First game as the Duke of Brittany, I had just taken my first Irish province, and was stuck with the ten year wait to try and take the next. I saw that it was much easier to declare on the Moors that had overrun Spain. I called up a holy order of 7300 and started crusading in Castille. After province hopping and generally good cutoff moves, I had killed 15,000 Moors and still had 5000 crusaders left. The war score was 97%, the seige of the target was 76% and at the current rate would be done in 2 weeks. That irish bastard revolts AND has me excommunicated. Holy order poofs, white peace and a new Irish head on my castle gate. I still have not gotten a Spainish province, but France had half of Spain 10 years later.
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