7 Things I Wish I knew earlier about - Medieval 2 Total War

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How many of these did you know?

Little note on playing byzantines vs turks. The reason why you should always just rush them early on is because they place all their family members in Iconium and Cesarea(they have 4 starting settlements). If you take these two, they'll all die and you can take the remaining cities in Anatolia much faster. It's pretty huge if you're trying to get a good start cuz anatolia then just has 10 easy settlements to take.

I really hate the way command works. It creates invincible general's body guard that can plough frontally inti spearmen and externinate them instantly.

One of my favourite total war tricks is the crusade trick. When you are about to take the settlement of the target region via a siege, before conquering put every general into a crusader army. Then once you have taken the settlement you get loads of money from the pope and every unit of your empire gets a valour bonus. plus you can navigate land further so take the 1 turn crusade boost to get armies moving wherever you want.

What happens is I’m catholic and ignore the pope? is it that bad.

any advice for sieges early game vs insane towers shooting everywhere that cannot be stopped?

Don’t know if anyone mentioned this already, but you don’t need to take out all the generals in a faction to destroy it / turn them rebel. Just the Faction Leader and Heir in the same turn. Ive done it a lot, but recently was playing kingdoms DLC and managed to do it in 1 open battle where the Teutons decided to put their leader and heir in the same stack. It’s a cool trick

For Years i cry myself into sleep, screaming: why do i have to wait for the archers Shooting their arrows!!!!! You sir are a Hero, thanks!

Big fan since 2007.. love the game :)
Always play the game max difficulty on map and battle.

Just random tips I use.

1. When under siege. Use your tiniest or weakest melee unit to charge the battering ram. Charge the ram when it is like 50m away from your gate (so the gate has time to close after your units are trough). Let the chosen unit fight till the last man.If a ladder reaches the wall, the AI will drop the ram and choose the ladder, giving you chance to bulk an army on the wall to kill all who go up. Always take out the ram, maybe towers if present, and just let the ladder reach you. If AI just has a ram, attacking it last moment will give you more time to attack his army with you towers and archers.

2. While under siege. Make sure to keep solders near the towers or between two towers. If near enough a flag will appear on the tower, indicating it will fire when enemies are near. Make sure this is active when the enemy is charging.

3. While under siege. If the AI has too many siege equipment, retreat to the center of your castle or city and try to create one passage or street to defend. Wait till the AI comes to you. Preferable using a catapult to launch in enemy units, creating rout fast when you hit them.

4. When starting get your diplomat and preferably 1 or 2 extra to reach as many other factions as possible (before factions start picking sides and alliances become more difficult) and exchange alliance for a sum of money. I usually ask like 4-5k, depending what the AI is willing to pay. This creates a lof extra income early on.

5. if the AI offers peace always ask for a sum. It can happen that the AI declares war multiple times and sues for peace right after, where you can possible ask like 8000 gold per time.
Happens to me a lot when near Sicily or Milan for example.

6. When fighting the AI in open field I always try something like this: ( I use cavalry a lot). Attack with your main force straight on. Use horses left and right to flank. If you hit the army at the same time (left right and front) there is big chance everyone will panic and run.

6. When in open battle look for the enemy general, normally on the left of his horses or men. Try to charge them from the left side with your horses. Hitting him wil most likely kill him and gives you a huge chance of creating panic.

7. If the enemy army is way bigger and you have no choice but to fight. Make sure you move as far back as possible, try to pick the highest (if there are any) mountain to stand on and make the Ai come to you. Tired troops are likely to rout fast.

This is all I could come up with :) cheers

how can he play as the papal states?

main thing I wish i knew: MTW2 is overrated and a huge step down from Rome

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You have been awarded the title 'Beginner'.

gonna use that agent killing trick next time i accidentally create an army of heretics

No need to place armies around the assassin. Just assassinate assassin. Show dominance.

I love dread. All it takes is cheesing n chasing down missile troops at the start with cav units and charging at the back of the infantry. And they all start to route. It is so easy. The only reason why Im still going ok with the current campaign and I have 4 different enemy factions attacking me.

Fuck your accent

Still the best Total War game, and that says a lot because I haven’t played one Total War game I didn’t love & put hundreds of hours into. But more than likely will be put over 2000-3000 hours into Medieval 2.

Yeah that is also sad in a way lol, but the game is so good & I would love for them to make Medieval 3, take everything great about this game and improve it, add in more options for inside politics for a bit more grand scale of strategy.

Is Dread really "better" than Chivalry? "Better" and "worse" are subjective. It depends on what you value. I prefer chivalry, myself.

Want your low morale units (e.g. peasant archers and maybe militia) to stay in the battle longer? Chivalry is the way to go.

Want to feel like you're the good guy? Chivalry is the way to go.

Want to fight the enemy more, perhaps to get more xp for your units or to make the game more challenging? Capturing the enemy and releasing them (which produces Chivalry) is the way to go.

Want the population of captured cities to be higher? Occupying them (which produces Chivalry) is the way to go.

Want to get more xp and possible helpful retinue? Joining crusades, jihads or a warpath (which produces Chivalry) is the way to go.

You confusing priests for assassins? How did the Pope react to you killing lots of "assassins"? :D

Hi guyz do you know how to replenish troops in medieval 2?

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You should base you chivalrous/dreadful balance based on the general’s personal traits/retinue, whether they have +/- to morale, positive morale traits, you don’t need more, dread, negative morale traits, needs morale boost, chivalry

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I need to know how to get a vassal

Still my favorite game

When developers put heart, sweat and tears into an game

Not many ways to fight timurids with their elephant units, howeverif you let them siege and have balistic or cannon towers, they can make a shirt work of eleohant units, and they instead of routing they start running arround and killing their own units if you decide to fight then in open field, use missile cavalry and lots of them

your laugh is creepy as hell

I cannot 100% confirm it (or rather, can't bother to since it's so late in the campaign) but I noticed that discovering Americas gives another public order bonus, some 20% or so. It wanes 5% every turn, however, so neither very long-lasting nor very effective. A curious find, however.

the italian version of the tutorial is funny to say the least

Why does the KI always can make a armistice when I dont get the Chance to entervene???? Please help me

You will still want your Dread Generals to join Crusades, for the unit-experience boosts and maybe traits; of course, Dread-General only joins immediately just before Chivalry-General captures the target.

BTW, do you know the Castle -> Large Town trick?

Settlements like York/Durazzo (low-population villages, or maybe you sacked/exterminated the population) will take forever to grow into towns, because upgrading Village -> Town -> Large Town all have population requirements; Motte -> Wooden Castle -> Castle do not. Village -> Motte -> Wooden Castle -> Castle -> Large Town: expensive to pay for the conversions, but well worth it to unlock higher tiers of population-growth and financial gains so much sooner.

Whenever I get to Arguin/Timbuktu, I do this as a matter of course, simply to maintain Public Order; in a tight situation, Town -> Castle might be your best or only option to prevent revolt. Just keep in mind that there exists a point of no return: ottomh, I think Fortress is the last of the Castles that can be converted (back) into a city.

whats the console cmd button?

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What do the puppys do?

You can transfer crusade relics from general to general

I have something tasty. If you play the Britannia campaign when the Danish kings arrive have ships ready east of scotland and then you kill all the kings and their armies as they prepare to land.

This guy is laughing way too loud.

How to open console commands?

You can capture the holy grail while on crusade. It appears in your generals ancillaries.

This isnt a tip, I just remembered that one time, playing as france the holy roman empire started a war with me. They were losing hard, had really low reputation with the pope, and I had almost full reputation. And yet the pope told me to stop fighting them and end the war or I'd be excommunicated. So I think that's fine and go to offer peace, only they reject it despite losing so badly. The ai is wack

Can attack siege equipment when dallying out

1-You can change speed by 0.1 when you shift+click on the speed options.
2-You can transfer acilleries between your generals
3-Sacking, exterminating, executing prisoners lower your reputation which makes ai more hostile to you and more likely reject your offers. Establish alliances, occupy and release prisoners to increase your reputation.
4-When you make a demand but don't offer anything, it will ask the ai what they want in exchange of your demands.