Teutonic order in XL

[Martok]

As far as I remember Norway is rebel in high in XL. So instead of building boats you can simply bribe the rebels there and use Norway to build an inn and invade Sweden with a massive army of mercenaries. I am not sure if this would be easier to do, but it is a potentially faster way of getting Sweden (and one completely cheesy and anti-historical).

The problem with bribing Norway early on is that it's extremely poor in terms of farm income (I think around 70 florins/year, IIRC). To make the province profitable takes a substantial investment of both florins and time, which as you know are two things that are in fairly short supply when playing as the Teutonic Order. You could possibly justify Norway as a troop-producer if you need it, but I would still doubt whether it would be a worthwhile venture.

Martok - the Guide section of the forums only cover the original game + VI - what about developing a sub thread/ section of the guides for "mod" factions like the Teutons, Serbs, Cumans etc. This thread and the challenges of XL thread would be a good start. What do you think?

I certainly don't object to the idea, but it would really be up to frogbeastegg and TosaInu (if adding an actual subforum was involved). I'll PM Froggy see what she says.

In the meantime, however, we should probably find out who among us would be willing to write up the initial "how to" post for each XL faction. Because unlike MTW/VI where most of the guides for each faction were written up by Cheetah (except for a couple by ah_dut and TosaInu), I have a feeling there's very few of us - if any - that have played all the factions available in XL.

Hmm. I think I'll start a separate thread for this. I don't want to hijack this one and drag it off-topic.