Is it possible to keep a Personal Union without ever inheriting in MM? I love the idea of England/Britain and Rome against the world. It'd be a shame if you had to either inherit or release them as a vassal later. Unions > Vassalage.
Sorry for missing this, I didn't mean to skip over it in my replies.
There's no way to definitely retain a PU through multiple monarchs without avoiding the possibility of inheritance. You can spike the various MM junior-nation autonomy events, which means that the PU will end when the current ruler dies. But if you want to keep a PU long-term, inheriting the junior is always a (small) possibility, in MM as it is in vanilla EU3.
Fantastic i check this AAR almost daily for updates and today i was happy to be rewarded with one. Huzzarh. Now i really need to get out of bed....:/
Sucks when life interrupts leisure, doesn't it? One day we'll find a cure.
The one bad thing about this AAR is that its partly ruined reading a lot of other AAR's. I used to lurk in several threads, now I'm stuck checking here hoping for an early update.
Well thanks! I enjoy the epic history-book AARs the most, too (as one might have guessed), but I like the other styles as well. I am itching for some of the narrative AARs like Salik's and Ashantai's to get back into production (hint, hint, fellas).
Speaking of which, this is probably the absolute best narrative effort I have ever read—merrick's
The Walls of the City - Snapshots from Constantinople. It's got less than a dozen entries, but they are all of extremely high quality.
As far as an early update goes, I have some good news and some bad news. I'll give you the bad news first. This first years of Henry VII's reign were actually played several months ago, and way back when I had moved some savegames and screenshots around. The savegames for past monarchs get moved out of the EU3\mod\savegame folder and into a savegame archive so that I don't run into the "more than 120 saves" crash. The screenshots likewise get moved out into an archive for later sorting and editing.
Well, somehow while I was doing all that I managed to delete a bunch (meaning hundreds) of screenshots from the middle of Henry's reign. I only have a week's worth of backups on site, so all that stuff that happened months ago is lost. I did take copious notes, though, so I know what happened. But in essence I was screwed out of images for the next update! So I "reconstructed" some events by loading saves and playing just long enough to get a screenshot that kinda-sorta illustrates the event that occurred the first time around.
Now the good news. In what is some kind of record for me, I have actually completed editing all the images for the next update, and all that's left is the writing. I can't promise a delivery date, but ideally I'd like to get it done within the week. I am itching to move the story forward into the tumult of the Reformation, but there a couple of updates yet before that happens.
As high quality as always. I loved the 'colonisation' maps.
Thanks! I cribbed colony/city names from knuckey's
Colony Ingame Name Change Mod. Seems to work well enough with MMU 1.26.
Malta as an island is less prone to pirate raids, as the 'raided neighbouring province' factor is not affecting it. As for Gibraltar, you must've got lucky.
Makes complete sense, thanks for the explanation.
I may not get pirate raids on Gibraltar too often, but I do still get revolts (despite it having cored long ago). The every-5-years-like-clockwork revolts have me belatedly wishing I had expelled the Moors, just as my Iberian neighbours did decades ago.
If it gets really out of hand I might move national focus there and try to culture-convert it.
Aims high this girl, and won't stop until she gets it.
She was originally going to be an ongoing foil for Henry and Christina; in an early draft of the last update, Dorothea would have accompanied her new husband to Bulgaria with the Danish crusade, and had a chance encounter with old flame Henry in Constantinople. Then many years down the road a whole "Wars of the Roses" situation would develop with Henry's legitimate heir by Christina fighting it out with his bastard offspring by Dorothea.
Ultimately that all got cut as I played further into the game, and that original story arc started to not make sense with what came after. So she got an honourable mention in the Scandinavian regency wars instead.
The way the game picks names opens up possibilities for fascinating stories! Oh and Hugh's very sad end, yet very much in the spirit of the times. What happened with the wife?
An epilogue there also got cut—that section was already longer than I wanted it to be, and I didn't want to bloat it any further. But in essence, the wife's father (Lord Sinclair) is a Lancastrian loyalist while she herself is not. But the Council's not sure whether executing his daughter would cause Sinclair to shift loyalties to the independence party. So in order to avoid antagonising the father, the Council would have deliberately avoided following up on evidence strong enough to convict the daughter.
"the said 'ladies' were just regular servants, there were only fifteen of them, the chestnuts fell and got spilt all over the place by accident, some women bent down to pick them and clear the mess, the guests were not encouraged to anything, they were merely grateful for the efficiency of the cleaning ladies' service" from a note by Holy See's secretary
An innocent misunderstanding, then. Cardinal della Rovere had said that the maids of the
Palazzo Apostolico are typically hard at work after sunset, and that the Bishop of Rome gives them leisure to enjoy privy draughts. Sometimes they labour so diligently and at such length that their groaning can be heard throughout the
Passetto di Borgo.
We don't know much abut the new king (apart from his weakness one Dorothea
); wouldn't his poor military skills combined with excellency in diplomacy affect the final outcome of the Grand Crusade somehow?
The Crusade is all but concluded; at this late stage there's not much opportunity to really screw it up. If William III had hung on for just one more month, he would have seen the end.
The effect of Henry's skills distribution can be seen later, certainly.