M2TW rarities

**John_Longarrow** · 04-24-2007, 18:14

Last night I had my least skilled assassin take out a faction heir. Went from being a -1 assassin (if you read the traits) to being +3 after that hit.

Here I figured I'd be rid of this crappy guy who can't even burn down buildings and WHAM! Down goes the local gov!

NOTE: I'm not sure which is more rare. Having that crappy of an assassin to begin with actually being useful OR the +3 trait bonus.

Second most rare was a wonderful fight I had as the Turks a couple months ago. My general took 75% casualties killing 62 Byzantine troops and caputed 123. He gained 6 experience from that battle!

**Psiloi** · 06-28-2007, 19:55

Recently one of my noble and young generals have kidnaped and married a young and beauty english princess!!

**Kobal2fr** · 06-28-2007, 21:04

As of LTC 2.3, I've yet to see the Turks not become vassals of Byzantium in about 40 turns. Not conquered mind you, they still have that extensive empire of theirs. They just... give up, I suppose. Understandable since early Turkish units are really urk. I mean, what kind of sick joke are Azabs anyway ?

I recently had my first Papal mission that didn't involve building priests and churches and whatnot : "Assassinate this heretic". And failed it promptly, because I denounced him instead

(read the mission too fast

).

I've also seen my first witch ever a couple weeks ago

.

**CMcMahon** · 06-28-2007, 22:38

I have yet to see Spain, Silicy, Milan, the HRE, the Moops, Egypt, Russia, and Denmark expand very far. Oh, and I've never seen anyone aside from the Mongols and myself put together a stack that's half effective.

**Forward Observer** · 06-29-2007, 01:56

I'm playing the Scottish, and the pope called for a crusade to take Antioch from the Mongols (they had most of the holy land by this time). The message from the pope also said it had to be my King.

I took Antioch, and then Acre, and also Jerusalem because they were all lightly defended, but this stretched my crusading forces quite thin.

The next thing I know I get a message that a Jihad has been called against Jerusalem by the Mongols. This confused me because I'm pretty sure the Mongols were Buddhists when they actually practiced religion and a Jihad is strictly function of the Islamic or Muslim faith.

Sure enought a Mongol army shows up with a crescent banner and proceeds to take by the city killing my King in the process.

Maybe they converted.

**phonicsmonkey** · 06-29-2007, 02:08

apparently they were tolerant of many religions... (except daoism - nasty daoism!)

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongol...a/china3_f.htm

not sure they were avid jihadis though...