I started with the Turkish on early, at expert level. As the game says it is one level harder than the chosen difficulty. Of course this is because it is surrounded with two strong factions, but after a while it is just usual expert level.
Well, i found it really difficult at the start because of the weak start of the Turks and i was thinking i have to fight with two factions at the same. I chose to attack Byzs first but the Egyptians always backstabbed me.
I abandoned a few games till i find out the Byzs never attack you if you dont attack them. They are so peacefull. This happened every time i started a new campaign so first i finished off the Egyptians, at last pushed them till i get the crusade provinces. When Egyptians cease to be a real threat i marched on to Byzs till i get Constantinapole. Stopped there till the JHI is available. I made the buildings earlier so whenever it is late era i started to make JHI. They seem to be nearly invincible against any unit. I made a few armies with 5+ generals including 5 JHI, 4 turcoman foot, 6 Khwarziman and the generals unit. Guess what? this army is enough for nearly anything. The AI still continues to be dumb and making peasants, sucking at war. With this army combo i could win against an army of any faction which is 2 - 3 times bigger in numbers. I dont see myself very good in commanding the army, since i am only playing the game for one week.
Now i have all the north africa, eastern Europe including Hungary, Austria. It is around 1280s, but i can finish this easily, i know. It will just take some time.
Also one more annoying thing about fighting with AI is the fight takes too long. In almost every fight their general charges, and gets himself surrounded by JHI, dies eventually, the army gets routed. Since they always have a bigger army than mine, they keep on coming with reinforcements, but with a huge morale penalty because of both the death of their generals and routing units everywhere. They approach to my army, rout again without touching me. Since i dont have any light cav in my armies, i cannot chase them, but i take my army to the place where their reinforcements appear. They approach and rout, and it goes on and on... Sometimes i do nothing, speed up the game, put all army on loose formation, only attack the dumb units coming too close. They run away and withdraw before being able to rally.
So as a conclusion, imho the game for the Turkish faction is really very very easy if you can survive the first era with gaining some land, esp constantinapole.
Is the campaign so easy?
And also one more question, can you mod the game and omit the production of the peasants and urban militia and other weak units that the comp sucks at using after some time passes, lets say after 1200 ?
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