Imperial Renewal: The Romans of the Industrial Age (1836-1936)
An Heirs to Aquitania AAR
An Heirs to Aquitania AAR
Welcome to my first ever AAR as the Roman Empire (Byzantium) from Heirs to Aquitania. I've been reading AARs for over 3 years, always wanting to do one but never gathered the courage (or the d*mn) to actually start one myself. Like most AARs, Imperial Renewal will mostly be written as an in-universe text, with the occasional narrative interruptions. IRL, I'm a huge Byzantiboo so I'll be applying a lot of what I know and am familiar with to make a Victorian era Byzantium work while also fitting it into the world of Heirs to Aquitania. Sometimes the lore for such mods can be hard to come by, so apologies for any inconsistencies with the established lore as of 2023.
I still haven't finished playing this campaign, so this work is very much in process! I haven't decided whether to attempt a Justinian-esque reconquest of Rome or stick to realism, but I'm definitely going the expansionist route.
Some basic rules of expansion:
1. No conquests in Asia beyond what Byzantium held there at its peak.
2. No expansion into the New World.
3. African conquests will be limited to North Africa and perhaps the Horn of Africa (One of the Oriental Orthodox Churches in Ethiopia and all that)
4. Building puppet regimes that incorporates former Roman territories will count as part of my Renovatio Imperii (I.E., puppeted Vosea, puppeted Hispania), straight up conquests of all these territories is too unrealistic and hard for me because I suck at this game
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