Nobody plays France?

**Comrade Alexeo** · 11-12-2006, 09:11

Originally Posted by Somebody Else

They're French?

It's sad but basically true; nobody wants to play the French because they falsely [1] assume that they'll rout as soon as you click "Start Battle"...

[1] Moderator edit: Comrade Alexeo - please empty out your postbox; I tried to reply to your PM but can't.

**Solo** · 11-12-2006, 10:11

Back to the topic, french may have the best combo available on the field, good infantry, superior cavalry. Only problem is you get surrounded pretty fast and have to deal with several wars at same time (Empire and England are good bets on first attacker).

**Randarkmaan** · 11-12-2006, 11:49

The Milanese and Spanish and Portuguese also happen to be rude enough to attack you. I was invaded by a large Milanese army that captured Marseille from me, a few rounds later I met this army in the field and because it included so many characters (the duke, the heir, and two or three other family members) the entire Milanese faction was destroyed in that one, big battle.

**Wishazu** · 11-12-2006, 11:56

I hated playing as the French in the Original game, I think I only attempted 2 campaigns with them. It was always much more fun to crush all those pnocy French knights underfoot as the English lol

I dont know about M2 as I unfortunately cannot afford to go and buy the game but one of my clanmates has already settled on France as his favourite faction for MP :)

**Husar** · 11-12-2006, 13:34

I didn't buy the game yet, but I g´fear I cannot stand the temptation anymore and will get it on Monday.

Anyway, I actually considered playing the French in my first campaign because always playing the english and always using longbows and so on is not as nice and more boring than watching some nice melees of knights and infantry.

**Basileus** · 11-12-2006, 13:43

French are alot of fun but they are tough to play.

**eefums** · 11-12-2006, 15:16

Originally Posted by Solo

Back to the topic, french may have the best combo available on the field, good infantry, superior cavalry. Only problem is you get surrounded pretty fast and have to deal with several wars at same time (Empire and England are good bets on first attacker).

I've been playing this game non stop for two days on like 12 campaigns and I've never seen HRE fight France once. Your best bet is seeing (In order of occurance) England invading, then Spain and then Milan sometimes.

I really want to play French, they look cool. I might start up a campaign with them today.

**Furious Mental** · 11-12-2006, 15:32

How does the Mongol horde behave? Does it try to settle down and create an empire or does it just rampage around destroying stuff? I found it rather silly that in BI the hordes often seemed to campaign until they were just the faction leader with 9 chevrons.

**Richard I Coeur de Lion** · 11-12-2006, 16:18

Originally Posted by Furious Mental

How does the Mongol horde behave? Does it try to settle down and create an empire or does it just rampage around destroying stuff? I found it rather silly that in BI the hordes often seemed to campaign until they were just the faction leader with 9 chevrons.

I've found the horde to be behaving quite well, they've settled in all of the Egyptian land that they won, are having quite a few battles with the turks and have just decided to try to take Antioch back from me. They are even engaging me in naval warfare!

Due to having just launched my third crusade against them I've now got my very first chapter house of St John

In MTW the horde always swept across eastern europe and came into contact with the Russians, Polish, & Hungarian factions, however Baghdad seems to be their first port of call this time.

**Furious Mental** · 11-12-2006, 16:44

Interesting. Thanks for the info. I'm still awaiting the arrival of the game, here on the fatal shore.

**Filipe24** · 11-12-2006, 16:48

I don't play with france becos i don't sympathise with them as a culture. They are quite strong though. Im playing portugal (about 100 turns in and they have defeated the HRE and have allied with the spanish and are after me :( also the pope is french. Difficult times ahed for me i think

**Solo** · 11-12-2006, 17:08

Well yes i can guarantee you this arent french medieval names (and I'm in a very good position to say that). On the bright side, someone is already working on the unpack tool and I already have a list based on universitary works ready to replace it. But I really dont blame them for that, its a detail compared to the whole game engine and there are far more serious issues (plus its easy to fix).

@eefums
Well I have started the game numerous times with France for some reasons and guess who attacked me first each time ? :) Thats related to rebel cities in the east of France, so the AI may not be that aggressive if you dont take them by yourself.

**Furious Mental** · 11-12-2006, 17:47

Well at least the developers in Brisbane didn't put in Australian stereotypes about England.

Can the French not hire longbowmen as mercenaries? "Free company longbowmen" or some such unit?