As Sayf requested from me, I started a Turkish campaign M/M Long.

I conquered the Byzantine capital at turn 7!


Pope called a crusade against my new Capital, Constantinople, but no one joined.


I captured all their cities.


I took teh Hungary capital.




More: Egypt is attacking me from the South. I need to finish off Hungary...they only have 1 more city. Venice started attacking me. They'll be finished next.

truce with egypt!!!

ull need it!!!

Nah, I'm gona conquer it. Who doesn't want to conquer their country

In ETW you probably conquered the modern-day Pakistan region right?

Oh I forgot to say, for this game I NEVER exterminated and I won't. I only OCCUPY. I also RANSOM all my POWs.

i only do that when conquering Muslim areas

and im telling you, you'll need an alliance with Egypt in order to beat the Mongols ... try and cancel all your euro wars and start making stacks right now ... you won't be able to finance this without the wealth of the holy lands, which Egypt owns right now ... finish Mongols ASAP and then do what you want ...

So shouldn't I continue the war with Egypt in order to get the holy lands?

No ... use them as a buffer ... Mongols/Timurids will always attack Yerevan and Tiblisi ...

Well I completlly ignored my European front. And thus Poland expanded.

Mongols came...to ME. (yes I mean the pun)

Obviously they skipped over Egypt and went for me...so much for "use them as a buffer"

All those areas in the ME that they conquered used to be mine. But I think I stopped them at Adana...from going into Anatolia. I have had some victories against them.

I also called Jihad on Poland's capital...Mongols captured it. I called on the next Poland capital...Mongols captured.

Egypt is have a war of attrition against me...blocking my ports...hitting my armies wherever they see them...

Bastard Venice sieged my capital.

Well you got about as far west as the real ottoman did.

No, they went as fat as Vienna

yeah the Ottoman empire had all of the ME, most of NA, and all of the Balkans and made it to Vienna which is in C Europe

if they took Vienna then there was really nothing stopping them from moving into Germany and France ... they nearly soloed Europe ...

it only took all of europe to stop their final attack, even then they thought it was a miracle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna

They had major problems with their control over Egypt due to the Mamelukes.

Starting from the 1700 Ottoman power declined in Egypt, and perhaps other regions.

by the 1700s they declined, but westerners made a bigger deal out of it then was necessary

What do you mean?

I meant it was difficult them to control Egypt from the start because of the Mamelukes.

I credit the fall of the Ottoman to the polish, for the largest charge in history. It was really a ballsy move and it give them props for it.

Polish? Lmfao.

What did they do?

preid1220 wrote:I credit the fall of the Ottoman to the polish, for the largest charge in history. It was really a ballsy move and it give them props for it.

LMAO thats funny

they didn't do sh!t by themselves, it took ALL of Europe to just defend one city .. they would've gotten r@ped bad by themselves

Ottomans fell because the sultans after Sulayman were near retarded, and because of the disease of nationalism ... they made Europe piss its pants until like the 1700s ...

Its not like they ended it like the barbarians ended the western Roman empire or like the Ottomans completely finished off the Byzantines ... the Ottoman empire collapsed due to siding with Germany in WW1 and that b@stard kemal (lanatullah)

Sayf you misunderstand the concept of Nationalism that was banned by Islam.

the ottomen were dead long before ww1

meh i agree ... by the 1800s it was over ...

I would even say 1750.

what happened to this? did u quit?

No, but I saw that video so I decided to conquer France and England.