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    Throne Room Caliph Senior Member phonicsmonkey's Avatar
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    Default Moor of the Shadows

    Hello - you may notice I have changed my hat.

    This is because I'm about to start a new campaign as the Moors. It will be my first in 1.2 (bit slow off the mark there)

    Inspired by Didz and his story about a campaign he played in the old STW called "War of the Shadows", I've decided to try to win a long campaign with the following rule:

    - no offensive battles against non-rebel factions

    that is, I can't declare war against anyone or invade any territory that is not rebel held - I'm thinking of making an exception for jihads, but to avoid exploiting it I won't call any myself...

    so, I'm going to need to make full use of agents - spies and priests for unrest to make provinces rebel, diplomats to buy territories and get vassals, and merchants to get me lots of money

    I've read the FAQs, some threads on agent use and a couple on the Moors themselves, but I thought I'd throw it open to everyone to pitch in with suggestions as to other strategies I might use, or observations on whether this sounds like a fun game...

    and when I get going I'll post back and let you know whether it worked

    If it gets boring I guess I can just blitz with camel gunners!
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    Moors are a good faction to play in this fashion. You will enjoy it. I sure did, actually I never finished that campaign yet.
    It was LTC 2.30 so if you're interested I could post my savegame for you. You will need LTC 2.30 to view it, ofc.

    Nice hat BTW.
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    Default Re: Moor of the Shadows

    You will need LTC 2.3 for the save game to work.

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    Default Re: Moor of the Shadows

    Just edited my 1st post to make it more clear. You will need LTC 2.30 to view the savegame, all the tips I could guve would be in there so it's easier than writing anyway. LTC also installs apart from your main installation so you can easily install it AND go back to vanilla anytime.
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    Default Re: Moor of the Shadows

    hmm, looks like we share a milliner

    I have LTC 2.3 - I'm not going to be playing it for this campaign but I dl'd it to copy Lusted's money script...

    it'd be cool to look at your save game, how do I get hold of it?
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    shuuuuuu b'daq!

    bumping my own thread here, but only so I can let you know how I'm getting on...

    after about 40 turns I have yet to take a non-rebel settlement - I almost got Lisbon to rebel with 5 of the sultan's best snoopers parked in there, but they must have hired a private eye of their own as they all got kicked out and have really low chances to get back in....so now I'm training a couple of assassins...

    I had a Spanish Cardinal parked next to Cordoba for most of the early game which kept my Imams at home and really slowed down my evangelical aspirations..but I feel like it's about to start rolling now..especially as I have trained up some governers and I'm getting trade, mining and farming bonuses.

    On the diplomatic side, I am allied with EVERYONE except england, turkey, scotland and russia, and France who I was allied with until they stupidly blockaded my port...so my reputation is reliable, relations are good and no-one sees me coming..

    MWUhahahaha
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