How to be economically invincible.

[Thurak]

Buy settlements. Sometimes very good cities are available for something around 60,000 to 100,000. Castles are usually much cheaper (less population, I guess).

Oh... and if you are too rich: Lower taxes

[Rebellious Waffle]

Doesn't help -- I've got all my cities on low taxes, and I'm still grossing over 50,000 a turn.


Again, it's one of those strange moments in a campaign: "how do I get poorer? I need to get poorer."

[phonicsmonkey]

when I have the "money's too much to mention" problem I tend to give it away to far-away factions, in order that they will hopefully build themselves up and present more of a challenge once I start encroaching on their lands.

roll up roll up big money giveaway!

[WhiskeyGhost]

Either give the money away, or you could always buy a ton of stuff (like more soldiers) which will also help you get your income rate down by costing upkeep per turn

[Thurak]

Although I already mentioned it: If yo have too much money: buy settlements! No, I don't mean to bribe them (seems almost impossible) but to buy them from the king. Send a diplomat and ask them to give you one region and offer them enough money for an equal trade. If they don't take it offer 5,000 more, although it's most likely still an equal trade the AI may accept now. If not: 5,000 more... and so on.

Only works if the faction you are trading with holds more than three regions.

[gingergenius]

SNAP!

I have a thing that I want to fight against every faction. The Turks were being destroyed by the Mongols before I got to boot them off a few battlefields. So I bought 3 cities in Spain and gave them to the Turks. There they started a new empire, pissed off the Spanish, Portuguese and Moors before my forces came through and blitzed them all out of Iberia. Last seen of the Turks was a Papacy siege of Fes in which the English helped them out.

Similarly the Egyptians were getting squashed by the French. So financial assistance comes their way plus bribing French cities and giving them to Egyptians... 200 years later and Egypt is the only power in the Middle East other than the English. Unless you count the French in Damascus.