Hopefully the Hajj events also cover this:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Safa_and_Al-Marwah
Or there's always modders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Safa_and_Al-Marwah
Or there's always modders.
Midsummer's Eve Mini AAR
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Something to justify the cost of the base game would be nice.
Anyway, the AAR looks quite promising. Definately looking forward to this.
Not to go off topic here, but the Extended Cut of ME3 is still the same terrible ME3 ending. The DLC just makes it longer. As for what I would have wanted, perhaps BioWare could have kept all its promises?
Anyway, back on topic, we've heard that Byzantium has had some of its settlements removed for balancing reasons. I wonder if Iberia has been re-balanced too.
Kinda disappointed to see that in this AAR the spanish and Seljuks both suffer ahistorical defeats as usual.
Every PI game becomes completely ahistorical as soon as you unpause it for the first time, without exception.
The game play mechanics put the Seljuks in an awkward position. The Seljuks have to raise every levy they can spare to march into Byzantium, an equally powerful state which has the attrition advantage in its own provinces which Alp Arslan has to occupy. Because the war is for all of Armenia, he has to occupy a lot of holdings to secure victory. Also, take into account the geography of the Seljuk realm. If all of your levies are in Anatolia and one of your Emirs back in Persia decides to revolt, what do you do? March back to fight him and let the Byzantines retake all of their holdings? If you don't go back, then the revolters are going to gain independence sooner than you think and then you risk having your realm fall apart from behind you.
Ive often though a temporary modifier during the war that grants Alp Arslan the loyalty of his vassals until the war is over would do the trick of keeping the Turks powerful enough to win. but now that they will be playable that sort of unbalancing probably wouldnt do anymore.
The biggest real factor of the Byzantine defeat was the poor state of their own army and internal division. The Battle of Manzikert was the one single moment that really made all the difference. Emperor Romanos had been hoping that a military victory would cement his position and unify his vassals behind him, since he wasn't too well-liked. When he faced the Turks though, his army fell apart and he was captured and forced to concede all of Armenia. This sent the Byzantine Empire into a downward spiral of strife and decline, and opened the door for the gradual Turkish conquest of Anatolia. Basically it was the worst possible outcome for the whole situation for the Byzantines, and things might well have gone very differently. I'm happy with the setup as it is, it's a real challenge to actually pull off what Alp Arslan did. Hopefully introducing the new mechanics to the Byzantine empire will make them a little less stable so they aren't quite so hard to beat though.
This looks awsome, there's two things i've ALWAYS wanted to do..unite spain under the muslims and push into europe!, and also conquer greece as turks and push into europe..
And I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is that I have not yet seen Byzantium lose that first war or seen the spanish minors not have their territory be rolled back.
As I explained in the rest of my post, the game play mechanics do not favour geographically large realms that send all of their levies far away from home. It's just a reality of the mechanics.
Or we could not discuss ME3 here. Just a thought.
On an actually related note, I will happily give Paradox all my moneys as long as they keep making these DLC.
If your kings residence is in Mecca... Is the Hajj shorter then if you play a muslime in... lets say Iceland?
"So uh... Sire... Why did it take a year and a half for you to go on the Hajj? We live like... Two miles from Mecca."
"I uh... Got lost in the desert."
Man, I drank so much Skåne, and I ate this delicious cake, then I barbecued some bore, we had no rain whatsoever and the sun was shining, we listened to Thomas Ledin, the women wore short skirts...
Looks promising. Axum will have a chance now with the succession crisis on the Fatimids side. Belly dancers. Yumyum.
Best luck with testing. Go !
Best luck with testing. Go !
Ugh... some the new event paintings are awful compared to the original christian ones in my opinion.