Quote Originally Posted by Yavuz
Imo playing with the Turks is the hardest campaign in MTW2 cause you have many enemies who awaits sneaky in your borders.

After a few turn,Byzantines will directly rush you.Also Arabs(Egyptians are not reliable) may declare war to you after about 30 turns.I am not even talking about Mongol Horde threat.

I saw some comments about Turks but imo peps are playing in easiest campaing cuz in the hardest one,nearly impossible to be involved.Btw do not tell me that you re rushing to Byzantines...Turkish armies are not suit for attack.Turk archers can use shoot-circle mode maybe but you can't push armies without infantry which Turks dont have any.If you even are able to rush Byzantines,do not trust Arabs cuz they have to use Anatolia to inrease their borders.
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push infantry? not sure exactly what you mean, but im presuming you mean engage head on.

using horse archers this is not necessary. an infantry army is easy picking for a horse archer army. simply swarm around the enemy so that you are surrounding them from all sides and shoot them to bits, there is really no response to this. units like the sipahis are actually fairly good at melee (and in addition horse archers all get there melee stats boosted from experience bonuses after a few battles as they cause so many casualties). so once the enemies are severely thinned charging in from all sides (using ALt + right to get them to use thier melee attack) will often result in a rout.

if you do have infantry dont engage them with the enemy until you have severely depleted their ranks + then charge in the back with your horse archers.

using horse archers i was able to wipe out many large armies with minimal casualties- for example ideally you want to engage the byzantines and invading cursaders in the field and you can decimate them.

try starting a new game mate, playing on hard/ hard i can honestly say i found the turks one of the easier factions to play - the ai just cant deal with you horse archers if used correctly.

My other massive tip is to use the jihad earlly - (maybe to get a city like baghdad or Antioch) This will allow you to recruit some fairly decent infantry troops at the earlly stage of the game, which is important as it takes a while to be able to produce good infantry as the turks.