A quick look at Europe.
I start getting alliance offers immediately. First Bavaria asks me to join. Palatinate and Luxemburg are also in the alliance. I can’t see the sense in this so I decline. Soon after
Tyrol asks me to join their alliance. They have Styria, Strasburg, Wirtemberg and Hussites
in the alliance. I like this group because they are all located close to one another so they could theoretically help out in a war and I especially like the Hussites who have a large army at
their disposal. Problem with them is that they are in a war with Hungary and it shows no
sign of ending. Now my memory of the Hussites is limited. I know their general history
and what happened to their movement but I don’t remember the dates but I’m not going
to look them up. I do have the feeling they aren’t going to be around long enough to be
of help. Still I send gifts to all my new allies and improve relations for the coming war.
Oh and by the end of 1434 Tyrol annexes Strasburg.
In January 1434 I get a new leader. Yea he’s nothing to write home about but I need
anything that I can get to help my land forces.
Also in 1434 I have my first discovery, Quatar!
December 1435 and the Ottomans devour Banat. Later in 1438 they add Konya.
I’m going to need my new leader when revolts pop up in Corfu and Crete. I can only
transport 5,000 men at a time so I load up 5,000 Cavalry and send the to Corfu. They lose
half their force but win the battle. I shuttle them back to Veneto and load up another
5,000 Cavalry and I’ll be a monkey’s uncle but they win again. Not that I was worried.
I don’t have any idea how this happened but nothing about vassals surprises me in
this game.
Saddly in July 1436 this happened. No surprise but I thought they just might survive by some whimsical twist of the game. So Bohemia wins against the Hussites and has Austria as a vassal. Then a year later Austria cancels the vassalization and becomes Emperor and Vassalizes Bohemia. It’s nice how we came full circle isn’t it.
Okay enough already I’ve put down my revolts, the alliance I’m in is between vassalization of any thing that moves so I declare war! Tyrol, Wirtemberg and Bavaria join me against Mantua (my goal), Tuscany, Modena and Milan.
Okay so bear with me on this because I’m not going to waste time with photos and you will see why. I’ve got my 16,000 man army in Veneto and I’m sitting there watching to see what the enemy does. My allies are doing a fair imitation of their fearless leader and they hunker down waiting. The enemy meanwhile goes bonkers and starts marching anything and everything they have toward Tyrol. Soon they have 50,000 men siting there besieging the fort. So I waltz into Mantua and start a siege. My allies still don’t move an inch but at this time it isn’t necessary since the attrition in Tyrol is doing a very nice job of destroying the enemy. After a while I capture Mantua and sue for peace. I see that I can annex them so I give it a go. I fail the first time but succeed the second time and start marching south and besiege Modena.
As you can see Mantua is the lovely color of Venice and this is just about the very second I had a CTD!!!!!!!! Mother of all that’s deemed holy in the nether pit of hell why did that have to happen?
I didn’t have a save from after the annexation of Mantua so I loaded the autosave from January of that year. I’m still besieging Mantua and I can see I’m still about to capture it but there are a couple of minor, as in hardly worth mentioning things that change. First my allies decide that someone has just kicked them in their collective butts and they start marching toward Tyrol, which has just fallen to Milan. They kick Milan out of Tyrol and start sieging the fort. Okay that’s new and is just fine with me. Soon Mantua once again falls to my sturdy army and I pop open the peace offer window eager to absorb them once again as God intended into my empire and all I get is a 9% victory score???? What the bleeping hell happened between the first capture and the second? We’re only talking about a less than two month period and this happens!
This really hurts. No let me rephrase that, it doesn’t quite grasp how I feel. This sucks worst than a bee stuck up your butt.
I start getting alliance offers immediately. First Bavaria asks me to join. Palatinate and Luxemburg are also in the alliance. I can’t see the sense in this so I decline. Soon after
Tyrol asks me to join their alliance. They have Styria, Strasburg, Wirtemberg and Hussites
in the alliance. I like this group because they are all located close to one another so they could theoretically help out in a war and I especially like the Hussites who have a large army at
their disposal. Problem with them is that they are in a war with Hungary and it shows no
sign of ending. Now my memory of the Hussites is limited. I know their general history
and what happened to their movement but I don’t remember the dates but I’m not going
to look them up. I do have the feeling they aren’t going to be around long enough to be
of help. Still I send gifts to all my new allies and improve relations for the coming war.
Oh and by the end of 1434 Tyrol annexes Strasburg.
In January 1434 I get a new leader. Yea he’s nothing to write home about but I need
anything that I can get to help my land forces.
Also in 1434 I have my first discovery, Quatar!
December 1435 and the Ottomans devour Banat. Later in 1438 they add Konya.
I’m going to need my new leader when revolts pop up in Corfu and Crete. I can only
transport 5,000 men at a time so I load up 5,000 Cavalry and send the to Corfu. They lose
half their force but win the battle. I shuttle them back to Veneto and load up another
5,000 Cavalry and I’ll be a monkey’s uncle but they win again. Not that I was worried.
I don’t have any idea how this happened but nothing about vassals surprises me in
this game.
Saddly in July 1436 this happened. No surprise but I thought they just might survive by some whimsical twist of the game. So Bohemia wins against the Hussites and has Austria as a vassal. Then a year later Austria cancels the vassalization and becomes Emperor and Vassalizes Bohemia. It’s nice how we came full circle isn’t it.
Okay enough already I’ve put down my revolts, the alliance I’m in is between vassalization of any thing that moves so I declare war! Tyrol, Wirtemberg and Bavaria join me against Mantua (my goal), Tuscany, Modena and Milan.
Okay so bear with me on this because I’m not going to waste time with photos and you will see why. I’ve got my 16,000 man army in Veneto and I’m sitting there watching to see what the enemy does. My allies are doing a fair imitation of their fearless leader and they hunker down waiting. The enemy meanwhile goes bonkers and starts marching anything and everything they have toward Tyrol. Soon they have 50,000 men siting there besieging the fort. So I waltz into Mantua and start a siege. My allies still don’t move an inch but at this time it isn’t necessary since the attrition in Tyrol is doing a very nice job of destroying the enemy. After a while I capture Mantua and sue for peace. I see that I can annex them so I give it a go. I fail the first time but succeed the second time and start marching south and besiege Modena.
As you can see Mantua is the lovely color of Venice and this is just about the very second I had a CTD!!!!!!!! Mother of all that’s deemed holy in the nether pit of hell why did that have to happen?
I didn’t have a save from after the annexation of Mantua so I loaded the autosave from January of that year. I’m still besieging Mantua and I can see I’m still about to capture it but there are a couple of minor, as in hardly worth mentioning things that change. First my allies decide that someone has just kicked them in their collective butts and they start marching toward Tyrol, which has just fallen to Milan. They kick Milan out of Tyrol and start sieging the fort. Okay that’s new and is just fine with me. Soon Mantua once again falls to my sturdy army and I pop open the peace offer window eager to absorb them once again as God intended into my empire and all I get is a 9% victory score???? What the bleeping hell happened between the first capture and the second? We’re only talking about a less than two month period and this happens!
This really hurts. No let me rephrase that, it doesn’t quite grasp how I feel. This sucks worst than a bee stuck up your butt.
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