Teutonic Campaign: Lithuania

[Flying Pig]

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]

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]

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.

[aimlesswanderer]

I shouldn't have killed the Teutonic Order off so quickly, they weren't around long enough for me to get one of the "kill the noble" missions.