Scotts are weak... and here's why

[CMcMahon]

Sorry, but if you're fast as the Scots, you can easily take every rebel region in the British Isles before England even goes for Caernahon (sp.), leaving them with just Nottingham and London, which can be very easily neutralized if you hit Nottingham first.

[Didz]

Depends how distracted England are from their first target of York. They seem to always mess up their first attempt to take the city, so provived you get in before the second and they can't mass the troops to take it off you its not so difficult. Personally I went for Inverness first and let the English have York, but I got to Caenarvon before they did.

Funnily enough I'm have a much harder time playing Turkish at the moment, mainly because of poor trade income.

[Daveybaby]

I found it worked pretty well to blitz york -> nottingham -> london, to force the english out of britain completely, then go back and mop up the other rebel provinces at my leisure.

[Didz]

I don't know....I thought the Blitzkrieg concept came along eight centuries after MTW2.

But yes I suppose it makes sense. The only possible interference would be from the Danes but they tend to be a bit slow off the mark.

[John_Longarrow]

Didz,
I normally take York with my local general and some hired mercs. Works very well. It lets me move the rest of my army down to Caernarvon for a T4 siege. For some reason by that time the English normally have a large stack of peasants heading that way that gets kinda bogged down if you sit in the castle.

Then when the English look like they are going to move on York I march an army near Nottingham. I do this until I've got Caernarvon working just well enough to keep my highlanders and Highland archers resupplied, then its bye bye England.

[alex9337]

In my current campaign as the Scots I control over 60 regions ( I have aready won the game, just going for total domination ) and have even kicked the Mongols behind several times.

The Scots are my favourite faction.

[Marius Dynamite]

If it was an all human controlled campaign then the chances are England would manage to defeat Scotland. However back before history began to be recorded humans have been making deal with other humans for neutral gain. Nowadays we call it diplomacy.

All Scotland would have to do is ask for help from the human player who controls France. If all players are smart enough then the French player will realise that he must defeat England before it captures all of britain and becomes stronger than France, who will likely have more than enough trouble with Germans, Danes, Spanish, Milanese..

The English, of course, could make deals with some of Frances other enemies but at worst France would then make deals with the enemies of the factions England make deals with.

France's problem comes when Scotland has conquered all of Britain and becomes a new England. I suppose this is where diplomacy would need to be used to its full. Each player would realise they have everything to lose if they fight each other and would instead settle on a tribute from Scotland to France and Scotland would instead build for an attack on the Danish who would probably be in a position to invade and take Britain for themselves.

Its times like this I would love to see a multiplayer campaign :'(. Think of the diplomacy which would be involved!