Medieval 2 Total War
Been a while since I’ve posted a video 
, but I’mm starting a new “project”, a kind of M2TW ‘Strategicon’.
I’ve always been interested in medieval history etc and i have just finished reading Maurice’s Strategicon - the handbook of Byzantine military strategy, which is a great book similar to that of Sun Zu - the Art of war, but was used more by generals (not just Byzantine generals) during the medieval times.
This kind of increased my interest in the Byzantines and it made me think about how much ive learned could be relavent to the gameplay of M2TW.
Anyways lookout for that coming your way but for now heres a Byzantine campaign heroic victory battle, where i try out some harrassment techniques ive been learning.
The enemy attacked me with a Spear + archer army however their spear units were Italian militia with +1 experience and where far more powerful than my slav mercenaries and Byzantine spear men (these guys melt away like butter when in prolonged melee). The enemy general was a unit of armoured sergents which are pretty damn good as far as spearmen go.
Ive been thinking of adding verbal commentary to my videos so i can talk about what i’m doing and why, which saves me writing alot… meh 
anyways enjoy…
June 18th, 2007 at 11:48 am
hehe wery nice. I dont use harrassment tactics, I use most of my heavy cavelry on one flank and the rest on the other flank, As an anti flankers.
June 18th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Well with byzantine army and turk I think harassment tactics are the best you can use, in fact early in the game you just have no choice to use them
June 18th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
And thats why i dont play them
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June 18th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
hehe, I see, I guess you prefer the heavy cavalry faction
June 18th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Yep nothing can beat the heavy cavelry (exsept spearmen (wich there is alot of (unfortunatly)))
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June 18th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Harrassement is actually really good, those stupid turks just keep firing at my army and when I run after them they run away
giving me much casualties and them none. Luckelly the AI is stupid engough to get trapped in a corner and then start fighting hand to hand combat, which they lose of course versus heavy cav 
June 18th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Yeah, Archer Cavalry is alway a pain to fight when you don’t have much archer around.
June 19th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Thats why we have light cavalry (and of corse archers), archers is a must in my army.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:36 am
yeah alway have a few archer in my armies in general… I just like to get personal i guess