The barbarian situation for the Kievans is a bit too much. Hundred years after start I have killed 17 horse archers. And they are hard to deal with, no effective counters and constant guarding workers. I think they can be delayed a bit.
I also started my first game with the Kievans because of the wonderdiscussion. The horse arches were many but I found them rather a challenging fun than enerving (played on Monarch!). What makes it alittle easier is the fact that the horse archers only were coming from the south-east (Crimea, Kuban; at least in my game) so I could mass my spearmen there! The Keshiks broke my neck in the 1280ies! Also because they came from everywhere. Arbalestiers aren´t really able to stop them even behind walls - that was the end for Smolensk! Guisarmiers only behind castles and then mostly only one of them! The AI also acts quite smart: the keshiks went around heavily defended cities and attacked the lesser guarded in my core and pillaged a lot on the way. Druzhinas are the only effective unit to encounter them offensively. That worked quite well in the beginning but around 1280 suddenly about 10 Keshiks attacked at once in the area of Zaporizhia where also the mass of my army (6-7 Guisarmiers, 2 wounded Druzhinas and my first knight) was based. Although fortified behind a castle the mongols took the city and destroyed most of my entire army at once! Good night in 1287!The barbarian situation for the Kievans is a bit too much. Hundred years after start I have killed 17 horse archers. And they are hard to deal with, no effective counters and constant guarding workers. I think they can be delayed a bit.
My first try with the Kievans, I didn't even manage the UHV. The trick is to build quickly many cities and workers. You get more food if you have several small cities than you get with a few big cities.
@absinthered: The food quest easy? Tell me your secret then, because I won 50 years before the limit, and I was HUGE (~18 cities, spawned from Crimea to Novgorod) using lots of workers and settling lots of cities.
I was just trying to make someone notice my problem.Would you please stop that "Aaahhh" thing! We got the message on the first post. It makes you look like a little child who has a shortage in attention.
I was just trying to make someone notice my problem.
Also, I was playing as Venice and I have conquered all of the Italian peninsula except for Rome.
I already tried to collapse The Pope by continuously letting him switch civics but he never seems to collapse,is there any way I can collapse them or declare war on them (without cheating)?
Can you please make it so that in the next version you can declare war on and conquer Rome (with consequences of course)?
I love this mod and I freak out if I can't play it.
Cool, what ideas?But we have some ideas to make it possible in RFCE 2.0.