Were the holy cities fortified during those ages or later on?
Crush all the infidels, massacre them!
Crush all the infidels, massacre them!
Were the holy cities fortified during those ages or later on?
Crush all the infidels, massacre them!
Manuel started to lean and reach for the massive cord that tied to servant's bells in the kitchen. "Would any of you like some wine?"
"No thank you," all three said in near unison.
Well, hi. I've finnaly found the courage to start reading today, and right now I'm at page 11. So let's see how long it takes me to go through 140 pages of a really good AAR. I'll post again after I've read through the whole thing.
I think we could file burning Mecca under the category of "VERY BAD THINGS TO DO."
The Arabian heartland is fairly safe, as is the East Africa coast and Mali.
Servius Magnus - Thank you for all the kind praise! I actually didn't start playing CK myself until I read some of the AARs in this forum - the Byzantine Letters and the Paleologi specifically, so I understand where you're coming from. Half the fun for me is expanding the game beyond its original "intent" through the story - having plots and counterplots to explain game events, etc. etc.
Update is about 60-70% done. Right now I've got a little writing and a lot of graphics to make. So, to hold everyone over, I have a little graphic of what I've been doing in In Nomine while I was procrastinating...
At this point in game its 1580... my Byzantine Empire Westernized in 1562, and has been decisively beating Muslim countries since. I hold Funj, Adal and a small African country in present day Nigeria (forget its name) as vassals from conquest, and have Moldavia, Montenegro and Armenia as diplomatic vassals for future diploannex. Byzantium fields the largest standing army in the world, 120,000 strong, though we're a little technololgically behind (thanks to Westernization, not by far though). Byzantium also has the largest navy - 18 heavy warships, 15 light warships, 50 galleys and 20 transports. My current mission is to take southern Italy, but the alliance climate isn't in favor of such a move, so I think instead I might take on Fez, who owns almost all of north Africa outside of me - they look large and menacing, but in fact, they muster far too few troops.
Of very interesting note is the fate of Poland, who had a royal marriage union with Lithuania and instantly became the most powerful country in the world for some 80 years, before exploding into civil war (which has last twenty years... Poland's monarchy holds no territory of its own, its all occupied). Silesia, Polotsk, Ukraine, and Lithuania all declared independence and are still squabbling over the spoils.
Question: Is this post a refence to the future EU game, or just a In game that you posted to fill the time?
Like I said, there's not enough info on what their names are, but there have been some hints dropped as to what position they hold... Sometime down the line (maybe when we reach some milestone), I'll be really evil and post the current version of the prospective EU3 map I have made. :wacko: