Archived campaign: Spain (defensive)

[William the Silent]

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EDIT: Conquest for Spain (original thread title)

Due to the effects and aftermath of the Spanish bug this thread (and all the efforts put into it)
was eventually and regretably abandoned. Sad but true. - Axalon
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Since the spanish faction seems to be so hard to play, I deside to drop my russian conquest and start a new one as Spain on the Expert level.

In this topic I want to share the spanish conquest of the World under the 700 year rule of William the Silent. This can lead to eternal Redux Glory (or Shame ), since Axalon made the Moors seemingly invincible.
I wil show how to submit them to spanish superiority with the use of all the little available economic resources and poor militairy resources, but superior militairy/economic skill, intrige and diplomacy of me: William the Silent Conqueror.

In the coming days, or weeks, or months, or years I will show my progress in this topic . (I can always cheat by going back in time ).

700 AD.
Here the story begins:
My first king, Alfonso I, has the task to start me off and built a good economy, with good militairy resources. The main focus is going to be on how to defeat the greatest threat of all: the Moor invasion of Spain.

Cordoba will have to be taken in the future. We don't want to upset the Moors right from the beginning. So we make alliance.

730 AD.
First conquest:
So we will first try to take "gimmy" Navarra. For that we have to built enough troops to hold it after takeover. That happens in this year.

The first 40 years is nothing but building. Up to spearmaker valour 1 and armourer armour 3. We need these Royal Spearman.

740 AD.
This is where we are at the moment:
- Alliance with everybody including Moors.
- Spies in every province for stability.
- Equal force (in units, not numbers) facing up against Moors in Castille (the Moors will not attack with equal force and probably first attack weaker Aragon).
- Possesion of Leon, Castille and Navarra.
- Profits about 1000 Florins a year.
- Ready to recruit first Royal Spearman, with armour 3 (soon) and valour 1 (with 7/8 of these dudes I will be defensivly almost unbeatable).
- 3 star general (king).


On bottem of picture you see buildup of a Moor stack and my stacks + recruiting bin.

Plans for the future:
- Get 8 Royal Spearman.
- Make everything armour 3.
- Upgrade to valour 2.
- Built superior navy around the peninsula.
- Built army to take Portugal.
- Do not make war with anybody else.
- Look for princesses to marry to my king's sons (then they will already have children once they become king).


There is some exellent beauty out there. But beware of the ones with an attitude. And the dads !!!!!.

Btw. Axalon you better change your basic topics (the 4 towers + keep of Redux Castle) into "stickies", otherwise they might move down, or disappear. Hehe.

[Axalon]

COOL!

Do you mind if I set up a copy of “the Spanish dicta” here? It might be interesting for the various people who might want to read all about the eternal glory of Spain (and it gives you something to argue with, since you probably will do otherwise). Or do you prefer it to be strictly “William” around here?


- Cheers
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Perhaps you should check your spelling a bit or at least edit in, “Conqueror” for instance. Nobody is perfect here, but I thought that this particular word might be more important than others here…

In regards to the other towers, it isn’t necessary for the moment but let’s hope that it will be in the future.

[William the Silent]

COOL!

Do you mind if I set up a copy of “the Spanish dicta” here? It might be interesting for the various people who might want to read all about the eternal glory of Spain (and it gives you something to argue with, since you probably will do otherwise). Or do you prefer it to be strictly “William” around here?


- Cheers
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Perhaps you should check your spelling a bit or at least edit in, “Conqueror” for instance. Nobody is perfect here, but I thought that this particular word might be more important than others here…

In regards to the other towers, it isn’t necessary for the moment but let’s hope that it will be in the future.

Thanks for already saving my face with the Qonqueror, before anyone else reads the Conquest (I thought it looked funny). That would have wasted most of my glory points and dignity.

You can do whatever you want with this topic. Maybe it will set off some other Conquests. And other players might learn from it. Or I will learn from suggestions.

Whatever adds entertainment within the borders of decency .

[Axalon]

Ok, for the greater glory of redux and Spain here is a copy of the…

“THE SPANISH DICTA” 1A:
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• First of all, go for quality, it’s probably the only thing that are going to save Spain because you will not beat the Moors in an arms race, thus the only alternative left is quality. So, go for quality.
• Secondly, the fate of Spain lies in Cordoba, if anywhere. This is the key to the entire region! Who ever controls Cordoba have the possibility to dominate and threaten the entire peninsula. It is here all important battles should be fought.
• Thirdly, you need florins and time to build up Spain to full capacity; it is this that should be your primary task. Secure that time and wealth.
• Be well aware of the capacities and composition of enemy armies, and make sure that whatever army you have that might have to face these armies is ready for it. As in have the right allocated tactical resources (troops & arms) to that army and thus it can actually and successfully counter the threat in question.
• Be sure of what you build and the reasons as for why you are building it. Plan ahead when you build stuff, you don’t have the margins of mistakes in the start… Both in troops and in buildings. You must plan ahead! What do I need in 5 turns?
• Always try to anticipate major enemy troop-movements (armies) near your borders and deploy your troops accordingly.
• Always try to minimize your borders and maximize the enemy borders, if possible. Thus forcing the enemy to disperse his forces into several provinces, while you have to defend only one province (or something like that).
• If possible operate with buffer-zones, that way you can afford to loose a battle a still come back and fight another day…
• Once you have enough secured you borders enough, consider to build a navy (when you have enough florins for such expenses) to disrupt enemy logistical lines.
• Never be afraid to fight, even if the odds seem grim…

This “dicta” was taken from the regular thread (post: 230) and presents some general guidelines to consider for all players who want to try their luck with managing Spanish crown. Spain set on "Expert" seems to have become somewhat notorious for many players, so this dicta was born in a response to all that...


Take it away William!

[William the Silent]

Conquest for Spain part II.

755 AD.
We have landed in this noble year. We can look back on 55 years of building on the economy and military .
We are able to recruit Royal Spearman and have reached valour level 2 and armour level 3 and I have 5 star general.
Yearly profits are about 1100 Florins.

I was actually looking for the takeover of Portugal, but the rich Moors beat me in that .

After eliminating the Portugese the Moors had to deal with rebellion. That weakened their heavy stacks .

770 AD.
So I gave up my plans for Portugal and started building a strong navy (fleets of 4/5 warships) around the peninsula of Spain. I noticed that the Moors started moving their heavy spear unit somewhere else.

You see the progress of the navy in the next three pictures up to 781 AD. And you see the weakening of the Moor stacks on the bottem .

781 AD.
In this year I had built up a strong enough army to withstand any attack from the Moors. I deployed 4 skirmish units to use as screen against the Moors in battle, since they had no cavalry (first).

In the pictures you see what's in my stacks.

782 AD.
It has been 82 years of peace and building now . It's time now to get the Moors out of the spanish peninsula .

My plan is to destroy the fleet of the Moors around the peninsula, at the moment that they have moved a lot of units away there. They will not be able to reinforce there then and hopefully it wil cause rebellion. I will invade Cordoba then from Castille. I expect Aragon and France not to attack me, since they are allies and will cancel alliances with Moors not me.

Next episode the battle of Cardoba.

[cambovenzi]

interesting.

i was just messin around tho and was able to beat the moors way out of the peninsula+, as well as the Portuguese, and aragonese within 20 turns or so.
as long as you do nothing too stupid people shouldnt lose to the moors.