Though you probably already know most of this, since it's the same as Rome. Unfortunately, the only way to see how strong they are is to exit the campaign and go to 'custom battle' and compare stats there. Right-click any barracks and it will display a list of the units it can make, which is useful to know which building chain you want to start on. You can select 'Barracks' from the list and it will show you 2 columns, one for City Barracks, one for Castle Barracks. Click it, it might be wise to get familiar with it. If you click a City or Castle and open up it's scroll, there should be three little buttons at the bottom. If you wipe out everyone you can take the city without a siege.Īlso, when moving an army through neutral territory, try to avoid having them end their turn there, they hate that. I suggest attacking armies 'next to' their cities to draw the local garrison out to fight you. Though it's annoying to have the Pope get mad in the middle of my sieges. When I play Venice I just keep a massive army (maybe 2) near the Capital and chase away other Christians, if they start it the Pope gets mad at them. Being on good terms with the Pope can help you avoid war. Having a high Dread Faction Leader is also a problem. People like you depending on what you've done. Also, if you've been excommunicated, well, problems can arise, such as the Pope launching a Crusade against Cairo that you control. it doubles the army's movement speed, gives them free upkeep (except mercenaries) but the HAVE to keep moving to the Crusade target. It's a little bright blue button with the Cross. To join a Crusade you have to select an army of at least 8 units or so and click the "Join Crusade" button. Almost all Europeans have that unit type there. You can make your own Feudal Knights if you really want to with a Castle with Barracks. To fight dismounted feudal knights, just let your crossbowmen skirmish them (flee & shoot) and don't let them get into combat, even with your spearmen, till you're ready.
Note: the city has to actually be able to make the unit for it to be free. Also you don't need castles.Įach city can support a few militia unit with no upkeep, they have a different coloured unit card when they're in a city, bigger walls let you have more free upkeep units so check that out and try to always have at least that many units in the city. Consider making one of your cities have low taxes to get the next level for a better barracks that has Pavise Crossbowmen who are a powerful ranged unit that can fight in melee if needed. Don't bother making the weakest variety, they have spearmen militia with about 7 attack and 13 defense or so, which is almost as strong as sergent spearmen that you make at castles. Yep, Venice has some of the best militia in the game.
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