Jihads
I really wish CA would confirm that Jihads will be in Medieval 2. I realize they probably will be, but it would be nice to know for sure. Crusades and Jihads are both great fun, and I don't want the Muslim factions deprived of something that adds so much enjoyment to the game. (And you can bet I'll be playing as the Egyptians and Timurids quite a bit!)
Assuming that they will be in Medieval 2, I do have one other small request: Please program them so that they can be used offensively like the Crusades! To me, the single biggest flaw with them from the original MTW was that you could only use Jihads to take back provinces that you'd *lost*. I realize CA probably programmed them this way to avoid depicting Muslims in a negative light--and kudos to them for wanting to do so--but this quite simply is historically inaccurate.
Jihad--at least in the context of "Holy War" (which itself is an oversimplification of the word)--referred to both defending the lands of Islam and conquering new territory and/or attacking an enemy. (Probably the best-known example of Jihad in the context of an offensive military campaign is the Ottamans' conquest of Constantinople.) I wouldn't mind if we were limited to just one Jihad at a time, so long as we could use them to attack provinces just like Crusades can.
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