Teutonic Campaign: Lithuania

**AndyNgFL** · 05-13-2008, 07:40

A few little tips I used on VH/VH mode with very challenging factions like Lithuania :

1) Concentrate in recruiting troops and blitz the Tuetonic Order. I only build roads (for blitz) and temples (for troops). Nothing else. No farms, no upgrading of barracks etc. You can get better buildings/troops when you have extra cash OR after capturing enemy settlements.

2) Disband useless units like peasants (they cant get free upkeep) and catapult (they are slow).

3) Destroy useless buildings like siege, leather tanner, low level barracks in low level settlements.

4) In the beggining, capture rebel settlements (Mstislavl, Homyel, Bialystok) and then SELL them to Novgorod, Poland. They will come and offer trade at around turn 4 and each village can sell to abt 4k. This way you use THIER MONEY to upgrade the settlement for you.

5) Fight with all calvary in an open battle and all infantry if you want to take a city.

6) After each military victory, offer Ransom or Sack thier city.

7) After capturing Arensburg and Pernau, destroy all buildings and sell them to Novgorod. Each can fetch a minimum of 6k. You wont have to face the Catholic Danes in other front.

8) Do not recruit any additional Merchants.

This way, I did not feel the lack of cash at any point of time.

**Flying Pig** · 08-12-2008, 12:57

I used nothing but horsemen and never fought a city battle. I achieved this by 1) always moving from the city aturn before the foe attack it and fighting them,and 2) holding every seige until the final turn, when the enemy sally and you can kill them.

**invalidopcode** · 08-20-2008, 20:06

Just a few notes.

Playing Lithuania is much more fun and challenging if you stay pagan and do not convert to Christianity. The units are more interesting. And the game is more challening due to the size restrictions on your castles and cities.

The few games I converted I ended up abandoning the game thread and going back to before the choice and stick as pagan.

The only negative with playing these guys is that you need to micro manage every single battle since you are dependent on the HA units. It makes for long games which sometimes get annoying since you know that your stack should win but the auto-resolver does not calculate HA effectiveness correctly. If you are ready for that, these guys are a blast to play.

**Polemists** · 11-23-2008, 11:36

Nothing drastically different then the other guys said.

What I will say is if you can do the missions to take out the crusading nobles. Normally they land with a decent force, and join the faction. However quite often this your moment to strike. In my games they always grabbed a whole army from a city and left, grab two armies, set up a ambush, and hurl those javlines. If you win the rewards are pretty nice, and a good way to strike back.

Also while it is hard, if you can get your army near a russian army the Teutonic knights will attack you both unlike other factions. This is usually a win for you. Don't help Russia to much though, in one game I helped them beat back Teutonic order only to find them coming at me later on.