The Bloody Crescent: Rise of the Turks

[Askthepizzaguy]

EDIT: Bloody Crescent 2: Wrath of Arslan begins on post 25... scroll down to read.


Marhaba and ahlan wa sahlan!

These are the official records of Kilij Arslan the Indestructible, the Magnificent and most feared Sultan of the Anatolian Turks. History shall forever remember his glorious campaign to revive the Great Seljuk Empire, gain control of the Broken Crescent, turn back the mighty Crusader armies, slaughter the Mongolian hordes, and crown himself Caliph of Islam.

This is Askthepizzaguy's official thread detailing the events of my latest single player blitz campaign. This one is slightly different, as I'm playing the Broken Crescent mod which is much beefier than the vanilla version. The AI is vastly improved, the program also spawns entire stacks of experienced and advanced troops out of THIN AIR, as you will see. This is, by the way, my very first SP campaign using the Broken Crescent mod... so I'm either confident or stupid to post the results before I even finish it.

I also promise to pace myself in each post so you can actually load the page, unlike my ill-fated HRE 28 turn blitz of the entire map (blatant plug: it's still in my sig. Check it out if you haven't already... now that it's on two pages it might be viewable).

Medieval 2: Total War
Broken Crescent Mod
Version 1.05
Single Player
Turkish Campaign (Anatolian Turks)
VeryHard/VeryHard

Without further ado, let the bloodletting begin.... Images in spoiler.

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Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The opening moves of the campaign:
4 settlements are under seige. Take no prisoners.

The largest threat to our nation lies to the west. We must destroy the Eastern Roman Empire.



Toghrul begins a seige against Amasia.



Turn two: Nicomedia is but the first to fall.



The enemy surrendered quickly, once they saw how overwhelming our forces were.



The Sultan's archers rain death upon the enemy, who quickly die.



Attalia falls with minimal losses.



Laying seige to Nicaea and Amorium... now the enemy has spawned two massive stacks of elite troops out of thin air. It is of no concern.
Soon the ERE will be crushed and young skywalker will be one of us.



Amorium stands no chance of victory.



Little militias cannot stop me.



Against humans, this movement is not advisable. But these are AI stacks which can be dispatched quickly. If they attacked me, it would just save me a turn of having to march towards them.

Ok, that's the first ten images. It's only turn two, I believe. Check back for updates... I have plenty more to post already. See those two stacks of doom? Yeah those are gonna die.

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To war, my brothers... to war...