Advice on Casse

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Don't start expanding so soon. Disband your starting armies and replace them with cheap Kludobbro to defend your capital, build up what you can before the Balroae army besieges you. Defeat them, and once you do it keep building so you can later train a large army of levies to take the other cities.

[Tiberius Claudius Marcellus]

Don't start expanding so soon. Disband your starting armies and replace them with cheap Kludobbro to defend your capital, build up what you can before the Balroae army besieges you. Defeat them, and once you do it keep building so you can later train a large army of levies to take the other cities.

What advice is that??? I have beaten the Casse campaign and simply used all my units, sans FL, and took the nearest town - just keep enslaving/exterminating the populations to get beaucoup bucks. Your original army can take 2-3 towns depending on losses.

Make sure to sell off the fleet and also, don't queue up buildings....build only one at a time per city - it's just wasted money to have it dedicated to a building that isn't being constructed right now.

With a FM in place in your towns, max out the taxes and sell off things like shrines, etc - and don't build "game fields" (they just suck money out of your coffers). When your towns are small and have your home gvt., morale will be super high so you won't need things with effects on public order/morale.

You should be able to take all of Britain in 15 years with a steady approach. Then, sit tight and build up your cities/armies to land in Gaul. Again, watch out for building up your 'game fields" too much - they suck your money like nobody's business. From there, it's all about constant army production to keep pushing pushing pushing. For every new town you take you should have 2 full stacks ready to go to take the next town and to repel Romani/Lusotannan invaders. An alliance/gifting with the Sweboz will keep your entire eastern flank secure and free up units from guarding.

You can effectively "blitz" all of Gaul in 20 years once you start. After that raid/sack the Romani towns on your South East/East to keep their units down, and focus on Iberia. Traditional Casse light infantry doesn't fare well against the better armed/armored Lusotannan troops. If you have the cash, throw heavy mercs at them to wither their numbers, or build lots of stacks and don't be afraid to let the AI control your 2nd and 3rd armies as you 'hammer and anvil' the enemy. Yeah, the AI sucks at maneuvering troops; but the more you have on the screen, the better off you are.

I personally find the Casse campaign the easiest of all barbaroi/nomad campaigns despite it's painfully slow start. You have an almost impenetrable fortress with 10 or so towns as your base, and as long as you keep enough troops at the borders then all of Gaul is your bread basket/ MIC.

Good luck and RABO!

[Marcus Ulpius]

I'm slowly expanding northwards (have just taken that town with Brigand in its name) and I have nothing but Kluddobro, slingers and FMs in my armies. It's enough to take rebel towns with their naked spearmen, midland spearmen and champions. The only problem could be that town in Wales, which has 2 units of Druids, but after I take Scotland it'll be time to test how tough are they. Money is slowly building up, although it's still not enough to start recruiting heavier units. I think I'll disband most of the army once I secure the British Islands to build economy that could support better and more numerous armies.