What faction have you had the most success with?

**Wizzie** · 12-24-2006, 22:58

Originally Posted by clairvaux

Sicily! I took the Holy Land by turn 25, invaded and crushed Egypt by turn 29, and completely destroyed the Moors by turn 30. I owned Africa and most of Anatolia. I destroyed the Byzantines by turn 35, and now I'm moving up into Hungary, Spain, and Portugal.

That's given me a neat idea for my next campaign; create an empire in the east while just retaining my home cities back in Europe. Nice one.

**katank** · 12-24-2006, 23:58

I actually did that in my Sicilian game. As soon as I came into contact with the Papal States, I bribed him to get to high enough relations to declare a Crusade on Antioch. I then stuck everybody into a boat and sailed east, sacking Antioch on turn 7. I then proceeded to annihilate the Egyptians. by turn 12 or so.

I actually lost Durazzo to the Byz due to me not guarding it at all and I only took Tunis before embarking on this crazy scheme. Kingdom of Heaven, here I come!

**Basileus** · 12-25-2006, 00:27

Edit sorry wrong thread:)

**NightStar** · 12-25-2006, 06:23

I'm having a blast as Milan...after playing the Byz and Spain I feel like I am drowning in florins....I buy things I don't need, spend some on the Poop...er Pope. It started affecting my day to day judgement....my RL finance is never going to recover after this Christmas

**sapi** · 12-25-2006, 06:59

Egypt's been the easiest (won on turn 58) along with england, but the byz and danes have been the most fun due to severe financial problems (caused by a multifront war as the byz and maintaining a kingdom of heaven as the danes at a massive loss)

**BlackAxe3001** · 12-25-2006, 08:21

So far I have had the most fun playing as the Danes. I have roughly 200k in florins, which blows my mind as to what to do with it. It's those merchants I sent east and south. When you get 650 per merchant it really adds up. I usually play a slow game, around turn 70 and I only have 6 provinces. I don't like to rush, because the AI needs all the help it can get. The French has been on the Pope's shit list for awhile so I decided to call a crusade on Paris, that was pretty fun. It was even funnier when the Polish took Paris and have been holding it for 10 turns or so. I think I am going to try and play as the Moors or something next. Mix it up a bit.

**Scotsmanforlife** · 12-25-2006, 09:47

I too am playing as the HRE and thing's are going great. From my original starting position i've moved south. I destroyed the Sicilians and now completely own Italy except for Rome. Milan and Venice attack me on occasion but are really only a nusiance at this point. I've moved into Egypt now and am moving west from Tunis. Just a few turns ago the Poles decided to attack me which was a mistake on their part. I'm about to attack their capital, so i'll see how that goes. I'm trying to take thing's as slowly as i can, just for the fun of it.