Quote Originally Posted by askthepizzaguy
You must have used ballistae effectively. I never really included them in my blitzes except for Paris/Rhiems for England and Bern for France.

I see now that the non-crusading middle portion MUST include them to avoid excommunication and cause severe damage to the enemy.

True, Grog?

And spies... I'm thinking more spies.
Hmm used ballista/siege late in spain, although I wasn't really rushing here as my timeline was locked by Arguin/dongola by this time (ie: I knew I had spare turns to win spain/england)

Didn't use spies much at all 9no more than 5-6 i think) and then they were passive.

I do cav/inf splits. ie: cav will rush a place and build siege, inf arrives next turn to push in. works ok in western europe. ie: for dongola I just rushed cav stack direct after Gaza fell, and picked up 2 loads of tribesmen a turn or so out to siege with.

I also do fake sieges occasionally (mainly for economic/mischief reasons), or deliberatly siege understrength to draw a sally then push in that turn. Lost count how many times I used Pilgrims to push gates in..

As for other agents:

2-3 diplomats on rome. I had 2 on rome, then 1 shadowing the pope as well later on. I quite often needed 3 diplomatic sessions in the later turns to keep pope happy.. Start every turn on perfect too.

Anyway off to get some battle shots uploaded.