Seljuk Experience?

[gollum]

Hi,
the difficulty is theoretical, it should have been present in vanilla - in practice the Turks rule. Just be prepared to face the Mongols and after you neutralise them, built your Janissary corps and off you go to rule the world.

You just dont get many heavily armoured and very heavily armoured units but thats never a problem for the player.

!it burnsus!

[Fagar]

I have never found the Turkish armies hard to play in any type of mod really.
They are easily one of my favourites.
They are versatile and fleet of foot and a good general can mould Turkish troops for any situation.
You are clearly able to do this easily.
The Byzantine heavy units are no match, especially in arid areas where they are exhausted easily and just become fodder to arrow fire and flanking raids by light horse.
I love when a 7 star general breaks and runs but his mailed horse is so tired and slow my desert archers run it down.

[Roark]

Yeah, Turks dominate! Easily my favourite faction. They can run rings around almost everyone. In my opinion, the only major problems they can face are armies of heavily armoured Christian elites defending on their own ground. An aggressive Mongol horde that charges in (as opposed to skirmishing) will also overrun them sometimes.

Apart from Janissaries, the Turks aren't "tough" so much as skilful and fast. Oh yeah, and almost everyone has a bow - bonus!

[Fagar]

yeah perfect faction for people such as myself that use bows stategically both in attack and defence.

Often when I am playing as another faction I lament the lack of missile types present and have to admit that at times struggle playing without them.