The Turks ?

[KARTLOS]

Nice write-up! I want to run a Turks campaign next (currently doing Spain), partly because I'm not very experienced with horse archers and need to learn those tactics.

What's your recommendation for sieges with a cav-heavy army like that? Especially in the early game. Do you use any infantry at all, or open gates with spies, starve 'em out, or what?

i am running a turk campaign at the mo, and i also field cavheavy armies. i usually include a few foot units for seiges - particularly the cheap ones you get when you jihad. to keep moementum i will often send the cav ahead to start the seige and build the equipment, and let the inf catch up the next turn to operate the machinary

a general stategy for suing horse archers - (if you re facing a non missile cav army) try to completely surround the opponent with your ha's so that they have arrows raining in form all sides - this is very hard to defend against and results in high casuallties. seveal of the turkish has have reasonable melee ability so alter on your can charge them into the back of engaged enemy troops.

if the enemy has missile cav try and deal with them first. often they will have just a few and they will be stationed on the wings. manouvre your troops so that they surround them and then charge in for the kill.


i concur with alot of what IPoseTheQuestionYouReturnTheAnswer said, with the exception that ishould point out that the turks do get very solid milita units by the third city watch building. this is namely the saracen militia, which is comparable to an armoured seargant.

[Shahed]

Been busy with my first campaign.

THANKS for the replies everyone !

Now I'm around turn 30, will post my observations later. Have a question, on my screen I see turns and not years (on campaign screen). How do I change that ?

The Barneys are back in Greece. Had about 15 battles with them, mostly small-ish ones. I found it hard to field an all cav army. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, economics-wise ? I had 2 groups of 8, all cavalry, Turcomen + bodyguards. With that plus 15 Infantry 'siege army' I beat them back to Thessaloniki. But most of their losses were to the all cav raider groups. The infantry army was just sitting in Iconium or at Constantonple (later). I won every single battle, but it was expensive to replace the minimal losses I took. Don't know why.

And ....err I had another problem as well.
Speed *ahem* at times I could'nt remember what is where. Been a while

I'm very happy with the SP experience so far, overall.

POWER TO THE SULTAN !!!