Well, I gotta say, this is a first for me. I was playing an early, GA, Bohemian campaign on XL. I sat a while on my one territory, building up a little and looking for opportunity. A possibility arose when a new HRE emperor was excommed for carrying on the wars that got the previous emperor excommed.(BTW, these happened to be the first and second emperors in the game chronologically. They sure were energetic!)
Bavaria was looking like a tempting province with its nice keep and spearmaker ws. However, the neigboring province of Austria held about 2000 troops, about double my entire force. As expected, these were comprised of vanilla archers, vanilla spears, and um's, whereas my forces comprised of bohemian bowmen, RK's, Armoured spears, and a few fmaa's. In addition, I had a 5 command prince with a 4 command king, whereas they had no command. However, due to sheers size, I wasn't sure if I could beat them if I had to invade, though I was pretty confident if I was defending. So, I invaded Bavaria w/ a stack of 960 troops, leaving about 120, including my king, back in Bohemia, along with the troops I was produding each turn.
Bavaria was barely defended and they pulled back to the keep, which was going to fall in 2 turns. My hope was that they would try and rescue their lost province, whereby I would slaughter their army in defence. Unfortunately, they circumvented my army and invaded Bohemia. With no chane of victory, I pulled back my army to the keep. Now my production was lost and Bavaria lost many of its buildings to pillage. In addition, I would have to fight an offensive battle to reclaim Bohemia, which wasn't an all too promising aspect. But I had little choice, so I waited a turn for them to suffer casualties from the siege, and planned to invade Bohemia the turn after. However, surprise, surprise. Turns out, the Germans were at war with about every catholic, including my ally, Poland, who had been building up troops all game long. They rush in to my rescue and relieve the siege, scattering the HRE army.
Basically, in summary, I think this is the first time I've ever been saved by the AI. Sure, they've helped me out before, but never in so crucial a moment as this. Anyone else have the AI save their butts before like this?
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