A Beginners Guide to Medieval: Total War by frogbeastegg

Welcome to Total War!
This guide is intended to aid the new player adjust to the complex and, at first, bewildering world of the Total War games.

Description

This document is entirely the work of frogbeastegg unless otherwise indicated.
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It was improved by me with adding bokmarks, so exploring guide now is more easier.

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Original topic: A Beginners Guide to Medieval: Total War[forums.totalwar.org]

Link to The Complete Total War Unit Guide mentioned in this guide (second part of frogbeastegg guides)

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As bonus, here the Resourse Map for Medieval: Total War

Guide Chapters

1.Getting started

1.1 Useful resources
1.2 What to practise before starting a main game
1.3 Choosing your faction, difficulty, mode and era
-On era
-On difficulty
-On factions
-Faction and religion - which is easier for a beginner?
-On mode - Glorious achievement or conquest?

2.The campaign game

2.1 Your main aims
2.2 Buildings and the tech tree
2.3 Armies and units
-Army types
-Unit availability
-Should I save my cash by building lesser units?
-Should I build now or wait for better units?
-What does unit X do?
-Retraining Vs making new units
-What do my cavalry dismount into?
-What is valour?
-What is disciplined and elite?
-Why does morale matter when choosing troops?
2.4 Mercenaries
2.5 Finances and provinces
-Farming, mining and trade
-The payback factor
-Special province bonuses
-Rebellions and loyalty
-What about faction re-emergences?
2.6 Securing your borders
2.7 Diplomacy
2.8 The Pope
-Excommunication
-Getting recommunicated
-Avoiding getting excommunicated in the first place
-Wouldn't it be easier to get rid of the Pope?
-So I can't conquer the Pope entirely then?
-You can use the Pope to help you
-Getting on the Pope train...
2.9 Agents
-By province
-By type
2.10 War
-When should I attack?
-Where should I attack?
-Amphibious attacks
-Castle attacks
-So I've attacked, now what?
2.11 Events
-All those handy dates.
2.12 Crusades and Jihads
-How to have a successful crusade
-What do I do about other faction's crusades?
-Crusader knights

3. The battle map

3.1 Basic aims
-When attacking
-When defending
3.2 Unit types
-A quick rundown of what is what and a link to a source of more detailed information
-Morale
-What are those little flags visible on each unit?
-Charging
3.3 The landscape
-Height
-Trees
-Bridges
-Desert
3.4 Generals and kings
-Killing and preserving
3.5 When to fight and when to withdraw
-Running for it with grace Know when you cannot win and when you can win
3.6 Sieges
-Both defending and attacking strategies
3.7 Tactics and fighting styles
-Catholics
-Muslims
-Orthodox

4. Moving to intermediate

-Links to more advanced stuff

5. Appendix

5.1 Hotkeys
-Battle map
-Campaign map
5.2 Multiplayer
-basic do's and don'ts.
5.3 Modding the missile units
-Step by step guide to basic missile stat modding
5.4 Unit size chart
-How many men are in each unit type at each size setting
5.5 Cheat codes and command lines
-Cheats for medieval and Vikings
-Command lines for Vikings

6. Credits

Download Links

Links to download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3nMack8Pxe3V3pTaGJKREgxYUk/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0--Yk2D9tCva7PHZByUBaxEQ
Yandex Disk: https://yadi. sk/i/pUffhC6umAkeG (just remove spaces after yadi. to use link)

[Fessoid]

Links updated, no more account login needed to download the Guide.

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thx

[Fessoid]

@a sexy maori , second part as announced:
Link to The Complete Total War Unit Guide mentioned in this guide.

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cool cant wait

[Fessoid]

@a sexy maori, soon will meet a second part of frogbeastegg manual - Total War Unit Guide. Stay tuned!

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huge thanks man