Medieval II Total War Turkish Chronicles 01 Turn 1-5

Here we go for the New Year a new Chronicles! This time I choose the faction base on the big number of people asking for a Turkish Chronicles. Since many fans seem to have had a hard time with them, I hope you will be able to learn some trick from this new Chronicles showing the Turkish way of making war.
So enjoy the ride.



First let’s have a small view of the Turk situation. Turk are surrounded by rebel. That mean they are not at risk of getting siege in the early turn. So they must take the opportunity to expend on those rebels as fast as they can. In this first episode, I rush to conquer rebel territory before the real war against Byzantine and Egypt start. To expend you must first have money and mobility. You can achieve that by building road. They increase commerce and your army mobility. That's what I did.

The Turk also start with a very spread around territory and weak army. So you need to concentrate your strength toward achievable objective and use the early Turk strength instead of waiting for it to grow. The faster you expend, the stronger you will become. If you wait, you will give the advantage to your enemies.

The Turk might seem weak at first but that's because you need use archer cavalry and using hit and run tactic you can win very fast and with very little lose.

Historically the Turk didn't fight for valor and honor the same way as knight did, they fought to win battles first. In clear it means that there is no shame in running away in front of your enemies. That's what made Saladin's army so effective against Crusader. His archer cavalry had light armor and bow; they could attack and withdraw very fast. While heavy crusader cavalry were tired really fast.

Also the fact that Turk were using Female Horse allowed them to have a very good control over them since female horse was more docile. Crusader had male horse; I think you can figure out how controllable male horses were against an army of female horse... The biggest Turk weakness what the early division between them self. I guess Medieval 2 Total War represent that division by the many rebel town and fort around.

So expending is really the priority and by doing so you must compete with your future enemies, the Byzantine and Egypt, even if it means starting a war against them.

This quick expansion leading us to this first battle against Rebel.



One of the really effective ways to take a city early in the game is to wait until the enemies come out to break the siege. This situation allows you to have a serious advantage against the enemies since they can only come out of the city in a very dense column. So you need to surround them with cavalry and use your infantry to block the attacking column into a static formation.

With the Turk the main problem is that they don't have any reliable troop in melee so you need to use your missile troop to weaken the enemies until you become confident that if you charge the enemies they will run away. That's what I did in this battle but took me sometime since the enemy were more and had better troops