Chapter 1- Surrounded by Nomads
I open the game, and, as usual in Steppe Wolf games, I can't see anything.
However, this changes when I unpause the game. I immediately discover my own territory, and, by event, I discover Europe.
My ruler is an absolute moron. The only reason he has one star in military is probably because he survived some riots of people angry because of his failures as a king.
I go Centralized, and I get a "large" revolt, of 4,000 people. Again, this king has probably survived more.
I named this after nomads because I start in two wars against hordes. However, I am not the only ones. The Cumans are also at war with Kievan Rus (which is freaking huge, as you will see), as well as Byzantium, because they border them, not just us. As for the Seljuks, it is even worse. They at war with many countries, including the Abbassid Caliphate, Byzantium and the Ghaznavids, as well as the other countries in the East.
Here is the known world, after another event and a wave of Spreads of Discoveries:
I commission a painting and get a (crappy) Master of the Mint, like I do in most of my games (only i try and get a decent one- at the start of this game, I had no cultural tradition, and just one magistrate)
I then proceed to sit through several crappy alliance offers. These are the ones I remember:
Raska- too far away, and is likely to get into a fight with Hungary or Byzantium
Ethiopia- too far away, and is likely to get into a fight with the Abbassid Caliphate
Sinnar- too far away
Milan- too far away, and is likely to get into a fight with Austria
I couldn't have gotten an alliance with Byzantium (the only decent alliance that I had a chance of getting, along with, maybe, Kievan Rus), because I didn't know about anything, including my own lands. Sometimes, Steppe Wolf just doesn't make sense to me.
When I'm done with killing the rebels (it really isn't that hard), I march my troops to the valuable lands of Fanagoria. I then proceed to assault and seize it as a colony (this is new in Steppe Wolf- I think if the owner of a province is tribal, you can seize their lands when occupied- I'll have to check that, though).
While I was going there, I got a good event giving Free Subjects, and got more Spreads of Discoveries.
Unfortunately, taking Fanagoria had me border yet another horde.
Why not take another province, while we're at it?
What about another one?
The Seljuks took my capital in the middle of this. This is what happened while I was sending my army back:
That'll be it for today.
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What do you guys think of the new JPEG images. Rather than using the snipping tool with my .bmp images, I now take the screenshots directly to Paint, and save them as a JPEG image, as I was told they were smaller than PNG files, if I recall correctly. But with that being said, it seems everytime I make another one of them, it gets bigger than the one before it. Does anyone have a solution?