Status update: motherboard and hard drive fried, so will be unable to play from 1439 to 1453.
I will listen to the majority and start another AAR. I will play ironman (Anne Howe, with her iron armor, stark gray ponytail and clothes washed in downey, would not have it any other way) with a random realm.
Needed: Someone to choose start date, either 1081 (if you think I completed game) or 1187 again. Someone to choose ranks, captain/admiral, colonel/general or something else. Someone to be our first flyer (everybody eligible, whether captain or not in Avon). The first flyer needs to give me a focus so that I can better write their character. (Diplomacy like @Bullfilter was written in Avon, military like @diskoerekto, stewardship like @Kazanov, intrigue like @JSB217118, learning like @DensleyBlair).
I cannot promise how we will do as I will play a session then write. I will share three games that lasted less than a dozen years. Two with no major errors and the third had a major gameplay error, but roleplay correct call. I will use six recent commenters and the current author that I am reading (his work will get a shout-out) in place of names that I have forgotten.
Thank you for reading and volunteering. I would like to have a start year and initial flyer before finishing our two-part chapter on Despot Vukasin after 10 years.
I will listen to the majority and start another AAR. I will play ironman (Anne Howe, with her iron armor, stark gray ponytail and clothes washed in downey, would not have it any other way) with a random realm.
Needed: Someone to choose start date, either 1081 (if you think I completed game) or 1187 again. Someone to choose ranks, captain/admiral, colonel/general or something else. Someone to be our first flyer (everybody eligible, whether captain or not in Avon). The first flyer needs to give me a focus so that I can better write their character. (Diplomacy like @Bullfilter was written in Avon, military like @diskoerekto, stewardship like @Kazanov, intrigue like @JSB217118, learning like @DensleyBlair).
I cannot promise how we will do as I will play a session then write. I will share three games that lasted less than a dozen years. Two with no major errors and the third had a major gameplay error, but roleplay correct call. I will use six recent commenters and the current author that I am reading (his work will get a shout-out) in place of names that I have forgotten.
1220 (I forget which county but in Russian arctic with Siberian wastes to the east and one or two counties inland from Barents Sea) tribal pagan (probably Nenets Suomenusko). Chief @Black Watch and his young (less than 10) son, @JSB217118 were a two-member dynasty. BW's liege High Chief @Sanvone owns the duchy's other two de jure counties. My game plan was wait for the two counties to split. 1222, @Black Watch dies of severe stress. Mrs. BW says that he had been BeWitched by @Sanvone's wife. (Event where character spies liege's wife and decides that she is his true love. BW got stressed because he was not write a romantic poem). 1224 or 1225, @Sanvone defeats @JSB217118 in a revocation war. GAME OVER JSB complains about Sanvone picking on him when he did not even like the woman. The AAReaders transport JSB and his mother to the Spice Islands.
1187 Duchy of the Isles (Norwegian vassal). Duke @Bullfilter, Scottish (maybe) Catholic is semi-historical (like Rurik, hard to separate man from legend and whether one or several persons fused together.) Bull and his wife have three sons @diskoerekto, @filcat and @Macavity116 and a daughter @HistoryDude (sorry that you have to play a female). Bull owns one county with a count and a prince-bishop vassal. The youngest son, Mac, has a county in Scotland and does not share the dynasty with his older three siblings (not a bastard, same parents). Disk marries a woman from Sweden, Fil is betrothed to a member of the Swedish royal family and HDudette marries Duke Richard, the English heir. HDudette sends word that King Richard had made her his spymaster. King Richard sends word alliance over, Dudette dead. (I guessed job related, but it was standard suspicious circumstances murder plot.) Fil, the spare, tells dad that he fathered the first grandchild not Disk with Disk's wife and that he wanted to join a holy order to make amends. Duke Bull allows Fil to join Knights of Calatrava (good roleplay, bad gameplay as non-dynastic Mac is now spare). Sept. 1197 @diskoerekto dies of natural causes with @Bullfilter before the end of the year. Non-dynastic @Macavity116 now duke. GAME OVER
1220 Countess Marguerite (de Blois) of Blois. Marguerite is a granddaughter of King Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine, thus related to the French and English kings. Her liege is Duke Thibault (de Blois) of Champagne. (Marguerite is from daughter #2, while Thibault descends from #1 as the girls married brothers. Thibault would not have inherited in CK as his father died a month before his birth. (I rolled Thibault in a 1206 game.)) Marguerite is 50 and rules two counties and is heir to a third (late 40s childless sister). While this is a promising start, at least 95% time, Marguerite is a one character game as there is no reasonable succession. (A-C primo), Marguerite has three daughters with eldest having children. The eldest daughter is the granddaughter of Frederick Barbarossa and owns three counties in the HRE. (OTL, the oldest has died and #2 is the Countess of Burgundy (in game younger two are full sisters, while in reality it is older two with the youngest succeeding her mother)). None of top six in succession path are from de Blois dynasty. To switch to seniority, France must have medium crown authority (currently none) and after 1228 (Marguerite began reign in 1218). My plan was hope to be awarded at least a county in crusade and switch. Only beneficiary is unmarried female in late 20s.
Marguerite gets killed en-route to the Egypt crusade. GAME OVER
SHOUT OUT: Siberian Prosperity by @Sanvone (CK2)Thank you for reading and volunteering. I would like to have a start year and initial flyer before finishing our two-part chapter on Despot Vukasin after 10 years.
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