"If these desert cavalry can fight throught desert then i will fight through my illness " Lugotorix . Oct 30 , 2018

Something good to know about the mongols, is that they have 3 starting positions where they can show up, and depending on which one they appear they have one specific city focus. If start around Bhagdad, their focus will be Jerusalem, if they start is around Tiblisi, their focus will be Antioch, and if they start around Bolgar, their focus will be Kiev. I believe it works the same with the Timurids, but it is a nice thing to have in mind if you want to be prepared for them, tho it gets you a bit out of the inmertion the game gives you.

Every unit with spear have a +4 vs cavalry but if the unit have "bonus vs cavalry" is a +8 atack vs cavalry.

One thing to take note is that the mamluk archers r AP in melee which means that they can go toe to toe with heavily amoured knights even in melee

I'm playing an Egypt VH/VH campaign right now and basically every faction on the map declared war on me, except the Moors. The Sicilians have Tripoli but stopped attacking after the crusade on Cairo failed. After 140 turns I've destroyed the Turks, Byzantines, and Mongols. I learned that you can block and confuse the AI by placing roads along roads and chokepoints. The AI often doesn't attack the forts or they will abandon the fort after taking it; then you can just sneak a unit in and restart the process. I found the best strategy to be focusing on using missile units to deal most of my damage and using infantry as defenders for the missile units. This works well against both horse archer factions and heavy infantry factions. My territory basically looks like some version of the Ottoman Empire. I decided to do as much as I could with low-tech units but now that the Timurids are here I really need armies fully composed of high-tier units to stand up to the second horde. Beating the Mongols was definitely a challenge but once I blocked their path with forts I was able to wear them down with expendable and replaceable units, again focusing on using foot archers to soak up enemy arrows and deal damage. Generally foot archers beat horse archers on a florin-to-florin basis (it's a cost-effective trade). When the plague happened I decided to just attack as much as possible so that my troops would die in battle instead of from disease.

I ingnored the Fatimids/Ayuubids for a long time, but their heavy cavalry is deadly even in the late game. Naffatuns, javelinmen and Hashashims make them one of the strongest siege factions to defend or attack also

Thank god they got rid of them chariot generals. Watching your Egypt campaign, trying to control them frustrates me beyond belief. Happy Halloween. Great video!

7 minutes in, and I'm hooked :) I love how you break every element down!! Keep up the great work 'n content!! Cheers!!

Strengths: cavalry Weaknesses: cavalry

Like this video series. While I haven't played an Egypt campaign, I have played a Turks Campaign, and I would like to add some feedback: Don't forget that Islamic Factions can call a Jihad with an Imam (ie: Islam Priest) that has 4 level piety. And they start of with an Imam with 4 Piety, so you can declare a Jihad-preferably at Jerusalem-on the first turn, besiege Jerusalem with the free upkeep soldiers, and once Jerusalem is conquered, move on to the rest of the settlements. Since most of the settlements in the Middle East are predominantly Islam, keeping public order is much easier and the settlements can grow faster as I don't need to sack them to maintain the public order. For other settlements, I would also recommend capturing Dongola, upgrading it to a Castle, then converting it into a Large Town. That way, I can build a Grain Exchange/Market and hire merchants from there to get some extra money out of the 4 trade resources. Another thing to watch out for is Crusades. Most of the time, Jerusalem will be the first Crusade target declared, so if you are not careful, you may end up in war with the rest of the known world.

Great video!

From my experience, if you not war with Byzantine early and not get declare Crusade too soon, you have a chance to build navy and block the crossing path at Constantinople. It will cause them weather stuck there or going long road a Russian steeps. Unlike other Europe faction, i always found out Sicilly and maybe some AI faction naval aggresive will try naval invade at Alexandria. So spare huge navy and watch tower at that place.

Nailed it , tabah dah ree uh

Nice Video! Egypt is a really good faction in my opinion. Who needs good infantry if you have such amazing cavalry? I need infantry only to hold the line, while my archers and cavalry do the job, and that's what this faction is good at. And these mamluks have all armour piercing maces as well, even the mamluk archers, which is really good... gotta love those mamluks. You didn't sound that ill I think, hope you get better soon. Happy Halloween!

Whats the best early game and late game army compassion for Egypt

Maybe you could go through all the characters a faction has in the beginning? I think it would make these even more in-depth. Nevertheless, good stuff!

I use Saracen militia as my mainline infantry, turkoman merc for missiles, and Mamluk archers for missile too. Everything else can be minimal/mercs. Ordinary infantry and infantry archers are poor

I've always been disappointed by the fact that the Eastern factions don't have a fleshed out roster compared to European factions. Also, this game is much better in historical accuracy than RTW but I wish they could've differentiated the different sects of Islam in the game, just like the Christian factions. The Egyptians (really should be called the Fatimid Caliphate at the start of the campaign) were Shia compared to the Moors and Turks who were Sunni. Could've added another dimension to the game.

I love that you pronounce pronunciation wrong, very on brand.

On the void to the left there is the Aztecs 😄

Do a Portugal or spain Faction Guide.Happy Halloween

Here’s my question: How in the world is this faction supposed to stop the Mongols? I’m playing as them right now and my troops practically melt when fighting Mongols. I’m taking, at best, two to one losses in every battle.

Maybe you shouldn't capture Jerusalem and Antioch early on to avoid crusades. Just capture everything around them, and when you get the Mamluks and fortresses take them on.

Trabardaryya on of the best in the game

Do the Dane one

What about poland?

for future videos you should stop apologizing so often for your inability to pronounce foreign words correctly. it breaks up the pace of the video and on top of that, nobody actually cares. just go with whatever feels right, it's fine. it's not like we click on total war videos to find out the correct pronunciation of 'arquebusier' or whatever.