You're right, I mixed the Mongols with the Huns in my mind.Uh, Justinian's reconquest was about 600 years before the Mongols showed up. And while the Cataphracts (somewhat based on Persian mounted archers/heavy cavalry) certainly used bows, I think they're better represented as heavy cavalry, since that was their most decisive role.
The English King had various holdings in France right from the conquest in 1066 up until Mary I lost Calais in 1570ish.
The Hundred Years war was really a continuation of past conflict, only this time Edward III claimed the throne of France. The disputes were over the sovereignty of English posessions in France - the english king held them as a fief from the french king, but wanted to hold them in full sovereignty.
You'll probably be surprised by the extent of the so called Angevin Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angevin_empire), at the beginning of the 13th century - probably around the time that the screenshot is from!
Don't get confused though. The Angevins were buried in France. It's fair to say that a vassal of the French king was also king of England, not the other way round!!!
Even wierder than the position of the King of England, there were lesser nobles who held land in fief from both the King of France and the King of England; at least one even sent troops to serve on both sides in the wars! It says much about how it was not "total war" in that negotiations were organised to agree how this would work...I had understood that at certain periods in history the King of England was a vassal (of sorts, I guess) to the King of France, but never grasped the full extent of it all.
Even wierder than the position of the King of England, there were lesser nobles who held land in fief from both the King of France and the King of England; at least one even sent troops to serve on both sides in the wars! It says much about how it was not "total war" in that negotiations were organised to agree how this would work...
Don't get confused though. The Angevins were buried in France. It's fair to say that a vassal of the French king was also king of England, not the other way round!!!
btw Is it just me or are the CoA's a bit weird? (on the left under the char head. they seem to be a bit off.....like not in the middle of the Arms for some reason. (same in all other screens))
I hope that there are scenarios where the Mongols can overrun all of continental Europe. Then you would have to escape to the British isles, or Scandinavia, or the Maghreb.
I hope that there are scenarios where the Mongols can overrun all of continental Europe. Then you would have to escape to the British isles, or Scandinavia, or the Maghreb.
Will auto-reinforcement be the norm? And if so, can that feature be turned off?
King,
This raises an interesting question.
Will auto-reinforcement be the norm? And if so, can that feature be turned off?
It's unrealistic in EU III (and one of the primary reasons I don't play that game). In CK II it would be staggeringly so.
Still, a lot of questions are not answered. For example would there be mechanism preventing mongols from annexing large ammounts of non-steppe land (historically they sticked to Pontic Steppes, simply replacing Cumans, and treating other conquests as tributary states)? It would be silly to have nomadic, horse-heavy Mongols in Finland or Alpes IMO.
disabled for mongols I think. (Heared some rumors about it somewhere ^^)*Cough* demesne limit ? *cough*
That would actually be historically accurate. Most historians agree that Mongolian raids extended as far into Europe as the Alps and as far north as modern-day Finland. They weren't able to conquer and assimilate like they were in the east, but there is definitely archeological evidence to show they were raiding much farther in-land.