Seljuk Turks campaign

[edyzmedieval]

I waited, I waited and then I attacked the Pope who kept invading Eastern Europe. Took Serbia and another province and I've been trying to incite revolt in Wallachia and Moldavia so I can take those as well. Mongols stopped attacking me but I need to have three full stacks in Georgia to prevent them from entering my territory.

[edyzmedieval]

I had to cheat

My Sultan wouldn't produce any heirs so I was left with only one who came to the throne when he was 36, so I had to spawn a heir or else my journey would be completely over.

Otherwise, epic battles between the Bohemians who have inland Europe and the Almoravids who have Spain and all of the coastal European provinces.

[gollum]

That doesn't count, especially with the Muslims with whom you can't get around it with incest.

Throw us a screenshot when you find time; it sounds real fun battling all those Almos with the Turks. I love muslim vs muslim wars, Sultan vs Sultana and Khaliffa vs Khaliffa.

[edyzmedieval]

That doesn't count, especially with the Muslims with whom you can't get around it with incest.

Throw us a screenshot when you find time; it sounds real fun battling all those Almos with the Turks. I love muslim vs muslim wars, Sultan vs Sultana and Khaliffa vs Khaliffa.

You're lucky, I haven't started my battles yet.

It's 1286 so far, every turn to finish takes me 5-6 minutes and then another 3-4 minutes until the game computes everything that the Almoravids and the Bohemians have to do. In 1300 or sooner I will launch a full out attack on the Almoravids, in conjunction with the Papal reappearance. That way they lose territory not only from my armies but from the Pope's armies as well.

I have almost 800.000 florins in my treasury, after another 14-15 turns with 20k per turn I will have around 1.000.000 florins, enough to start a huge all out campaign of warfare.

Can't wait for epic battles!

Screenshots will be indeed provided.

[gollum]

shivering with anticipation :)

[edyzmedieval]

Turns out the Almoravids are losing the grip on their empire which means that successive rebellions even in their home provinces enabled me to sweep in and take a couple of extra points. And just when I wanted to attack and crumble their empire, here come the Bohemians who steamroller ahead of me 40 points with 120 years to go. It's a fight between three empires with the Papacy in the middle who's trying to survive and unify Italy under their banner.

Here's a couple of pics for you guys to enjoy.

Sultan Osman III



Revenue just from Tripoli - Master Merchant + 80% farmland improvement



First attempt at battle with the Bohemians



State of the empire in 1327 after the battles - Ottoman Empire




I got my backside handed against the Bohemians the first time out. I lost badly, 6500 troops dead compared to 3000 from the Bohemians. It was all because the commanding general had 9 stars which gave almost all units valour 5 or even more, so they were very hard to kill, especially with the morale bonus from the Expert level. I lost a full unit of 200 Saracen Infantry with 2nd tier armour and 3 valour against the 21 Royal Knights of the commanding general.

I took the reserve stacks from my other provinces, connected through ports and baggalas. I crushed them the second time, but I had 16000 men against 8000 (they reinforced through Austria and Croatia). Lost 6000 men but they lost 6000 as well, but it was a huge difference this time.

With the remaining troops I took Austria, Croatia, Carpathia and Switzerland. I'm keeping Switzerland on low troops high taxation to make the Swiss appear in the game, and then I will conquer Burgundy to do the same.

[cogre]

that sounds like a tough but fun campaign man,