I like your optimism, to think that's only Tesfaye...
I like that he refers to you as 'Heroic Count Tesfaye'. Hilarious.
Yes, obviously he doesn't know Tesfaye that well. LOL
Gotta love Melesse's subtle approach to plotting. How does Sennar manage to pluck the best and the brightest from the world over?
It seems odd that Tesfaye would have moral qualms about killing a fifteen-year-old, but not about killing a sixteen-year-old.
Methinks either he has a skewed moral compass or that Monophysite God has some very odd rules.
Now we just have to wait a year. With your luck, Tesfaye will immediately die and somehow everyone in Armenia will end up loving the little girl Douxess.
One final question: Where is the One Knucklebone of Power? (You thought we'd forgotten about that, hadn't you?)
Oh don't worry, the knuckle bone is still out there, lurking...
Regarding assassinating fifteen- versus sixteen-year olds (never thought I would be writing *that*...)--yes, you're right that there's not much of a difference. She has not yet become an adult, which changes her status in society. In the Middle Ages that happened earlier than in modern times. Not that murdering adults in cold blood is especially right and proper, mind you, so Tesfaye's position here is a little odd.
And of course the fifteen-year old in CK2 has that cute picture of a little girl. I had a hard enough time getting over it when I assassinated my Spymaster wife as King of Polish-Hungary in order to produce an heir and stay in the game. I don't want to add to my psychological baggage
So yes, I admit it, it's more my hang up than Tesfaye.
I had never thought of that: revoking the city + bishopric makes sense for a one-county ruler. Great idea!
Your scheme of transforming your goat-infested wasteland into a base for a plundering warband is quite interesting. It's what people from goat-infested wastelands used to do in medieval times. Unfortunately the game doesn't represent the appropriate mechanics. If you could press besieged settlements for ransom this could be incredibly profitable (it's how the companies operated in the 100 Years War), but capturing enemy characters is too rare to make this profitable.
Moreoever Sennar lacks a fleet. With a fleet you can do some. Viking style coastal raiding: disembark, beat up weaker foes and embark before stronger enemy armies can catch up with you (somehow getting on/off ships is always faster than crossing land borders).
Making your 2 points intrigue wife spymaster is particularly nasty. Why don't you just admit that you want a divorce.
It's funny that you say that about the 100 Years War, because I'm reading A Distant Mirror, and that's where I got the idea from of
briganding for plunder. It can work in some circumstances, but I don't think Sennar will be able to crush resistance quickly
enough to make it cost effective. (Or be mobile enough, as you point out.) I have heard that the devs might add tribute into the
game at some point, which might connect up with this.
I never really looked at that picture before, but it looks like he's giving the other guy the thumbs
up. Makes you think. Or something.
Keep it up!
Thanks! Yes, it is a weird picture. The guy on the right seems to be saying, "You will die here," while pointing to the ground. Maybe the person on the left is doing a "Et tu, Brutus."
Brave man, inviting the knuckle of power to tap that peg into place...
That's one hateful mayor. Out of curiosity, did he end up being the regent for the minority
duchess of Armenia? He seems a dangerous man.
No, that honor went to the second place for worst regent possible: the lying, ambitious, paranoid, drunkard, wroth Count
Kvirike of Ani. And then the duchess dies after her sixteenth birthday. Now I'm feeling even guiltier.
Whom he's gonna ask for divorce, the monophysite.... Patriarch? Pope? God? Or can his own bishop do
it? I never tried divorces as a heretic xD
Wow, good question. I just checked and it turns out that heretics cannot get divorced. There is no one to authorize it.
You'll need to get rid of that duchess sooner or later though. If she marries, and has children,
your claim will be gone
As someone who has just murdered a kind and humble 9 year old to prevent a super duchy from forming, I think that times like these
are bad times for roleplaying. Unless you happen to play a cruel, arbitrary madman
Yes, Tesfaye will need to make sure it happens soon after she turns sixteen or the problems multiply... in this case literally!
Rulers are harder to assassinate than courtiers, so if possible kill the others before they themselves
become rulers. On the other hand, who wants to plot to kill some nobody? I mean, other than people in my court who
apparently are like kittens (who as we all know think of nothing but murder all day).
Great stuff, as always.
Thank you! And thanks for the point about assassinations. That makes sense to do it in that order. They will have a greater
chance of success and cost less, too, I believe, if you go the straight assassination route.
Love this AAR! Reccomended to my friends
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I love the dry sense of humour. Everything from the goat in the hidden tunnel to the 2 Ethiopian Councillors trying to appear as
Greek as possible during the trial
Thanks!
That's funny about the goat in the tunnel--I was thinking to myself... "I put a goat in a hidden tunnel? That's kind of
strange." And then I remembered. Thanks for the flashback!