Talk:Honfoglalás/@comment-30400942-20170714185005

I had already defeated the level, but for fun, played it again and I defeated the Pechenegs in Stage III by building a supporting network of castles at every river crossing into my territory with palisade walls blocking the crossings themselves. Behind those castles another row of castles, and a few in rear areas defending my town centers. I had a strong mobile force of knights and Magyar huszars ready to attack siege weapons. I was able to build such a strong defense by not defeating the Bulgars. I build a castle and just defended myself from them. That gives you infinite time to build the big defense against the Pechenegs. It took me two tries because the first time, I didn't build enough castles. You have to build layers of castles, stock them with archers, and protect them from siege with a large group of cav units. When you're ready, defeat the Bulgars to trigger the Pecheneg attack. They broke through my front line and destroyed several of my castles, but eventually the attack petered out and I was able to attack them. When they resigned, the game went on to the next phase - take a gift horse to the Moravians, and so forth. Note:  if you do it this way, the Moravians are harder to beat because they'll gather resources the whole time you are building your defense against the Pechenegs and taking them out.