The Caravel Mod

[gollum]

Hello Stazi,

Governor with 6 acumen and max tax gives 90 income.

Only if there is famine. The province has a pretty decent base income of 377 florins from agriculture. So only 90flrns at max and 6 accumen gvernor can't be. The garrison in Sweden is bigger than vanilla but smaller than previous Caravel Mod versions.

Basically you have two choices with Denmark. One is disband starting units and build up to get better units, and the other and far better is build Town Militia, archers and get your vikings after you get 2 heirs and attack Sweden. if you win, you get to keep it and that solves your problem as you can continue to develop. If you lose you have burned some troops and so can make a few more and come back stronger to retake it a few turns later.

After getting Sweden you are set up to build up to Keep level and longboats and then you can expand at a variety of places. Alternatively you acn attack the HRE but that has a risk especially at first and it might be creating more problems than it solves.

The faction essentially is the same as in vanilla only that the Vikings are rightly priced and recruited from Keep level as they should, so teh super vanilla rush that you can do is much slower, but can still be done to great effect. The gameplay is essentially vanilla only enhanced.
Could it be that you are too much of a turtler hence why you find that (i mean having to rush, expand early) unpleasant :) ?

The Danes, Aragonese and teh Russians do just as bad as before as otherwise the player can win too easily with them. The Russians only occasionaly do better now.

The Spanish also do relatively so-so but instead the Almohads can do really great in Spain so there is a power coming from there. This was again to make the Spanish a challenging proposition to play with or at least much more challenging than in vanilla that they are too easy. However they do much better than before. By the way the Almohads are no easy either especially with having to do with the Spanish and the rich and powerful and aggressive Egyptians on the other side of North Africa.

The Sicilians, The Hungarians and the Polish are doing great - sometimes the Italians beat the Sicilians and otehrs the Sicilians the Italians or the Byzantines or teh Polish the Hungarians or the Hungarians the Polish, but nevertheless one of them will be doing really well and there is competition at start.

The Aragonese have a better chance as the player, yes - as the AI they do nothing. As the player the best you can do is get Toulouse, then Aquitaine and then Navarre. After that you can choose whether to kill the Spanish or move further into France up north or take it to the seas.

Only the Spanish take Navarre or if they are too late the French or the English either by sea or by land.