I am playing now with Spain as the new Rome, capital Castra Legionis (Leon) and Toletum. The Legions consist of Javelins, allied units are town/spear militia and cavalry is jinettes. Its a powerful force. The scenario is what-if? What if Spain stayed like it did during the Roman Empire into the dark ages with its legion style armies (javelin throwing cav and infantry). If you can mod the vanilla you can change the stats and make them heavy infantry (like the Roman heavy infantry of old), but the models will still look the same. Love Medieval 2, best game ever.
No offense, but how can you play a game where you stare at a map for hours and hours and still be bad at geography? :P Just saying, at least for me, playing games like this and Hearts of Iron, etc. helped tremendously with geography...at least, European geography. Just need to learn/memorize rivers and lakes better and BOOM - expert on European geography =)
Good video but I disagree on ignoring North Africa. Marrakesh, Algiers and Tunis lie close to the sea thus you can use your fleet to transport your troops there quickly. Taking Timbuktu (and later Arguin) is definitely worth it in the long run, you should spam merchants there over the fairly rich resources to fund your conquests elsewhere. I think it's also a good decision to convert Toledo and Valencia into cities while Zaragoza should be a castle. Even Granada could be converted since Algiers and Tunis usually serve as much more effective frontier outposts in point of expanding eastward. I don't consider spreading beyond the Pyrenees a good idea. There are only Catholic factions there and you can easily find yourself in costly and dragging wars against France, England, HRE, Milan and/or Denmark. Instead I prefer conquering Egypt and the Holy Land by crusades then invading Asia Minor. Since Milan and Sicily often get excommunicated, you can snatch their territories over the Mediterranean with impunity as well.
Yeah there is certainly a viable argument for going against the Moors instead of the French after you've unified Spain. I generally don't like traversing the long distances between settlements, but maybe you are indeed correct that it could be the better option (especially if you have a strong navy)
The thing is catholic factions are becoming too dangerous if you let them develop their empires in the early game. Hire 2 units of Jinetes, 5 units of Mailed Knights and combine them with 3 General's Bodyguard units and a spy to dominate any early game catholic faction army in the field. As for capturing settlements there are plenty of Mercenary Spearmen and Mercenary Crossbowmen to hire in western europe. France, Milan and England should be your vassals or get destroyed by turn 30. To prevent Portugal from attacking you marry one of your starting princesses to their faction heir. And as for The Pope, send a second starting princess with a diplomatic mission and arrange a crusade to any muslim settlement to prevent him from choosing Tolouse as a crusade target after your faction gets excommunicated.
@@sergiusko4327 All of european factions excluding Hungary and Poland tend to hire only 1-3 cavalry units per army in an early turns of campaign, so it is becoming really easy to defeat any number of garbage militia infantry/useless archers in a field battle. Venice can be difficult after conquering France, England and Milan though, sometimes they gather an army of 6-8 Mailed Knights and 2-3 General Bodyguards combined with decent infantry. So unless they are willing to attack your army in a bridge battle it is trully challenging to defeat them and most definitely will slow down your progress. On the other side there are allways Scotland and Denmark who prefer infantry over cavalry on any campaign part.
One instance happened over the weekend after I spend a few turns raising a force worthy of taking out the French settlements to the north only for them to swerve me off as soon as they started their march..
@@talabackland8127 Are you talking about generals or captains? The loyalty of captains is very dependent on the authority rating of your faction leader. A leader with authority of 4 or less is prone to having captain-led units abandon you.
Pike militia and tercios might have low defense, but absolutely do not charge cavalry into the front of them. You would almost be better off just making that unit of cavalry withdraw. Prepared pikes slaughter cavalry in this game.
Spain along with portugal are really one of the strongest factions. Awesome infantry, awesome cavalry, one of the best campaign positions and the basilisk... gotta love the iberians! Edit: Also you could do a short video on portugal, because they've got literaly the same strategy and almost the same units as spain. Just saying...
Yeah definitely agree that Spain is a stronger faction. Will do a video with Portugal as well but probably will be same length just because some people might want to watch that video, and not necessarily this one as well
After getting into Total War with Warhammer, I was looking for Spain factions in other Total War's. Thank you, thing is I'm so spoiled with good graphics now,... hope this gets a remastered edition,...
@@addochandra4745 found this video and your comment again after buying the game. But my doubt was not solved, how the heck does a crusade to Cairo fit in these plans at the start of the campaign?? lol I want to be friends with the pope and be a crusader
For me, when playing as Spain, I would have made marital alliances with the HRE and Sicily. Then, drive the Moors out of Iberia, make an alliance with Portugal, and once the technology for sailing improves, sail to the New World as fast as I can! ¡Santiago a ellos!
@@noblenaveragemanointernet2582 Right, first step Zaragoza, send the princess via ship to Rome to make an alliance with the papalstate, than build one balista in Leon and Toledo (round 5), and attack in round 9 Portugal simultaniously on both fronts and wipe it from the map....than take on Cordoba and keep the pressure up to Grenada and Marakech. The greater Moorish army shatters often in the siege of Valencia. Marry with your princess in Northern Italy an Milanese or Venetian General, buy local mercenarys and take Florence.....works also fine with Portugal....:)
Another way to beat the Portugal without inciting the ire from the Pope is to go Brothel => Inn and get a pair of assassins, send them to each Portugal starting settlement and then save-scumming to kill his entire Royal family, which at this point of the game, are just 4 guys, tops. You should be able to wipe them out in two turns this way and then claim their settlements which turned rebel afterward. The same can work on Spain too should you play Portugal.
Portugal is better. They have better pikemen and arquebusiers. Or the italians, with the carrocio standard, your pike militia will have the same morale as tercio pikemen and your muskets will have triple the morale of spanish muskets.
What about; 1: Sign off as Spain with temporary Moor alliance and use princesses to contact Portugal and France for more long term alliances. 2: Weed out Rebel regions like Zaragoza and Valencia within the first 10-15 turns. 3: When strong enough, betray the Moors and start an all out blitz on their Iberian Possessions (I.E. Cordoba), PS-Pope won't give a shit because of obvious reasons. 4: Cultivate stronger relations with the Vatican and go on Crusade to gain Favor. 5: When Milan eventually tries to invade the Spanish mainland, turn them back gradually, then call on the Pope to crusade against Milan's great cities themselves. Within the first 80 turns, you will not have pissed off too many people and you'll have most, if not all of Spain, territories in the holyland, and holdings somewhere in Italy that are rich and easily defensible.
You got Arquebusiers right! Also question, where do you stand on Barbarian Invasion? It seems to be either loved or hated depending on who you talk to and I find that really interesting. Are you planning on doing those factions? Also I should probably stop commenting, it must be creepy seeing someone comment on every vid XD
Haha yes i finally got it right! Honestly, I haven't played BI in a looong time, so i'd probably need to refresh my memory before giving a full opinion on it. However, I do remember liking it in general, there were a lot of new groundbreaking features added and some very interesting factions/campaigns. Also, I love getting comments so don't worry about it!
Bonk Shtup I agree that it would be cool to do that, but I'm extremely busy with the Greek campaign and various other videos showcasing mods etc. I don't currently have the capacity to run two large series in parallel and the Greek campaign could be going on for the next couple of months. After the Greeks, I will consider BI, but I cant make any promises at this stage
moorish armies should not be underestimated they often have fucktons of desert archers coupled with a balanced number of light cavalry and various spearmen , coupled with a big amount of river crossing in southern spain it can easily go bad if you have to attack across a river
Conquistadores of the Renconquesta. I cringed a bit at the pronunciation. I am not Spanish but I took it long enough to speak well. (Con ket sta door es).
Conquistadores is usually the term used to refer to the soldiers sent to the Americas. The Reconquista is the process of fighting off the Moors until they were finally driven off the peninsula in 1492. Re-conquista. "Conquer back", so to speak.
