Game too easy? Yeah right.

[edyzmedieval]

Having knights in sieges, when YOU are besieged, it's a blessing. They mop with the enemy units in those small places. They die, but they kill at least 150-200 before they are wiped out. A unit of 40 Mailed Knights will do the job very well.

[tex_-]

If you are catholic faction, try to make alliance with pope as soon as possible. This will give you some advantage vs other catholic factions. Also trade rights and using right agents at right time can make start a lot easier.

[Richard The Tiger Heart]

I had some difficulties too in the begining of the game (playing as the english to unlock other factions). The scots and french attacking me from both sides made the situation pretty nasty. I remember assaulting Iverness with just a pair of catapults as my siege equipment and they destroyed them with flaming arrows (yeah, i got the catapults quite near the walls to avoid wasting ammo). My armies in Normandy werent obviously able to stop the French also.

After 3 failed english campaigns on H/H I decided to apply a mod to correct some of the bugs. I choose Lands to Conquer. At my 2nd try, I finnally met success.

Crushed the scots, smashed the French and erradicated the Portuguese. Now Im moving in on Spain...just two more regions to get them out of Iberia.

Really the English are the supreme unmounted archers. 1/3 of my armies are longbowmen and I just got the Yomen ones. Pretty neat. AI armies that use low armored units are met with an empressive rain of arrows. The wooden stacks force the enemy cavalry to flank, thus making the AI moves even more predictable. The spanish and portuguese use Jinetes, which are incredibly powerful for light cavalry (yes, on melee) but they just cant resist my arrow storms.

I made alliances with the Italians and Germans, thus I only fight in one direction.

About diplomacy: I have a very untrusthworty rep and Im always being excommunicated. But I dont care, coz both the Italians and the Germans dont like the Pope as well.

[HoreTore]

IMO, a strong cavalry wing is crucial to a siege. The way I almost always assault cities, is to have 5 cavalry on the left gate, 5 on the right and 10 infantry at the front. Spy opens the gates, and everyone rush to the gates. The cavalry speed is the important thing here, they don't have to kill anything at all. They both rush to the center, fighting any stranded units if they wish. This makes the enemy pull back to fight them, and can then be killed off by the infantry as they try to run past them in the streets. The cavalry mop up the usually small center units, then charge out at isolated units. Works like a charm, and almost always gives better results than autocalc.

[steev]

I was just playing a game as England on VH/VH, with all battles on auto-resolve. It was going ok but then around turn 50, by which time I had taken Bruge, Antwerp, and most of France except Dijon, Marseilles, Toulouse, it started getting horribly nasty. I had two Danish stacks heading for Antwerp, a full French stack heading for Angers, and hordes of Milanese spewing up from Dijon towards Rheims and Paris. And the Portuguese are dominant in Iberia and sending a stack to Bordeaux. If I fought the battles on screen it wouldnt be a problem, but with auto-resolve all victories are Pyrhhic unless you have 3:1 or better odds. I gave up as I didnt fancy the headache - right now i'm trying to play a campaign that lasts more than 150 turns so i can fight the Timurids and go see the New World. But I think I'd lose even if I tried with this one. So if your game is too easy just auto-resolve a string of battles to ruin your armies.

[Gaius Terentius Varro]

As an experiment I played blitz as HRE (VH/VH):
moved all my troops south by turn 3 wiped out venetians as faction (they left their faction heir on venice bridge and faction leader in venice all alone - that's right 2 units only as they blockaded my port),
milanese were gone by turn 6.
By turn 20 i own all the italian lands (since the sicilians sent both faction heir and leader and full stack against me on a single ship manned by 8 men), the 2islands south, valencia (gave old El sid hell with 6 ballistas) and have moved my border south to innsbruck/bern/vienna I gifted all the lands north of there to pope which basically secures my northern border forever. I am swimming in cash and since my faction leader has both the farmer traits and architect retinue and 10 chivalry I managed to get bologna to 9000 pop (castle) so i can soon churn out Zweihanders/ Imperial Knights while my opposition is sending out spear militia armies. No one attacks me cos my garrison are scary.
I broke treaties, alliances, ransomed everything and demanded max payment for anything from everyone. I sent every priest i made to africa so now i own half the Cardinal college.
For me this campaign is over and has been boring like hell. I exploited all the well known AI flaws and didn't play in the "spirit of the age": so the only person to blame is myself. Playing as chivalrous decent honorable faction is VERY difficult on VH/VH and so much more fun. Yes the game can be beat easy but I can not see why it has to be since the idea is to get the maximum enjoyment out of your purchase.