Longest and/or Nastiest Great Holy War?

[Congo_Jack]

So I just fought off a Jihad for Jerusalem that lasted 20 years and was pretty brutal. My emperor died in it and by the end of the war 1.8 (ish) million men had died in battle alone ignoring attrition. I'm not sure if this most brutal war i've fought or not but its gotta be up there.

During this same game a reformed Tengri great holy war for part of the Seljuk empire has been goin on for 120 years and shows bo signs of ending. This is the longest war I've ever seen in CK2.

What are the longest wars people have seen? And what are the most brutal?

[Rostan]

1.800.000 men died? How is that even possible? Manpower cannot recover that fast AFAIK.

[Congo_Jack]

Well seemingly every muslim ruler in the world joined the war against me. On my side was every major catholic country and the Byzantine empire. Throw in all the catholic and muslim holy orders and half the worlds mercenaries plus retinues which all recover numbers fairly quickly...

80,000 men died in the very first battle of the war and that was just me against the Abbasid army before any allies were involved. Like I said, it was a fairly brutal war.

[Cheese]

I had one Sunni Jihad for Persia I was defending against that lasted a really, really long time.I started losing when a Shia Jihad was also declared for Perisa, but eventually won when Catholics declared a Crusade against the Sunni Caliph.

[Sol]

As a Norse, I raided Rome down to nothing, took it - then Venice, then Constantinople. I would raid out and return then fabricate claims. Then I set my eyes on Jerusalem - which worked out okay at first. Then I took Mecca and Medina. I was on a real roll. My massive raiding army even began to take a few spots in Afghanistan and western India.

When the fourth ruler died, the kingdom was thrown into civil war, Christian and Muslims declared a Crusade. All those Jarls that I ignored gained a lot of power, took all of england and when they declared War against the Catholics, they lost all of England very quickly - while the rest of my Christian/Muslim holdings were retaken one at a time until all I had was Sjaelland, and a couple spots in West India.

I was a Republic Norse aiming for Reformation and got nuked all at once. I was a bit displeased. In the end, Byzantium and Abbasid grew large, and blobbed to imputiny. This war lasted about 220 years, involved the Norse/Reformed Norse, Catholic and Muslim religions all in revolt during the crusades and half of them also at war with each other. No clue how many died, stacks of 10k-30k were dying left and right all over the place.

[redshirt172]

Way back when I first started playing this game, probably my wars for Germany. Off and on against the HRE, the Pope, Italy, and France for, oh, 200 years or so. Yes, I put them in one war, because war was almost constant. I don't think I was ever really at peace, actually, until the game ended. Catholics won Germany, in the end.

[Danny888]

Originally posted by Congo_Jack:

Well seemingly every muslim ruler in the world joined the war against me. On my side was every major catholic country and the Byzantine empire. Throw in all the catholic and muslim holy orders and half the worlds mercenaries plus retinues which all recover numbers fairly quickly...

80,000 men died in the very first battle of the war and that was just me against the Abbasid army before any allies were involved. Like I said, it was a fairly brutal war.

hi same with me here..i fought an holy brutal war ith muslim..draggin til i lost most my ruler n son..sadden me