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Originally Posted by lugh
No, certainly not! The French going to war with me has nothing at all to do with me taking their best provinces or bribing away their best generals; I would never do such a thing..... ~D
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Originally Posted by lugh
No, certainly not! The French going to war with me has nothing at all to do with me taking their best provinces or bribing away their best generals; I would never do such a thing..... ~D
Guys, I cannot believe nobody mentioned the almohads. I was English first, then Byz, and their fleet was always just everywhere, blocking all my trades and trying to invade me from every position they manage to conquer near mine.
And I also agree about the Sycilians. I was way over 60% with the Byz, they only possesed Naples and Sicily and still refused me several times a truce, being their fleet a massive annoyance.
Strange, me neither! Silly irrational continentals.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Martok
I'd love to have problems with the Almo's but they always seem to get hammered by the Spanish and Aragonese in my games.
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Originally Posted by kilman74
Before VI I always had the Almohads get big, very big. Since VI they seem to sit in the desert and battle back and forth with the Spanish.
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Originally Posted by m52nickerson
Yeah, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head, there. The Almos are ridiculous in the original Medieval, but they're pansies in Viking Invasion. That's why I downloaded the XL mod; they do a much better job of protecting their lands. (In fact, between the Almos being beefier and the Portuguese being a playable faction, the Spanish actually merit the "Hard" difficulty rating again! ~:) )
The Almohads will usually get big in the original, unless I play as Spain ~D .Quote:
Originally Posted by m52nickerson
Why is this? They should also go after the Egyptians as well as the Spanish,
but they don't :dizzy2: . An AI Spain doesn't ever seem to do well, but when
I play them they seem fairly easy. Do any of you veterans have some ideas/
clues/etc.... to this craziness?
From what I understand they changed the natural attitude of several AI factions with the expansion. The Almohads were made less aggressive, the French moreso, etc.
I mean the Spanish, why can't the AI play them very well? ~:confused:
Probably the language barrier ;).
That's two useless comments Mithrandir ... ~D
The Spanish handle themselves pretty well in XL, very aggressive but so are the Almos so they usually stalemate at Cordoba and head north and east respectively.
What strategy label does Spain have in the original? If it's the merchant one, tha tnever seems to succeed, I think the Italians and Sicilians are Navy or something.
I think the ultimate arch enemy is the Papacy. Full Stop. Now I have the second game where they got huge. And you don't really have any other option than kill them in a fair fight and take away the provinces.
I expand on this: any other faction can be made extinct thereby zeroing the GA points for them. You can eliminate them, kill off the heirs and king with assassins, if Catholic even safer method with grand inquisitors. Although HRE have similar traits in the idea of non-extinct faction (they elect a good general if there are no heirs) but they are usually ravaged by civil war, often excommed and very very rarely get really huge.
When you face head to head the Papacy you have to fight in constant excomm if Catholic (although I am fairly good at killing all capable generals of them on the stake - usually they have only 1-2 1* general + the Pope)
In my present Irish game (Early/GA/Hard/XL_MOD) they are huge owning Europe from Anjou to Poland Saxony to Greece. In constant excom I conquered Italy. I will get Africa and Middle East and I am pushing from Flanders to the south and from North Italy to north. Papacy have cool troops but their generals (as said above) suck. So yesterday I rooted an army with several units of +3 Armor Swiss Halbediers: they were shot up by arbs, pinned by v1 Armored Spearmen and flanked by Sherwood Forester and whatever else I had... and that is in the Tirol mountains.
Sicillians, Hungarians, French.
I have to disagree, you can use the Pope if you know how. Its only later in the game were he becomes a problem. By that point your empire is huge and getting the big X is no longer a big problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by bretwalda
I've only had to face an advanced, cavalry heavy Byzantine army once and I didn't much care for it.
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Originally Posted by Vladimir
Then I don't recommend playing as the Turks or Egyptians. ~D On the other hand, being close the Byz does make for a nice challenge!
I've started to get good at killing cav heavy armys. Damn Horde. Spears and missiles. Those horses are arrow and bolt magnets. Its also nice to be just out side of some woods with a unit or two of polearms at your flank. Hard for the enemy to attack your rear!~D