Hail to the Druhtinaz - A gameplay guide to Sweboz (for beginners & advanced players)
Greetings to the interested players of the Sweboz campaign!
This is to be a gameplay guide for EB beginners as well as advanced players.
It will describe a more conservative way of playing, but other strategies are certainly possible for more experienced players.
It´s more concise as the magnificient introduction from Epistolary Richard (see sticky).
It´s applicable and tested for EB 1.0 on M/M difficulty as well H/M difficulty, both on RTW 1.5 and BI 1.6.
For VH/M this strategy should work too.
If playing with BI 1.6 it is possible to encounter Casse raiding parties, coming over from Britannia to plunder your land!
I won´t describe the battlefield deployment, only the main strategy to gain a suitable powerbase.
1. Situation
The Sweboz have one settlement (village), 5000 mnai and a quite formidable army to fight with, consisting of archers, spearman and light cavalry.
But this means that just after the first turn you are out of money for some dozen turns to come, as you have -5500 mnai each turn.
(Un)fortunatly the army is divided in three battle groups, so you might decide to join forces or move them seperatly, wise Druhtinaz!
2. Military Strategy
You need to capture the surrounding settlements as quickly as possible to earn more money. Near our capital are some provinces to capture.
You need 4 additional provinces to even the money loss, and 5+ to improve the balance again.
So you can choose between at least two options:
Going westward or going eastward....
Remember two things:
Cavalry cost you much money per turn!
You can´t reinforce your troops for a certain time!
a. So I suggest going eastward first, because the 3 rebellious settlements there have no town wall. Here you can use your cavalry to full effect and save more men of the infantry for later battles.
If you lose cavalry men, don´t worry too much....this saves you money in further turns!
After capturing the villages of Gawjam-Silengoz, Ascaucalis and Gawjam-Rugoz you direct your warriors westward again.
b. The next villages should be Gawjam-Heruskoz, Gawjam-Habukoz and Arctaunon. They have town walls, so the cavalry has only a support role here.
Although those rebellious tribes need to be remembered who is the real german Druthinaz.
After this you have enough provinces to recover your mnai balance.
And your faction leader is now closer to the unification of the german tribes.
c. If you still have troops (and govenors) you can move on to other areas.
The next target can be:
i. Carrodunum and Lucarottea to the south east to gain more land-trade.
ii. Gawjam-Kimbroz and Gawjam-Skandzawarjoz to the north to improve sea-trade and gain shipbuilding sites.
option: you can go westward first, but this might result in slower economic expansion. loosing much troops early on might also result in siege warfare in the east afterwards...this is no option to proud german warriors!
we meet our enemies in the open field (or wood).
it´s also possible to go north first, but without harbours there you won´t have much trade income.
3. Economic Strategy
As you need to earn money without dissolving your army, you might not be able to build anything before roughly 267 BC, depeding on your battle success etc.
a. The main point for the first years is to gain as much population in your villages as possible, for they are the only way of income.
But beware...don´t get over 2.000 people as long as you can´t build the next level of the town hall. Otherwise you will get a lot of dirt malus quickly.
b. You can lower your taxes to improve population increase, but losing tax money, or vice versa.
Which way you choose depends on your individual situation.
c. after you have reached positive mnai values it´s necessary to improve your villages with "Dikes and Wells", and expand your villages beyond 2.000 people.
Don´t forget to upgrade the town hall and perhaps adding more health buildings.
Roads add not much, if anything, to trade, but are needed for army relocations, so it makes sense to have them early too.
4. Diplomacy etc.
Druhtinaz, don´t waste your only spy for investigating enemy cities. Explore more regions to conquer for our proud warriors!
I suggest to open up trade with our celtic neighbours, this could bring us more money. So later on, we might be able to conquer them too!
Once you managed this, you are on a solid base from mid 260´s BC to expand and on the best way to be a real King of the Sweboz
have fun!
AngryAngelDD
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It was full stack against full stack, the one of Rhesus the wanderer in the Lugii forest. They slayed 2500 of my 3500, and I slayed 2000, including Rhesus. My Druhtinaz was cut down by those Lugii Twohanderbearers. A true hero's dead. Another family member performed much worse... a coward soon to be sacrificed in the bog. I wish that was possible...
Originally Posted by konny
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