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It's high time to get some galleys then!
Yeah, send those rebellious clan Gaels to the Galleys!
Galleys?
Cheaper, yes. I doubt they would be any more effective against that same one Ulster ship than my five warships.
Pffft, inflation. Try playing the Timurids in AGCEEP. Now that's inflation. Especially if you like all-cavalry armies.
I wonder how the English AI will respond to your RM? Maybe it will give you a little border security. ...I somehow doubt it.
Fun indeed
As you can see, they had their own game going on. I don't think they are too worried right now. And the inflation just gets higher and higher.
They're craving for revenge.
The RM won't stop them, it's just a matter of time...
Indeed, England will take much longer to crack.
Stupid, stupid events...
They make a sort of sense...but they can hamper things. I imagine it's next to impossible to make it entirely dynamic and these events do a darn good job guiding things along. Just not always to my liking.
I'm baffled where that vassalisation would have come from. If my history is correct I believe Scotland has only been vassal to England once in history (and I think that was in the 1100's). An error in an event chain perhaps - I always thought that vassalisation could only come about through peace negotations, events or diplomatic offers, and I'd imagine in all three cases you'd get a choice (or at least a notification of "Blah blah event has happened to England, here's some historical stuff, have a nice day". Really odd.
It's nice to see that the event chain captures the sweeping changes of the early days of James' rule. It was a fairly hectic time! And, without giving too much away, I think the closing stages were equally chaotic
I imagine it has something to do with the royal marriage or something. They accepted some event as well which is what led me to believe some secret deal was hatched when I wasn't looking.
Or perhaps the game isn't as tied to history as some feared? Coz made his own bed and now he has to sleep in it. The fact is has bed bugs was I'm sure unforeseen.
Joe
Quite...I did choose to stay at peace. stnylan's comment is interesting below...
So, just need to pick your moment to do in with the vassalage now. Nasty shock that.
I wonder if it would have occurred had you been at war with England ...
I wonder that too. Perhaps I should have just bit the bullet and gone to war again. But, as I mentioned, there is much going on at home as well, with lingering war exhaustion.
i think the vassalation helps SCO more than ENG in that England will be involved in a long war with FRA, while Scotland can get his troops, money, stab and ws fixed and hit England while they are wavering against FRA
It does give me a certain sense of safety, though not if things crumble internally.
A really bad set of events there. Can you not simply break the vassalisation? I'd be more worried though by the finances, you can't go on too long while your expenses are exceeding your income. Or will that correct itself once Strathclyde is no longer looted?
Yeah, I tried and it is greyed out. Not an option. Perhaps stab isn't where it needs to be or something but it is frustrating. The finances are...well, I'm just trying to stay afloat.
Probably, but getting rid of the loan would help a lot too.
Indeed, that would be a huge burden lifted.
Drive up that inflation and show them the worth of scottish silver
The problem is, the more inflation I get, the farther behind England I get in research. While I won the first "battle" as it were, they could still end up winning "the war" which so far, they have been pretty sneaky about.
Boy that is a tough situation... Do you just break it now and risk war, or do you wait until England is preoccupied in France and Scotland has recovered a bit. Every month that Scotland remains a vassal is a month in which it has lost a significant share of its income. Certainly will slow Scotland's recovery...
I usually break any vassalization the minute that my stability is high enough to do so, but with the threat of war looming whether to do so is a good question in your case.
If I could break it, I would be very tempted to use it as another pretense towards war. Perhaps because we have a truce I cannot break it right now. But only if, as you say, France has them occupied. There has been little movement on the continent.
At last you've got some tax income with good ol' Keeng o Scots
James has been better than expected with the admin duties. He doesn't sit still.
The glory and the bane of every Eu2 player, EVENTS.
This is true...they do tend to pin you in from time to time. The challenge is to work with what they give you, I suppose.
And some time back, there was a culture question. I took a screenie of that last time as well...
No CB shield but Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany are in play as far as culture. There is that.
I should have another update tonight sometime, hopefully. Thanks for reading and commenting.
