More troops, less expansion quickly? Pick enemies and trade with neighbors, usually excess war declarations are you messing up with either diplomacy or trade
@@LordForwind i have the same issue OP does, the moment i finish conquering the starting enemy faction both southern factions insta declare war and swamp me with 4-6 armies
@@lazerfruit2121 huh, weird. I did three runs with the guy and never had that. Okay try to ambush near you cities, trade gold to get more food to support a second army and use garrison buildings if you can get them up in time.
@@lazerfruit2121 Ai's dont usually pay upkeep on their armies in TW games or else they have massively reduced upkeep. Basically they cheat, its especially annoying in this game. Also the Sea people and invader get completely free upkeep and free armies.
Don't worry about food early on with this guy you can trade 50 gold for 1k food a turn with a trade agreement at any time, in my playthrough Seti's wife loved to trade me a lot of food for 50 gold and given you make a lot of gold its an easy trade, that will sustain your early game food needs and once you conquer Napata it has 4 food settlements so its easy to stack food in that region to improve your food early on. It's quite sustainable from turn one to build 4-5 longbow units into your early game army and trade gold for clay just to meet the upkeep needs without losing all of your clay reserves. The longbow range means they can shred entire units before they even get to your army provided they don't have shields. Then focus on getting units to hold the front lines as well as units that can smash their way through shields to counter your one true weakness. If the enemy has a lot of chariots a few pikemen will take care of them and protect your bowmen. Fight defensively and use your range advantage from the bowmen to force the enemy to run to you which also saves you vigour and wears your enemy out faster
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Nice guide! For the Royal decrees I like to max out Archers XP and buffs ASAP, as Amenmess has the best out of all factions.
yeah archer buffs are great, I find I need resources first but then for sure thats a great focus for him
TY! Have you tried Troy yet? they are only ones who are close now!
Awesome video! Very helpful!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you brother for this!! How do you deal with Administration upkeep?
You really don't, you just have to build up your lands, assume each full province is 1 level of upkeep.
Everytime I try this guy, I get swamped by war declarations around 6-10 turns in the game. No idea what I am doing wrong..
More troops, less expansion quickly? Pick enemies and trade with neighbors, usually excess war declarations are you messing up with either diplomacy or trade
@@LordForwind i have the same issue OP does, the moment i finish conquering the starting enemy faction both southern factions insta declare war and swamp me with 4-6 armies
@@lazerfruit2121 huh, weird. I did three runs with the guy and never had that.
Okay try to ambush near you cities, trade gold to get more food to support a second army and use garrison buildings if you can get them up in time.
@@LordForwind also, im not sure if you have an answer to this but whats with every faction having 2-3 10-15 unit armies 10 turns in the game
@@lazerfruit2121 Ai's dont usually pay upkeep on their armies in TW games or else they have massively reduced upkeep. Basically they cheat, its especially annoying in this game. Also the Sea people and invader get completely free upkeep and free armies.
Don't worry about food early on with this guy you can trade 50 gold for 1k food a turn with a trade agreement at any time, in my playthrough Seti's wife loved to trade me a lot of food for 50 gold and given you make a lot of gold its an easy trade, that will sustain your early game food needs and once you conquer Napata it has 4 food settlements so its easy to stack food in that region to improve your food early on.
It's quite sustainable from turn one to build 4-5 longbow units into your early game army and trade gold for clay just to meet the upkeep needs without losing all of your clay reserves. The longbow range means they can shred entire units before they even get to your army provided they don't have shields. Then focus on getting units to hold the front lines as well as units that can smash their way through shields to counter your one true weakness. If the enemy has a lot of chariots a few pikemen will take care of them and protect your bowmen. Fight defensively and use your range advantage from the bowmen to force the enemy to run to you which also saves you vigour and wears your enemy out faster
Exactly the way to play him aggressively, most people hate having deficit!
what is very nice about having too much gold, is that u can instabuild structures. so u dont have to wait 3 turns, and lack workforce....
yeah that is a nice benefit but otherwise bribery is the best use