hey Macdoogle, what units do you usually build?

I noticed that when I mass produce dismounted husclars and let computer take care of my battles, I barely lose ANY no matter what units computer sends against me.
it used to be the same in MTW 1 with vikings though, so no surprise there I guess.

I'm on my 200th turn in my 2nd game and still no aztecs. I have 3 explorer guilds, 1 master explorer and 1 explorer HQ, all my ports are up to date and most cities are top tech, so I dont know what else I need to trigger it. it seems it might be random or something.

I also found a very cheap way of making lots of money the viking way. on my last campaign I took Antioch, sacking it, selling all the sellable buildings in it and abandoning it for whoever wanted it (it happened to be the mongols).
so not wanting to go all the way back to scandinavia, I decided to march south. I sacked 4 turkish cities (jerusalem and others) before reachin egypt and sacking 2 of theirs, capturing their citadel, building more husclars and continuing my sacking campaign back north.
every city yielded about 20 000 (15 000 for sacking and 5000 for buildings sold) and on my way back every city gave me about 7-8000 more. so I think I made about 200k within 20 turns. this sort of really reminds me of the barbarian addon for RTW, except a lot more fun and definitely worth trying especially since you are playing as the only barbarian faction apart from mongolians. so sacking cities is in your blood and pope doesn't mind it since you're sacking heathens.

it's also possible to actually settle in egypt by taking cairo, alexandria and the third city and establishing yourself in a new remote region. I tried doing it for 10 turns and nobody ever tried to attack me there. which is why I left, because it was turning my vikings into couch potatoes, but if you feel like having a safe haven, egypt is it.