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Quite an enjoyable read, RossN. Probably about the best you could expect for this adventure. The Levant and Egypt are Christian and the Kingdom of Jerusalem looks to be powerful.

Good luck in the awAARds and I look forward to your next effort!

Vann
 
Well. That was unfortunate. It's been an enjoyable ride, I look forward to your next aar.:)
 
All in all, this was another relatively short gem of an AAR from you, RossN.
Sorry to see it end.
Though your apparent penchant for tragic ends does alarm in regards to "The Bear in Winter" ;)
 
And - it's over!

No, no, now that I've seen that I don't think so. But really, what with all the underage kings, what else could you expect?

A great read and looking forward to seeing updates in your other projects.
 
Wow, what a way to go out! With the King troubles you had I'd been expecting some sort of large civil war but I never thought that things would end with the disintegration of Aleppo. Still, a very well told story.
 
A very fitting end, especially for such a calamitous kingdom. However, the Levant is still in Christian (and, hopefully stable) hands, and none of the Mongol Khanates seemed to have ravaged any of the lands. It looks like Aleppo has become something of a phoenix--even in its own death, it appears to be leaving behind some vigorous successor states.

The story of the king's murder and the loss of the ring was a nice touch, too. It certainly gives the story a legendary feeling to it.
 
Well, I certainly take no pleasure in being correct. But you handled the bloodletting very well. Things will likely take a while to calm down in that world.

Loved the final bit about the ring, by the way. I suspect that will go down as legend and be told as a story for ages.

Nicely done and sad to see it end, RossN. Congrats on finishing and I hope to see a new one soon.
 
Vann the Red: Thank you, I'm pleased I did so well. :)

Nikolai: Thank you. :)

Eams: Well, after I lost Aleppo and had all my cities occupied a happy ending seemed odd somehow. :eek:o ;)

ComradeOm: Thank you very much. :)

RGB: The sheer number of underage rulers... :wacko: At one point I had three kings in three years!

VILenin: One of the problem I had was that Garcia had no brothers and sisters left. It felt wrong handing out thrones to non-family members so I was stuck with too big an empire until too late (I certainly would have given Italy to a younger brother or sister, and maybe Mesopotamia too).

Specialist290: True, true. :) And I've a little more to say about the ring below.

coz1: Than you. :)


I glad you enjoyed the story of the ring. I saw it as a symbol, both of the Kingdom of Aleppo and the family itself. García was the last true King of Aleppo and the last Prince of Antioch, and his downfall saw the close of a chapter that had begun with the first Bohemund. Ambition had made the de Poitou's the most powerful family in Christendom; ambition had ruined them: García's father and elder brother died in wars to extend their territory, leaving the kingdom to an infant. Ambition was both a blessing and a curse to the family.

It was the nobles however who did the deed; in their own blind ambition and greed they destroyed the kingdom itself - and themselves in the process. Of the great Dukes who had attended the coronation of 1430, practically none survived to see the fall of Baghdad. They fought the Crown, they fought themselves and in the end they ended up with... what? I doubt 'King' Vincenzo of Aleppo will last long against the Eastern Emperor.

Like the Regicides of King García they caused the loss of both the prize they wanted so dearly and of their own souls.

That, at any rate, is how I saw it. :)
 
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Over-expansion and ambitions of the nobility aren't something only Alleppons are affected with. All in all, they did relatively well; it was just surprising how well you survived as a unit against the odds, and how quick the fall came when it did.
 
Ah, and so one extremely bad ruler and everything comes tumbling down... ah, the chaos of CK politics. :)

I still think it'd be fun to see the Aleppo remnants in EU3... will these smaller states survive with a huge Timurid Empire next door, etc. etc.? :)
 
The ring story was a lovely lovely touch. I think, sir, you can add another jewel to your crown of excellent AARs.
 
Yes, I have to pipe up with "I love the story with the ring" like the rest of your readers. The nicest touch to end a story, not to mention that sublime air of tragic, mythic finality.
 
I guess it shows that it's the little details in a story, like your last king's final moments, that really elevate an AAR. :)
 
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