Playtesting the Hungarians at Viceroy level, at st.lucifer's updated map. Oddly, I refer to my civ in 3th singular, and more usually 3rd plural.
The Magyar prople started found Debrecen, Kolozsvar and Pest. For maintainance reasons,the king, Stephen I, decided to build cities very close to each other.The policy had results, as the previously nomadic people of Magyars expanded quickly (Marosvasahely, Nyiregyhaza, Kassa, Kaposvar), but Byzantines got to Belgrad first (bet that the Hungarians will capture it when declares independence
). Built libraries and some military and patiently waited, keeping the research rate at 80%. And when the wanted civilization spawned, war was declared in less than 30 years time...
The only ACTUAL problem with that was that the careless merchant class who had taken a part of the leadership in the Merchant Republic (Hungarians were running for something less than a century) didn't realize how well their enemies have used their UP and by the time the stack was awaiting orders(1 lancer and 1 light infantry
)and DoWed, Germans , Polish, Franks and Norse joined them in the war against the people of Kassa and Kolozsvar...
Strangely enough, the first stack failed, and what worse a counterattack with a similar stack (2 mercenary berserkers). What did the Magyars did next? Built a Crossbow and hired another one (Drill 4
), won easily the battle of Tatra Mountains against the stack, moved quickly, captured that damned city, Neutra, and signed peace (yes-peacemonger to death
). But what about their allies?
At the same time music with trumphets was heard at Linz, celebrating that the war the Hungarians had started against them, the proud people of the West Danube, has ended, leaving the burden of fighting the "Barbarian" heathens to their faithful allies, all their allies didn't send a unit to their territory. The question arises: Did they mind about the war at all, or they were preparing for invading the Hungarian territory with such an army that would make everyone, from a serf working at the barley farm outside Pest to the king itself, shiver from horror???
BUGS AND ODDS:
1) The well-known of the type Bulgaria has become a vassal of Bulgaria
2) Is St Peter's Basilica a national wonder or what?? I have been given ten times the message ''St Peter's Basilica has been built in a faraway land"
3) Arabia has a score of 3800 while Byzantines 1300. It seems strange that these empires differ 2500 points...
OBSERVATIONS:
1) France has always more cities than Burgundy. Burgundy has always more tech than France
2)The Bulgarians should expand at Macedonia instead of Moldova and Kherson. They keep being a kind of super-power.
3) Norse prefer expanding in Scandinavia, rather than Denmark mainland... maybe start them at Tonsberg?
4) Nice expansion game by both Russians as well as Polish.
5) First UHV seems luck-dependent, since you don't know is that territory powerhouse Arabia will collapse...
