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I was only using that 5 units, I was so desperate lol

Managed to get Bern from Milan in exchange for a ceasefire. Just a couple of turns later they attacked together with their ally HRE... well not today!

Found this way back in my photos. Will never again be able to play a Sicilian campaign.

I don’t get it. This faction doesn’t care how far away you are, or who you’re playing as. It will sail across the sea or march halfway across Europe just to attack you.

It’s not a big faction, it never has much land, but it’s by far the biggest thorn in my side every campaign. It’s almost like it has an invisible crusade called against the player. It hates the player so bad that it will leave its territory completely undefended just to attack you.

Why is this? Did the devs code them to be hyper aggressive to the player?

Been playing since launch, and thought I'd thought of everything. Playing as the Turks, and wanted to go to the New World, which I've never done with that faction. Haven't done it with a lot of them, actually, because I usually get bored long before gunpowder. So I mustered up my persistence, and I've just gotten to gunpowder after a bloodbath of a Mongol invasion. I've been making vassals as I can so the Sultan can exult in being Sultan.

Well, I was at war with Hungary and working my way down their territory before attempting to convince them to accept vassalage. And then....the Pope declared a Crusade to Cairo, and every. European. nation. joined. So I was suddenly at war with everyone except the Moors and my existing vassals, HRE and Venice.

Hungary joined the Crusade too, but as I was kicking their ass already and needing to change plans, I asked them to accept vassalage. To my surprise, they did. But this idiot kept on heading for Cairo. So, rather than attack and restart that war, I tried this novel approach. So far, the general has gotten out and tried to pass my forts twice, but I collapse my blockade each time and he goes back to the ship.🤣🤣

Former Milanese colony. Milan died around turn 90; I sailed and fought their remnants here.

Some of my nicest photos were taken during this battle, especially the 2nd and 5th.

To give context, I am playing as Poland for the first time in a while. The HRE was not happy at me for some reason, probably because I may have hurt their ego or something that I wasn't aware of, and they sent 1145 men to siege Prague, which I own. They then sent a diplomat to demand that I become their vassal, which was insulting to me, so I declined and demand that they become my vassal, and obviously it didn't work out. I sent my best general, Boleslaw Herman, to deal with the huge stack of soldiers. I decided to send Mieszko, who has never seen a battle in his life but is a good commander, as a way to train him. Either way, I thought I was going to lose a losing battle, and I decided to just go for it. I marked the option to fight in the night, and get the high ground as my starting position, luckily. I hid most of my soldiers in the treelines and made my spearmen charge at the oncoming enemies, then I used my cavalrymen to flank them, and things just got crazy there. In the midst of the battle, I was winning, and I only had a few of my men killed and half of the HRE army killed. Nonetheless, I won the battle and chased down the routing army, and now posting this, this is probably my most favorite battle, and I felt amazing seeing this. I won with 11% casualties while they won with 93% casualties

Another disaster campaign is out!

How would you handle Sicilian disaster where the empire spans from one end of the map to another but enemies can be found from every part of the map?

Link to my solution below.

Started a new save with England ( House Norman). Just something to help with keep this save refreshing.

After many years of this game I’ve played a campaign with nearly every faction and done some of the DLC. I still enjoying playing the game when I don’t feel like playing an FPS.

What should I do now to keep it interesting? I’m curious if I should try out some mods.

I tried out a couple other total war games but I could never get into them

LordofAllIceCream had a great idea, a Milan challenge. Since it's May it's very timely.

At the end of May in Legnano Italy they hold a celebration of the victory of the Lombard League (Milan, Genoa, Venice & Bologne in our case) over the HRE. You can actually check out past celebrations on youtube

So the challenge is this - by the 31st of May conquering and holding ONLY those 4 territories get an alliance with the pope and get victory over the HRE (maybe donate their territories to the pope) Ok not super historical but close enough.

Rules:

1. Play on Very Hard difficulty

2. A Caroccio standard must travel with each army.

Post if you've accomplished it and how many turns it took and you will be declared Hero of Lombardy. Maybe the mods can make a badge if it's cool.