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    Irish show off with your big bank account!
    the Vikings finally turned up in my Welsh campaign, the King himself leading two units of huscarles in a raid on Cantware...it cost me 400 men, but by the end of the day the Beardy One's head was upon a spear and the Raven Banner lay trampled beneath the victorious hooves of my war-sheep (like war-dogs, only woollier).
    would have preferred a ransom, but them's your breaks.
    many hard years of fighting (including one epic scrap where 6,500 Mercians attacked Powys and my 960 men saw them off with 2,300 dead and 1,700 captured including the king and his heir), bribing, assassinating and sheep-shagging followed, but the Mercians, Saxons and Northumbrians now lie crushed and broken with one 'turtled' province each, none dare roam the seas for fear of my roving warfleets (if skin boats with one mast and three blokes can justify being called a warfleet...) and my king regularly used bundles of fifty-florin notes to light the fire with.
    the reason i've even got warfleets is cos i've had thre provinces spamming longboats and curraghs since i could tech up to them. the Irish and Vikings only intermittently roam the Irish sea, and no one else began sailing until it was too late.
    all thanks to mining and sheep-based agriculture and archery. how culturally satisfying.
    and yes, Welsh Bandits do rock, even if they have silly hair...! next up, i may go Scottish or Pictish...it's the skirts.
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    Ah - the Welsh. In my campaign, they sit in Cornwall only, no doubt doing a bit of surfing and looking at illustrated manuscripts of glamorous sheep.

    I intend to build up for a few years before adding to the united states of Ireland. The Vikings appear to have a foothold on mainland England and the Saxons, Scots and Mercians look strong - so interesting times ahead.
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    look forward to hearing of it! particularly which Irish troops work well for you...know thine probable enemy and all that.
    any mines in Ireland?
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    The irish are fairly easy to use. The gallowglasses are good fighting infantry - a bit short on armour, so a bit of supplement via an armour helps. Just stand them on a hill and charge them down. You support them with the Kerns. These stand behind the gallowglasses to shower the enemy with javs - nicely armour piercing as a bonus - and when they run out they swarm round the flanks to help the Gallowglasses. The only problem with the Irish is no bows - the dart men are a poor alternative. Secret is to build plenty of inns and constantly check every year for mercanary archers - buy when you see them. The alternative is bribing, but I have had no opportunities yet.

    The irish have no super troops a la Huscarls, but they have a nice mix, they are cheap and very mobile for an Infantry based army giving you the opportunity to make best use of the Terrain.
    P.S. - yes - there are mines in Ireland, help with the income nicely thank you. No nutty slack or best Welsh Steam though just gold and silver
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    lots of 'em and cheap, sounds fun, i'm in the mood for cannon fodder after playing the Turks recently...the vastly smaller number of troop types and lack of decent armour in VI make for nice simple tactics and lots of gore, always good fun.
    i've made use of mercs too, mainly Viking stuff, but the Welsh get Celtic Warriors, so it's not often worth it. it's given me a real taste for hordes of screaming nutters!
    i find bribing is terrifically expensive compared to vanilla MTW, fl23,000 for a few hundred Mercian fyrd under a crap general eg.
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    Quick update on the Irish progress.

    We watched the saxon/ mercian war for a couple of years then jumped in to help raise the seige of the saxon capital. We waited ready to give the mercians a welcome in the hillsides, but they wouldn't come to play. So, as we didn't want to miss the fun, we invaded Wrocensaetan. That kicked off a massive battle about 2,000 Irish, 500 saxon allies vs 4,000 Brummies. My army was based on Gallowglasses and armoured spears backed with some kern and cavalry. Saxons had a few huscarls plus supports. The Mercians were mainly Fyrd, spear and armoured spear. They deployed along a hill ridge on the edge of map. The Irish faced the centre of the line and the Mercian left while the Saxons faced the Mercian right. I loaded the right wing of my army with loads of Gallowglasses and a unit of Celtic warriors. These managed to get round the mercians line and drove the whole battle line in - I was even able to assist the saxons. The Mercian general was routed as well. From then it was just a case of defeating the sucessive waves of mercians. this gave a few tense moments as my reserves had a distance to come, but my morale and valour was now sky high, so I was able to be victorious. The Mercians were last seen running in the direction of the Bullring, looking for a good balti house.
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    Keep them at bay until they run out of cash in 10 years.
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