ive played rome total war since...well i cant even remember now. Only played medieval more recently, but ive got good experience in battle management, so im alright there, and i thought i was good at campaigns, considering ive played on vh vh and not had too much trouble with factions in rtw..

but the teutonic order is causing me shit man! haha, i feel rather nooby, because everyone says their easy. but im finding the starting turns stupidly hard, with a downward spiralling economy and enemies on all but one side (alliance with poland). if i can get a stable economy and a relatively decent army together i'll be fine, but advice on the starting say 20 turns would be really appreciated, im trying this on vh, might drop it to hard, so i wanna know what to build where and what to recruit where, considering the problem of a split empire and that novgorod always seem to attack, as well as either the mongols or denmark, cheers peeps