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country take the province with the strongest castle. So you can make mercenaries, create an Inn on the build button on the lower left corner. This will take 2 years to make as it says on the screen.
On the lower right hand corner is the button END YEAR. This will obviously end one year. Once you press it two times your Inn will be finished. Before pressing it create a group of warriors of your choice. Now hit end year. Take your people out of your castle by dragging. These are the ones that you just created. Now, where there are no units you should make that province farmland.
So go to the province and increase the farm production. End the year or make some more units. Remember, this FAQ is very flexible. You can do more or less then what I am saying.
Now be patient. Do not attack any countries yet. First go for making men and creating good food. Around now you will be giving birth to sons and daughters and will be offered alliances. Accept ALL of the alliances. If you are an ally of a country you will not be attacked by them. On Castile you should make a tower. This enables you to see the amount of men and info on the surrounding provinces of the watch towered province. Very useful.
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At this time you should continue to accept alliances. Also, keep improving your farmland. On the province in which you are making men, create a horse
This is the first step in making knights. Once you get knights, you will be attack more easily. Pretty soon you will notice that your Florins or money going down. To check your balances, go to the bottom left and click on the coins. This will tell you your income and your expenses. If you are losing then you should STOP making men. The more men you have the more expenses you
Balance these by creating more buildings to earn income. Also, you should be about upgrading to a higher castle. This will allow you to make more advanced buildings.
Once you have upgraded more buildings you will notice a large cross on the training units part. It is a crusade. It will take four years to make but is very powerful. What you do is take the cross, after four years, and set it somewhere in the world. Once you set the cross somewhere you will be to destroy that place. The crusade will give you many men to work with. This very effective when you want to take over farther away provinces.
For now, concentrate on building horse breeder's. You need knights before you can start attacking. Just do it over time so that you don't lose all of your florins. Now get knights and look for rebel provinces first. These are the most reliable ones to attack. The pope will be mad but who cares? Now get out there and take over your first province. YEA! We are getting closer to ruling the world. Still, do not invade any countries. It really will hurt you early on. Keep making men. It is what you must do, trust me please. Now start to make a crusade. Wait four years and put it closer to your provinces. It is wiser because traveling longer distances is harder in case you come across some battles.
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Crusades
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In general, you will have to wait four years to make a crusade. Now, set the crusade where you choose and build it up to an enormous army. Keep adding royal knights. Soon it will be almost invincible. Aahhh! Refreshing isn't it? Go through the path to the desired crusade spot. Kill all that is in your path. Most countries will allow you to go by so don't worry so much.
I would recommend that you make as many as you as later in the game the Pope may be against you disabling you from making Crusades.
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Attack the Aergonese
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Ok, now take out the Aerogonese. Do this because the Pope will not be mad if
Catholics are hurt. Mean people, the Pope. So take them out and the Rebels.
The Rebels should be up North. This is where it gets tricky. You MUST stay allied to the French. But, the Germans, who always send Crusades for the
Pope, will soon try to kill you. But, they first will have to go through the French. This they cannot do. So your expanding your provinces and keeping friends with all your previous allies.
+=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=+
*!Warning!*
-_-_-_-_-_-_
Do NOT attack the Almohads below you. I had tried this before and they will easily destroy you. They are not invincible, you just need stronger forces.
+=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=+
Keep upgrading your houses. You should also make Royal Knights every other year. This helps make your money spread more flexible. Another thing you should start to look at is the Taxes. Higher your taxes if your loyalty is
ABOVE 100%. If you do it lower, your people will likely rebel against you.
This will cause your civilization to break down, thus you loose. We don't want that do we?
--Future Goal--
We should try to save up as much men as possible. This is all you should concentrate on. The actual goal is take over the Almohads. They cause so much trouble down there! So, start to upgrade to a Keep and etc. This will some time allow you to make Chivalric Knights. This is your only hope really. This is where it gets very hard. Try to bear with me. My first major request, right now, is to SAVE your game. Press escape and save it. That is, when you, or if you die you can load your game back to this present position. You need to hope that the French King, which he probably will, will die. This is crucial so that you can become an ally with them. Also, as soon as the Pope dies start making Crusades. You can only make crusades if the Pope likes you, and now he doesn't. For me, the
French King died. Now ally with them. Build strong forces and get prepared to kill the Almohads below. It is your only chance in gaining control in the World.
From now until you fight the Almohads the only action that should take place is allying a proposing a marriage. So I will pick this Guide back onto attacking the Almohads.
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Attack the Almohads
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Gather your prince armies and the Royal Knights. You should have very many by now. Go for Portugal first as it is certainly the easiest. Don't attack
Camboda until the end. This is their main farm crop land and unit building land, therefore they will defend that the most. Portugal, for me was an easy victory. They then backed off onto Camboda. This is where you should surround them. Get men from all your provinces and attack all at once.
Just make sure you have some men in each province so that they don't retreat into your unprotected colony. This will be a Victory if you have made enough men. I am serious. This is not as easy as it seems. You really need to get a LOT of men. Sooner or later the Almohads will give up or their
King will die. Finally! Now take a small break because the Almos will be back soon!
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Break Time
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Now you can wait. I would wait until the Pope dies. If it seems to take a while then forget this. If he dies soon then start to build Crusades. With these you will be able to finish off the weaker part of the Almohads. If the Pope is still alive then just the Almohads out with your remaining army and some additional Knights. You should also try to get A Knight upgrade so your men will be stronger. Once either the Pope dies or you decide your army is stronger go to the pickup of the FAQ.
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Finish of the Almohads
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Let us finish these tiring fools. From Camboda work your way south.
Send all your men (and use the Pope's Crusades if possible) to each of the Almohad provinces. This will easily finish them off as they hardly have any men in any of the provinces. Yea! Take over the south east of the map all the way to Egypt. Egyptians are very powerful and should not be dealt with now. I would recommend you take them on at the end and go for France, England, and Germany. These are your best options.
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Establish a new base
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Right now, to be sure we don't loose, start establishing more of a base on the south provinces you just conquered. These will provide a great deal of backup for you form the French and English. We do not want to go right in and start fighting the French yet. We need to space it out over a few years and regroup your economy. Start making another province for making units. This will make it a lot easier to make men faster and placed quicker in desired places.
I would recommend that you make two Royal Palaces in opposite sides of your part of the world. This does two things. First of all, you will be able to make twice as many men as before. Second, you will be able to move men places in a faster pace.
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French and English duo
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Finally there is something easier. Really, the Spanish are very hard to fight with in the Early age. Now, we are faced with a much easier task. The French are probably the easiest to defeat. The English are harder to defeat but they won't interfere with your war against the
French. This is what makes it a whole lot easier.
Anyway, go collect all your men, as I told you to make, and bring
ALL of them up to the North near the French. Invade the French as soon as you can. This will be your hardest battle against the French.
I told you, they are not difficult to beat. You will take over Toulouse.
Now quickly move to the right and battle in Provence. Take this over.
Really, I did not lose one battle with the French. Just follow the blue markings and kill all of the French. After you conquer France take a short break. Regroup as you did after the Almohads. The British are your next target and are waiting hungrily to the left of where you are right now. Make more Royal Knights and bring them into the former
French areas. Get prepared to surround the British colonies.
Now take all the men surrounding the British and take a few out of the stacks and put them in the province you are currently in. Now put the remaining units into Aqutaine. Hope for a victory. Most likely, a lot of Royal Knights will do the trick. If you lose you probably didn't enough men or you did something wrong in the Walkthrough. Once you take care of Aqutaine, Normandy, and the Brittany, you will easily have destroyed the British. Just work your way North and take care of there lesser populated provinces without any skill. Congrats! You have destroyed 3 nations already. We are making very nice progress.
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Italy the pathetic country
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This part of the game is the easiest. The Italians are right next to you on the right. You will have to take your remaining battle troups and yet again regroup your provinces. This is really a procedure you should constantly do. Once you build up enough men, go towards the
Italian peninsula. Now this is my favorite! There is no trick involved with the Italians. Just keep battling it up with them. Honestly, this is how it will be for pretty much the rest of the game. It isn't very hard after you get out of the flaw in the beginning. Attack all of the
Italians and take over that peninsula. Good job. Not much work involved.
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Here on out
%%%%%%%%%%%
I am getting very tired of saying the same thing. From now on out the battle sequence and formations are all identical. I will add a bit more on the FAQ in future updates but most of it is self explanatory.
You can use this FAQ for almost all of the countries for all of the battles you face. They really are all identical. For now I will leave you from the Spanish FAQ. Enjoy the ending after completing the game!
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Danes
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I. General
A. The Danes
The Danes start out very modestly, with just 1 province, Denmark. Denmark is a solid province, and it is the only landroute to Sweden and Norway besides.
Vikings and Longboats are available to the Danes right from the start, and alhought eclipsed later on they provide good buildingblocks for your early military.
B. Weaknesses
Your biggest weakness is the fact you have only 1 province, and a correspondingly low income and production base. You must reduce these two
On the lower right hand corner is the button END YEAR. This will obviously end one year. Once you press it two times your Inn will be finished. Before pressing it create a group of warriors of your choice. Now hit end year. Take your people out of your castle by dragging. These are the ones that you just created. Now, where there are no units you should make that province farmland.
So go to the province and increase the farm production. End the year or make some more units. Remember, this FAQ is very flexible. You can do more or less then what I am saying.
Now be patient. Do not attack any countries yet. First go for making men and creating good food. Around now you will be giving birth to sons and daughters and will be offered alliances. Accept ALL of the alliances. If you are an ally of a country you will not be attacked by them. On Castile you should make a tower. This enables you to see the amount of men and info on the surrounding provinces of the watch towered province. Very useful.
===============================================================================
At this time you should continue to accept alliances. Also, keep improving your farmland. On the province in which you are making men, create a horse
This is the first step in making knights. Once you get knights, you will be attack more easily. Pretty soon you will notice that your Florins or money going down. To check your balances, go to the bottom left and click on the coins. This will tell you your income and your expenses. If you are losing then you should STOP making men. The more men you have the more expenses you
Balance these by creating more buildings to earn income. Also, you should be about upgrading to a higher castle. This will allow you to make more advanced buildings.
Once you have upgraded more buildings you will notice a large cross on the training units part. It is a crusade. It will take four years to make but is very powerful. What you do is take the cross, after four years, and set it somewhere in the world. Once you set the cross somewhere you will be to destroy that place. The crusade will give you many men to work with. This very effective when you want to take over farther away provinces.
For now, concentrate on building horse breeder's. You need knights before you can start attacking. Just do it over time so that you don't lose all of your florins. Now get knights and look for rebel provinces first. These are the most reliable ones to attack. The pope will be mad but who cares? Now get out there and take over your first province. YEA! We are getting closer to ruling the world. Still, do not invade any countries. It really will hurt you early on. Keep making men. It is what you must do, trust me please. Now start to make a crusade. Wait four years and put it closer to your provinces. It is wiser because traveling longer distances is harder in case you come across some battles.
%%%%%%%%%
Crusades
%%%%%%%%%
In general, you will have to wait four years to make a crusade. Now, set the crusade where you choose and build it up to an enormous army. Keep adding royal knights. Soon it will be almost invincible. Aahhh! Refreshing isn't it? Go through the path to the desired crusade spot. Kill all that is in your path. Most countries will allow you to go by so don't worry so much.
I would recommend that you make as many as you as later in the game the Pope may be against you disabling you from making Crusades.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Attack the Aergonese
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Ok, now take out the Aerogonese. Do this because the Pope will not be mad if
Catholics are hurt. Mean people, the Pope. So take them out and the Rebels.
The Rebels should be up North. This is where it gets tricky. You MUST stay allied to the French. But, the Germans, who always send Crusades for the
Pope, will soon try to kill you. But, they first will have to go through the French. This they cannot do. So your expanding your provinces and keeping friends with all your previous allies.
+=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=+
*!Warning!*
-_-_-_-_-_-_
Do NOT attack the Almohads below you. I had tried this before and they will easily destroy you. They are not invincible, you just need stronger forces.
+=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=++=-~-=+
Keep upgrading your houses. You should also make Royal Knights every other year. This helps make your money spread more flexible. Another thing you should start to look at is the Taxes. Higher your taxes if your loyalty is
ABOVE 100%. If you do it lower, your people will likely rebel against you.
This will cause your civilization to break down, thus you loose. We don't want that do we?
--Future Goal--
We should try to save up as much men as possible. This is all you should concentrate on. The actual goal is take over the Almohads. They cause so much trouble down there! So, start to upgrade to a Keep and etc. This will some time allow you to make Chivalric Knights. This is your only hope really. This is where it gets very hard. Try to bear with me. My first major request, right now, is to SAVE your game. Press escape and save it. That is, when you, or if you die you can load your game back to this present position. You need to hope that the French King, which he probably will, will die. This is crucial so that you can become an ally with them. Also, as soon as the Pope dies start making Crusades. You can only make crusades if the Pope likes you, and now he doesn't. For me, the
French King died. Now ally with them. Build strong forces and get prepared to kill the Almohads below. It is your only chance in gaining control in the World.
From now until you fight the Almohads the only action that should take place is allying a proposing a marriage. So I will pick this Guide back onto attacking the Almohads.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Attack the Almohads
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Gather your prince armies and the Royal Knights. You should have very many by now. Go for Portugal first as it is certainly the easiest. Don't attack
Camboda until the end. This is their main farm crop land and unit building land, therefore they will defend that the most. Portugal, for me was an easy victory. They then backed off onto Camboda. This is where you should surround them. Get men from all your provinces and attack all at once.
Just make sure you have some men in each province so that they don't retreat into your unprotected colony. This will be a Victory if you have made enough men. I am serious. This is not as easy as it seems. You really need to get a LOT of men. Sooner or later the Almohads will give up or their
King will die. Finally! Now take a small break because the Almos will be back soon!
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Break Time
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Now you can wait. I would wait until the Pope dies. If it seems to take a while then forget this. If he dies soon then start to build Crusades. With these you will be able to finish off the weaker part of the Almohads. If the Pope is still alive then just the Almohads out with your remaining army and some additional Knights. You should also try to get A Knight upgrade so your men will be stronger. Once either the Pope dies or you decide your army is stronger go to the pickup of the FAQ.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Finish of the Almohads
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Let us finish these tiring fools. From Camboda work your way south.
Send all your men (and use the Pope's Crusades if possible) to each of the Almohad provinces. This will easily finish them off as they hardly have any men in any of the provinces. Yea! Take over the south east of the map all the way to Egypt. Egyptians are very powerful and should not be dealt with now. I would recommend you take them on at the end and go for France, England, and Germany. These are your best options.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Establish a new base
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Right now, to be sure we don't loose, start establishing more of a base on the south provinces you just conquered. These will provide a great deal of backup for you form the French and English. We do not want to go right in and start fighting the French yet. We need to space it out over a few years and regroup your economy. Start making another province for making units. This will make it a lot easier to make men faster and placed quicker in desired places.
I would recommend that you make two Royal Palaces in opposite sides of your part of the world. This does two things. First of all, you will be able to make twice as many men as before. Second, you will be able to move men places in a faster pace.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
French and English duo
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Finally there is something easier. Really, the Spanish are very hard to fight with in the Early age. Now, we are faced with a much easier task. The French are probably the easiest to defeat. The English are harder to defeat but they won't interfere with your war against the
French. This is what makes it a whole lot easier.
Anyway, go collect all your men, as I told you to make, and bring
ALL of them up to the North near the French. Invade the French as soon as you can. This will be your hardest battle against the French.
I told you, they are not difficult to beat. You will take over Toulouse.
Now quickly move to the right and battle in Provence. Take this over.
Really, I did not lose one battle with the French. Just follow the blue markings and kill all of the French. After you conquer France take a short break. Regroup as you did after the Almohads. The British are your next target and are waiting hungrily to the left of where you are right now. Make more Royal Knights and bring them into the former
French areas. Get prepared to surround the British colonies.
Now take all the men surrounding the British and take a few out of the stacks and put them in the province you are currently in. Now put the remaining units into Aqutaine. Hope for a victory. Most likely, a lot of Royal Knights will do the trick. If you lose you probably didn't enough men or you did something wrong in the Walkthrough. Once you take care of Aqutaine, Normandy, and the Brittany, you will easily have destroyed the British. Just work your way North and take care of there lesser populated provinces without any skill. Congrats! You have destroyed 3 nations already. We are making very nice progress.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Italy the pathetic country
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
This part of the game is the easiest. The Italians are right next to you on the right. You will have to take your remaining battle troups and yet again regroup your provinces. This is really a procedure you should constantly do. Once you build up enough men, go towards the
Italian peninsula. Now this is my favorite! There is no trick involved with the Italians. Just keep battling it up with them. Honestly, this is how it will be for pretty much the rest of the game. It isn't very hard after you get out of the flaw in the beginning. Attack all of the
Italians and take over that peninsula. Good job. Not much work involved.
%%%%%%%%%%%
Here on out
%%%%%%%%%%%
I am getting very tired of saying the same thing. From now on out the battle sequence and formations are all identical. I will add a bit more on the FAQ in future updates but most of it is self explanatory.
You can use this FAQ for almost all of the countries for all of the battles you face. They really are all identical. For now I will leave you from the Spanish FAQ. Enjoy the ending after completing the game!
%%%%%%
Danes
%%%%%%
I. General
A. The Danes
The Danes start out very modestly, with just 1 province, Denmark. Denmark is a solid province, and it is the only landroute to Sweden and Norway besides.
Vikings and Longboats are available to the Danes right from the start, and alhought eclipsed later on they provide good buildingblocks for your early military.
B. Weaknesses
Your biggest weakness is the fact you have only 1 province, and a correspondingly low income and production base. You must reduce these two
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