The Catholic Caliphate - A spamAAR
Timeline of events:
1111 A.D. Duchess Catherine of Burgundy funds a trade mission to exotic lands in hopes of a major payoff.
1112 A.D. The Duchess arrives in Cairo, and strikes a lucrative deal with the then-Shiite Caliph, Ali Smink 'the Holy'. The deal is great for both parties, and Ali and Catherine part as lifelong friends. They remain in correspondence.
1120 A.D. Catherin and Ali's correspondences take a religious turn. Though they are good friends in a secular sense, Catherine is a devout Catholic, and makes relentless efforts to convert Ali. Ali, on his part, is the head of the Shiite faith, head of an enourmous decadent family and the leader of one of the larger kingdoms in the muslim world. FOR WHATEVER REASON (I was playing as the duchess and tried to see what would happen if I chose the "try to convert friend" thing that popped up), Ali decides to abandon his faith and follow Catholicism.
1121 A.D. The Suuni Caliph declares a new age of Jihad in response to Ali's heresy. Most of the muslim takes up arms against Ali the Catholic Caliph - including nearly all of his vassals.
1223 A.D. Ali crushes the revolt and converts all of his vassals. Now he has to fight of the Jihad!
With these devout, bloodthirsty, racist europeans under his command, Sultan Smink is able to rally his forces to attack the invading jihadists before they can organize all of their foces.
The plan is simple: we bust up the suuni caliph's home
(apparently he lives in some mosque in the middle of nowehere)
This plan is brilliant; the Suuni Caliph is the leader of the Jihad. Capture him and they'll all give up!
As Ali marches through the desert, 5,000 of his own men dying from attrition, he arrives at the Caliph's house only to find it empty, roughed up, with an "Under New Management" sign out front.
Apprently someone kicked the Caliph out. Now neither the shia or the suuni have leaders. So much for jihad.
So here's how this goes: I play Crusader Kings 2, a Grand Strategy Game by Paradox Interactive where you kill babies sleep with your daughters simulate the rise and fall of dynasties in medieval europe/west asia/india.
I'll attach names from the guild to other characters, dynasties or organizations. For example, after Sultan Ali Fatamid converted to Christianity, I changed his dynasty from "Fatamid" to "Smink", after everybody's favorite guild member*.
If you have one you'd like to claim, let me know! (
A list of possible things to claim (Not exhaustive):
Powerful Realms of the World:
The Byzantines
The Turks [There are three: The Kingdom of Mesopotamia in the west, the Seljuk Sultanate in Iran, and the Ghaznavid Sultanate in Afghanistan/Venturing into India]
The Holy Roman Empire, Hungary
France
Poland
Some choices Inside the Smink Sultante:
Either the Knights Hospitalier or the Knights Templar
The Grand Emirs of Syria and Transjordan
THE SMINK SULTANATE
Obviously inspired by Sultan Smink's great wisdom in fighting for christ against the muslim hordes, and for securing the stewardship of Jerusalem for Christ, both the Knights Templar and the Knight Hospitalier have sword alleigaince to the Sultan.
With these devout, bloodthirsty, racist europeans under his command, Sultan Smink is able to rally his forces to attack the invading jihadists before they can organize all of their foces.
The plan is simple: we bust up the suuni caliph's home
(apparently he lives in some mosque in the middle of nowehere)
This plan is brilliant; the Suuni Caliph is the leader of the Jihad. Capture him and they'll all give up!
As Ali marches through the desert, 5,000 of his own men dying from attrition, he arrives at the Caliph's house only to find it empty, roughed up, with an "Under New Management" sign out front.
Apprently someone kicked the Caliph out. Now neither the shia or the suuni have leaders. So much for jihad.
So here's how this goes: I play Crusader Kings 2, a Grand Strategy Game by Paradox Interactive where you kill babies sleep with your daughters simulate the rise and fall of dynasties in medieval europe/west asia/india.
I'll attach names from the guild to other characters, dynasties or organizations. For example, after Sultan Ali Fatamid converted to Christianity, I changed his dynasty from "Fatamid" to "Smink", after everybody's favorite guild member*.
If you have one you'd like to claim, let me know! (
A list of possible things to claim (Not exhaustive):
Powerful Realms of the World:
The Byzantines
The Turks [There are three: The Kingdom of Mesopotamia in the west, the Seljuk Sultanate in Iran, and the Ghaznavid Sultanate in Afghanistan/Venturing into India]
The Holy Roman Empire, Hungary
France
Poland
Some choices Inside the Smink Sultante:
Either the Knights Hospitalier or the Knights Templar
The Grand Emirs of Syria and Transjordan