
World Map plays very similarly to the Civilization series in that you manage construction for your various cities and try to keep the public happy while you move your armies around. You have two basic modes in Total War games – the World Map and the Battle Map. Warning: the above items might be invalidated by the Kingdoms expansion pack, take them with a grain of salt! I’ll even go there with my British faction no matter what. Recruit anything you can on the way, invade the city and voila! You have a full stack of experienced troops, Holy Warrior stat on your commanders, Chivalrous Knight retuine for everyone participates, over 4000 cash from successful jihad plus the gains from city.Īround somewhere in Eastern Anatolia you can recruit Elephants and War Elephants as mercenaries. Call for a Jihad against a neutralpoorly defended city you are about to invade(Smyrna for instance)at the first turn and have all your commanders stack in same army before joining the Jihad. If you are playing with Turks(or any faction that can call Jihads) you have a 5 piety imam from the start. Since they can’t practically invade you rack up experience and cash.

Increase the fun by landing on far to reach areas like Spain or England and raze every city. Walk around with couple of spies(they can match your army speed) to open the city gates or just hire some basic infantry to siege. Chase them around with your fast horse archers and let none survive. Charge in with your cavalry and bodyguards, the enemy will break. On the combat screen just kite enemy army until a-)enemy troops start to break from massive losses b-)ran out of arrows. Having a full cavalry army allows you to jet around the world map and pick the place you want to fight or just avoid anything you can’t handle with your superior speed. If you are playing with a faction that can recruit horse archer units (Turks, Egypt to some extent Hungary) make an almost full stack of horse archers with one or two generals.

If you have any tips feel free to share with us! Things to Know Before Playing Before you play the Medieval II: Total War game, you will definitely want to know these simple but useful tips and tricks.
