July challenge Byzantine Suicidal

[SuitedQueens]

We temporarily fall into Red Tier, but don't lose a token. Both diplomatic exchanges go off, so we in red for 1 turn, which is not that significant, but notable enough. Talking Diplo all major nations except Seljuks (Mongols Vassal) and France went into war with us. I expect some more stragglers to join later on.







Supreme quality future recruits produced by Vassal. I can't send them Knights this turn because Im negative in cash. I play Develop Region on the last region that doesn't have Regional Roads. Send Extortion letters begging for Metal from our friends.

[SuitedQueens]

Wow, Peace Deal succeeds on the first attempt, which cut off some of our resource generation.. I split main stack into 2 and laid out path for the next 5 turns. We get unlucky with Pillaging attempt because someone Raided the region already. I play Spy on Nobility on somewhat decent character we got after executions. We pick off halfassed enemy stack that didn't have time to ran away and see some of our future opponents who likely will run away from our high Combat Power stacks.

[SuitedQueens]

We finally get the 2nd Mercenary Campaign decision in this campaign. We can get couple of knights or somewhat useless at this point light cavalry. At the same time our 2nd 2-0 General dies from the old age and we get 2 Claims for easy Diplomacy. I start requesting troops from the Vassal so they can catch up to the main forces. We run into the 1st Doom stack of Hungary. They ate up 4 weak units of ours due to bad rolls. Now we rely on Mercenary RGD and Vassal benevolence.

[SuitedQueens]

Possibly the last nation joins the war against us. Vassal and Pillage action has been generous. We continue to our invasion through to France plans and make sure that Vassal forces can catch up. Poland sneaky stack crept up on us. At least we have 100+ Power stack in our Capital that can fight them off. Likely my small fleet will force them to conquer/trade my northern lands which I don't care about. Another turn of 43% token failing. We are gatekept from Ascending status that gonna help in conquest of Catholics. We sweep up another huge stack.

[SuitedQueens]

I have to play Forge Claim because France is too far from our Capital. Lets burn the last witch in our court. Replace them by 2-x General possibly. I hire some units to hold off Poland stack. Double Shell Keep lvl 3 walls gonna help for sure. I won't be accepting Poland Peace deal obviously. My trading region speed is at least 5 times quicker than theirs.

[Surt]

Possibly the last nation joins the war against us. Vassal and Pillage action has been generous. We continue to our invasion through to France plans and make sure that Vassal forces can catch up. Poland sneaky stack crept up on us. At least we have 100+ Power stack in our Capital that can fight them off. Likely my small fleet will force them to conquer/trade my northern lands which I don't care about. Another turn of 43% token failing. We are gatekept from Ascending status that gonna help in conquest of Catholics. We sweep up another huge stack.

Making war pay for itself through plunder and raiding!
So you got a Gain Character is that not useful?

[SuitedQueens]

Making war pay for itself through plunder and raiding!
So you got a Gain Character is that not useful?

If I don't need extra Generals right now I hold that decision to produce a new Hair. I will play it if I don't have 2-x Generals and opponent has x-2 General in charge of the doom stack or they have castles with lvl 4 or above walls.

As for the Let's Play I decided to discontinue because the remainder was trivial. I tested the most extreme scenario and was able to easily cut through Paris and London in record time.