I thought it might be interesting to hear how people are playing their campaigns out. Whether they are adopting a medieval variant of blitzkrieg or a more diplomatically based, slow build-up approach.
So how about posting a summary of your completed campaigns? What strategies are folks utilizing?
Tentative format:
Faction
Number of Turns - or - Number of years (specify if game time was reset)
Outline of overall strategy
How the game actually played out
Favorite units/best tactics
Other thoughts
My most recent completed campaign
Russia
Victory in 111 turns
Time reset to 2 turns per year
Overall strategy:
- Early rush to grab rebel provinces, particularly get Kiev and Moscow/Ryazan.
- Elimination of Poland, then Denmark, then Hungary, then Byzantines. (Played out pretty much according to plan).
- Carefully manage the money (never have much)
- No naval war to speak of
- The Turks left me alone after we formed an early alliance.
- The game was over before the Mongol hordes.
Tactics/Units:
- Early Polish cavalry units are good so I wanted to smash them first.
- The other factions relied mainly on infantry early on, or had poor missile cavalry. Against them therefor tactics were use of missile cavalry, particularly Boyars, to decimate heavy infantry units. If they were using little cavalry I added mercenary crossbowmen. I used mercenary spearmen to mop up. I built probably 2/3 of my empire with these tactics.
- In battle I often took positions set well back to force enemy to move across battlefield, and allow scope for cavalry attacks while they were marching across the map. I found the AI often sends lines of crossbowmen or archers too far in front of their infantry and you can flank them and kill them all with decent cavalry before the spearmen make it to the melee.
- I had trouble against England with this strategy. Their armies would include 4 - 8 Mailed Knights or better and my cavalry did not fare so well. Tried to avoid long campaigning against such foes.
- It is nice to be Orthodox faith and not have to deal with the Pope and Inquisitors
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