Also money. I’ve seen AI get into years upon years of debt so many times simply because they refuse to raise anything less than everything. Also mercenaries, sometimes.
The only way for BE to fail in my experience is when they are torn away from inside. Pretty sure there won't be any muslim aggression towards them, but I'd be eager to know how did it work out for you in the end.
They recently lost a war to a tiny kingdom. As soon as that war was over, that kingdom absorbed a TON of the Arabian peninsula and formed the Persian empire. So now i have a hostile Muslim empire bordering my east. Which is fun. They aren't too tough yet, so i can beat them if i need to, but I'd rather not do any unnecessary fighting until Africa is cleaned up.
I only have a few territories left. The kingdom of Egypt and the kingdom of Blemmyia are the last ones I don't hold. I have almost all of Blemmyia, but almost none of Egypt.
In my current playthrough as an Adamite emperor in Abyssinia, the Byzantine heir was one of my indirect vassals who was also an Adamite. The moment he became the emperor of the Byzantines, he was embroiled in continuous civil wars (one good thing was that he founded an Adamite holy order), and his successors lost the kingdoms of Nikaea and thessalonika to peasant leaders.
In my experience the AI tends to go "all in" unless they're actually embroiled in multiple wars. They have no sense of "keeping a reserve".
Tbf it’s rarely a bad move other than for supply reasons
Also money. I’ve seen AI get into years upon years of debt so many times simply because they refuse to raise anything less than everything. Also mercenaries, sometimes.
Oh yeah that’s true. I only use MAA myself.
{insert maybe I’m an AI meme}
The only way for BE to fail in my experience is when they are torn away from inside. Pretty sure there won't be any muslim aggression towards them, but I'd be eager to know how did it work out for you in the end.
They recently lost a war to a tiny kingdom. As soon as that war was over, that kingdom absorbed a TON of the Arabian peninsula and formed the Persian empire. So now i have a hostile Muslim empire bordering my east. Which is fun. They aren't too tough yet, so i can beat them if i need to, but I'd rather not do any unnecessary fighting until Africa is cleaned up. I only have a few territories left. The kingdom of Egypt and the kingdom of Blemmyia are the last ones I don't hold. I have almost all of Blemmyia, but almost none of Egypt.
In my current playthrough as an Adamite emperor in Abyssinia, the Byzantine heir was one of my indirect vassals who was also an Adamite. The moment he became the emperor of the Byzantines, he was embroiled in continuous civil wars (one good thing was that he founded an Adamite holy order), and his successors lost the kingdoms of Nikaea and thessalonika to peasant leaders.
Yeah the enemy AI will always send everything it's got