By: Samantha White
Submitted: 2010-04-18 17:59:05 | Word Count: 537
In this section i am going to explain the tactics for all the nations in Britannia Total War, what should their strategy be, how should a leader of a particular faction should act, and so on. Let us start with England. Playing the Englishmen is extremely easy, given the fact that you do hold twenty one settlement at start of the game, you are the supreme power on the map. However, holding this much settlements make you neighbours to all other factions, therefore, keeping calm politics with Scotland and Kingdom of Norway could be useful. Scotland, having good use of pikes and spears, also possessing some big settlements, can be a tough enemy when you are already fighting with Wales and Irish at the same time, which is given to you at start of the game. Even that in history, England behaved this way, they did not attack Scotland before they conquered the territories of their other enemies. Your borders with Wales is in most critical position, as from there, they can Launch an attack to your most precious cities. So you must push on them and not let them build a large army. For that, use your forts on the borders. Dealing with the Irish is quite easy, just defend your settlements in Ireland, and when they sally forth to attack, launch a simultaneous attack on all of their settlements, and try conquering them in one year, and you have advantage of turns in that. Also be careful that after some time, your city, York starts a rebellion, rebellion of Barons that are interested in taking control of the country because they are not respected enough. This uprising is not so easy to deal with but if you already dealt with Wales, this should not be a problem, so keep your hands hurry about Wales.
As starting with one Wales, you have not much options but to defend yourself until you can find proper allies, or until somehow England makes mistake of making enemies that they might not want. Such as the rebellion of the Barons. You can send a diplomat to them directly and offer to cooperate, attacking England. Even they will not prove much use, they can at least lessen the pressure on your lands so you may build an army. From time to time, England may leave some of his border settlements empty, chose those times to strike, use your forts well and fight in a guerilla style with your archers. Irish is in quite same situation too. They are already invaded by Englishmen, and must defend what they currently have first. Then follow the exact same tactics with Wales, befriending other nations that are at war with Englishmen, and capturing their settlements.
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For Scotland, you should either try not to engage in war with kingdom of Norway, but in hard or very hard game options, the war with them is inevitable, so you must declare war upon them first, befriending the English meanwhile, and put an end to Norwegian existence in British islands. Then you can focus on your army and settlements once more. If you are done with Norway before England conquer Wales or Ireland, try befriending them before attacking England.
