I lost a campaign...to Rebels!
I just lost a campaign because of Turkish rebels!
I was playing as the Byzantine Empire, vh/vh. I was trying to recapture Anatolia from the Turks. The disaster began when I had just wiped out the Turks, after 5 turns of blitzing. My tired army was resting in Iconium, which we had just captured. Suddenly, I was immediately sieged in Iconium by a large rebel Turkish stack. Embarrassingly, I tried to attack them but lost the battle and my general and his whole army was killed. I reloaded and tried again, and the game crashed to desktop. I tried again a third time, convinced that this time I would win... and I still lost! My whole army was destroyed. Finally, on the fourth attempt I managed to defeat them after waiting some turns and bringing up reinforcement horse archers and infantry from Constantinople.
I wasted so much time trying to defeat this rebel stack, and when I'd finally done it my army was almost annihilated. I then decided to move them west, towards Smyrna region, where another rebel stack was devastating the countryside. This took several more turns, as they kept moving. Along the way, I was ambushed by a third rebel stack, which I defeated on autoresolve, but then found my forces too weak to defeat the remaining rebels. I then had to wait several more turns until I could scrape together enough troops to defeat them.
By this time, to make matters even worse the Sicilians promptly laid siege to Dyrrhachium in the far west, so I decided I'd have to transfer my army west instead of going east to resume the conquest of Anatolia. I marched to Thessalonica, at which point the Sicilians bizarrely stopped the siege. I took the opportunity to propose peace, and they accepted. But by the time I finally managed to march my troops all the way back into Anatolia, Sivas and Caesarea had fallen to the Georgians!
Even worse, every turn for four consecutive turns, a rebel army spawned near Sinop and laid siege to the town. Their repeated attacks wore down the defenders. No sooner would I defeat one rebel attack, only for them to immediately spawn yet another wave of attacks and lay siege again. This continued until eventually the defenders were overwhelmed, in the fourth battle of Sinop and I lost the town. Although I immediately dispatched a large army and retook the town, it delayed my main army getting into central Anatolia even longer and was another factor in my decision to give up.
At this point I realised how much I had totally failed at the campaign and decided to give up and start again. What a mess! I've rarely ever had such constant trouble from rebels. That's probably the first campaign I've ever lost because of Rebels!
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Originally Posted by Duck of Death
