Cities are brilliant for income and realistically most if not all settlements behind your front line can be converted. Castles are still hugely important in areas where you are at war to create the top tier troops!
@@willotter4503 Depends on your faction, some factions have strong militia and cavalry. Some guilds enable you to recruit strong troops. You don't really need all those castle troops, just upgrade these city troops and it will be fine :)
I just find whenever I ally someone, they will always attack me sooner rather than later no matter the consequences. Occasionally they will attack my cities / castles constantly which is very annoying and whenever I want to get a peace deal, their demands are always high and overtime this leads me to being at war with everyone with no trade agreements or alliances with any other factions.
I had the same problem, found out that my reputation was very low because of sacking cities and executing prisoners. Just try to avoid sacking and executing and spare your prisoners and you will get loyal allies more easily!
This is caused by the Diplomacy bug which causes other factions to loose relations with you when you occupy towns. The game AI reacts like your razing the settlements and so even your closest allies will betray you while you take the lands of your enemies. There is a fix somewhere have a look online and see if it improves your gameplay.
I have found that the best economy is a strong military. Pump out troops like mad and keep them conquering. The money from looting settlements lets you upgrade your economy back home.
@Abdallah Naf3 You need to only have 1 main army in the early game, 2-4 armies later on and keep your safe castles with minimal guards. Also if you stop conquering with 1 of the armies you can just dismiss part of it to save with the upkeep costs.
Thanks for the guide, both parts. Just started playing the Total War franchise for the first time with the Medieval 2 release on ios/android and I was out of my depth.
Is this a mod? Everybody always attack me and I'm forced to counter, and I could just defeat their armies.. but then I think its a waste of resourches and just take over some cities untill they want to make peace again, if they don't have areas I'm particulary interested in. So my rep always goes down the rabbithole.. How do you keep a peacefull empire and a good rep?
I used the merchant technique. I created 5-6 strong merchant wich robbed the other merchant. I could make 3000 denaries just by acquiring the assets of merchants. Than are the mines.
The issue with this is that AI merchants have a massive buff when resolving attempts to seize assets. Unless you are save scumming it is very difficult to rank up your Merchants and even when you do they can still easily get brought out. Sure you can nest merchants in an army and leave that army on a resource, but this is a cheesy exploit and requires yet more investment. Spending money on merchants is unreliable and less efficient than spending that money on military units to fuel rapid expansion, you are better off without them.
I would say do you want my best opinion on which faction to choose for this type of income based on me choose either England or Scotland then once you taking over the entire island including Ireland turn them all into cities then start expanding towards France Denmark or Spain
So merchants or for very long campaigns. I've seen players finishing a game in roughly 50 turns. In those short games merchants won't pay back the investment. In longer games like that 150 turns they will over time.
yea thats good but most of the time i play medieval 2 total war i go with the sacking plocy this is how goes u sack a city and use the monny to make an army to sack another city and you use that money to make an army so you get that right it is a snowball effect get monney get army get army and aslo I would recommend invading Egypt because of your nathion is European you will get shit ton of money
This is another possibility, though I have found this sometimes comes back to bite me in the mid game when there's no foundation to my economy. Another similar way to make quick cash is to invade, sack and raze all the buildings and then leave if you don't wish to keep the settlement for now.
When i invade egypt that cause war dont try to go too far conquering lands just conquer nearby lands and the take out faction by faction in the beggining form an alliance with everyone and try giving them gifts to make good relations then if everybody likes you break an alliance with another kingdom and then attack them. One thing ive noticed after a crusade i sack the settlement or exterminate it then give it to the pope because this will cause wars over seas even if it is a rebel settlement
@@langagaming5403 i do this but before leaving i 'offer settlement' to one of their neighbours for usally 10k florins. You make bank, and they always attack to get it back, distracting them with war with their neighnour from attacking you.
I had just made a huge investment in upgrades at this point! If you follow the guide you will have plenty of florins to play with and I spend as much as I can whenever I can. Having 100k florins in the treasury does nothing for you but upgrading your buildings certainly does!
You don't need to attack your allies, and you don't want to. Just send spies to their cities and destroy their buildings and leaders with assasins. This will kill their public order and make their cities rebel. And let them attack you, and if pope asks you to stop, always do, and ask them for ceasefire. Unless you're like 1 city from completely destroying them maybe. Unless you don't care about excommunication, then you can just keep killing them.
Jan Sitkowski i always train assassins to the maximum by assasinating rebels then targets with 50% or more chance of success even if it is allies or send them after faction im warring with and when they are maximized i send them to rome where the pope is and make them stay then i invade a faction i get excommunicated then assassinate the pope to get reconciled and btw you should always train priest always have a priest in each city so you can win the papal election
It's almost impossible to fulfill all the short game conditions without having a very low economic. Also, when you play short-game scenario, always get an ally with your enemy neighbours. In my case, when I play as Milan faction, I always have France and Denmark/Poland as my allies though Denmark always backstab me in the 15/20th turn, fearing that I will conquer faster the entire HRE territories than him.
Also, try to marry your princes with your alies' generals / heirs. Your alliance will last long even if you attack your ally's ally. Also, make sure if you have enough money, give it some to your allies. Maintain your relationship with your allies at outstanding level. When you have stable borders, flow of your income will increase along with more factions you ask for trade rights.
