Although designed primarily as a "conquer the world" type game, Medieval is not bad for roleplaying - trying to act in character as a rule, maybe guided by GAs.
I'm just playing a game as England on early (for the nth time) and for once, the Almohads are threatening to wipe out the Spanish rather than vice versa, the usual pattern I've observed since the patch. It poses my king an ethical dilemma. The Spanish are excommunicated and probably on their way out. Do I use a crusade to grab two neighbouring provinces, to make a buffer between the Almohads and my continental possessions? Or do I do nothing, staying true to my Spanish allies and "Christian brothers" (remember, I am role-playing this and my main GAs right now are crusades)?
It is quite a "fun" dilemma. The realpolitik in me says grab some buffer provinces before the Almohads become unstoppable, rather like Stalin in 1939. The sentimentalist says such a betrayal would be unthinkable. What to do?
I suspect that to be true to how a historical English king would behave, I should hold fire and await the coming storm.
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