History
Kilij Arslan II was sultan of Rum from 1156 until his death in 1192. In 1176 his army defeated Manuel I Komnenos at Myriokephalon, the battle that stopped the last great Byzantine push into Anatolia. A tile from the Alaeddin palace in Konya shows his face from his own reign.
The 1178 start lists him at 46, two years after that battle, with Rum independent and large. The game age and the usual historical birth window do not line up cleanly, so this page keeps the sultan's reign dates and the age printed on the bookmark, and does not invent a birth year.
In the game
| Seat | Detail |
|---|---|
| Start | 1178 |
| Bookmark | Call of the Empire |
| Title | Rum |
| Realm size | 24 counties |
| Status | Independent |
| Difficulty | Easy, the bookmark rating in patch 1.20.1.2 |
| Culture | Turkmen |
| Faith | Sunni |
| Age | 46 on the bookmark |
How to play
Goal. Hold the Sultanate of Rum and expand it against Byzantium and the crusader states.
A strong Anatolian realm in 1178. Players often pick Rum when they want an empire built in the middle of the timeline.
Where this run fails. A war on two fronts, against Byzantium and a neighbor at once, or a succession in a realm this wide.