More reasons to love MTW

[Patron]

They must have had a secret discussion. Much like Attila the Hun and the pope at the gates of Rome. In the end the Egyptians could have invaded the Spanish whilst they were up north inavding your kingdom, but they mysteriously decided not to.

[ichi]

Great thread, so many times people complain that the game is throwing too many curve balls at them.

Nice to see someone recognizes a challenge and is up to it.

ichi

[DensterNY]

Well, you do have to give it to CA for programming in all of this to keep things interesting. When things are difficult and nearly desperate its the most fun.

I hate to Rome bash but when I was playing that once my steamroller got rolling I crushed anything and everything without any problems but in MTW there are always monkey wrenches in the works. It seems like all of these Provinces that I've annexed are sitting on the sidelines waiting to rebel and secret heirs running around with hate and revenge in their hearts.... Cool!

Kommodus, you're correct that things weren't really that dire although challenging nevertheless. I put two full stacks of quality troops in Venice which discouraged the Italian resurgent heir and army from doing anything but standing there. Second, I spammed peasant garrison armies to every province without a standing offensive or defensive army so loyalty is assured. Third, the Byzantines aren't much trouble because they have all green troops and all of my armies are hardcore grizzled veterans who stand and fight to the man.

One very interesting thing that I discovered in my war with the Sicilians. Well when I attacked them they were excommunicated and I killed their king which made them righteous again so my conquest of them stopped short with an excommunication warning. However, their provinces were rebellious and they had a popular uprising or Rebels and Sicilian loyalist who attacked automatically. After two rounds of rebellions the Sicilians got excommunicated again even though we had stalemated since we both had gotten ex-comm. warnings. So I guess that's another tactic we have in our arsenal against fellow Catholics... you can engineer their excomm. without their willing cooperation.

[Kommodus]

They must have had a secret discussion. Much like Attila the Hun and the pope at the gates of Rome. In the end the Egyptians could have invaded the Spanish whilst they were up north inavding your kingdom, but they mysteriously decided not to.

Actually, once the Spanish declared war on me and their African hordes began marching towards the northern front, the large Egyptian armies marched away as well (presumably to deal with Egypt's internal rebellions in the Middle East & Asia Minor). But then the Spanish crusade aimed for Egypt (which had been stationary in Tunisia for many years) noticed that the Egyptians were gone, and invaded Cyrenacia, capturing it! With some help from the remaining Spanish troops in the area, it then moved on and took Egypt itself!

This is obviously not what I was hoping would happen - I thought that Egypt would help me out by nipping at Spain from the rear, instead of getting thumped by the otherwise-occupied Spanish. But Spain's armies were simply so large that they could have steamrolled Egypt anytime they wanted; it's anybody's guess why they didn't. Looks like Spain will be a North African kingdom for the next few years.