace could ever exist, I move in for the kill. By 1398 I conquered all of Europe.

[BrSpiritus]

My last campaign was as the English, Normal, Early, GA with vanilla MTW. I do believe I was the only faction playing GA and computer got confused and played conquest. There was not a moment of peace between anyone and at most countries were only allied with maybe two other countries. Unfortunately I lost that game due to upgrade to VI and then XL, but now I'm starting over and beginning to see I very much like the XL mod.

BrSpiritus

[Panzermeyer]

The cheat to turn fow off is .matteosartori. (you have to add the . before and after you type out the cheat. But it can't be turned off, unless you save, and then re-load your campaign.

Thanks for that piece.
I will use it and take a screen shot.

[Panzermeyer]

Sounds like a fun campaign, Panzermeyer! Yeah, the Eggies are usually one of the top 3 powers in any given game, so it doesn't surprise me that they're already starting to knock on your door. Chances are very good that you will end up in a massive war with them for ultimate control. I wish you luck!

Well actually I caught somewhat of a break. Sending out some scouts into Russia, I found that the Eggies had taken a ton of provences up north. So a few years back the Huns appeared so the Egyptians are now getting hit hard by the Golden Horde. Also the Hungrians appear to be holding their own in the balkins against the Egyptians. It appears that the Bzy have largely been wiped out expect for Rhodes. Fortunately with this the Egyptians have finally sued for peace. Now I am free to expand my trade network into the Med.

In Spain I was able to consolidate Granada. The and Spainish King took the rest of Spain except Aragon (Me), and the coastal provience south of Aragon (the Alhmonds had that). With rather little forsight. After a 5 years or so, the Spainish navy attacked me. I beat them back in Granada and Aragon with a much lesser force. Landed amphibious forces in Leon and Northern Spain. I laid siege to the castles there and then advanced into Castile and Portugal. So I now have control of all Spain except for the one provience in the Pryennes. (and the Alhmond provence) I plan on attacking the spanish there and taking all of spain. (I did land one major victory that landed me 13,000 florins in ransom money (the King of Spain was included) After I take all of Spain, then I will move all my forces to my German fontier to wait out the Huns. I am building up my castles here to as high as they will go.

Before Spain happened I nearly abandoned Wessex, to get the Enlgish to invade. After they did I did a four pronged attack on all four of their lands and took them out completely within 2 years. I am know assulting Scotland the last French stronghold after using the same tactic. Fortunately this should consolidate my entire empire with only a few borders. I will only have to defnd southern France, My German frontier, and Italy from the Huns. I plan on digging in a building a strong empire at that point as I am tired of War. The Pope, Poland and Hungry have all three been at peace with me for over 100 years. So I am going to trust that and just build up my defenses and downgrade my offensive army and build up my navy.

Oh after taking Spain and sending trade ships into the Med, My income in like 2 years jumped from 4,000 a year to about 12,000 a year. Now I seem to have enough money to handle the expansion of my economy and build up my defenses.

But seeing those stacks of Huns I really hope the Egyptians keep them real interested.

[Panzermeyer]

The last 50 years really got jumping. To start, I play almost exclusively the Byz. Sometimes Russians, but mostly Byz.

Why you like playing the Byz empire? What do you like about them? What about the Russians??