Medival II:Total War

Yeah being an island nation I find England is relatively easy to start with. Just make sure that you grab as much land on the isles as you can (or infact you can just start with Scotland, I find that not matter how nice I'm being to them, they always attack you down the line anyway). Only problem with attacking Scotland straight away is that your rep goes down so forging alliances can be a bummer.

It's a good idea to get trade agreements with Spain, Portugal and Denmark early on as you won't be going to war with those for a few turns and you can bring the money in with all the sea trade. If you're patient don't attack the French but simply wait for them to do so, they just can't resist that way you won't lose much standing with the pope.

Don't go crazy with building castles you won't need more than one on the British isles themselves and at the end of the day it's cities that give money to build armies in the first place so do pay attention to economy.

Jerusalem is a relatively good target too it gives a glory bonus to happiness to all your settlements and not really that hard to get. You do have to battle with unhappy population at first but that's mostly due to religion. What I do is just send along a few priests along with the army when crusade is called (although don't directly attach priests to the army as their hamper their pace).
 
Yep the English campaign is the simplest in the game. Being an island race means you have to be very unlucky for any nation to try an invasion. Having all 7 settlements in the British Isles gives a nice bonus to the treasury plus you only need 2 castles to create enough troops to start the invasion. I found a nice opening last time by going after the Moors and then you can get at the Spanish>French>Italians easily.

I love to make sure i get the Forest Archers, such a great comedy unit, you'll see :D

For a hard game try Byzantine or French (spits :D).

Also try the mods, stainless steel 6 is great but might add a little too much complexity to your first game, its up to you.
 
Great game. But get to grips with it, then play with one of the many modifications for it. Then you will be impressed. I think Stainless Steel and Darth Ages are commonly regarded as a couple of the best.
 
England are good fun to play with, they have the best archers in the game for ages and a strong infantry base.
I love picking off the enemies units with longbow men then just smashing into the reaminder with all your infantry.
 
If you make it that far, the archers can put down stakes (is this how you spell it :P ) which really help when you fight elephants. Can be difficult to stop that fraction with out them, forgot the name now.
 
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