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[jedi121212]

I am having trouble with my campaign I have all of britain scandanavia, and most of france. I am at war with the french, sicilians, and italians.

[gollum]

What about the Iberian factions jedi121212? The Spanish and Aragonese (and Almohads)? How are they doing?

Can you tell which year it is, which era you started and what difficulty are you playing?

[jedi121212]

well the spanish have most of the penninsula and Aragonese still have one province and I own one province in the penninsula. I wiped out the Almohads with a crusade. I started with early and the year is 1203 the diff. is normal.

[gollum]

Right - soon the era will change from early to high (1204); this means that you will be able to get the chivalric line of units (chivalric knights ie enhanced knights, chivalric men at arms ie heavy swordsmen, chivalric seargents ie heavy spearmen), crossbows and arbalelesters (heavy crossbows) plus their pavise versions plus your unique units, billmen and longbowmen. Your Royal Knights (your family's Bodyguards) will also upgrade to High Royal Knights that are a 20 man version of Chivalric knights essentially. The other factions will also receive the upgrades and roster enhancements of course.

Are you in trouble because you are losing battles or because you are not making enough money to support the armies needed to fight all your enemies?

[jedi121212]

hmm the money not really defending I had a trade route but the sicilians took out half it and I am trying to make more ships at the moment.

[gollum]

This is the disadvantage of trade - although it has the highest return than any other source of income/investment it is temporal (this mechanic is actually very nice imho and quite underrated). When you go at war the enemy's fleets block your trade lines - at that moment you have to decide whether you will try to keep the ship production in an effort to clear the seas (which might take a while and hence be expensive in the long run and hinder your development as you will invest in ships and not higher level castles, buildings etc) or alternatively try to conquer more land to compensate which is another risk. The last option is to defend passively and wait until your enemies calm down and eventually accept a ceasefire - but this might also take a while.