Any tips for playing the Danes?

[river]

Just bought the game. I cant even take a single province with the Danes and my capital gets taken right after I fight a battle or two.

[Mad_House]

mastro_akq původně napsal:

Just bought the game. I cant even take a single province with the Danes and my capital gets taken right after I fight a battle or two.

Have you tried being a peaceful little boy for your first few years, building up your army, economy, and trade while making allies of the people around you (whom are too inconvenient to conquer)?

Or if you want to kill everything that moves around you, then you know, cheat.

[river]

Surlaw původně napsal:

mastro_akq původně napsal:

Just bought the game. I cant even take a single province with the Danes and my capital gets taken right after I fight a battle or two.

Have you tried being a peaceful little boy for your first few years, building up your army, economy, and trade while making allies of the people around you (whom are too inconvenient to conquer)?

Or if you want to kill everything that moves around you, then you know, cheat.

Nah, haven't tried the peaceful avenue yet. Looks like that may be the only option. I dont want trade agreements with factions I am going to take over asap though.

[Boehmann]

I have also started with the Danes, and I think I had to restart the campaign for about 4 or 5 times before I understood how to survive in the beginning.
I started, as I always do in TW games, with building up my economy and bulidings and trying to make a few alliances and trade partners. That didn´t work well...
So I tried building a single large army, and suddently everybody wanted to make peace and become trade partners etc... from there I could start building my new empire.

Try and see if that works for you - hope it helps :)

Edit: I did not make any agreements with the other Scandinavian factions as I wanted to take them over asap...

[Florizel]

I'm also determined to play as the Danes, but the start is very frustrating. The moment you set foot outside the city, either the Geats or the Varinians attack you, and if you manage to repel one of them, the other immediately steps in to finish the job.

I had this idea, though... You know how everyone says how the Geats are easy to play, with their remote starting location? Well, why not get the Danes to take that location from them? Take that place at all costs and go from there. So, in the first few turns, appoint another general and recruit, recruit, recruit. Don't build anything yet, because your starting city might be lost soon any way. Get an army together and throw everything at the Geats, taking them out early in the game.

In my game, the Geats eventually poked their noses into Danish territory, and the moment I saw them, I ordered the navy to blockade their capital, then force-sailed the land armies close by to make them available as reinforcements and attacked the poorly defended city. At this point, Hafn is most likely lost, but I got a much better location in return. When the Danes rebuild and march back south, the Geats will be sorry they ever picked a fight with us. :)

[Tomato Johnson]

How do you get to play as the Danes? Its not an option for me :(

[Fanest]

Bernie původně napsal:

How do you get to play as the Danes? Its not an option for me :(

its DLC faction
http://store.steampowered.com/app/335020/
its roster is very weak, DLC itself is the worst CA made for Attila

[Prince Crimson]

Fanest původně napsal:

Bernie původně napsal:

How do you get to play as the Danes? Its not an option for me :(

its DLC faction
http://store.steampowered.com/app/335020/
its roster is very weak, DLC itself is the worst CA made for Attila

Pretty good units but few, just add mods..

[Chaoslink]

I suggest restarting but when you go to click Danes, switch Jutes, then start. Either way, try keeping peace and friends with the factions near you and send an army to Brittania. Invade there and do the key thing to win ALL factions, Wage war on the Romans. Everyone will like you when you do that. Just kill rome.

[Coldsmoke]

You are attacking your fellow nords too soon. They will move their armies away when they go raid other factions and it's at that point you rush their capitals.