What faction to play as?

[Marquis de Said]

@Magraev,

where can you change the end date in the startpos files? I tried to find the end date of the campaign in the startpos file for late last night, but couldn't find it.


Marquis de Said

[Magraev]

Cut and paste from my own early, my only addition is the last line:

//========================================
//Start Date
//The year in which this
//campaign will begin
//========================================

SetStartDate:: 1087
SetPeriod:: EARLY
SetEarlyPeriodStartDate:: 1087
SetHighPeriodStartDate:: 1205
SetLatePeriodStartDate:: 1321
SetGameEndDate:: 1700


Have fun

[Marquis of Roland]

I think Turks are the most enjoyable faction to play. First off they have a nice variety of units that you can have more fun with on the battlefield. In high they can build Janissaries, some pretty powerful units even in late.

Economics is amazing for Turks once you take out your two neighbors, byzantines and egyptians. Having Constantinople, Antioch, Tripoli, Egypt, AND Khazar and you won't have to worry about money ever again. And the Crimea(along with Khazar get more trade goods in late) is usually empty so jsut drop a peasant on it and its yours.

The Turks also need only defend 3 provinces with field armies, Constantinople, Khazar, and Egypt (of course you could make war on almos and go all the way to Morocco but I like to keep another muslim faction around). Put your best men in constantinople and no crusade (I assure you plenty of crusades will be called on constantinople) will dare step foot into the province.

And of course, being Turks puts you in prime position to duke it out with the 20,000+ warriors of the golden horde

[Marquis of Roland]

by the way, if you're having trouble with jedi katanks with turks in early, just build a lot of cheapo horse archers and those 9 star generals should be no more.

[Marquis de Said]

@Magraev

Thanks for the help with modding the end date.

@Marquis of Roland

Yeah, I might have to play a new Turk campaign. The only one I played on early and expert, I was very cautious and ended up turtling in the four original provinces for the first 100 years, getting hit by a few crusades. This time I could go for the three choke points.

Marquis de Said