Hunnic strategies?

[PseRamesses]

Any suggestions? What to do, where to go and why?

My first game I played was a pure looting-game. I sacked every settlement from Campus Frisii to Sakae but did not touch the WRE and ERE. In my 2nd game I saked the Roxolani capitol and settled there. This initiated a really cool domino-effect through Europe, he he! In my third game I headed directly for Constantinople and Rome.
One cool thing would be to do what Attila didn´t, go down the Caucasus and strike a stake through the Sassanid heart and then head for Antioch?!

Quick Q: Haven´t been able to build ports as the Huns and when I capture a settlement that building is always removed. The Huns haven´t any naval tech, right?

[Orda Khan]

I have not found ports removed. When I took Constantinople the shipwright was still intact.
I have begun to think that heading for Rome and Constantinople together is the best approach. Plunder all along the way

......Orda

[Craterus]

One cool thing would be to do what Attila didn´t, go down the Caucasus and strike a stake through the Sassanid heart and then head for Antioch?!

Check the Vandal thread in the Guides, it's exactly what me and a friend did. But we did it with the Vandals

[TinCow]

One cool thing would be to do what Attila didn´t, go down the Caucasus and strike a stake through the Sassanid heart and then head for Antioch?!

That is exactly what the Huns have done in my WRE game. They sacked every city in the Caucasus and Asia Minor and eventually settled in Ephesus (the Ionian city). The trip cost them a lot of men though and the Sassanids re-took all of the towns as the went. It looks now like they'll hang on there for 10-20 turns or so, but the Sassanids will probably crush them eventually. That's the AI though. Interestingly, the Ostrogoths have taken and held five provinces around the Black Sea, including Constantinople. They managed to make peace with everyone after that and have been building huge armies. I'm glad I don't border them and I pity whichever faction they decide to go after.

[PseRamesses]

Has anyone tried taking one of the steppe provinces and settle down and then try to meet the objectives? I have one save game with my capitol in the old Roxolani one and I hold all other steppe provinces. It´s a hard game with enormous distances to defend as it seems that I´m getting bogged down defending to much to get a break and send an army to meet my objectives.

[The Hun]

Not tried settling steppes. I think key strategy is not settle but sack each city in turn and make for Rome and Constantinople. From this vantage points they can take all provinces needed. Staying on steppe is asking much for venture to attack and Sassanid will be always threat in rear.

[afrit]

The strategy I used in my current campaign (VH/H) was to settle in Constantinople and the Balkan belongings of the Eastern Empire, then tech up and refit troops in Constantinople. In the meantime, the Goths and Ostrogoths got into horde and crossed into Italy, taking the Western Empire off my back.

So now I am expanding East, pummeling the Eastern Empire, with Antioch being my new eastern base. I am assembling a western army to cross the Adriatic and take Tarentum and Rome, avoiding the Goths hordes in North Italy. This will easily give me the 15 provinces. Admittedly, not a historical approach.

The huns apparently cannot build ports, but can use pre-existing ones. I am using the ones in Constantinople and Athens for my fleets.

[PseRamesses]

I played a new game today. Turned Roxolani, Sarmatian, Goth, Lombardi and Burdundi into hordes that all moved west. Went back and took C.Sarmatia, V.Sarmatae and made C.Roxolani my capitol. Took a small band with kinsmen plus HA´s and took T,Barbaricum, C.Alannui and C.Sakae so now I hold all the steppes. Bah, what a drag! It´s now 404ad. and I still can´t field one full army. This is not a good approach.