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You have to follow the game as they say. There were like half a year lineupping and waiting of this game, enough time to everyone willing to rally up and show interest to join it.
 
You have to follow the game as they say. There were like half a year lineupping and waiting of this game, enough time to everyone willing to rally up and show interest to join it.

Yeah might be so but the national duty has kept me busy my dear Golle!:mad: SO you should have informed me!
 
Peryeslvlvlvsl inherits elective Turks! Gives Persia title to Baghdad! Everybody pledges to Nubia! Alexandria battles Damascus for Fatimid title! Everybody else are independent or vassalized dukes. The rest of the map hasn't changed much.

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DEATH TO RUSSIA AND PERSIA!!!!

:D


*edit* The brown in s.France is Toulouse
 
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Did Denmark become Slesvig???

And damn some players (Flandern & Silesia) are expanding slowly compared to the others.

I should probably reinstall this game since it is the only one of the paradox games I dont know how to play, and when you love EU3, Vicky and HoI2 (AoD) then this game really should also be a must play/understand/know game..........
 
Did Denmark become Slesvig???

And damn some players (Flandern & Silesia) are expanding slowly compared to the others.

I should probably reinstall this game since it is the only one of the paradox games I dont know how to play, and when you love EU3, Vicky and HoI2 (AoD) then this game really should also be a must play/understand/know game..........

Everybody started as dukes, and the kingdomsetup is custom, he needs a prov or 2 more along the german coast to claim the k of denmark. Also as soon as you get a k title you can start force/diplovassalizing dukes at an alarming rate, see russia....
 
Just to note, Saxony's substantial North Italian holdings have been missed off of this map.

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Just to note, Saxony's substantial North Italian holdings have been missed off of this map.

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Huh, I wasn't aware that saxony had italian holdings, addendum:

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Also I thing our map would realy need a hungary player, perhaps one of the S.... countries in n germany would be willing to make a move?
 
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Also I thing our map would realy need a hungary player, perhaps one of the S.... countries in n germany would be willing to make a move?
It was already brought up several times prior to game start and by now it's certainly much too late for such a change. If a player is defeated however, we should consider creating a new slot in the vast player-empty lands.
 
The Knautschlings - part 1

The Beginning




This tale begins where Harald Knautschling is twenty-seven years old.
Harald is already a widower at this point since his beloved first wife Ingegerd died three years ago.
Their four children are not raised by Harald alone as would be the case in our time, though.
They are raised by nannies, monks or Haralds vassals, whereever Harald sent them.
He doesn´t think much about these kind of things, Harald is not much of a family-guy.
But wait a second - we were talking about Harald´s vassals.
This is because Harald is not an ordinary man living in the eleventh century.
No, Harald is a nobleman. To be more precise he is the Duke of Slesvig and rules over quite some land.
Sure there are already big kingdoms at this point of history, Harald´s lands obviously can´t compare to that.
But he himself has no king to answer, no liege who can command him what to do.
And Harald is quite happy about that.
His second wife Pereyaslava Bryachislavich is only sixteen when the two of them marry in 1077 which
seems quite young by today´s standards, but in the eleventh century most noblemen rather saw breeding
machines than human beings when they looked on women. Harald is no exception here.
He is not the shining beacon in this story, he is merely the first protagonist.
But let´s look at what we call Duchy of Slesvig.

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The dark green lands are under Harald´s direct control while the light green lands belong to his vassals.
Harald also owns some estates at the Black Sea which he aquired through a cunning plan that included allying
with the King of Hungary and sacrificing many of his best soldiers to help the Hungarians at battles in which
Harald did not even have the slightest interest in.

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What Harald is not quite content with is the fact that his vassals have much richer lands than him.
However there is nothing he can do about that right now since his demesne is very poor and if he asked his
vassals to give up their lands they would simply refuse. But Harald knows that. He is not the most intelligent person you can imagine,
but he is not dumb either.

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In 1079 Harald finally feels confident that he is prestigious enough to snatch the rich german trade port of Lübeck and get away with it.
Lübeck is just outside the Holy Roman Empire and nobody comes to their rescue as Harald personally leads the victorious Slesvigian armies towards the city.

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Confident with his newly aquired city Harald feels there is no need for his Black Sea holdings in Belgorod any longer, so he creates a bishopric out of them.
They still pay taxes however because they do not know that not a single Slesvigian soldier would set a foot even somewhere near the Black Sea would they stop to do so.
They do not know this because they are dumb.

In 1081 Lübeck already begins to cause trouble, as their trading ships get taxed by the Scandinavians in Gotland.

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Harald´s plan to solve this problem is simple. It is to incorporate the island of Gotland into his own demesne.
This plan is put into action immediately.

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Of course Gotland is under direct protection by the King of Scandinavia who decides to retaliate and seizes Slesvig itself.
Harald´s emergency response seems pretty clueless at first, as he does not have a master Marshal.
In fact the tactical genius of his Marshal Olaf extends to attacking the entire army of Scandinavian besiegers all by himself with just one companion.
By foot.

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But meanwhile Harald and the bulk of the Slesvigian army attack and seize the Scandinavian capital.
When the King of Scandinavia hears the stories about all the arsony and raping conducted by the Slesvigians in his
capital he backs down.

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Yes, Harald is not a tactical genius, but he is very determined and does not care for suffering of citizens that are not his own.
At all.​



P.S.: This AAR is about the second session, during the first session I was on vacation and Harald was AI-controlled.
 
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Stories from Egypt

All praise Allah, the all-merciful, the bringer of Life. So they say.

Leviathan looked around himself, and noticed that the men had already started to disassemble their tents. Even though the Sultan had not yet given the order to move back to Egypt. But rumours travel fast, and everyone knew that, with peace now signed, it would not be long before they would see the reed forests of the delta again, and return to their homeland.


Leviathan von Wittelsbach, advisor to the court of Sultan Muhammad of Egypt



Leviathan von Wittelsbach, leading a regiment in the mighty Sultan's army

The city of Damascus had withstood the siege. Its battlements were visible on the horizon, and were a visual reminder that the best laid plans could go wrong. However, also visible on the horizon were the plains of Baalbek, the battle field where Sultan Muhammad's armies had repelled the Polish crusader armies and won glorious triumphs for Islam. What the hell had the Poles be thinking, to travel all the way from their swampy forests across the lands of the Rum Emperor into the lands of Islam? Some murmured that these crusaders were outcasts in their own lands, that King Boleslaw had sent them off with a warning not to return unless they had been victorious. The duke who led the crusaders, Danil of Silesia, certainly fit the image of an outcast... he had looked distincly scoungry and shifty when he had arrived at the Sultan's tent to ask for terms. Scroungier and shiftier than the other Firangi crusaders Leviathan had seen. And that was saying something, for they were a filthy lot.



Shifty king Boleslaw, lord over many shifty and scroungy infidels


The glorious Sultan Muhammad, Leviathan's lord and commander.

According to rumours, some Firangi from Scotland had even threatened to sack Al-Iskenderiya* while the army had been on campaign. But they had been paid off, and probably returned to their homelands where they were now drinking themselves stupid with fermented oats or some other disgusting Firangi drink.

Leviathan sighed. Even if they would return to Egypt soon, it did not look like they would enjoy peace for long. At the council the day before, Marshal Werner had mentioned that King Georgios of Nubia was recruiting the desert tribes into an army south of Assuan. Sultan Muhammad had only said that Georgios and his make-believe kingdom would soon regret the day they decided to leave their mud-huts and pretend to be a real kingdom. Leviathan could only agree that Georgios was a poor excuse for a king - his residence was a bud brick mansion on the upper Nile, and his court was usually just a troupe of illiterate nomads - but as of late many Libyan sheikhs and even the emirs of many Syrian cities had flocked to his court.


The make-believe king Georgios, to whom a surprising amount of lords from all over the Levant have pledged

The other reason to be worried was that Al-Mustansir, the wannabe Caliph whom Sultan Muhammad had chased out of Al-Iskederiya some years before, had left his hideout in Damietta and traveled all the way to Morocco to swear fealty to Sultan Yusuf, the al-Murabitid ruler of Fez and lord of Morocco. Yusuf was also lord of the Arabian sheikhs on the other side of the Red Sea, and yet another dangerous threat to Leviathan's lord, Sultan Muhammad. Leviathan's friend Saad**, Sultan Muhammad's former steward, had also found refuge with one of Yusuf's vassals, a minor desert sheikh.

But Muhammad did not seem very worried. Oh well, the Sultan would have his reasons not to be worried. For the time being, Leviathan would have to accept his lord's wisdom and stop being so worried, too.


Al-Mustansir, the former Sultan of Egypt until his eviction at the hands of Sultan Muhammad


Sultan Yusuf, to whom Al-Mustansir has pledged


Immortal Saad, languishing in exile at the "court" of an underage minor bedouin Sheikh. Notice how he has only one friend in the world, me...


The strategic situation in 1086: Sultan Muhammad's lands in green (vassals in light green), Nubia in dark brown (vassals in light greenish-brown), Persia in tan, and Sultan Yusuf's Egyptian vassals are shown in blue. The lands of Al-Mustansir, the vengeful ex-Sultan of Egypt, are shown with a dark blue border. Sultan Yusuf, his nominal lord, does not have any demesne provinces near Egypt, so he is not quite so dangerous.


AAR reward: An upgrade for my character's education, please!

* Al-Iskenderiya = Arabic name for Alexandria
** IrishFasq's immortal
 
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They modded the game, so that Muslim countries become playable. Due to limitations in the CK engine, the mod shows all Muslims as Orthodox. Apparently there's no other way to make them playable. It does look very weird.

As for the character, I wanted him to be German and stay with Egypt for the time being. :) If he ever goes somewhere else, he'll have to change his religion.