Strange Occurances

Well, we have had the thread were everyone talks about things that happen every campaign, so here's something you don't see everyday:

Everyone knows that in campaigns, the Danish just sit on Denmark and don't do anything. The strangest thing happened today, though. A rebellion arose on Denmark, beat the Danish, overran their castle and killed their king, destroying the faction. :shocked3:

I have never seen a "starting" province rebel before, especially not in this manner.

What other really weird things have you seen.

I've seen the Pope having a really strong Navy and conquering Wessex. I've also seen the Danish holding the Atlantic coast all the way down to Spain and owning much of Britain. Also the Hungarians holding half the map.

I had a special experience last night. I was egypt and had been turtling for a while (high era). I decided to liberate constantinopel from the hungarians, and found the hungarian army lead by ... the duke of Ile-de-France.
:oops: :help:

I actually managed to give the hungarians enough trouble that they lost ground to the english in the nw.

5 superpowers exist, the horde, england, hungary, spain and egypt. Turkey is intact and looking to advance into horde territory (I hope - I'd hate to end my moslem brethren). Rare to see the horde last as long, though they seem to be losing ground to the english.

I was assualting a fort with a lone royal knight unit (I was getting a poor heir killed). They'd broken inside and were butchering a couple of archer units. Amongst the other occupants were 5 or 6 ballista crews. Those ballistas without a decent line of sight kept firing away and then the central fort fell down under the hail of friendly fire. Not seen that before.

Bit of a background story - attacked a 9* Spanish king - won the battle but nearly lost it after my 1st line routed. Only my general (5*, Fuedal sarge unit) fought on - completely surrounded by about 5 enemy units but still managed to hold them off and was actually winning the fight. Two tense minutes later I mangaged to charge an exhausted lone knight into the rear of one of the enemy units and they routed - my second wave came on and I forced the spanish to retreat. My general lost about 60 men - killed plenty. Was quite an impressive display.

2 years later same general led a bridge attack against the Spanish - can't remember if the king was leading them but don't think so. Lined up like normal and I sent my 1st unit across. AI met them like normal in middle of bridge (I had no archer units, mostly spearmen and was thinking attack would be expensive and not clever - nearly withdrew) and they duked it out until both at about 30%. I withdrew them and decided to send in my general - was about valour 6 and I wanted to try and get courageous virtue (or something similar). As soon as my general stepped onto the bridge entire AI army packed up their bags and left. They just walked off. I thought it was a trap so I halted my generals unit. AI stopped marching. I started him off again - completely on his own on the wrong side of the bridge and AI kept pulling back until they left the map.

If I didn't know better I would say the AI was afraid of my general!

I've had a ballista manage to kill only one guy in a battle, one on their own side & the only guy to be killed in the unfortunate unit. Who was that guy? Only King William III of England in the very first year of his very short reign. Bye bye Billy-boy. So long England. Farewell campaign.