Video Charge Tutorial Part 5: Knights vs Aventurios

Part 3 of a video tutorial on getting the best out of the formed charge in Medieval 2: Total War.

In this part, the knights charge Aventurios and get absolutely wiped out. This is why you should not charge pikemen head on.

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• Teutonic
• Order
• Portugal

[lxgiwylgta]

i thought those were pikemen, and isnt aventurios a french unit?

[TotalWarHeaven]

They are from Portugal actually. Very good pikemen.

[WoW4evr]

What should I do about Moors. Should I just eliminate Moors from Europe or take em out completely? Attack them or request crusade?

For Spain, what should I do, never played long enough to do anything with them.

[TotalWarHeaven]

A successful crusade gives you loads of free experience for every unit involved, gets you cheap, powerful mercenaries and gives any involved general loads of great traits. It's even worth getting a load of minor armies joining in with the crusade just before you take the target settlement even if they have no chance of getting to the target - they will still get the bonus.

[TotalWarHeaven]

Your best bet for taking on the Moors is fight them off the map. Crusades help if you can get them, but keep going. Also, make sure you get Priests working in the Moors' lands because converting the populace to your religion gives your priests loads of great traits and makes them more likely to become Pope. Get one of your Priests elected as Pope (or on good relations with the Pope) and you'll be far more likely to get on his good side. Forming a military alliance with him also helps.

[GroficaOdMetropole]

@mjohanss you forgot the russians:tsar guard:best heavy cavalry in the game

dismounted dvor/dvor cavalry:one of the best missile units in the game,heavy armor,great damage.the also have shields and axes,which makes them the best missile troops when fighting in meele.they can easily take out meele infantry,becouse they weaken him while shooting,enough to take em out with their axes and shields.but i still think the turks are second,or maybe first,but then russians are the second.

[mjohanss1975]

@ldocas The turks, no question. Heaviest cavalry, heaviest horse archers, naffatuns, great musketeers, the very best archers in the game and some very, very good infantry. Best part is, the best archers in the game, some of that good infantry and the musketeers are all produced in cities, not castles.

[Nelsonwmj]

@elephantzel Well from the looks of it... yeah. He should have turned their flank first and then rolled in from the sides.

[ldocas]

which the best faction to play?

[WoW4evr]

Oh rofl, by what about spain I meant to kill them not to play as them ;p

[TotalWarHeaven]

This lets me have an economic centre of gravity with max economic upgrades where most of my income comes from as well as a load of castles pointing towards France, Denmark, The Holy Roman Empire and Spain (if I can get to Bordeaux before the French, which is unlikely but sometimes happens).

England is an easier faction to do this with than Spain or Portugal though, but the principle holds.