BUT and this is a big but, always finish the fleet's movement by landing the army. The fleet will have a big movement bonus so it shouldn't take too long to get there. Put them in a strong fleet and get moving. Have another one or two spare family members in the army with him. Put your best general on the Crusade with some of your hardest troops but not a full stack army. If you're a Christian faction then Crusading early on in your game can be a great fundraiser, as long as you get there first.įor e.g., if you're Sicialian then get a Crusade declared on Jerusalem. If you look around the forums you can also find a couple chivalry abuse tactics to get insane growth rate governors. These basic rules apply to vanilla, and pretty much every big Medieval 2 mod (Stainless Steel, Third Age, Call of Warhammer) though I believe there are some sub-mods that drastically change economics. Generally, you can set and forget merchants if you want, or move them around to dominate other merchants to get the most profitable resource nodes. The longer they trade the more skilled they become, and can eventually pull in substantial money. Try and find the rarest resources and set them to trade on them. Obtain as many trade agreements as possible. The military provinces are also a good place to build inns in to recruit spies and assassins. Leave these provinces as castles and convert every other province to cities. Pick a few provinces and focus them on military buildings. Do try to build schools and churches when possible as this gets governors good traits, but don't prioritize this over econ buildings. Avoid brothels and Inns, except in regions where you want to recruit military units, as this gives governors bad traits. Good attributes generally lead to chivalry and chivalry gives bonuses to public order and population growth, which leads to more money.īuild farms, mines, roads, city halls, guilds, and trade buildings. Low taxes gets your governors good traits and attributes. Try to keep tax rates as low as possible but if you do have to raise them, don't raise them to the point where population growth becomes negative. Balance the tax levels against population growth and military upkeep needs. This drastically increases wealth and population growth of the region. 2) Counter intuitively, for long term economic power place taxes to low or very low right at the start.

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