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Kingdom of Asturias (Age of Charlemagne) Faction : In the northwest of Iberia, along the Cantabrian mountains, the Asturians stand tall. Although the Visigoths have been destroyed and their kingdom shattered, their spirit lives on.
Wait for the Ummayads to attack and win defensively using your mountainous terrain, and then attack when their levies are down. Truce break if you have to to secure even larger gains. Does your starting count have a claim on Asturias? If so, wrest control of the kingdom early on with assassination or a faction claim.
Regardless, I reckon everyone should give an Asturias campaign a go if they haven't already. That moment when you ambush a full 20 stack of Umayyads is just classic. Did I mention Tribesmen? They're like elite levy freemen. More expensive, 80 range, and expert charge defense.
Those were huge cities back then, but to give you an understanding of how big such populations were, i'll give you an example. Let's take Denmark which at the time of Charlemagne had a little over 400 000 people.
Several archaeological digs in the castro of La Carisa (municipality of Lena) have found remnants of a defensive line whose main purpose was to protect the valleys of central Asturias from invaders who came from the Meseta through the Pajares pass: the construction of these fortifications reveals a high degree of organization and cooperation ...
I know Asturias is an easy faction to start off with, but I'm just curious what people ended up doing the first few turns. Did you reclaim one of the razed cities, or are those best left for later when I have more money?
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In the northwest of Iberia, along the Cantabrian mountains, the Asturias stand tall. Although the Visigoths have been destroyed and their kingdom shattered, their spirit lives on. The Kingdom of Asturias began in the Roman province of Gallaecia, a melting pot of tribes during antiquity.
