Preceding chapter 4: Planning the invasion;
The turks outnumber my invasionforce roughly 2:1, but the bulk of their forces are in Constantinople. It would be most desirable to trap one of their armies, but the board doesn't really show a good path to do so. Or am I wrong?
I'm currently considering invading Rum and Lesser Armenia in the first turn by 1) Completely emptying Syria into Rum 2) Moving camels from Antioch and Edessa into Lesser Armenia.
Turn 2 I could move some of the troops in Rum back to Syria to prevent a counter-move from Armenia, but in my experience the AI would more probably try to lift the siege in Rum. Therefore part of the troops successful in taking Lesser Armenia would go to Rum to repel that attack, a small part stay to keep the siege in LA and rest of them go for Anatolia.
Turn 3 would most likely see the relief force from Constantinople hitting the front after going through Trebizond. If I still have Rum, I wouldn't have taken the castle yet, and that could be a promising target for the Turks. That would be a massive battle, but at the same time I could move troops into Treb from Anatolia and into Armenia from Syria (only a few reinforcements from training turn 1 & 2 = 160 camels) and withdraw from Rum. This would completely isolate the newly liberated Rum.
Turn 4 Attack Rum with every available camel.
What do you think?
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