stnylan: Hmm... If the Sultan has just been sending his enemies over to be slaughtered, he sure has a lot of enemies!
Duke of Wellington: Hey, these are Turks we're talking about. To a Cossack you might as well ask if he checked the age and sex of an ant before he squished it!
RGB: "like a force of nature" - I like that!
mlepkows: Well, that kind of makes sense to explain the almost instant annihilation of the Turks. I also have a screenshot of the second time it happened, this time the starting odds were a mere 4 to 1 and the battle lasted only one day, although I did lose 23 men that time! It certainly seems like good generals can make a huge difference - I am in fact four points behind the Turks in land tech (9 to 13).
JaxomCA: Well, I'm not sure I'd be allowed to post the precise wording of that finely crafted document...
J.Passepartout: I'm looking forward to your poem!
Chief Ragusa: I will do my best! The danger of fighting on for too long and trying to grab more is that Yuriy will leap in with peace offer that gives me nothing!
valzoz_p94: That's the general idea! It's also doing wonders for my prestige and army tradition.
coz1: Yes, this war was certainly more eventful than the Kazan charade, no doubt about it!
Lord E: I never quite reached Constantinople, but I did my best...
Judas Maccabeus et al: Well, to clear the matter up, in Ilya Repin's painting, the writing instrument preferred by the Cossacks when writing to the Sultan is quite clearly a
quill pen. Another piece of trivia - the scribe who is holding the quill is in fact a portrait of the Ukrainian historian Yavornytsky, a contemporary and close friend of Repin.
merrick: Thanks for that word of warning. But we have our sabres at the ready!
Well, I am preparing the next update, which should be up later today. Thanks to all for reading and posting!