On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 1:56:09 PM UTC-5, Sheldon England wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> <rant>
> Good lord, these Timurids are truly men of steel.
> My campaign was going well as England. All the lands west of Poland are
> English -- only Rome remains untouched as a courtesy. North Africa is
> English all the way to Alexandria. I've been nestled in Jerusalem since
> the first crusade and now control most of Turkey as I continue my
> eastern advance. All the oceans and seas have been English for many
> years. The Mongols have come, trashed the Egyptians but were no match
> for my armies and have been eroded to just a half dozen territories. I
> have just discovered a new world to the west.
> I have 'won' but want to complete the victory by taking every region.
> I'm stubborn that way.
> Then the Timurids arrive from Asia. A little party of ten or so armies
> wandered across Baghdad and made their way to the Mediterranean without
> bothering to attack any of the Mongols or Egyptians they passed. They
> reach the coast and take Antioch from me and, dang, they are truly
> invincible. I have a stream of 'modern' armies flowing into the region
> across the Mediterranean but they seem useless. Somehow ALL Timurid
> armies get to join in each battle and five-to-one odds with my 5 star
> general against their 7 star leader are futile. Massive casualties.
> After four years of fighting, the Timurids have decimated my forces and
> heretics abound in the middle east. The second crusade is not coming
> together and my men are all deserting. No exaggeration, I have now lost
> 20+ full-strength armies to these guys and reduced them to three
> indestructible armies. They clearly have laser guided gauss weapons or
> something. My experienced assassins have turned into kittens or
> something. I am inclined to just encircle their one territory and wait
> until their leader dies of old age or something. More armies are
> streaming in but they all lack experience.
> Why don't the Timurids rule the world if they were so damn potent?
> </rant>
> Every time I end the session I cuss and swear that I'll just start over
> ... but now it's personal and I'm gonna grind their Timurid bones to
> dust!
>
> - Sheldon
Well they did demolish many united Christian Ottoman Egyption coalitions so....yea quite ruthless.