I like to look for interesting strategic moves to get out of tricky situations. During a VI campaign as the Irish, I had a strongish army over in North East England, but my main base on mainland England was in Wales. The Mercians and Saxons were strong and a couple of reverses had made me a little weak and money was stretched. It looked bleak for my army in Northumberland as I could not fight my way back to Wales through the Midlands. So I decided to go the long way. I raised all buildings in the province and set off southwards round the coast. Each province I came to I defeated the local forces, raised any buildings if I took the province then moved on. I never stayed in a province, I always kept moving - if the defenders went into the stronghold, I ignored them. The AI was chasing me, but was always a move behind. Eventually I got round to Dornsaete, to link up with my forces in SW England. During this time, the Saxons - my main enemy - had suffered some losses trying to assault my Welsh provinces as well as loosing loads of provinces during my coastal slash and burn trip. Then my assasin killed the Saxon King and his weak hier lasted about a year before falling into civil war. I was then able to bribe some rebels - using the money from the slash and burn fest!! - and my concentrated forces, backed up with some nice ex Saxon Huscarls made short work of the remains of the Saxon empire.
My sweetest move was in my current Teutonic campaign - but I haven't written that up for the Pics and History thread yet, so I do not want to give that one away to spoil the surprise for Martok!!![]()
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