You have a few ways to approach the start. Spain poses the bigger threat of the two by a good margin. Spain starts directly north of your capital with 2 settlements, Portugal also starts with 2 settlements but theyвЂ™re separated. Valencia is held by a relatively stronger stack led by El Cid. Right off the start, it is held by a smallish stack of African soldiers and a unit of Taureg camels. The town is right next to the slave resource. If youвЂ™ve never been there before it might be hard to find on the map, but if you look at the very bottom of the map you should see a river, and there you should see a slave resource. With 5 highly profitable resources: (2 gold, 2 ivory, 1 slave). It is a huge advantage to hold it as it is by far the best single trade resource province in the game. The Saharan settlement of Timbuktu should be you first major target. But the distance between Algiers and Tunis should keep them from attacking you anytime soon.

Avoid Tunis at the start as Sicily will almost certainly head over there right off the start and a two front war is never a good idea in the very beginning. Valencia is on the eastern coast of Iberia, Tunis is straight east of Algiers and Timbuktu is in the middle of the Sahara desert. Algiers and Granada start out as wooden castles whilst Cordoba is a minor city and Marrakesh a large town.ДЈ rebel settlements are next to your starting position and ripe for the taking. Your position is very secure, of your 4 starting settlements only your capital Cordoba is under any sort of risk any time soon. Opening movesДЄs the Moors, you start out with 4 settlements as one of the bigger factions in the game. United for the first time in over half a century, they are a mighty empire stretching from western Africa to southern Iberia. Also, recent Norman invasion resulted in the destruction of the Muslim political presence in Sicily.ДЄll is not lost though, at long last the Moorish people have regained some semblance of unity under the Almoravid dynasty and victory against the Spanish Catholic coalitions has brought renewed hope for the Muslim people. Already, various Moorish nobles have lost a significant chunk of northern Iberia to the small Catholic Kingdoms of Leon, Castillo, Portugal and Aragon. But infighting and the resurging Catholic presence is starting to threaten the existence of all Muslims living in Europe.

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