My third game now with karaman. actually it was extremly easy to establish myself in east anatolia and caucasus. my problem was just one thing. my alliance to mamluks.
they are extremly powerful now, have huge armies but dont help. the mechanic where u can tell ur ally to siege certain provinces doesnt work at all. i had now 3 long tries, each 2 hours where i established myself easily in early game but lost everything because i trusted in mamluks.
i start a war against ottomans, and the reaction of mamluks is priceless. instead of using our both armies to attack ottomans, which would make the war easy to win, mamluks decide...to go in circles. they run around in egypt for no reason, doing nothing. in my 2nd game they went to morocco to siege 1 province while leaving me fighting all alone against ottomans. when they are about to siege moroccos province they break it up because morocco sieges theirs and make morocco siege theirs while not being able anymore to join me in my war against ottomans. these situations happened in all 3 games. i have no idea how i should motivate them joining me in anatolia, because they simply dont want to somehow. when i go to them with my armies and tell them to join mine, they just let their vassal join me but actually dont follow my army or help me in any kind of way in anatolia. i am srsly fed up right now and not motivated to start a new game with karaman. but to come back to the topics question is, what is your strategy to make the a.i. do what u want in war. sometimes they are helpful, as i could see in other karman runs on youtube, but in all of my 3 games mamluks simply didnt move at all into anatolia. should i maybe only attack when i am having 1 more huge ally? i am playing the game for 3 years and the a.i. changed its mentality during this time many times, and it was always a mystery to anticipate their behaviour. i cant see any pattern at all. there are just sometimes these moments where u just hope your ally to be at least decent and then the whole run gets destroyed by total nonsensical behaviour.
they are extremly powerful now, have huge armies but dont help. the mechanic where u can tell ur ally to siege certain provinces doesnt work at all. i had now 3 long tries, each 2 hours where i established myself easily in early game but lost everything because i trusted in mamluks.
i start a war against ottomans, and the reaction of mamluks is priceless. instead of using our both armies to attack ottomans, which would make the war easy to win, mamluks decide...to go in circles. they run around in egypt for no reason, doing nothing. in my 2nd game they went to morocco to siege 1 province while leaving me fighting all alone against ottomans. when they are about to siege moroccos province they break it up because morocco sieges theirs and make morocco siege theirs while not being able anymore to join me in my war against ottomans. these situations happened in all 3 games. i have no idea how i should motivate them joining me in anatolia, because they simply dont want to somehow. when i go to them with my armies and tell them to join mine, they just let their vassal join me but actually dont follow my army or help me in any kind of way in anatolia. i am srsly fed up right now and not motivated to start a new game with karaman. but to come back to the topics question is, what is your strategy to make the a.i. do what u want in war. sometimes they are helpful, as i could see in other karman runs on youtube, but in all of my 3 games mamluks simply didnt move at all into anatolia. should i maybe only attack when i am having 1 more huge ally? i am playing the game for 3 years and the a.i. changed its mentality during this time many times, and it was always a mystery to anticipate their behaviour. i cant see any pattern at all. there are just sometimes these moments where u just hope your ally to be at least decent and then the whole run gets destroyed by total nonsensical behaviour.
