Broken Crescent Hotseat: Commanders of the Faithful

[deguerra]

Tristan is back? As the Ghorrids? Near me?!?!

AHHHHHHH! RUN! EVERYBODY RUN!

Man the walls! Bar the gates!! Arm the masses! Ready the fleets!!

[Zim]

Hey everyone. Phonics is having some computer trouble at the moment and asked me to step in as gm for a couple days.

First, I'd like to welcome Tristan to the game.

Second, it's been about two days since the Shah's turn came up. I'm going to pm 00jebus in case he missed that he was up.

[Merlox123]

Tristan, wasn't he the ERE player?

[Zim]

He played Armenia.

[barcamartin]

I will be out of town for a week, until the 29th. If my turn comes up, which I doubt, I would prefer if you guys could wait a day or two, but otherwise feel free to sub. Merry Christmas fellas!

[Zim]

Ok, my pms haven't been read but 00jebus has been online. He may have decided to quit the game...

If he hasn't picked up the save tomorrow I'll go ahead and push things through.

[phonicsmonkey]

Time to skip the turn Zim, if you will...

Sorry all, my motherboard has karked it () and I'll be handing over the reigns to Zim for a while until I have the problem resolved. I'm currently top bidder on ebay for a replacement, so hopefully it won't be too long..

While I have my laptop and can follow the forums, M2TW is not currently installed. When my turn comes up I'll install and play it on there if necessary..

[Merlox123]

Phonics, i'm tired of being at war, can't we havea 10 turn cease fire? -_-; This is getting weird..

[phonicsmonkey]

Merlox, I think you are doing a great job with the Romans, you have been much tougher an opponent than I expected.

I would be happy to have peace with you if you were to a) become my vassal, b) hand over the rest of anatolia to me and my allies and c) pay me tribute of 3k per turn..

merry xmas!

[Zim]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4239

[Merlox123]

I would be happy to give you the Turkish Claims of Asia minor, but most of the cities I have that are mostly orthodox have huge amounts of time, and you'd be simply losing more money by garrisoning them, and rebuilding, than just trading with the settlements. I am only disagreeing with you because the Logical side makes No sense.

Also I need to have some way to like, fight the war in Russia like your first plan, So... I say we work together on a 2 sided cease fire / alliance deal with you guys. Or else this will be a very long, VERY long, war. Let's face it, You have bigger fish to fry than keeping a war against the ERE, Even at my capital of Constantinople, I was holding jerusalem and it was only making like.. 300? and it's a city man. you could easily get 2x in a town right by yourself. I just don't see the reason why you are trying to grab lands when they will only hinder your thing, And ofcourse your ignored my first cease fire, which was that I just simply pay you a fee, (Which would be the most profitable way.) but now that you keep on declining, you've lost your crown prince, Ayyubids lost their best generals. The Seljuks will get a nasty sting if they keep on progressing. At what cost of me though? I've lost a crappy army with my bad faction leader. the random prince that i didn't even know about. and a crappy town? The worth of this war isn't even worth it. I saw that when i first came on, and thats why I tried to ally with you all.

[phonicsmonkey]

ok, let's talk about this in private, I just sent you a pm.

by the way, I'm assuming that by 'my first cease fire, which was that I just simply pay you a fee' you mean that you made an in-game diplomatic offer.

I don't remember receiving that - there's a bug in these hotseats where you can't be sure that diplomacy will pop up for the other player. It's usually best to agree everything by pm before using the in-game diplomacy to formalise it.

[deguerra]

will do this tonight

[deguerra]

sorry guys, things are quite busy at the moment. i was hoping to do it last night, but that failed and today will be spent setting things up for christmas tonight (as germans, we celebrate on the evening of the 24th). i may be able to find the time, but if not, can i request an extension?

[phonicsmonkey]

deguerra, have a great xmas and don't worry about it - play the turn when you have a chance.

We're all going to have the same issues over the next week or so, and we've all proved over the last nine months or so that we're committed to the game, so I'm relaxed about turn deadlines over the holiday period.

Just as long as we pick it up again when things get back to normal!

[Merlox123]

I am thinking of starting the BC3 game back up, but at the TW center due to the fact that theres not many players here. I need 16 total. The game has been re-worked on MAJORLY. I put many hours and had many people tell me how i could re-balance the game. Some of the things I did was I removed most spiked groups, and distributed the armies evenly amung all cities. Every nation will start with 10,000. All Brothels / Balista ranges have been destroyed, The Sindh nation has been boosted greatly, due to their dire situation, I have made one of their more inner cities Capital, and upgraded that large town into a small city now! The Small 1 faction Indian border is now heavily fortified against the ghorids. Ghorids are now less intensified against the indian border, distributed around evenly. The Omani's navies are not spread out through every port, and not gathered into massive navies. Over all, Borders Massivly less intensified. The game starts at turn 25!

[deguerra]

hey guys.

very sorry but im having some computer and internet issues atm.

feel free to sub for me/skip me.

sorry again

[phonicsmonkey]

w00t! I fixed my computer! 2nd hand ebay motherboard ftw!

I also subbed for Oman - ERE is up.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4262

Merlox, you may want to change the name of your faction if you're not actually going to be somebody's Protectorate...it's up to you of course.

[Merlox123]

I'll be free in a short bit. sorry,

[Merlox123]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/LDM/P...1-BC-29-02.rar

Georgia

[TheFlax]

Kingdom of Jerusalem

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4273

Oh and Merlox, could you please send me a PM when its my turn? (I'm getting tired of asking.)

[rossahh]

Downloaded the save. May take a couple of hours. 7 settlements are under siege, and 1 fort. Plus I have Gaza and Antioch to assault.

[rossahh]

Nothing too major. Broke all the seiges (hardly surprising) and took Gaza due to a mistake by whoever took the last Ayyubid turn.


Elephant battle was easier than expected. The AI attacked the walls after I deployed in the cul-de-sac at the front of the castle. Missle units traded shots, though sporadic damage to all my units due to overshots/misses. Heavy damage to my 2 crossbows, and half the unit lost for most of the Rajput cavalry. Massed cavalry charge to one flank caused a rout and the AI withdrew. The survivors (a fair few, I didn't chase to the routers to reduce my own casulties) were sent north beyond Aleppo.




https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4284

[phonicsmonkey]

EDITsorry guys, I'm going away for a few days and won't get to play this until Monday

I hope you don't mind waiting...

Stole a few minutes before leaving to play the turn!

Seljuks are up

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4289

[barcamartin]

Turn done, Ghazni up.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4294

[Zim]

Ghorids are up.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4300

[_Tristan_]

Please bear with me one or two days... Time for me to get a grasp of the situation and get acquainted with Ghorid might...

[rossahh]

You mean the might of the Ferret Sultanate of course.

[phonicsmonkey]

hi all,

Banzai is not returning, so we need to decide what to do with the Ayyubids. It's not fair on TheFlax to expect him to keep subbing, and not fair on the rest of the players to have a faction which is passed around a group of subs.

I would prefer a human player replacement, but I have exhausted my (small) list of contacts - does anyone know someone who wants to take over?

If we can't find someone by the time their next turn is up I'll switch the faction to AI control.

Likewise, I'm waiting for a pm from 00jebus to find out when he is coming back - I last heard from him on the 8th Jan, but he wasn't clear. If he hasn't replied by the time the next Shah turn is up, I'll switch the faction to AI control.

[_Tristan_]

Rajputs' turn