{AAR} Ed's short attention span theatre.

[Ed Anger]

tomorrow? NO TODAY.

AAR: Civil war continues. or I'm tempted to use the cash cheat

VICTORY AGAINST THE SPELLUSTARDS! The Seljuk successor state leads a jihad against the greeks:



The banner of Allah reaches the channel:



Prince Jar Jar Binks bows to the inevitable. He joins a host of Fatimids awaiting execution when the boy caliph gets enough piety to lop their heads off:



The Emirs of Cyernica and Sinai drop out of the war. One army is in Syria, the other in Hijaz:



The Hijaz rebels 3,000 man army got blasted by the Mamluks.

The Caliph comes of age. A good soldier and accountant. Plus he is descended from the Big Mo:



The peace with the pope ends this year. The state CANNOT afford 10,000 kraut barbarians landing in Acre. The manpower of the demesne of the Caliph is exhausted.

[FunkMonk]

Byzantards die

[Ed Anger]

Byzantards die

Byzanteens and the French. 

[Ed Anger]

As the fatimid turns.....

With the war grinding down, The caliph gives one province each to his younger siblings. This gets the demesne under control:



Hopefully when they rebel, they won't have the strength to fuck things up.

Things at home aren't so hot. One wife gets killed by assassins, and one pulls a cunning stunt:





The Assassin body count is around 5, with two wives of the Caliph since they showed up.

ASSAM CHOP!



This gives the Caliph enough piety to get the Assassin troops if the crusaders come:

[Razgovory]

You really need to name one of your Fatamids "Siegebreaker".

[Ed Anger]

You really need to name one of your Fatamids "Siegebreaker".

[Ed Anger]

Everybody gets knifed.



It seems 75% decadence is a trigger.



Okay. I get your point. Literally.



This is getting old.







Time for a big boy war. The Seljuk successor state is in the process of falling apart, so the greeks dropped the soap. Time to call out the 45K Feudal levy and Mameluks. ALLAH ACKBAR

[FunkMonk]

I'm from Anatolia, and I saw kill em all!

[Ed Anger]

KILL!

[Razgovory]

Must be hard to carve things into people's chests using those squiggly Arabic letters.  Also somewhat inconvenient when you use chicks.

"Al-Majid, you were-"

"I was what?  What the hell does this mean?"

"Uh sire,  flip the tit over".

"Oh, 'warned'"

[Ed Anger]

That assassin bullshit better stop when I am bashing in the heads of infidels.

[The Brain]

I'm from Anatolia, and I saw kill em all!

[Ed Anger]

Operation Don't Drop the Soap

The army of Syria opens the offensive into that little overhang dangly bit of the Empire:



The Caliph calls upon the levies of Egypt and the Assassins to form the Army of Egypt:



An army of levies from Jordan and the Hijaz dash ahead and engage the Byzantines in Anatolia. The lighter troops of the prophet suffer against the heavier Greeks at Asponia:



4 Greek provinces fall to the armies of the Caliph. Our partners in Anatolia suck.



The Germans make gains in Muslim occupied southern France:



HOLY SHITBALLS. All armies are called home:



The Fatimids were able to build a warchest, so more Mercs can be hired.

[grumbler]

I'm from Anatolia, and I saw kill em all!

Saw-killing is very Anatolian.  Remember "I came, I sawed, I conquered"?

[Ed Anger]

*groan*