Originally Posted by MaxfuThank you for your encouragement. At roughly 100 turns into the game, the invasion of Britian is however STILL on my to-do list. Of course I wasn't satisfied with just keeping the Holy Roman Empire and Poland at bay, so I set about taking cities. Poland turned out to be complete pushovers - I had some problems with their missile cavalry, but I manage to quickly forge an alliance with the polish enemies Hungary, and made some easy captures. Of course, that opened my eastern flank to RUSSIA - they attacked Thorn three turns after I took it from Poland. I thought I caught a lucky break when the pope declared a crusade on Russian-held Riga, but just as my crusading army arrived and laid siege, I was backstabbed by Hungary. Yeah, the alliance with Hungary couldn't have held more than 10-15 turns... I guess I was a bit TOO successful in beating Poland into the ground. There's a nice, handy bridge near Prague that's proven to be very useful at keeping the Hungarians at bay.Originally Posted by Goatbuster3000
Then there's the HRE. Oh my god. They've been really aggressive.I sent out some spies, only to discover THREE FULL-STACK ARMIES hanging around, and two of them closing every turn. The resulting warfare is too complex to write about, really (I doubt I can remember all the details), but suffice to say that both sides have lost many brave generals, strong warlords have been forged in battle only to be struck down by assassins daggers, cities have changed hands more often than camp-whores, and the corpses of thousands upon thousands of men are rotting in the dark German forests. I've been mostly successful, though - the HRE are coming at me mostly with spear militia, who are no match for danish infantry with axes and swords.
I think I've broken the economic backbone of the HRE by taking most of their cities, but now MILAN is starting to rear its ugly head. They're strong from fighting a successful war against the French, allied with the HRE, and although they haven't attacked yet, their armies are testing the borders. Also, the Mongols just arrived in the Holy Land. For now my turkish allies are holding them off, but it won't be long before they arrive to test my defenses at Acre.
So I'm at war with Russia, Hungary, Poland, the HRE and Egypt, and soon Milan and the Mongols. I guess I've learned that if you play Denmark and want to take England don't expand further south than Hamburg, since you WILL get involved in continental politics.
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