Hello, everyone! I am new here and I would like to hear some advices about game. I usually play with Hungary.
I am quite a newbie when it comes to this game, and I have big problems with playing... Usually I stop playing already before 100th turn. So here are some questions:
1) ECONOMY
How to keep economy grow? My problem is, that at the best situation (and it happens only when I am not in war with anyone) I have around 10 000 florins. But usually I am in big financial troubles, rarely having more than 4000, and often falling into minus. How to resolve it and have healthy economy? I always build first roads, than markets and ports and then farms. I even send a merchant to rich Constantinople region, but nothing helps.
2) SPREADING THE EMPIRE
I usually conquer at the beggining Iasi, Bucharest and Zagreb. Sometimes even Sofia. What is the best direction to go further? I don't like attacking Poland, because they are my only neighbour who are trustfull ally. When I go in direction of Kiev, it's quite problematic because it is far and in Kiev are ALWAYS riotings. To go to the south against Bizant seems a bit hard because it is big empire to conquer and to leave Budapest opened for HRE for invasion... I don't know. So I always play against Venice. I try to attack Ragusa and Venice at the same time and destroy Venice soon this way, and leave Iraklion for later. However, from some reason, Venice always seems hard to conquer, their armies look like coming from nowhere and they always make me troubles. To this I must add that almost always I get attacked very soon by Bizant, and often also by HRE. So what to do?
3) SETTLMENTS
It somehow seems to me that it is stupid to keep Iasi (which is never in danger) as castle, and Zagreb (which is on strategically very important position) as city. So I always convert Iasi to town, and Zagreb to castle. Does it have sense or it is bad move?
4) ARMY
I know that for Hungary cavalry is the most important. However, I find it terribly hard to play with missile cavalry and it needs a lot of time and money to come to the point when I can recruit melee cavalry. From the other side, Croat Axemen seem as quite usefull troops, and also I would like to get to the point where I can recruit battlefield assassin. Also there are some not bad kinds of archers, and personally I prefer to fight with a lot of archers, especially in defence of castles and cities. So what kind of recruitment buildings to build in castles? I always find it very problematic, I build all and come to financial problems. It is also very slow. But I just don't know on what I should concentrate. Also, how should look one good hungarian attacking army?
Thank you for your response!
I am quite a newbie when it comes to this game, and I have big problems with playing... Usually I stop playing already before 100th turn. So here are some questions:
1) ECONOMY
How to keep economy grow? My problem is, that at the best situation (and it happens only when I am not in war with anyone) I have around 10 000 florins. But usually I am in big financial troubles, rarely having more than 4000, and often falling into minus. How to resolve it and have healthy economy? I always build first roads, than markets and ports and then farms. I even send a merchant to rich Constantinople region, but nothing helps.
2) SPREADING THE EMPIRE
I usually conquer at the beggining Iasi, Bucharest and Zagreb. Sometimes even Sofia. What is the best direction to go further? I don't like attacking Poland, because they are my only neighbour who are trustfull ally. When I go in direction of Kiev, it's quite problematic because it is far and in Kiev are ALWAYS riotings. To go to the south against Bizant seems a bit hard because it is big empire to conquer and to leave Budapest opened for HRE for invasion... I don't know. So I always play against Venice. I try to attack Ragusa and Venice at the same time and destroy Venice soon this way, and leave Iraklion for later. However, from some reason, Venice always seems hard to conquer, their armies look like coming from nowhere and they always make me troubles. To this I must add that almost always I get attacked very soon by Bizant, and often also by HRE. So what to do?
3) SETTLMENTS
It somehow seems to me that it is stupid to keep Iasi (which is never in danger) as castle, and Zagreb (which is on strategically very important position) as city. So I always convert Iasi to town, and Zagreb to castle. Does it have sense or it is bad move?
4) ARMY
I know that for Hungary cavalry is the most important. However, I find it terribly hard to play with missile cavalry and it needs a lot of time and money to come to the point when I can recruit melee cavalry. From the other side, Croat Axemen seem as quite usefull troops, and also I would like to get to the point where I can recruit battlefield assassin. Also there are some not bad kinds of archers, and personally I prefer to fight with a lot of archers, especially in defence of castles and cities. So what kind of recruitment buildings to build in castles? I always find it very problematic, I build all and come to financial problems. It is also very slow. But I just don't know on what I should concentrate. Also, how should look one good hungarian attacking army?
Thank you for your response!