Castle upgrades/garrisons/confusion

**sir_schwick** · 03-11-2005, 15:31

Yeah, you only start with 4k florins and eveyr province is angry. Also the AI gets a +6 morale bonus in combat and will pull all kinds of crazy stuff. Suprised you have not been attacked.

**mfberg** · 03-11-2005, 21:53

One reason to build defences after the main building is to get your governor a VnV. The smaller ones take a short time and if you tour your prince around while building them you can have the builder line maxed out by the time they become king.

mfberg

**bluebird** · 03-15-2005, 01:41

Last night it all went pear shaped. The danes inherited most of western europe turned their attention to me in two turns I lost all provinces but mercia and northumbria, everyone under seige and no heirs left. managed to live out the storm though, after about ten castle assaults in a row (most of which I lost) the Danish King swallowed a cannnon ball and got himself excommunicated all in one year. I have managed to claw my lands back now but it's constant combat as I seem to be at war with everyone. I managed to win some seiges and some ran out of time - what I don't get is why some seiges have a 30min limit and some are much as 60mins - is this due to the landscape or the forces involved???

- love the way the Mongol horde and the Swiss appear in the game. Would have been nice to have a unit of No-Dachi Samurai show up on the merc panel.

**Empirate** · 03-15-2005, 08:57

Battle length only corresponds to the forces involved. Those sixty minute battles had the enemy attacking with A LOT of force, I suppose.

**bluebird** · 03-15-2005, 14:02

Yes, rather a lot of vikings trying to do a Kirk Douglas up the side of my castle. I remember in Shogun that battles were shorter in the winter because of the shorter hours of daylight. I'm guessing that is not the case with Medieval.

Can anyone recommend the best garrision forces? My organ guns and royal knights didn't perform as well as I had expected in combat..

**sir_schwick** · 03-15-2005, 16:06

If you are in late, try Pikemen. Other than that, spearmen. Archers are decent, but cannot really shoot without causing casualties. Never come out of the walls unless you have a lot of forces. They incur huge casualties by approaching your towers and such, evne if they blast them.

**bluebird** · 03-15-2005, 16:21

Yes but, if they have artillery, unless i nip out and smash them and nip back in, the walls wont last long. what I really need is a really, really fast infantry unit that doesn't take up much space. I was playing a campaign on a less difficult setting some time ago and I managed to recruit a small unit of English bandits - these guys were great, like the ninjas in shogun, they could conceal themselves and they were also pretty good at fighting. A unit of these could deploy next to a seige engine and they wouldn't know till it was too late. Problem is, these guys are rebels only and I haven't got a chance of creating the circumstances for them to emerge. - Unless that is anybody knows what factors affect which units arrive where in rebellions - could there be a way to pick and choose?? I am playing on expert and rarely have a hundred men in a fort but no rebels emerge. I think I heard somewhere that it depends on what millitary buildings are in a province but I am not convinced.

I would love to hear from anybody who has had success in bribing specialist rebels as I'd like to add a bit of variety to my army.