Who am I? M2TW edition

[Sir Adrian]

I'm going to leave it for a couple more days so that more people reply - hopefully.

[lolIsuck]

Oh, there's a few good options here. Going with England because why the hell not.

[DeltaBGhost]

I say Poland, England has taken mostly all the settlements that the Ai normally targets, plus a war with Scotland gets them another spot. English players almost inevitably want to take a good chunk of western france because its easily defendable.

Poland is the most coherent, albeit potentially vulnerable, state that looks more player directed than most vanilla Ai.

[allievo]

Hungary?

[King Athelstan]

Oh my, good map!

Poland?

[AntonisTheGreek]

I'll go against the bandwagon and say Milan

[Sir Adrian]

Since it looks like nobody else will post, might as well reveal the answer

Everyone was wrong. I was Egypt

This was a difficult map so I'm repping everyone regardless.

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Basically I focused on playing a nice construction game and preparing for the Mongols/crusades. I'm consistently expanding northwards into the Holy Land and Ottoman lands but all my 3 armies went rogue almost in successive turns after my Sultan died and his 2 authority heir took over, so I was stuck rebuilding for a lot of turns.


No idea what happened in Europe. Turn 40 Venice owned Insbruck, Ragusa, Zagreb, Bologna and Genoa and was about to besiege Milan. 20 turns later they're exiled to Rhodes and Crete. The HRE simply collapsed after the Emperor was killed by Venice in Bologna.

[King Athelstan]

Ahh, I see. Well done! Taking Bagdhad should have tipped me of tbh, I can't remember the AI doing that. And wow, sounds like Venice went wild there.

I should have a map ready within a week or so, depends on how many battles there is.

[King Athelstan]

SS 6.4 Early Era
Map on turn 1

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Turn 50
Difficulty VH/VH
Treasury: 4 digits

Crusades: Antioch, successful (Poland)

Map:

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[sullivanclan1]

well... ! crusader states are out( knew that was gonna happen), turks losingh ground like a , kwarezm empire is lucky that the mongols haven't appeared yet. Venice is gone{ knew that too). Egypt is always a .

[AntonisTheGreek]

Genoa

[Abdülmecid I]

Byzantines seem very tidy, same goes for Kiev and Lithuania also looks tempting, but I'll say Egypt. It's an over-powered faction, but I have never seen them expanding so rapidly.

[lolIsuck]

Egypt

[Dominick]

The Roman Empire (Byzantium) looks very AD 1000-ish borderwise, I'll go with them.

[King Athelstan]

I feel ought to post the map now as it's been quite a while, but I would love a couple more responses - decisions, decisions....

[King Athelstan]

And I waaaaaaaaas

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Roma Invicta!

I had been expaniding steadily for a good number of turns, pushing Venice to the west, the Turks to the east, then a few things happened. In a very short space of time, the HRE, Aragon, Genoa, Fatmids and probably some more I can't remember all declared war. Oh, and the Kievan Rus (My earliest ally) backstabbed me and invaded Crimea

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And with the Crusade being called and my armies being stretched on two fronts going as far as taking Venice, I had to stop expanding and focus on domestic affairs after my allies Poland took Antioch, as....

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So I traded Venice away to the HRE for peace as they had several large stacks there and I really couldn't spare a long drawn-out war with my Emperor in the midst, and sent him south to reinforce the Sicilian Campaign, which is progressing nicely. Bari was taken, and Naples for a brief space of time, but Sicily counterattacked and I'm currently in the progress of counter-attacking their counterattack.

I also managed to negotiate peace with most of the factions, so my internal affairs are sorted and I can send my armies forth and conquer again.


I have no idea what happened with Egypt, I think my super-aggressive stance on the Turks gave Egypt the room they needed to expand?

Anyways, the rep has been given, gg all.

[Abdülmecid I]

Buff and Shine (sub-mod for Broken Crescent). Turn: 81 Treasury: 69244 No jihads or crusades.



Faction list (from west to east):

Weird green in Africa: Makuria
Yellow again Africa: Ayubids
Blue in Syria: Kingdom of Jerusalem
Light pink (?) in eastern Anatolia: Armenia
Weird green in central Anatolia: Rum Sultanate
Brownish red: Roman Empire
Light blue in Ukraine: Kiev
Green in Ukraine: Vladimir
Dark blue in Ukraine: Kypchaks
White in Caucasus: Georgia
Blue-black in Caucasus: Eldiguzids
Red in Mesopotamia: Zenghids
Black in Iraq: Abbasids
Orange in Arabia: Yemen
Blue in Arabia: Oman
Green in southern Iran: Salghurids
Blue in Iran: Seljuks of Irak
Purple in Iran: Bavandids
White in Turkmenistan: Khwarazm
Black in Turkestan: Qara-khitai Khanate
Red in Afghanistan: Ghurids
Green in Afghanistan: Gaznavids
Light yellow in Pakistan: Sindh
Dark yellow in India: Solanki Rajputs
Pink in India: Paramara Rajputs

Destroyed factions: Uyunids of Bahrain
Unplayable factions: Mongols (horde - they just appeared in the lands of the Qara-khitais)

EDIT: Just realised that some of the northern provinces are not shown. No big loss, just a few Qara-khitai provinces and the Bulgar faction (light green). I'm obviously neither of them.

Starting positions:

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The missing factions are Kiev (just one region in Ukraine), the Seljuks of Iraq have been placed in western Iran and their starting province has been given to the Salghurids, the Bavandids (two regions near the Caspian Sea) and the Paramara (one region in India).

[lolIsuck]

Abbasids.

[King Athelstan]

I'll say Armenia, though this could be anyone.

Muchos gracias on the map sir

[Araval]

Jerusalem