The crusaders return: a Kingdom of Jerusalem AAR

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• Feb 11, 2010

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Ok guys, I have been given the challenge of doing a Kingdom of Jerusalem AAR.

Here are my thoughts on setup:

HTTT version: 4.0 (mostly to avoid messing with my WWM, though I'll be using Vanilla for this AAR)
Lucky nations: Random
Difficulty and AI Aggressiveness: Normal. No, I'm not one of the elite players here, KoJ will be hard enough as it is.

Starting nation: Aragon. I'll take little care of Aragon, but just try to get the KoJ released as quickly as possible.

What do you all think? I'll try and get the first chapter written over the next few days (unless it all goes horribly wrong!), but apparently this hasn't been done before, so I'd love to hear your input!

 

Last edited: Feb 12, 2010

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• Feb 11, 2010

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Will you change country to KoJ?

 

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It's the first KoJ AAR in this forum. You'll remain in history as the man who first posted an AAR with the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

 

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Tuore, that's the plan. As soon as KoJ is released, I'll switch to them.

Zitanier, what an honour! I'm amazed though; I would've thought KoJ would attrack as many alternative history types as Byz!

 

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Very interesting idea. Haven't seen KoJ AARs in EU section yet.

Deus Vult!

 

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Zitanier said:

It's the first KoJ AAR in this forum. You'll remain in history as the man who first posted an AAR with the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Click to expand...

And I promised Johan to conquer the world with KoJ...

 

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Huzzah! You must unleash the might of the crusader upon the unsuspecting heathens. A bonus - since your capital will be in the Levant, if you control the Papacy, you can crusade damn near anyone.

 

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Tuore, you still can!

I've just found out I have to be a monarchy to release KoJ, so I'll either have to do it with another nation, or convert to a monarchy as Venice. :-D

 

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Bring it on Koi Carp, conquer the Fertile Crescent and all the biblic places.

 

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Regardless of which nation you use to create the KoJ, wouldn't it be advisable to Accept Cultural Shift to whichever Arabic culture Judea has?

 

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Certainly not OutsiderSubType! That would be giving in to the ways of the heathen enemy!

Hmm, it would take a long time to research to the tech needed to get a monarchy, so I'm tempted to re-start with someone else.

What do you think? Achaea for the easy Greek shift? But they probably wouldn't have the manpower to take on the Mamluks. England, France, Castille, Aragon, etc, would all have trouble doing the Greek culture shift. Perhaps Naples? I could go for a few Greek territories like Epirus, then go for Judea, then sell off Italian provinces, go for the Greek culture shift, then release KoJ! :-D What say you, O Wise Forum-Goers?

 

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Kingdom of Jerusalem: Let's Get Biblical!

 

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naggy said:

Kingdom of Jerusalem: Let's Get Biblical!

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Crucify This and Die Hard (starring Jesus) In a cinema near you!

 

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:rofl: Thanks guys, those are some great names, I might adopt them as chapter titles at some point!

But who do you think I should be to release Koj? I'm leaning towards Naples.

 

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Aww, but the Arab Catholic KoJ is a Crusader Kings staple.

 

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So play Crusader Kings.

Naples is fairly poor, and will take far too long to move their capital or anything. So I'm now looking at doing it with Aragon, since the Catalans were quite fervent crusaders, and an isolated Catalan KoJ is quite a cool image.

 

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As it turns out, KoJ doesn't get the culture of whichever nation released it; it just becomes Cosmopolitaine. :rofl: So I don't get my Catalan crusader state.

I've just switched over to KoJ, and will try and write up how it occurred over the next couple of days.

It's a pretty dire situation!

 

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How do you upload screenies so that they're not just thumbnails at the bottom? Most AARs have screenshots interspersed amongst the text, how do you do that?

 

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Sign up with www.photobucket.com. There are others, but PB is reliable and easy. Once there upload your photo and a code is provided that looks something like this [IMG ]http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h175/antracer/MILAN%20AAR/PR_1113.jpg[/IMG]. Just post that into the desired place and it will show as a fullsize screenshot.

There is some more info available here.

 

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Interesting the first KOJ AAR. Lets see how you'll deal with the Mameluks...