I shall work a bit of thread necromancy on "Aarquitania" to bring you the latest news and happenings from my workbench. After long weeks of suffering, my laptop and its frazzled graphics has at last been repaired by the factory and I can set to work once more!
I present to you my idea for the next Count Lake AAR, ripped from the headlines...
A batch of modern day Somalian pirates are thrust back in time to the year 1066 when their fishing vessel is swallowed by a time-space vortex. Safely making port in Iceland and establishing their superiority over the locals, they set off on a quest to control the most important naval junctions of medieval Europe and extort/ plunder their way to wealth. The English Channel, Gibraltar, the Straights of Marmara, those Danish islands that Copenhagen is near, all will fall before the power of the pirates! The tentative title of this project will be "AARgghhhh! Somali Pirates in CK!"
This will be a themed game with set objectives and a bit of modding. I will first have to design and mod in the Somali crew itself, set up a Somali culture for them and, once I capture key provinces, up their respective incomes to represent piratical activity. You can expect the first updates this weekend!
I really hope that you realize that I am kidding with the idea I set out above. I try to be creative but I can't go overboard! Seriously, I have to install/patch up CKDV on the new comp and then we can start! I should have a solid plan for the airing this weekend. And it will be a comedy. But not with Somali pirates...
Lastly, to my unending shame, I have neglected to thank each and every one of my readers for the enormous honor that is winning two ACA's with Aarquitania! It has been a hectic period and I completely forgot to check the thread after the results were posted. This belated thanks does not come close to expressing the feelings of happiness and joy that engaging this crowd in Aarquitania has given me over the previous months. Thank you all!