And that about wraps it up folks! I hope you enjoyed the updates regarding the state of the realm/world. Any comments on what you would like to see investigated in later installments (Considering the time I put into this one, every ten or fifteen years will likely be reasonable) please let me know!
Eikinskjaldi- What praise! Truly I appreciate the kind words that you give to my writing and the structure of the AAR. I struggled at the beggining to figure what I would most enjoy doing and this popped up. I like taking the events you get in game and trying to piece together a story to go along with it, it really fires the creative part of your brain! I am really glad that you have remained a fan!
As for the population powers question, I do normally leave it a chaotic mess. I don't like to shift the sliders unless there is a crazy discrepancy like 85% clergy power. Often, I will try to manuever a little towards peasant/burgher power in peace for greater income and then shift to clergy/nobility when war looks to be threatening for the better troop types.
Speaking of clergy power, the different benefits you get depends on your religion law settings i.e. Monastic Supremacy, Church Supremacy and the like. The tooltips around each one will let you know what gives what.
As for having a good knowledge of medieval history, even though I am a history major and will be going for my Masters next year, I can't take any credit for being authentic. Most of what I know comes from tv and medieval based fantasy novels. I am glad that I got the Scottish King pegged right though, it just seemed like the nobles would want to use his madness to their own gain.
Thanks for explaining the name thing too. It just seemed like overkill the way they tacked little bits onto his moniker. The Danish and other Scandinavians seem like that as well.
Once again, I must express the gratitude I feel having loyal fans such as you that take pleasure from "Aarquitania". It truly makes it all worth doing.
Aracis- Very nice to have you onboard! I am greatly enjoying my time in Leiden, it is a magnificent city with great sites and history. It's wonderful to have one of the residents here reading my work! Quite the coincidence considering its small size. It was quite a shock to the system after living in metropolitan cities (Cleveland and Columbus Ohio) for my whole life. I even learned how to ride a bike to get around :rofl:
I do hope that you continue to enjoy the AAR and catch up soon. Again, thank you for commenting and reading!
Eikinskjaldi- What praise! Truly I appreciate the kind words that you give to my writing and the structure of the AAR. I struggled at the beggining to figure what I would most enjoy doing and this popped up. I like taking the events you get in game and trying to piece together a story to go along with it, it really fires the creative part of your brain! I am really glad that you have remained a fan!
As for the population powers question, I do normally leave it a chaotic mess. I don't like to shift the sliders unless there is a crazy discrepancy like 85% clergy power. Often, I will try to manuever a little towards peasant/burgher power in peace for greater income and then shift to clergy/nobility when war looks to be threatening for the better troop types.
Speaking of clergy power, the different benefits you get depends on your religion law settings i.e. Monastic Supremacy, Church Supremacy and the like. The tooltips around each one will let you know what gives what.
As for having a good knowledge of medieval history, even though I am a history major and will be going for my Masters next year, I can't take any credit for being authentic. Most of what I know comes from tv and medieval based fantasy novels. I am glad that I got the Scottish King pegged right though, it just seemed like the nobles would want to use his madness to their own gain.
Thanks for explaining the name thing too. It just seemed like overkill the way they tacked little bits onto his moniker. The Danish and other Scandinavians seem like that as well.
Once again, I must express the gratitude I feel having loyal fans such as you that take pleasure from "Aarquitania". It truly makes it all worth doing.
Aracis- Very nice to have you onboard! I am greatly enjoying my time in Leiden, it is a magnificent city with great sites and history. It's wonderful to have one of the residents here reading my work! Quite the coincidence considering its small size. It was quite a shock to the system after living in metropolitan cities (Cleveland and Columbus Ohio) for my whole life. I even learned how to ride a bike to get around :rofl:
I do hope that you continue to enjoy the AAR and catch up soon. Again, thank you for commenting and reading!
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