About to play first mod

[Madoushi]

Making Money? With the Casse?

I took my time and built up my port in my main settlement. Once I took Wessex and Mercia, they money started pouring in.

Have you tried my KH suggestions here?

KH is tough if Macedon is determined to take Athens from you - all you can do if they seige it early is hope they either get bored and lift the seige, or assault the city and fail to take it. But your hoplites aren't too effective fighting on the walls, and if the Macedonians take a gate, then their heavy Companion cavalry is very hard to stop even with hoplites. The best chance you have is to block the streets in places where towers still under your control are shooting the enemy troops in the back as they attack you.

If Athens falls, then things get very bad for KH. You might be able to retake it later if the Macedonians don't garrison it sufficiently, though - or put a spy in there and try to start a revolt. If all else fails and you lose Sparta as well, then, you'll have to 'emigrate'. Save enough of an army (if possible!) to go and take a rebel city somewhere else around the Mediterranean - Syracuse or Massilia would be best, although Empiron or Arse in Spain are alternatives. You'll also need a 'getaway fleet' to ship your surviving army elsewhere. Really, really try hard not to lose your family members in a hopeless seige or battle, because their bodyguards will regenerate no matter how badly in debt you are. So even if all your other troops are wiped out, you can still use your family members to conquer a new home from the Eleutheroi, somewhere far from the terrible Macedonian oppressors.

Not yet. When I started my KH game, my internet was down. I didn't realise it would be so difficult. I'm finding the stated difficulties for some of the campaigns to be not neccesarily accurate, at least not to my play style.

I'll check your guide and possibly try again, though I think it may simply be a lot easier to play Epiros or Makedonia. The faction selection screen seems to imply they should all be relatively equal in terms of challenge.

Casse seems to be one of the easier campaigns; they have lots of opportunity to expand at the expense of Eleutheroi, money is fairly easily made, virtually every units has projectiles, and they don't seem to need to conquer much territory to achieve victory.