Quote Originally Posted by Privateerkev View Post
And my favorite reason to hold Baghdad is so I can keep a governor there and recruit elephant mercs.
Nice one!

I actually never have tried Elephants before... I'm a bit turned off by their potential berserk-thingie.

How big are the risks for that compared to the advantages of this sturdy merc.?



Quote Originally Posted by Poor Bloody Infantry
Zagreb is pretty good IMHO, well worth building up to get the huge mining income. It's also roughly halfway between Vienna and the rich cities of Northern Italy, which makes a good economic axis to expand around
I agree, but only if you can keep it in the center of your empire. As Privateerkev argued on Antwerp, I have the same problem with Zagreb: it always ends up being a frontier-province. And it's not good at being that, due to the small population, and thus little availability of good militia and defensive walls. At least early on, I find it hard to build it up to become profitable (expensive to defend as a frontier city).