The landbridges are a personal thing. I prefer the game without them, some people think they're necessary to game balance, except the Sweden/Denmark one. There is also a landbridge that should exist, and that is the Sweden/Finland one. These are joined together off the map, so they should be linked.Originally Posted by Alexios
The downside of this is that reckless AI crusades headed for norh african provinces will now go via eastern europe, asia minor and the holy land (the long route) instead of hopping across via the cordoba/morocco or granada/morocco landbridges at gibraltar. If this is a problem you may want to leave gibraltar connected, and only disconnect, i.e, wessex/flanders, sicily/naples and sardinia/corsica.
I will post a guide about landbridge removal later today. It's really very simple.
On Topic: Another good faction to play as is the Novgorod. They have to be modded as playable from the early startpos file. They have horse archers, boyars, druzhina cavalry, vikings (+1 valour in norway), rus spearmen (early only), +1 valour woodsmen in lithuania and easy access to steppe cavalry and steppe heavy cavalry. What more could you want? I'm currently on a novgorod campaign myself, and it's so long since I'd played them I'd forgotten just how good they were. It's difficult to get started but if you persist in invading and holding provinces every time an heir matures (boyar's upkeep is expensive and saps your already poor economy) you can pull yourself out of the red and end up as the strong baltic trading faction with a strong economy. So far I've taken all of russia, scandinavia (including denmark) and given the poles a serious kicking and taken poland and moldavia. The Byzantine also broke alliance and invaded khazar but lost badly, but I'm leaving them alone for now, even though I have some particularly legendary generals (ex princes) and enough of a military to take them on and wipe them out. The vikings, boyars, druzhina and steppe cavalry have ensured that I haven't lost a single battle so far. Now I'm going to wait for the GH to arrive, only a about 20 years to go.
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