So Adana, a castle at start, should be converted to city but Mosul, should stay a castle. Only keep castles that don't have a port when you've expanded.

Also make sure you upgrade Constantinople to Ballista Towers right away to screw up any would be attackers. In terms of missile damage that is on par with England's archers aside from not having the AP damage.Ĭonstantinople, Thessalonic and Nicea will be your Trinity of Economy so upgrade the ports asap within these settlements. Early on, your primary archer focus should be on the Trebizond Archers, these are quite powerful early-mid game archers with 9 missile damage. When you take the fight into Europe than you want more professional troops like Dismounted Byzantine Lancers, Byzantine Guard Archers and Dis/mounted Latinkon. Once you encounter the Egyptians you can get a more professional army with Byzantine Lancers and Byzantine Infantry. Keep your armies light and quick against the Turks to counter their horse archers. The AI on normal difficulty declares more war than the AI on Very Hard and that causes you to bog down on diplomacy.Īs for units Vardariotai are the best horse archers you can recruit, so if you've got the funds, go for these. Once you've got those territories your economy should be more than sufficient enough to take the fight to Hungary, Sicily and Venice.ĭon't bother with normal campaign AI. Once you've crushed the Turks in Anatolia you move south into the Holy Land, take Antioch, Acre, Jerusalem, Damascus, Gaza before crushing the Egyptians by taking Alexandria and Cairo. Take Rhodos, make it a city, same with Cyprus, convert it to a city (more money = more troops). This'll be your shield against Hungary.Ģnd thing you do is move all your armies into Anatolia and crush the Turks. First thing you do with Byzantines is taking Sofia.

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