It took me until gunpowder to gain enough control of Lithuania to be able to launch a second attack, which is brilliant- a couple of bad battles and honestly I was on the ropes a few times. Often I had no choice but to hole up in cities while Novgorodian armies walked freely through, and I had to send a slash and burn stack down to Kiev to occupy (read: sacrifice themselves to as dearly as possible) the Kieven armies massing around their capital. It's ridiculously hard manoeuvring and conservation of troops while balancing a very small economy. If you push into Lithania, you get the two Rus factions declaring war on you at the same time, so your big push is flanked on two sides. Teutons are actual buggers to play late campaign, as your units are so slow to recruit while your enemy has decent facilities for themselves. I play the RC/RR compilations, and I've had some awesome times. Is this vanilla Stainless Steel or Real Recruitment? If it's the latter, good luck in holding the holy land early on if you're not based there Its a battle I would have won on vanilla Medieval, but that is why this mod is so refreshing to play. During the siege their poor quality spearmen clogged the streets and my men's morale was not enough to deal with their numbers.
I lost a decent portion of my main army trying to wrestle Bruges from the rebels. Interestingly the Moors have just taken Sicily and Venice has turned into a powerhouse, as have the Byzantines. Still, I sail a fleet of pilgrims, spearmen and basic archers toward the Holy Land but I'll probably need to pick up some decent Mercenaries when I get there so long as they're not too costly. The area looks pretty intimidating though with one Fatimid and one Turkish stack camping in it's back yard. There is currently a Crusade on for Jerusalem as the Crusader States lost it to a Jihad. The French have expelled me from their shores after two nail biting defenses of the wooden Castle at Caen. I've only just started a campaign as England, striking up into Scotland first of course, but I'm forced to give them a respite or face excommunication. I haven't actually downloaded the new 1.4 patch as I don't like the sound of some of the changes.
It's about time we had another Stainless Steel discussion methinks, probably the best and most popular Medieval 2 mod.
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