Seljuk Turks campaign

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Did you install the button fix? Even if you think you don't need it - install it anyway. I have seen those up/down arrows it replaces have different effects on different hardware. I had an old graphics card where they only caused visual corruption and with another it only crashed when you actually click on a province where they're visible. It's worth a go if you haven't installed it already.

Also if the crash is occuring when you go the menu, try changing the desktop colour depth to 16 bit - that's what Medieval uses IIRC. Also try setting the desktop resolution to the same as the game and the campaign map and battle map resolutions to the same.

I'll try and install it but it's surely not from that. Same goes for the 16 bit. It comes from specific executions whenever I bribe, I exit to save the game, I return from a battle or others such as when ending a turn. Since I have Vista 64-bit, it's even worse for me, but it's manageable since the CTDs only occur during "high stress" aka lots of things to plan during my turn.

Hint: Those "back-to-menu" CTDs can probably not be prevented completely but to avoid losing my game progress I made it a habit to press CTRL+S before going to the menu for saving the game properly.

Thank you for the hint.

There's still one problem with them - Quicksaves always cause CTDs for me. I save them out of habit rather than extracting any usefulness from them.



Back to my campaign. I managed to fire off another 3 turns, slowly munching through the Almoravid troops and conquering another two provinces. Two more years and the vital point count comes, if I can distance myself to at least 15 I get enough breathing space.

Unfortunately, I'm very vulnerable to sea attacks and I've lost half my treasury already through recruiting and bribes. I'm losing 45000 florins a turn so if I dont start disbanding my troops I'll go bankrupt in around 12 turns. Argh.

Once I'll deal with the Almoravids and make sure their troops are vanquished, I will retreat from the provinces and let the rebels take them on. Next 5-6 turns are vital.

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Almoravids are almost destroyed, I lead now 195 points to 182, but it's a disaster what's going on in the whole of the map.

Rebels.

Rebels always spawn AT LEAST one full stack and rebellions are so common I get around 5-6 per turn. My Sultan has maximum influence (no dread however) and it's a disaster. I have to keep a full stack in each of my provinces or risk to lose it.

There's four factions left. Ottomans, Almoravids, Papacy and Lithuanians.

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And here's some piccies for you.

Here's my Sultan. Sultan Bayezid, the infamous Bayazid the Conqueror. In the game he's labelled as Bayezid the IInd, but he's actually Bayezid the Ist historically.



Unit card of the best unit available for the Turks. Apart from the fact they look badass, they're a perfect combination of strong infantry and deadly bowmen.

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Breakthrough!
I killed the Almoravid Khalifah and his son in the Siege of Groningen, and so, the Almoravids have disappeared from this planet.

Only two turns before, the Lithuanians, Germans and Cumans reappeared on the map, so it will make it interesting in the final 40 years.

The year is now 1410, I lead with 225 points, the Papacy is second with 28.