Kraxis
12-12-2002, 21:03
The date is 1193, I'm Turk, my frontier to the north is basically against the Byzantines. I have just taken Bulgaria from them and I am planning my new offensive to link up with my Elite armies in Kiev. Suddenly I get a Loyalist uprising in Pereyaslavl, two stacks of a well balanced Byzantine army. GAH I had just taken his last Guard productionfacility and now I face 4 more of them.
At the same time another Loyalist rebellion pops up in Volga-Bulgaria, two stacks of Fanatics, Peasants and Archers.
Seeing I can't possibly stop the Elite armies in Pereyaslavl I pull out to Chernigov. Unfortunately for me, the Byzantine Emperor attacks down from Lithuania, while the Loyalist army in Volga-Bulgaria makes an attack on Khazar (where my Sultan and prime prince are positioned to make an attack themselves).
I suffer chrushing defeats in both Chernigov and Khazar (both prince and Sultan died, not too bad as they were both horrible). The AI pauses to consolidate its forces. I'm in dire straits, my most experienced general and my best troops are cut off in Kiev with superior troops surrounding him. I can't attack Khazar just yet as my troops are vastly outnumbered and I can't attack out from Bulgaria as the Byzantine forces in Greece and Croatia are looking for such and opportunity to take back Constantinople (I would have to pull out troops from there to attack). So both my arms are fixed...
Next year the Byzantines attacks me in Kiev... Ahh a bridge battle... Ohh Varangians and Byzantine Infantry in vast numbers...
But worst of all is the Catapults they have brought with them. After the first few assaults across the main bridge a stone slams down into my desert archers and bounce right onto my general GAH
Even a masterful flankingmaneuver from two Armenian Heavies (used the other bridge) into the Byzantine rear, could not reverse the advances the Varangians were making on my side. It became a horrible defeat...
Another defeat in Chernigov followed as the Byzantines returned after leaving the siege.
So there we have it. The AI took out my posibilities to reinforce or pull out my main army before attacking the army itself. I could only look on my once mighty armies crumbled under the Byzantine onslaught...
But as I write this I'm planning a terrible offensive into Khazar again. My vengeance will be swift
Damn I love when such Loyalist rebellions pop up... they have really changed the game. I have no longer the most powerful armies (that has gone to the Byz haha), and the game is no longer a walkover, and soon the Golden Horde will hit my rear... it looks very promising indeed. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif
At the same time another Loyalist rebellion pops up in Volga-Bulgaria, two stacks of Fanatics, Peasants and Archers.
Seeing I can't possibly stop the Elite armies in Pereyaslavl I pull out to Chernigov. Unfortunately for me, the Byzantine Emperor attacks down from Lithuania, while the Loyalist army in Volga-Bulgaria makes an attack on Khazar (where my Sultan and prime prince are positioned to make an attack themselves).
I suffer chrushing defeats in both Chernigov and Khazar (both prince and Sultan died, not too bad as they were both horrible). The AI pauses to consolidate its forces. I'm in dire straits, my most experienced general and my best troops are cut off in Kiev with superior troops surrounding him. I can't attack Khazar just yet as my troops are vastly outnumbered and I can't attack out from Bulgaria as the Byzantine forces in Greece and Croatia are looking for such and opportunity to take back Constantinople (I would have to pull out troops from there to attack). So both my arms are fixed...
Next year the Byzantines attacks me in Kiev... Ahh a bridge battle... Ohh Varangians and Byzantine Infantry in vast numbers...
But worst of all is the Catapults they have brought with them. After the first few assaults across the main bridge a stone slams down into my desert archers and bounce right onto my general GAH
Even a masterful flankingmaneuver from two Armenian Heavies (used the other bridge) into the Byzantine rear, could not reverse the advances the Varangians were making on my side. It became a horrible defeat...
Another defeat in Chernigov followed as the Byzantines returned after leaving the siege.
So there we have it. The AI took out my posibilities to reinforce or pull out my main army before attacking the army itself. I could only look on my once mighty armies crumbled under the Byzantine onslaught...
But as I write this I'm planning a terrible offensive into Khazar again. My vengeance will be swift
Damn I love when such Loyalist rebellions pop up... they have really changed the game. I have no longer the most powerful armies (that has gone to the Byz haha), and the game is no longer a walkover, and soon the Golden Horde will hit my rear... it looks very promising indeed. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif