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    " Hammer of the East" Member King Kurt's Avatar
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    I like to look for interesting strategic moves to get out of tricky situations. During a VI campaign as the Irish, I had a strongish army over in North East England, but my main base on mainland England was in Wales. The Mercians and Saxons were strong and a couple of reverses had made me a little weak and money was stretched. It looked bleak for my army in Northumberland as I could not fight my way back to Wales through the Midlands. So I decided to go the long way. I raised all buildings in the province and set off southwards round the coast. Each province I came to I defeated the local forces, raised any buildings if I took the province then moved on. I never stayed in a province, I always kept moving - if the defenders went into the stronghold, I ignored them. The AI was chasing me, but was always a move behind. Eventually I got round to Dornsaete, to link up with my forces in SW England. During this time, the Saxons - my main enemy - had suffered some losses trying to assault my Welsh provinces as well as loosing loads of provinces during my coastal slash and burn trip. Then my assasin killed the Saxon King and his weak hier lasted about a year before falling into civil war. I was then able to bribe some rebels - using the money from the slash and burn fest!! - and my concentrated forces, backed up with some nice ex Saxon Huscarls made short work of the remains of the Saxon empire.
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    Long time no post...

    My sneakiest move has to be from a Sicilian/Early/GA/Hard/unmodded campaign. It was in the mid 13th Century, and I ached at the idea the puny English, with any chance of their glory ended by war with France, now confined to the British Isles, owning said lands. So...I decided that a second Norman Invasion was in store, and prepared five armies which were to attack all at the exact same time. Complete with Bishops, Spies and Assassins to ensure I had security and religious control. Hehe...I had a stand-off with their king during the initial invasion, and his army retreated...only for him and his heirs to be captured and executed because they couldn't pay any ransom or go anywhere else. Therefore, that ended the English, there was little threat from the Pope warning me off (he didn't even have the chance!).
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    My sneakiest move, was possibly to prevent a HRE crusade from claiming. I simply denied it access to my provinces. Although they attacked every province they touched, it slowly weakened them, and, since I was Orthodox (Byzantines), my provinces, aided by spies and a complete lack of garrison due to no direct HRE access to them, simply revolted back to me the turn they were lost, providing me with a better army that I actually had prior to the province being taken - although that was not part of my plan, it was a lovely added bonus. In conclusion, although they did break through in the end and get to where they wanted to go, they were severely hampered and, when they reached Rum, their target, they were destroyed by the tiny garrison that was residing there (all they had left was a bunch of cheap and nasty Fanatics)!
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    Why not let them pass? After all, the HRE usually has to fight many enemies at the same time, and a small would-be crusader HRE state in Rum is not a problem: you invade it, kill everyone, and take Rum as your own. You don't get a DoW by the HRE either because you don't share a border. Also: it's easy to reject crusades if you have a Greece/Serbia-Bulgaria European border. Fortify heavily, bring heavy infantry as a defensive wall + reinforcements for when they get tired, Psiloi(pocket mod?)/Trebizond archers, and one or two arbalesters to snipe the general. Those are high profit provinces and can support very well on their own a fairly decent garrison.
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    Thanks for the advice, I'll remember that in the future when playing as the Byzantines. Thanks!
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    My sneakiest move was performed against the Turks while playing as the english. The clock had just moved to the year 1253 and by then I already owned The Isles, France, Aragon and Sicily. The turks got constantinople straight from the bizantines, out of pure luck the bizantines sank the turkish ships at Mamara, so I got a chance and I took it by invading constantinople and greece via Sicily. It was a cleaver move as my forces( billmen, longbowshalberdiers and jinetes) were strong enough to hold against the turks. Constantinople became my capital from there on and besides it helped me stay filthy rich.

    You know I think that as far as strategy goes you got to take chances whenever you can, it ussualy turns out all right

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    My sneakiest move ever was playing as the Byzantines in Early. Poor bastards didn't stand a chance
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