Quote Originally Posted by gunslinger
great advice on the campaign, marquis. That is very similar to what I'm doing now in my English Campaign. Only difference: after letting them fight the elmos for awhile, I knocked the Spanish out. Now I have all of the Iberian penninsula except Granada. (not taking Granada from the Elmos leaves me with only one front line on the Iberian since I own the seas). Letting the Elmos slug it out with the Spanish for so long has really weakened them, and since they are now shut out of the Iberian, they are now a fairly minor faction.

Lanemerkel, if you haven't taken Flanders yet then I would highly recommend it. Flanders is super rich. I'm getting something like 4,000 a turn from it right now. Also, as the English I bribed the Swedish rebels early on. Sweden is pretty rich and has Iron.

Good luck!


I have already taken Flanders (it was actually the first province I took in retaliation) after taking flanders I really sent a big hit on the french economy, I get enough dough from it to support my entire military, I'm thinking of moving south and then east in my conquest though as when I do that I can take Antioch, Edessa, Palestine, and whatever the other one is and Constantinople without getting excommed again once I take care of the spanish, once that's done I can surround and suppress the Catholics instead of dividng and driving them while facing constant crusades.


By that point I will have the richest provinces on the map except for Genoa so I'd also have the funds to take on the rest of the catholics as well as strategic positions surrounding them and I would take out the two biggest enemies I've ever faced to date right off the bat (Spain and Almohads) once that's done I'll turn my attention to the other Catholics with the Papacy, Italy, Sicily, and what's left of Byzantium (if they made it through Sicilian attacks) in Naples being my last targets, unless the Horde decides to show up before I finish off Catholica, but by that time I'll probably be mopping up the rest of my enemies so I will be free to move my armies to the eastern front.


Sounds like a good plan but things usually don't work out for me.