The Immortal and Unbribable Last Man Standing...

[antisocialmunky]

I started a new High Byzantine Campaign a few days ago. Progress on it has been slow, but I have retaken all the original Byzantine lands except for, you guessed it, Constantinople. Why? Because there's a single man camping in that fortress. He can't be sieged out and he costs 2252 Florins to bribe out.

I can't give it up or the Huns or Italians will probably take it. Even if I do, I have to take it with that unit of Naptha you get in the begining or he'll just run back to his fortress to do God knows what to kill time.

I can't bribe him because I'm building Trebizond Archers and Byzantine Infantry with Merc Italians to hold the Horde. It gets annoying you have to wait for the timer to run out when you're fighting them. I have adopted a new tactic of sitting on a hill and rotating 10+ units of archers to destroy the Mongols through attrition.

I don't want to expand into French Crusader Egypt because of the Mongol threat. I don't have trade because setting up trade isn't viable with just Anatolia, Rhodes, Lesser Armenia, Trebizond, and Georgia.

I can't assassinate him because he's in the castle.

Anyone have any ideas? Right now, since I prefer bribing to save buildings, I'm trying to capture the Khan since sooner or later he'll try and take Georgia personally.