I am anticipating starting a new MTW/VI campaign in the next week or two and I thought that it would be good to share a few decision making decisions with my friends on these boards.
I intend to play with the Sicilians - I have never played with them before and they look intersting. I have also decided to start in the High period, as opposed to early as my previous campaigns - all early - have finished not long after I have got into the high period, so I have never had to deal with the High troop types and things like gunpowder. In fact my last Byzantine campaign I achieved 100% domination before the Horde arrived!! - so I fancy a change of scene. Finally I will, as always, play GA.
The Sicilian high start is interesting - you own Malta, Sicily and Naples. Malta is well developed - you can raise pavaise xbow, halberdiers and mtd sargents from day 1, while Sicily and Naples are resonable as well. All 3 provinces can build fleets. You have the normal collection of troops - spears, UMs, peasants with some feudal knights and, of course, some RKs with the king. The king deserves a special mention as he is an 8 star Jedi so that is a nice little perk to kick off with.
So - 2 topics for discussion:
Hard or expert? - I have played the last few games on hard, so expert might add a little challenge, what do people think?
What should my overall strategy be? My inclination is to play as a King building a merchant empire. I will not looking to blitzkreig over surrounding factions but instead will concentrate on building my trade and looking to conquer provinces with good trade goods. My initial attention is drawn towards North Africa, Egypt and into the Holy Land - plenty of healthy trade provinces etc. A bit of conquest coupled with crusading looks good.
So - a few comments please - and I promise to keep you all informed on what happens.![]()
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