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[a1s]

He's too busy being a Caliph?
Or did you mean why they let you do it in general?

[pisskop]

I really wish reformed pagans could convert other pagans. Zoroastrians can, but not pagans. It's a bit silly.

I found an old thread with a simple modification for it.  Maybe it still works?
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?691372-Can-reformed-pagans-send-missionaries/page3&s=12465c78b740affb8595f50ed37e9314

[Satarus]

Please explain to me how this makes any sense.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Looks like some event is chosing a target that it probably shouldn't.  Sorta like the spymaster reporting in that he caught himself plotting against you.

Also tag that as NSFW.  Not everyone wants to see that kind of (border) gore.

[Sheb]

Was that a shattered mod mode?

[andrea]

how am I supposed to deal with hordes?

I started as that zoroastrian duke, worked my way up to owning a large chunck of the region... and then Seljuks. 50k soldiers who suffered nearly no attrition.

Over the course of 2 lost wars in which they took a sizeable chunck of land, I manage to destroy their event troops, so I decide to attack and... 30k new event troops. half of them being horse archers. And they never split the stack. Is there anything else I can do, besides maybe fleeing into russia or india and hoping they pick a fight with Abbasids?

( Can muster, together with mercenaries, 25000 soldiers, 5000 of which horse archers. they are enough to inflict 2000-3000 casualties while defending on a mountain)

[umiman]

Find a big river. Camp behind it. Put your best generals in your army with the best traits for the job. If your force is smaller than the enemy's they will come barreling at you.

Now pray.

You can also just circle around them and start capturing their lands. If you move fast, you can just negate any advantages they get when they capture yours.

[Elfeater]

Pray very very hard. I had an empire crumble becasue of Islamic hordes, from a small guy no less, damn event spawned troops.

[andrea]

And I was afraid I was just playing badly   makes me feel a bit better.

well, I'll keep trying and pray. Keep gathering enough gold until I can hire the whole list f mercenaries, things like that.

[Elfeater]

Haha its sometimes just RGN, like the damn invasion of my glorious Norse Spain, 100k+ of troops against my 50-60k or so.
Those numbers may even have been higer on both sides, but it was a while back.

[dennislp3]

Sometimes if you have enough land they will split the giant stack

[Sheb]

I remember fighting the Ilkhanate as Khazaria by just sending all my troops on the side of the Caspian their event troops weren't and sieging more land than than they did (since they didn't split the stacks, they would only siege a couple provinces at a time). I won a couple defensive wars that way, then the Golden Horde showed up and in a glorious battle, 80000 Golden Horde soldier faced off 70000 Ilkhanate men, with something like 70000 dead Mongols at the end.

[umiman]

My first time against them was hilarious.

I had such a massive empire I thought I was ready. The hordes appeared and I fielded about 130,000 men to fight them. It.... didn't end well.

After that I did like Sheb did and just made dozens of tiny strikeforces to capture as many of their provinces as I could. Did that for about 20 years before I had enough troops to fight again. Even then I plunked all my troops behind a river and prayed. I remember leaving it at speed 1 while the battle was going on and seeing the fight live. It was so freaking intense.

[Sindain]

First time I fought the mongols it was pretty easy, but irrc they split their stacks. It was in 1.0 and I had conquered 3/4ths of the world before they showed up.

Later times didn't go so well, I remember I made like Sheb and Umiman to take out the Sejuks in my Zoroastrian game when ToG was first released.

[GreatJustice]

Was that a shattered mod mode?

Yup. I'm trying to wreck Catholic moral authority and leave a really strong Caliphate to fight when I switch to a Cathar country, but the AI is hilariously bad at using the Caliphate and consistently manages to lose wars despite owning the entirety of the Arabian Empire, most of southern Italy including Rome, and having a retinue larger than the levies of pretty much everyone else.

[EnigmaticHat]

Yeah, playing as a non-Muslim doesn't do credit to just how powerful the religion is.  You've got your conquest wars like the Norse, your Holy Wars like the Catholics, and the ability to invade a Kingdom for no reason, which is just yours.

Once a human player gets a good empire under their control they can just alternate HWs and Invasions and conquer the whole world.