Has anyone ever actually seen Timur be successful?

[Eltener]

In almost 1800 hours and a lot of games that went to 1450 I've never seen Timur even attempt to take any land let alone go on the conquering spree he's supposed to. Even using console to make him spawn just makes him sit around in someone's court doing nothing. All the other horde invasions work great so it really sucks that (in my experience at least) the Timurids always fail.

 

[majdavlk]

in my game timur usually conquers only a few counties

 

[TinWiz]

No, I haven't. You're right, that's odd.

 

[Kainser]

I guess that's why they called him Timur the lame.

 

[DPS]

I have, but it's been at least a couple of DLCs ago.

 

[Sir Kenneth]

In my current game he's been pretty successful and carved out a nice piece of the map for himself between the Gazvanids and the Seljuks. This is the first game I have played where this happened though. Will post a screenshot once I am home from work.

 

[Inarr]

In 800 hours, I only seen successful Timur once - in my first game, when he conquered almost entire de jure Persian Empire and converted to Buddhist. I rarely see him appear at all.

 

[Sir Kenneth]

Here you go, a rare sighting of Timur accomplishing something!

 

[Dantilus]

The only time I noticed him recently was right before the court he was staying in carted him off to China as a eunuch. Which should... probably not be allowed to happen.

 

[Lewa263]

I saw him conquer some land once when I was playing as the Mongol Empire. He had appeared in my court to start with but I didn't notice him until he got some troops and declared war on one of my neighbors. This was before Jade Dragon, though.

 

[Byzantium2000]

I play with random turkic conquerors and see Timur succeed almost everytime in games that he appears.

 

[redtide]

Are the Turkic conquerors marked as historic, such that they're not subject to pruning?

 

[When Horse Archers Attack]

Timur who?

Here you go, a rare sighting of Timur accomplishing something!

Holy shit, that Georgia tho

 

[Ezumiyr]

I haven't in a long time (2575 hours in game).
My theory is that the invasion of Timur worked well when it was first introduced into the game, then with later expansions and reworks it was just not adapted anymore. If I remember correctly, Timur was successful when he was able to grab huge portions of territory at once.
Whether Timur being unsucessful is the result of blobs being hard to conquer, no blob meaning Timur can't grab enough territory fast enough, or lack of scaling of his army I don't know, but it's probably one of those.