The strongest faction (Medieval 2: Total War)
Let's discuss what is the Strongest Faction, which is easier to pass the game which more interesting etc.Sometimes it's better to contribute to a charity Fund named after the Pope and to earn it recognition and love. And so the Crusades and the construction of churches to appease him a long and grateful.
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for me personally, England,I almost played factions but England is more like me in terms of everything!!)
Depends on which side if you want to defend, it is natural England if you want to attack then : HRE, Spain, Byzantium - excellent troops, especially the Gothic knights from HRE.
But all depends on the player how he does things. You can play for any faction and take over the world.
The most simple - England.
I for the entire game never saw army boats sailed.
First demolish Scotland and have 7 settlements and turn them into the city a lot of money.
Set up army and go to France, and then the rest.
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I for the entire game never saw army boats sailed.
Apparently, you just don't play on high difficulty. To me at the beginning of the campaign he came to a stack of duck.
for me the most convenient fraction is Kiev.Byzantium.Lithuania,Venice,Denmark nothing so much as the Templars do cheat with their Swiss guards and hordes of knights love when a lot of universal armor-piercing infantry.The most uncomfortable is the Kingdom of Jerusalem.The Khorezm.Hungary.Poland.Playing a Templar start with alliances with the Pope,the Arabs and Turks the main thing is not to take cities such as Jerusalem and Baghdad has not yet matured in the material and a battle plan to avoid Jihad.The undo offer of the Crusades on the Arabs of the 4m-5m campaign, you can join the campaign and after the campaign to conclude a truce with the Arabs on favorable terms as a rule the Turks are the Greeks.Literate intrigue and dominance of your religion success
guys still the problem cannot destroy the Teutonic order captured all the cities and they are not destroyed and theirs troops on the map(
I started playing in Khorezm really liked the preview wave Mongolian issued right at the entrance into their lands by a Horde of spearmen from Khorezm them quite a lot.the remaining 3 large detachment of Mongols in exactly on the edge of my borders go to war with Polovtsy heh heh
For units or army is the strongest power is the Ottoman Empire. Especially late units: infantry Janissaries. By the way, they are the best arrows in the game, and not Russian Cossacks. And just need to be able to play, balancing units of different classes
I certainly have not played all the factions, but for me the favorite faction is France, and I have my reasons.
1-I hate the British(subjectivity taxis)
2-the most powerful Western cavalry in the game(the Mongol cavalry, though stronger,but it is East)
3-the difficulty of the game for this country cool(because you can be an enemy to England and to Germany(it's easier to say),and for Milan,and Sicily(by the way, they first attacked me,in Marseille specifically),and Mauritania(they direct their landings and Marseille and Toulouse) and in Spain(they attacked me),and for Portugal,and for Denmark(especially if they manage to take Antwerp and Bruges),even with the Papal state you can manage to quarrel,in General overdadige enemies waiting for you.
4-in the cities it will be possible to recruit heavy cavalry(Gendarmes), Scotch guard(excellent archers and in melee, good at the expense of swords and armor strong) and horse archers(a rare treat for Western Europe,specifically the archers,the crossbowmen ibbo horse will often)
5-infantry at the beginning are really scarce,but then it is not inferior to English,and means of combating cavalry have not too little(pikemen,warriors vuzami,Hiking, knights and aristocrats)
6 in the first place it is recommended to deal with England and Scotland(to get rid of one of the front line),and then to prepare for total war(I dealt with Spain, Portugal and Mauritania,and then went to the Germans,Danes and Italians)
Egypt. Why? You can go all city that is no castles. Conquer northwards fast and end up quickly with a very large and extremely rich region that trades with itself. Units are quite nice too that way like decent spear militia, superheavy infantry eventually and dirt cheap throwaway archers that none the less know how to kill. Oh and very nice cavalry from cities along with circus maximuses for moral. Oh and since you have loads of money you can even go on low taxes and develop into huge cities before others even have cities. Crusaders? Hah! Keeps troops practiced. Yeah sure you will need some kind of balkan chokepoint where you kill those crusaders but that is minor when you rule all of africa and asia.
Pfcourse that was a region reason. Try sending Russia migrating south and take egypt, byzantium and remove all the kebab (and chocolate and even koumiss) from premises and you have combined some of the finest roosters with the best region. Then its cossack musketeers, maybe along with elephants (if you can be bothered to ship them that far) along with pike and some cavalry giving aztecs a hard day.
Played for only two factions , It's England and France. The first conquered the Scots somehow,then rushed to France and Rome from France got on the head and lost territory but for that moved deep into Rome, but in the back of France takes again territory. Scotland, too, under itself swept brave guys, but France is still to fight as the enemies treat from all sides,it's Portugal, Milan, Rome, England, the Germans .Portuguese chased until not worried, but with Milan but not hard, their three cities captured a long fight back good, if not for my cavalry then they would have conquered me, with Rome easier but very many cities.
And then Milan immediately goes to your castle and takes it, First of the rebels lost castle to take, then from Milan .It's hard to go to conquer the country .But the cavalry rescues the French well, tramples any army, arrows on the side, a cavalry in front, followed by foot troops, then the cavalry will take off and the foot troops finish the rest.
IMHO, the strongest nation is primarily the nation with the most flexible set of strong detachments. Agree, you can argue as much as you like about whose heavy cavalry is better, but the best cavalry chained to lats multiplied by the scottish pickers or entrenched Welsh archers in the company of halberds.
Yes, there will be no better faction in all kinds of troops, in some ways someone will concede to someone. But the faction, which, without conceding too much in any kind of troops, will have a good advantage somewhere.
And it all depends on the period.
At an early stage, it seems to me, few people at all have a clear advantage, but still the best set of troops will give Byzantium, Sicily and SRI. There will be no obvious favorites of the harm units, but the armies will be the most balanced, especially in Byzantium.
At a late stage the best will be Turks, second place - Russia, third - France.
Why is Turkey the best? See for yourself. Their elite heavy cavalry - capycula is not so much inferior to the best heavy cavalry of the game - the royal guard. In the rest of the Turkish cavalry is inferior to the Russian except the absence of the palace cavalry (well-protected horse archers, which can also be thrown into battle). Equestrian Cossacks and Boyar sons are balanced by sipahi-shooters. Friend - sipahi with spears. Turkomans will definitely be cooler than Kazakhs, but for hire are more expensive. So, in the part of the cavalry, Russia has no strong advantage over the Turks. On the part of shooters, yes, Cossacks with muskets steer, but ... before the first meeting with the Musketeers (shooting rates are the same, plus good armor). Add to this the presence of the Turk Janychar archers and ottoman infantry and - on arrows in the Turk before Russia a clear advantage. In the same infantry, the Turks have an excellent Janychar heavy infantry with halberds, Russia there is simply nothing to oppose. Plus hashish and naft throwers.
France is inferior to both Turkey and Russia due to the less flexibility of the army. Practically no light cavalry, and in terms of infantry nothing particularly outstanding. Arrows, yes, the Scottish Guard and aristocrats with crossbows are a good option, albeit expensive. Cavalry is quite at the level of Turkey and Russia, in some ways even superior (the first blow of the French lute, but in the logging of the Turks and Rusichs will yield), but all.
About the advantages of development I will not speculate - the game in principle allows to develop the economy in any country (attacked, captured territory, developed), and if there is a good balanced army without any problems can be fought off on several fronts.
The most difficult thing was to play for the Moors - the heavy cavalry is normal no, horse archers - no, the set of shooters is scant, infantry choice is normal, but it is at the Moors average (spearmen really nothing so). Light cavalry norms, but it one thing can not be won.
It is difficult to start Spain also - territories for capture and development near a little, according to the troops the choice is small, there is nothing to rely on.
Venice with Milan are good except in terms of a good initial start and the ability to quickly blind a suitable army, most of which in peacetime can be kept free in cities. Yes, good factions, but nothing more. Developed France or Turkey will eat them and do not choke. At the early stage, Byzantium and SRI will exhibit an army, inferior to the Italians only in the part of shooters (arbalet), but in the rest (cavalry, infantry) - superior.
In terms of aggressive style of play it is very fun to take Hungary. From the defense do not have to play (especially nothing), but an excellent set of cavalry (light, heavy, shooters) allows you to develop a quick attack on any scenario, and the presence of a good and relatively inexpensive assault infantry (Croats with sekirs) plays on hand when storming the castles and cities.
As for the Mongols and Timurids , I do not consider their troops so strong compared to, for example, with Russia. Normal infantry in nomads lack, and in the part of the cavalry of Russia has something to oppose them. If the Mongols can still be dangerous, because they appear early (before Russia has its main trump cards), the Timurids do not cause any problems (despite elephants). I don't say anything about Turkey.