The Turks

[RpR_ati]

i have finished the holy roman and the turks on hard it was real fun they have complete different armies.
Holy romans had attacks from everywhere because they are in the middle of europe that was pretty hard.
Playing the Turks was not that hard in early i think. Yes, you dont have enough money thats true. And i didnt know how to declare a jihad after playing with roman because they had a Pope:)) i discovered it on late period. it really works though even in that time. the byzantines and the crusades are nothing especially crusades if you play well in battlefield. i even managed to conquer Rome and all of italia for fun:) i got bored of crusades and took action. sent ships full of armies, conquered sicilia first. went to north.
but something worse than crusades and byz. and egypt was coming:) i was waiting for them in baghdad.. it was a terrible mistake.. they came from northern bordes.. their armies are the same of turkish armies. all of their inf. are archers like the ottoman inf. ive put full armies in cities but it can not work because they engage in combat 3 to 1. 3 mongol armies are invading your city and you can just control one:) i have left those cities and decided not to fight with them until i am ready. that really hurts:) they say" i will take your lands and women soon" when you click on them.it must have been hard times:) i weakened them over the mountains. waited them to attack 3 to 1 but with janis. heavy inf. and archers you can easily defeat them on mountains. just place them like in the lotr the two towers. after that i have finished all their armies with janisseriies and some hand gunners(they are not that good janisseries are far more better)

[qal]

Where can one find what r the Turks units ??? and what r the best

[Moah]

Where can one find what r the Turks units ??? and what r the best

A) Start a Turk Campaign. Go to a city. Click on building browser. Click on the top building in the barracks/archery/stables list. Right click on each unit and read stats. Repeat with a castle. This is the only way to see what builds them and how hard they'll be to get. The methods below are easier for jsut seeing all the different units.

B) Start a custom battle. Choose the Truks. Read each unit in the list.

C) Go to http://www.totalwar.co.kr/ Click on the Turks. Click on each unit.

D) Go to the Units thread on this forum. Read all units (not easy to isolate just turks but best comparison for seeing if you get better units that, say, venice.

Hope that helps.

[Tugrul Cagri]

Playing with Turks may be hard for you depending on your skills on battle map.If you're an experienced player,inspecting their archers and horse archers,you will have no problem.If you are noob and don't know what to do,Turks won't be very comfortable for you.

My suggestion is "fighting".Fight all the way.You will have money problems at first but your 1st quality Turkish archers and Sipahis will get rank and crash whatever they hit.Don't hesitate attacking byzantine cities and castles.Take Smyrna(Izmir) first and drive to the north to Nicea.Meanwhile your units will be very experienced.Use your Bodyguard units wisely to exterminate all of the encountered units.Have at least 2 bodyguards in imperial army.Do not reject adoptions for Sultan Jalal and Crown Prince Mustafa.They will help you in your campaigns.If they lose unit(s),go to city and spend 2 turns,they will complete themselves quickly.Have some Turkomans or Peasant Archers in case of spending them for False Attack.Make a false attack and surround main units of enemy,use your archers and finally charge with Bodyguards.

[Mete Han]

Can anyone give me some advice for managing my imams? they tend to become heretics quite easily... also how can I counter the conversions of the priests? is there a way to kill them without assasins?

[PutCashIn]

1. Group the Imams together

2. A theological guild (in Iconium?) gives better starting stats to Imams
plus the guild spreads its love through all your citys, not just the one hosting the guild.

3. Enemy priests arnt so bad...they spread other religions, which your Imams convert, and get XP for.

4. Leave a Imam in a provonce for 3 turns (dont move him, or even click on him) where there is a 70% or more state religon and he will get a 'monk = +1 peity.'

Basically, put a group of 5-10 Imams in a province with low state religon % that you just conqoured, they should lose 1-2 of thier number to heresey, but the rest will all level up as the state religon % increases.

Dont feel bad, Ive admitted defeat in a campaign coz I got beaten down by a heretic production line.

[Mete Han]

you cannot have mines in every region, can you? in which regions can you build a mine considering the first four regions you start with turks? also when does the ai let you build them, I mean what triggers it? thanx and appologies for my ignorance!!!!