by Ahmed Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:27 am
This seems like an interesting campaign.
I started expanding, make sure to build the latest naval tech. In the meantime I had my Imam call a Jihad against Constantinople. The Turks joined and they captured it. It seems that the faction leader and heir were both in the city, because when the city was captured the rest of the Byzantine cities became rebel cities.
Soon however, the Turks blocked my port at Alexandria, which meant that they started war. I responded by capturing their city of Mosul and stopped attacking them.
Then I sent an army in a ship to capture the former Byzantine islands for:
1-Good trade positions
2-Good place to attack Turks if they start a major offense.
So I captured Cyprus and Rhodes.
I got trade rights from Hungary, Venice, Sicily.
While my diplomat was moving I became aware of the city that is on modern day-Greece land (southern Europe). It was a rebel city so I sent my full stack army on a ship from Rhodes to it.
A Turkish ship sank my ship! No mercy this time, and indeed I captured two Turkish cities on their Eastern frontier. Also the Pope called a crusade on Jerusalem. Only the Portuguese came, and I let them have the city. But soon I formed a big army and recaptured it.