whats the go with jihads?

[yes,idolikestuff]

Playing as england i own a few territories in the middle east. about 15 turns ago jerusalem got a jihad on it and has been attacked a few times by egypt and the turks. everytime turkey attacks the army is led by the same guy i swear he's impossible to kill but anyway everytime i beat back the turks they ask for a cease fire which so far i've excepted all of but the very next turn they attack again. how do i make it stop??

[Vampo]

I think it's doing that because the military and the diplomatic AIs are separate. So the Turkish army that is attacking you because it probably sees a weakly defended settlement, whereas the separate diplomatic AI wants peace with you. It is all down to the poor AI really.

My suggestion would be to fortify Jerusalem to deter the Turkish armies from attacking and then just accept their ceasefire again. If you don't want peace with them, you could just assassinate their diplomat so you don't get a peace message constantly.

[clandestino]

If you kill in battle or assassinate that guy, that particular army will no more be on jihad but the other armies will stil be on jihad. Only way to stop a jihad is to succesfully defend target settlement for 10-15 turns and then the jihad will fail cause they didn't take targeted settlement in time. They will ceasfire and attack you simultaniously all the time that's just the way that AI does.

[Samir]

move a peasant unit around the jihad army and put it in their back and attack them from the front, even if he manages to run away the peasants from the back will cause the enemy army to fight until death and destroy it if fleeing

or assassinate the bugger