Broken Crescent Hotseat: Commanders of the Faithful

[phonicsmonkey]

yeah, my fault - I forgot he was away, and also lost his password

I could have used the console to reset it but I've been offline all weekend moving house

I've asked Zim to do it for me - hopefully he can do it today..

sorry all!

[Zim]

Having some trouble downloading the save from Mizus right now but I'll get the save done asap.

[phonicsmonkey]

apparently my house is now back online, so I can move this along when I get back this evening in about eight hours

If I don't see a further post from Zim by that time I'll sub Oman myself

[Zim]

Still can't download the save. I'm afraid you'll have to do it, phonics.

[Zim]

Rome is up.

http://www.mizus.com/files/pbm/BC-23-1.zip

[rossahh]

Georgia

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4057





Merlox: your requests were carried out. All pieces were moved into position.

[Merlox123]

I just got every thing back working, though, Since Rossahh completed of what I asked, I won't delay the game and do the turn over, Thanks mate.

[TheFlax]

Kingdom of Jerusalem is up

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4061

[rossahh]

phonics:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4064

[phonicsmonkey]

seljuks are up!

http://www.mizus.com/files/pbm/BC-23-05.zip

[barcamartin]

Seljuks done. GhaZims up! :)

http://www.megaupload.com/se/?d=P7N0NGJF

Sorry about upload, couldn't get the .org or mizus uploader to work. :S

[phonicsmonkey]

ok, the Ferrets are up

http://www.mizus.com/files/pbm/BC-23-07.zip

and pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease everyone remember to pm the next person in line, so we can avoid these needless delays...

[Ramses II CP]

I can do this for EF if he's still having time issues and do my turn immediately afterward. Both of our turns are going to be fairly boring really.

[phonicsmonkey]

Ramses, please go ahead and sub for EF. I've had no communication from him that he's having time troubles, but I did see Zim say so in the GCH2 thread, so here's hoping he doesn't mind...

[Ramses II CP]

I'm on it.

[Ramses II CP]

Ayyubids are up:

http://mizus.com/files/pbm/BC-23-09.zip

(FYI for EF I recruited him some logical mercenaries and started a port facility at Somnat so he can build new ships.)

[Banzai Kamikaze]

Will get to this this afternoon.

[Banzai Kamikaze]

The Shah's: http://www.mizus.com/files/pbm/BC-23-10.zip

[00jebus]

I'm not dead yet?

Zim your making my prediction's wrong on purpose!

translation: will do this in a few hours.


edit: here it is

http://www.mizus.com/files/pbm/BC-23-11.rar

whose subbing as Oman anyway?

[Zim]

The Shah's security bonus (as a faction leader) means I have a mighty 5% chance to get a spy in Samarqand. I won't be successfully assaulting the city on my turn, not for now at least.

If you beat that army sieging Samarqand I want screenshots. Maybe I could learn a thing or two.

[00jebus]

about an hour too late with that request.... breif summary though

night attack

all cav out east gate, archers on walls above
AI moved all light cav to intercept my light cav
my light pulled back, heavy cav charged and destroyed
from there, the biggest problem were those 3 family members you sent... but the AI withdrew before I could kill any... virtually all of your spearmen got away too since I was busy chasing your turkomans (they were alot closer)
prisoners were released, since I'm nice like that.

I should point out here that Khwarezm bodyguards are both missile and melee, and my faction leaders are 9 valour.
52 of em' can take down everything short of another generals unit 1vs1

[Ramses II CP]

Kwaz bodyguards are super heavy, some of the toughest in the game. In my KoJ game I just assaulted a Kwaz citadel held by a few broken companies (~150 men total) and 33 Kwaz bodyguards. I killed all his infantry in a gateway at a cost of about 5 of my men, and then AI bodyguards killed almost 600 men in that same gateway, including nearly a full company of silver bar KoJ Armoured Sarges who held them while I shot them full of arrows and threw mercenaries against them.

Yeah, some of those were self kills by my own archers, but not as many as you'd think. They're like the bodyguards in SS, only with high damage bows being fired off by the ones not slaughtering you in melee. Two companies of them in good hands will probably kill any stack you can build if you put it in the hands of the AI.

Plus the AI handles sallies as stupidly as can possibly be done. Send only horse archers on your next siege. They AI will still get them butchered, but it'll do slightly better since they at least try to avoid getting into a melee.

Alternately send enough archers to prevent your men from rushing forward (And this can be hard to judge since the AI is so incompetent) and fill all the rest with high morale spearmen. Again the AI will lose, but it should inflict more casualties than with a mixed stack.

[phonicsmonkey]

I'll sub for Oman, should get to it later today...

[deguerra]

i can do it phonics, just give me a few more hours

[phonicsmonkey]

cool! how was germany deguerra?

[deguerra]

here we are, sorry for the wait.

http://www.mizus.com/files/pbm/BC-24-01.rar

Germany was good fun, save for the weather, which could have been warmer. And don't ever fly with Lufthansa.

Also, I shall now be calling myself the "Imamate of Arabia". I won't respond to anything else :P

[phonicsmonkey]

huh, I'll have to add Lufthansa to my list of never-fly airlines...that's Garuda Indonesia, Qantas, Air Malaysia...

I'll just stick to Singapore Air, they have been great each time..

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Merlox asked me to post this save: http://www.mizus.com/files/pbm/BC-24-02.rar

[TheFlax]

Kingdom of Jerusalem is up.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4074

[rossahh]

Nothing new to report.

'da monkey:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4075


Who would dare fly Garuda nowdays?