How to not get raped in Medieval 2!

[Siiem]

Re: How to not get raped in Medieval 2!

Played as france

 

[Baggy]

Played as one of the strongest Factions.

[Butan]

I know the closest games. I just want the actual games. I've played GalCiv too much, so I'm playing Endless Space atm, instead.

Hey, at least I tried and will check endless space, thank you.

[Tibe]

Ye I know I know. France was a tough faction to master when I started Medieval 2. 

England and Norway was fun thou. I pretended vikinginvasion.

[Murmillus_Prime]

Diplomacy in computer games never will be such useful as in life. But this one is realistic in point, that if you left your cities with no troops around everybody in these times would attack you. At first enlarge your economy, thats always my first point Then when you're stabilized, have full holdings you can build an mobile army ready to conquer, just start the slaughter ^^ Might take some time, but you're unstoppable with protected realm, strong economy and one army. Conquer them all \o/

Shame diplomacy in life sucks too, especially when the "diplomatic" side wants a war anyway.

Aaaanyway, I'm playing as England atm on hard, doing well in Europe, sent an army with my shitty prince (although a decent army) to Acre on a crusade against the Mongols...... Waste of time, no way I'm going to take this place, far too many archers.

[Joker86]

Waste of time, no way I'm going to take this place, far too many archers.

Because THEY or YOU have too many archers?

You can just besiege the city and starve them to death, and if some of them are still alive and sally out, your archers will shoot into the cluster when leaving the gate that they will run away as soon as they approach your lines. Archers are great for this.

[Latvian]

Because THEY or YOU have too many archers?

You can just besiege the city and starve them to death, and if some of them are still alive and sally out, your archers will shoot into the cluster when leaving the gate that they will run away as soon as they approach your lines. Archers are great for this.

just like french

[Murmillus_Prime]

They

[Joker86]

They

Same tactic, but when they sally out don't stand and wait but rush them. If they have so many archers, you can move your cavalry units forward, and due to their skirmisher mode the archers will try to run back through the gate, blocking the way for the others. In the meanwhile you move your infantry forward and sorround the gate exit. When they finally come out, charge them with your whole army. The half dead untis will rout soon, and you will have a mass panic. Send in your cavalry to ride down as many enemies on the way to the marketplace as possible. Most likely the entire army will be fleeing before their first routed unti will arrive at the market place, granting you the immediate win in this siege.

[Ujin]

Whatever you do, do NOT attack the Mongols with an army with 15 stacks of Longbowmen in. Doesn't work.

this army is a bit of an overexaggeration of course, but longbowmen are actually one of the best units for fighting mongols . Mainly cause they can deploy stakes and stakes destroy mongolian infantry, especially during sieges. This plus their good range and high missile attack stats.

I'm currently playing (battles) vh/h late campaign as Byzantine Empire ~ at turn 50 , have a wide land stretching from italy to caucasus region. Just recently got attacked by mongols. So far all it takes is :

1. 1 uber spy and 1 uber assasin to get rid of the good generals they send

2. 1 full stack (under the Emperor's command) army defending the border province in Tbilisi castle (key position, i think if i ever lose it to mongolians i might be in trouble). Stack consists of good veteran infantry (in SS mongols have decently armored dismounted soldiers and they bring alot for sieges) , javelinmen and most importantly about 4 mourtatoi archers that can deploy stakes. Needless to say that these stakes are the bane of mongolian cavalry during sieges, the AI is quite retarded and always sends the cavalry charging, they die in hundreds and thousands.

3. Another army that consists entirely of cavalry (heavy, missile, light) to fend off their reinforcing armies (that sometimes consist entirely of horse archers ).

If not for the pesky mongols Genoa and Venice would've been mine for a long time  . And looks like the mongols have a lot of unused resources out in those steppes and fighting novgorodians (my spy actually spotted around 4 armies of mongols in Novgorodian lands, one of them having a full stack of elite cav/inf/horse archers, trebuchets... i want a showdown with that army eventually when i'm ready   ).



Can't decide on the next campaign i'd play when i'm done eventually with this one. Denmark/Norway/Scotland (i wanted to focus on conquering England with either one of these) or Novgorod (awesome units that look awesome too, imo ).


P.S. I know it's obvious , but just gotta say that Stainless Steel is galaxies better than vanilla MTW , i kind of feel sorry for people who still play vanilla.

[Penitent]

Here's a nasty trick...if you take a land deep in enemy territory, or a city you know will just revolt on you and you can't keep it, or something like that....after you take the city just donate it to the pope.  LOL.  Screws the AI every time.

[Teeth]

I always like to take some shit city far away, like a crusade target or something, then demolishing all the buildings in it and trading it for something closeby with another faction. I think they only care about population cause I've had this happen multiple times. Then you send your spy there a few turns later and you rofl at the -3% population growth, 0% public order, constant revolts and 200 income.

[Piok]

Send diplomat to Rome make gift to pope, raise your standings. Call crusade and during it loot rich byzzie cities. Or let your enemy to be excommunicated and call crusades on them

[AgentQ]

I always like to take some shit city far away, like a crusade target or something, then demolishing all the buildings in it and trading it for something closeby with another faction. I think they only care about population cause I've had this happen multiple times. Then you send your spy there a few turns later and you rofl at the -3% population growth, 0% public order, constant revolts and 200 income.

i like to take 2 big cities afar, throw in a castle, then trade all 3 for one big city nearby = more money for me, broken economy for my neighbor 

[HarunYahya]

What a retardinho...
In year 2012 , asks help to win in a game which has been made 10 years ago -_-'
You really couldn't figure out how to win in this game past 10 years ?

Step 1: Choose The Turks
Step 2: Use Sipahi,Ottoman Infantry and Naffatun troops
Step 3:???
Step 4: GG , Jihad successfull.