World War One in 1243

[calamiga]

The "Great Middle Eastern War" allready was a big thing in my campaign.
The Golden Horde tried to sack my settlements in the East and supported my archenemy - the Kingdom of Jerusalem - and allied with them. But the KoJ was at war with the Egypts... so after two or three turns we had this:

As I was threatened by the Hordes in the East, I decided to catch a view Byzantine Cities. Sadly, they were allied with the Kievan Rus who defended their Allies and invaded me through the Black Sea.
There was another power in this Sea... Venice fought against the Kievan Rus at the city of Caffa.
Now my alliance had to face two enemy alliances.
But I figured a way out to bring balance back to this war. I declared a Jihad against Nicea - and the Mongols joined it and declared war against the Byzantine Empire.

This war raged for a few years and soon it seemed like the VET-Axis (Venice-Egypt-Turks) would win this war. Egypt kicked the KoJ out of Arabia and southern Holy Land, Venice ripped the entire Kievan Navy, the Turks - they captured Konstantinopel and renamed it Islambol.
Then, everything ed up: A crusade was proclaimed against Islambol.
The first catholic kingdoms who followed the popes call were the Spanish Kingdoms. But Spain was to weak. They were at war with the alliance of the Moors, France and the HRE. So these three (lets call them MFH) allied with the VET.

But the VET wasn't aware that joining forces with the MFH brings them not only new friends.
Srsly, I would have never allied with the MFH if I would have known that they were at war with the NEAT (North European Alliance Treaty - Irland/Norway/Denmark/England). As soon as I allied with the MFH, NEAT joined the crusade.

Haha, I never played such a great war campaign!
This enormous Alliance vs. Alliance war is really fun.
In 1243 after only 32 turns (0.5 tpy) every single nation is involved in this war.
Only few states are allied between two alliances (e.g. Sically is allied with both, Spain and MFH) and only one faction is kinda neutral - Milan is at war with everyone. xD



Good work @ King Kong and co. - SS rocks

[gewehr36]

I love it when that happens. It's only happened to me once while playing as Flanders in DLV. I allied with HRE and England and the next turn France attacked and HRE and England took over the whole country, which eventually led to Iberia, down to North Africa, through the Holy Land, back into Europe at Constantinople, and finally to Poland's eastern border. All along the way, different alliances were jumping in and attacking the North-Western Germanic Alliance (England, HRE, and Flanders). We conquered the entire map in under 100 years.

[dj LiTh]

great post AiT thanks for shareing i'd + rep but i need 50 posts first

[Chim]

Nice AAR kinda thingy!!

+rep to you sir.

[y2day]

Very nice

thanks for sharing
+rep

[Roboute Guilliman]

wow norway and denmark are allies :S

[stefano89]

that is very nice... never happened to me though

[-Aquila-]

The closest I have got to that is when Norway helped me to defeat Denmark after they invade England. Never on that scale though....well done + rep

....SJ

[JMSlayer]

Lol, you should call it World War .5!

+rep.

[Laconian]

That was brilliant. I love it when it happens in my games. Alliance vs Alliance vs Alliance.

[Shabby_Ronin]

thats funny...that whole region is a powder keg, someone farts in the wrong direction and you have a mess on your hands

[Allu X]

^_^

[spanish_emperor]

lol all we need is USA for a WW2

[Antiochos VII Sidetes]

Awesome campaign! Closest I got was on my Byz file all the Catholics and most of the Muslims allied to try to take me down..I control like 60 provinces and have ridiculous armies, but 12 nations are keeping me busy..