Winterhawk
10-05-2002, 04:23
I'm busy playing my first, serious campaign, and doing so as Egypt. My first task was to knock off the Turks. I'm now driving the Byzantine's back and have been trading Constantinople back and forth for the last couple of years.
Then, out of nowhere, almost 2 full armies of Turks pop up in Armenia (a province deep inside my territory and one I've controlled for quite sometime). Not only are the numbers in the armies staggering (almost 2000 troops), but they are equipped with some of the best, most advanced units on the board. What the hell is up with that?!?
Needless to say the Byzantines got a long and healthy reprieve, as I had to rape the front line to counter this ridiculous threat from the Turks.
I don't have a problem with factions reappearing or rebellions springing up here and there, because that, to a point, is in fact exactly what happened. What I have a huge problem with is that when they do appear, they often do so in huge numbers and with highly advanced units. That's just plain crap.
Rebellions throughout history, regardless of era, were often perpetuated by common folk rising up against the powers that be with whatever weapons they could pull out of their closet. Hardly well trained and certainly not well equipped.
Imagine it's WW2 and the Germans are marching on Moscow. Suddenly they're faced with, instead of a handful of Yugoslav partisans in their rear, two entire Red Guard armies (which of course miraculously appeared from the modest cottages in the countryside and built their uber weaponry in the nearby woods). End of war. End of story.
Stupid rebels.
Then, out of nowhere, almost 2 full armies of Turks pop up in Armenia (a province deep inside my territory and one I've controlled for quite sometime). Not only are the numbers in the armies staggering (almost 2000 troops), but they are equipped with some of the best, most advanced units on the board. What the hell is up with that?!?
Needless to say the Byzantines got a long and healthy reprieve, as I had to rape the front line to counter this ridiculous threat from the Turks.
I don't have a problem with factions reappearing or rebellions springing up here and there, because that, to a point, is in fact exactly what happened. What I have a huge problem with is that when they do appear, they often do so in huge numbers and with highly advanced units. That's just plain crap.
Rebellions throughout history, regardless of era, were often perpetuated by common folk rising up against the powers that be with whatever weapons they could pull out of their closet. Hardly well trained and certainly not well equipped.
Imagine it's WW2 and the Germans are marching on Moscow. Suddenly they're faced with, instead of a handful of Yugoslav partisans in their rear, two entire Red Guard armies (which of course miraculously appeared from the modest cottages in the countryside and built their uber weaponry in the nearby woods). End of war. End of story.
Stupid rebels.