A Random Game - A Gameplay Mega-Campaign AAR
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Good stuff, glad I'm caught up again. Much against my expectations, your stint with Szekesfehevar/Pest-Pect has proven to be both eventful (when the passage of years is properly compressed) and fruitful! A nice mid-sized power, lots of kiddies, plenty of targets of opportunity... All looks good to me.
@mike the knight: You did do a fine job killing Karlings in your AAR. I haven't really gotten to interact with them yet, so I dare say they'll be ruling for a long time.
@TheDeaconBosco: So very true.
@Hiryuu: Thank you very much!
@Stuyvesant: Glad you got to catch up as well. I had to speed the amount of time covered in most updates just because things were going really really slow. But we've definitely seen a new power rise in that region just wish I could get a Crown! Surprised I've gotten this far with the Mihaljevics so hopefully they'll be set up for success in the future.
@TheDeaconBosco: So very true.
@Hiryuu: Thank you very much!
@Stuyvesant: Glad you got to catch up as well. I had to speed the amount of time covered in most updates just because things were going really really slow. But we've definitely seen a new power rise in that region just wish I could get a Crown! Surprised I've gotten this far with the Mihaljevics so hopefully they'll be set up for success in the future.
Part 3.5 - Pest-Pecs
Yeah I mean I've already married them several times...just haven't fought any yet.
Its the year 1008 now and I'm still sitting around waiting. Lots and lots and lots of waiting. These truces are getting annoying. I got so fed up waiting that I decided to fabricate claims against my former ally, the Count of Nitra. Kind of bad trying to steal counties from a fellow Christian surrounded by heathens but its a good back up plan.
My chancellor manages to get claims on the Count's land of Ostrihom, and I then send him to Nitra to grab a claim on that County too.
My wife Adele gets pregnant again. For a while I was happy whenever it said she was pregnant now I'm getting annoyed by it. Thinking Tvrdoslav invented Viagra a thousand years early because for a guy that's pushing 70 he's quite the baby making machine these days. Or perhaps Adele is merely milking the milk man.
During all that though, Tvrdoslav's daughter Petra at the age of 13 decides she wants to be a nun.
I say okay sure sweetie you can be a nun even though I already arranged a great betrothal between you and the King of Castille. Thank you Petra for ruining that one for me.
I guess I could have said no to her, but I liked seeing that pop up for the first time so Petra will now become a nun.
Which is when I have a son named Dujam.
My Bulagarian ally to the South, I forgot to mention that we're allies, think I married a daughter or granddaughter to one of his kids or something like that. But anyway the King of Bulgaria calls me into a war.
I don't really feel like marching over there to help though.
June of 1009 comes around and the truce with the Manicheans is up, and I declare war immediately.
I gather my armies for the invasion and march them off to lay siege to Transylvania's holdings. While the long work of occupying castles begins, I decided that I didn't like the HRE having an Anti-Pope. A Karling with a pet Pope is slightly overpowered.
So I start a plot to kill the Pope in Embrun Pius II.
Apparently this guy is well rather hard to kill. Perhaps he actually does have the Lord on his side.
After all those failed attempts which takes the better part of a year we finally win a few sieges and the Manichean Duchess of Transylvania surrenders.
A rather boring war I must say no nailbiting battles or anything. But two more counties into our realm and the chance to usurp a third ducal title if I feel like it.
Couple weeks later the bowmen failed to kill Pius II again. That's like the fourth time now I think.
April 1010 rolls around, and I'm growing impatient I have the ability to Holy War Moldau now, so I disband my levies and declare war, and reraise them again. Its time for War! And claiming that region so I can form Wallachia.
My Bulgarian friend comes to help, but he doesn't help at all. He's busy fighting off the Anatolian invasion of Greece right now. I probably should have helped out in that cause too but, eh, the Byzantines are on the verge of collapse after several Muslim Emperors anyway.
So off to Moldau.
Oh yeah and another failed attempt on Pope Pius II.
Followed by....
Finally!
I thought this would rid the whole anti-pope existing in the HRE. But that thought was wrong. Apparently Embrun will host an anti-pope for a while as the new Bishop of Embrun appointed by the child Emperor Treveur became the new anti-pope.
All that work for nothing apparently.
Which is when I marry my grandson Dragan off to Princess Theognosia Skleros.
Why is she blind? Well that's because misses Theo used to be the Empress of the ERE for a little while. She was overthrown by Kyra if I remember right. So marrying former Princess Theo to Dragan could potentially lead to Mihaljevic on the ever waning Imperial Throne. This is a long shot of course. But we will see if the AI plays nice with Tvrdoslav's descendants.
Meanwhile my men are sieging a holding in Moldau. I have 3600 men there, and see a stack of 4700 pagans coming my way. So I sit there and wait. I have a large river protecting me, think its the Danube, but may be wrong. But anyways the Moldau hordes engage us in battle. I bite my nails a little bit on this one as the first stages things fluctuate back and forth.
Then my men end up grabbing the upper hand and throw the pagans across the river.
I see them slowly regrouping with some foreign allies. They're gathering another stack that would probably defeat me. So I make our forces march back to the lands of the Pecking Pests, and recruit a Holy Order. I thought they were free during Holy Wars, but apparently the cost lost of money in upkeep now. Which surprised me, then again I haven't used a HO in like over a year or more in CKII so probably why I didn't know that.
With our new Holy Knights I march back over to Moldau and begin slapping some pagans around.
A few more battles go down, and a few more sieges do as well. With the holy knights on my side I feel the crown getting closer and closer to Tvrdoslav's head.
Minutes away and Wallachia should be ours.
I go and check the options. Enforcing demands isn't possible yet so I lay down some more sieges hoping it hurries up so I can get to 100% soon.
But then a wrench gets thrown...
The hell!
What the @#$@#@!!!
Throwing the computer out the window now hold on....
So much for claiming Wallachia.
And back to the drawing board I go.
You will meet each other some day , be sure
Yeah I mean I've already married them several times...just haven't fought any yet.
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Part 3.5 - Pest-Pecs
Part 3.5 - Pest-Pecs
Its the year 1008 now and I'm still sitting around waiting. Lots and lots and lots of waiting. These truces are getting annoying. I got so fed up waiting that I decided to fabricate claims against my former ally, the Count of Nitra. Kind of bad trying to steal counties from a fellow Christian surrounded by heathens but its a good back up plan.
My chancellor manages to get claims on the Count's land of Ostrihom, and I then send him to Nitra to grab a claim on that County too.
My wife Adele gets pregnant again. For a while I was happy whenever it said she was pregnant now I'm getting annoyed by it. Thinking Tvrdoslav invented Viagra a thousand years early because for a guy that's pushing 70 he's quite the baby making machine these days. Or perhaps Adele is merely milking the milk man.
During all that though, Tvrdoslav's daughter Petra at the age of 13 decides she wants to be a nun.
I say okay sure sweetie you can be a nun even though I already arranged a great betrothal between you and the King of Castille. Thank you Petra for ruining that one for me.
I guess I could have said no to her, but I liked seeing that pop up for the first time so Petra will now become a nun.
Which is when I have a son named Dujam.
My Bulagarian ally to the South, I forgot to mention that we're allies, think I married a daughter or granddaughter to one of his kids or something like that. But anyway the King of Bulgaria calls me into a war.
I don't really feel like marching over there to help though.
June of 1009 comes around and the truce with the Manicheans is up, and I declare war immediately.
I gather my armies for the invasion and march them off to lay siege to Transylvania's holdings. While the long work of occupying castles begins, I decided that I didn't like the HRE having an Anti-Pope. A Karling with a pet Pope is slightly overpowered.
So I start a plot to kill the Pope in Embrun Pius II.
Apparently this guy is well rather hard to kill. Perhaps he actually does have the Lord on his side.
After all those failed attempts which takes the better part of a year we finally win a few sieges and the Manichean Duchess of Transylvania surrenders.
A rather boring war I must say no nailbiting battles or anything. But two more counties into our realm and the chance to usurp a third ducal title if I feel like it.
Couple weeks later the bowmen failed to kill Pius II again. That's like the fourth time now I think.
April 1010 rolls around, and I'm growing impatient I have the ability to Holy War Moldau now, so I disband my levies and declare war, and reraise them again. Its time for War! And claiming that region so I can form Wallachia.
My Bulgarian friend comes to help, but he doesn't help at all. He's busy fighting off the Anatolian invasion of Greece right now. I probably should have helped out in that cause too but, eh, the Byzantines are on the verge of collapse after several Muslim Emperors anyway.
So off to Moldau.
Oh yeah and another failed attempt on Pope Pius II.
Followed by....
Finally!
I thought this would rid the whole anti-pope existing in the HRE. But that thought was wrong. Apparently Embrun will host an anti-pope for a while as the new Bishop of Embrun appointed by the child Emperor Treveur became the new anti-pope.
All that work for nothing apparently.
Which is when I marry my grandson Dragan off to Princess Theognosia Skleros.
Why is she blind? Well that's because misses Theo used to be the Empress of the ERE for a little while. She was overthrown by Kyra if I remember right. So marrying former Princess Theo to Dragan could potentially lead to Mihaljevic on the ever waning Imperial Throne. This is a long shot of course. But we will see if the AI plays nice with Tvrdoslav's descendants.
Meanwhile my men are sieging a holding in Moldau. I have 3600 men there, and see a stack of 4700 pagans coming my way. So I sit there and wait. I have a large river protecting me, think its the Danube, but may be wrong. But anyways the Moldau hordes engage us in battle. I bite my nails a little bit on this one as the first stages things fluctuate back and forth.
Then my men end up grabbing the upper hand and throw the pagans across the river.
I see them slowly regrouping with some foreign allies. They're gathering another stack that would probably defeat me. So I make our forces march back to the lands of the Pecking Pests, and recruit a Holy Order. I thought they were free during Holy Wars, but apparently the cost lost of money in upkeep now. Which surprised me, then again I haven't used a HO in like over a year or more in CKII so probably why I didn't know that.
With our new Holy Knights I march back over to Moldau and begin slapping some pagans around.
A few more battles go down, and a few more sieges do as well. With the holy knights on my side I feel the crown getting closer and closer to Tvrdoslav's head.
Minutes away and Wallachia should be ours.
I go and check the options. Enforcing demands isn't possible yet so I lay down some more sieges hoping it hurries up so I can get to 100% soon.
But then a wrench gets thrown...
The hell!
What the @#$@#@!!!
Throwing the computer out the window now hold on....
So much for claiming Wallachia.
And back to the drawing board I go.
Rejoice! You made that pagan see the light of true Christianity! Surely, your good works will be rewarded in the afterlife...
Bastard crafty crypto-Christian pagan asshole. Well played, CC-CPA, well played. I think you just found your next target for a righteous assassination attempt.
Bastard crafty crypto-Christian pagan asshole. Well played, CC-CPA, well played. I think you just found your next target for a righteous assassination attempt.
Let's all thank High Chief Afanasiy of Moldau for helping us learn more about cockblocking.
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@TheKaspa: I was curious about why it was fitting so I googled them And you are right they had a high amount of blinded family members!!!
@Stuyvesant: Haha I don't want to be rewarded in the afterlife! Lol...I wanted a crown for Tvrdoslav! Oh well, darn Pagans converting to end wars. It is a neat yet annoying dynamic I must say.
@TheDeaconBosco: Indeed! Twas a good lesson
@mike the knight: Now the smiths will have to melt the crown down into something else...maybe a knife to stick in that fake Christian Duke of Moldau
And you are right they had a high amount of blinded family members!!!@Stuyvesant: Haha I don't want to be rewarded in the afterlife! Lol...I wanted a crown for Tvrdoslav! Oh well, darn Pagans converting to end wars. It is a neat yet annoying dynamic I must say.
@TheDeaconBosco: Indeed! Twas a good lesson
@mike the knight: Now the smiths will have to melt the crown down into something else...maybe a knife to stick in that fake Christian Duke of Moldau
I hate when the AI pulls a fast one like that, but at least you still have Hungary to aim for.
Also holy orders are free when you are the defender in a holy war, if you are attackng you have to pay the upkeep.
Also holy orders are free when you are the defender in a holy war, if you are attackng you have to pay the upkeep.
Ohhh okay, didn't they used to be free though during any Holy War? Seems like they were at one point...but it had been forever since I used them
lol
Part 3.6 - Pest-Pecs & Transylvania
The High Chief of Moldau's inconvenient conversion to Christianity leaves me and Tvrdoslav scrambling. How can I get a crown for the Mihaljevic's now? I could go on a rampage in Hungary. And really that's the only way I can accomplish such a thing anyway.
I think about how to go about this. I have a truce with the High Chief of Ostrihom, a guy who used to be a vassal of the Polish King, but seems he is independent now. That truce doesn't end for a few years though. I could go after the Christian Count of Nitra, but I got a feeling that would probably end rather poorly.
While I think it through my bishop arrests a raggedy man. I say he is a knight which upsets the bishop but I don't really care, I'm still pissed about the conversion.
I then go to the information screen for the Duchy of Transylvania. I can usurp that Duchy now, and do. I take it from the Manichean Duchess, it's only right that I do, three ducal titles at the moment is better than two since a Crown is slipping further from my reach with each tick of the clock.
I then marry Tvrdoslav's daughter Ekaterina to Duke Brendan Parisy of Bavaria (he's a Breton too), in fact almost all of Germany's lords have switched to the Breton culture. Maybe the AI will be nice and let me go there next so I can bring back the Germans.
Anyway a quick look at Duke Tvrdoslav's character screen. He's a very old man now.
I declare a Holy War for Ostrihom, it breaks the truce as well sucking away a lot of prestige. I didn't intentionally mean to break the truce. When I declared war at this point in the game I was still rather angry about Moldau's conversion. So I didn't exactly notice I still had a truce with them.
Tvrdoslav, however, is now known worldwide as a truce breaker.
The Pope enjoys my Holy War and sends us a much needed 200 gold.
While this minor war is going on, my Chancellor fabricates a claim on the County of Nitra giving me claims on that Count's two counties. But it's probably useless Tvrdoslav is old, and I doubt I'll be in a position to press it anyway.
While our Duke is out and about, a street peddler sells him a finger of a saint.
I buy it even though I'm pretty sure its a fraud, but hey at least we have a holy relic now.
The Count of Nitra sends his Chancellor over to our lands and attempts to fabricate a claim on them. I order the old chancellor to be murdered, and succeed. Preventing him from grabbing a claim against us.
Meanwhile Sopron falls to us.
My grandson Dragan and his wife the former Empress Theognosia have a daughter named Marijana, wish they would have had a son who could perhaps accidentally become Emperor sometime.
Which is when our Duke Tvrdoslav Mihaljevic dies of old age. He's been our character throughout pretty much the entire 50 year turn. In fact now that he's dead we only have 2 and a half years left in this area.
He's succeeded by his grandson Duke Tvrdoslav II Mihaljevic.
The new Duke is stressed which is bad, he may not last as long as his grandfather.
Shortly after he assumes the role of Duke the siege of Csorna is won by our forces.
Not only is he stressed but he's a little paranoid about the state of Pest-Pecs treasury. I decide to interrogate the Steward about missing coins.
Our Steward is innocent though, so at least the new duke can trust one person on his council. Meanwhile some relatives get a little angered about the succession and I give out some more lands to prevent a rebellion. Besides I'm way over the demesne limit right now anyway.
We occupy Gyor, driving the score to 100 and enforce our demands.
Tvrdoslav II's brother Dragan asks for a fief of his own to rule, but his relatives could very easily become future Emperors if things go that direction. So I tell him no and that his only future is in the Church.
There was more to that decision than the possible and probably very rare chance of his progeny becoming Emperors. Originally I had Dragan educated to be a cleric. In fact he has a large Learning skill, and is already my chaplain, so making him wait for his career in the Church (he is heir to a bishopric) makes more sense than giving him a County or Barony.
While all this is going on I start thinking a little. I need one more county to get over the 50% needed to usurp Hungary. There's really only one person left to safely declare war, especially since I lost those claims I fabricated against the Count of Nitra.
I look at the map and begin plotting the final war against the former Manichean Duchess of Transylvania. If I take her last county it will end the Manichean attempt to gain a foothold in Europe, and probably put an end to the religion for several generations. I kind of feel bad about the decision I'm about to make. So I think about it for a little while longer.
Meanwhile a courtier Svatava Ranovec plots to kill a close relative so I imprison her, but before I do I form a counter plot to kill her. She ends up in my prison which should make the plot easier to accomplish.
The first attempt fails. The second however succeeds with her being killed as she tries to escape the dungeon.
My sister Adriana is upset that she isn't married yet, so I arrange a betrothal between her and Duke Nikolaz Bonafazi of Provence.
I then declare war against the Manichean Duchess...can't remember what the name of her final Duchy is called think it may be Temes but not one hundred percent sure.
A minor battle takes place, where our forces of over 2000 slaughter hers of 900. Then a siege is completed bringing our warscore up to 86 already.
Which is when the Manichean surrenders.
With the victory ending the Manichean presence in Hungary, I can now usurp the Kingdom. But I don't 300 gold anymore, and the current ruler of Hungary is at war so it isn't going to happen, definitely not while we're here. So maybe the AI will accomplish it, but sadly we won't.
With no chance of stealing the crown of Hungary I send Duke Tvrdoslav II on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Nothing too crazy happens on the road there.
We reach Jerusalem and do the normal pilgrim thing. I was thinking maybe a pilgrimage to a muslim held land would prove more dangerous. But I was wrong it goes pretty much the same as all the other pilgrimages, which sort of disappointed me.
I did make a friend though!
And my new friend comes to me with fears that he is being blackmailed.
Which is the very last thing I get to do here in Pecs-Pest.
I would say this run was rather successful, really sad I didn't get a crown for the Mihaljevics but I guess its good enough that they're a regional power now. The three duchies they have are under Primogeniture, which means successions should stay fairly smooth for a while.
It will be rather interesting to see where they go from here. What the AI will do with them, and whether or not Theognosia will retake her Imperial Throne. If she does there would be a high likelihood of a Mihaljevic being named Emperor in a generation. And that would solidify this run as a success. Even though the ERE is but a shadow of its former self.
I can't imagine a worse starting position than this one. But it was a highly fun game clawing Tvrdoslav's way towards survival and greatness. Here's to hoping our next turn will prove just as successful.
Next update we will take a brief look at the world.
Editing to add the above image spaced it out before hitting the update button. But that is what the Duchy we are leaving behind looks like.
Part 3.6 - Pest-Pecs & Transylvania
The High Chief of Moldau's inconvenient conversion to Christianity leaves me and Tvrdoslav scrambling. How can I get a crown for the Mihaljevic's now? I could go on a rampage in Hungary. And really that's the only way I can accomplish such a thing anyway.
I think about how to go about this. I have a truce with the High Chief of Ostrihom, a guy who used to be a vassal of the Polish King, but seems he is independent now. That truce doesn't end for a few years though. I could go after the Christian Count of Nitra, but I got a feeling that would probably end rather poorly.
While I think it through my bishop arrests a raggedy man. I say he is a knight which upsets the bishop but I don't really care, I'm still pissed about the conversion.
I then go to the information screen for the Duchy of Transylvania. I can usurp that Duchy now, and do. I take it from the Manichean Duchess, it's only right that I do, three ducal titles at the moment is better than two since a Crown is slipping further from my reach with each tick of the clock.
I then marry Tvrdoslav's daughter Ekaterina to Duke Brendan Parisy of Bavaria (he's a Breton too), in fact almost all of Germany's lords have switched to the Breton culture. Maybe the AI will be nice and let me go there next so I can bring back the Germans.
Anyway a quick look at Duke Tvrdoslav's character screen. He's a very old man now.
I declare a Holy War for Ostrihom, it breaks the truce as well sucking away a lot of prestige. I didn't intentionally mean to break the truce. When I declared war at this point in the game I was still rather angry about Moldau's conversion. So I didn't exactly notice I still had a truce with them.
Tvrdoslav, however, is now known worldwide as a truce breaker.
The Pope enjoys my Holy War and sends us a much needed 200 gold.
While this minor war is going on, my Chancellor fabricates a claim on the County of Nitra giving me claims on that Count's two counties. But it's probably useless Tvrdoslav is old, and I doubt I'll be in a position to press it anyway.
While our Duke is out and about, a street peddler sells him a finger of a saint.
I buy it even though I'm pretty sure its a fraud, but hey at least we have a holy relic now.
The Count of Nitra sends his Chancellor over to our lands and attempts to fabricate a claim on them. I order the old chancellor to be murdered, and succeed. Preventing him from grabbing a claim against us.
Meanwhile Sopron falls to us.
My grandson Dragan and his wife the former Empress Theognosia have a daughter named Marijana, wish they would have had a son who could perhaps accidentally become Emperor sometime.
Which is when our Duke Tvrdoslav Mihaljevic dies of old age. He's been our character throughout pretty much the entire 50 year turn. In fact now that he's dead we only have 2 and a half years left in this area.
He's succeeded by his grandson Duke Tvrdoslav II Mihaljevic.
The new Duke is stressed which is bad, he may not last as long as his grandfather.
Shortly after he assumes the role of Duke the siege of Csorna is won by our forces.
Not only is he stressed but he's a little paranoid about the state of Pest-Pecs treasury. I decide to interrogate the Steward about missing coins.
Our Steward is innocent though, so at least the new duke can trust one person on his council. Meanwhile some relatives get a little angered about the succession and I give out some more lands to prevent a rebellion. Besides I'm way over the demesne limit right now anyway.
We occupy Gyor, driving the score to 100 and enforce our demands.
Tvrdoslav II's brother Dragan asks for a fief of his own to rule, but his relatives could very easily become future Emperors if things go that direction. So I tell him no and that his only future is in the Church.
There was more to that decision than the possible and probably very rare chance of his progeny becoming Emperors. Originally I had Dragan educated to be a cleric. In fact he has a large Learning skill, and is already my chaplain, so making him wait for his career in the Church (he is heir to a bishopric) makes more sense than giving him a County or Barony.
While all this is going on I start thinking a little. I need one more county to get over the 50% needed to usurp Hungary. There's really only one person left to safely declare war, especially since I lost those claims I fabricated against the Count of Nitra.
I look at the map and begin plotting the final war against the former Manichean Duchess of Transylvania. If I take her last county it will end the Manichean attempt to gain a foothold in Europe, and probably put an end to the religion for several generations. I kind of feel bad about the decision I'm about to make. So I think about it for a little while longer.
Meanwhile a courtier Svatava Ranovec plots to kill a close relative so I imprison her, but before I do I form a counter plot to kill her. She ends up in my prison which should make the plot easier to accomplish.
The first attempt fails. The second however succeeds with her being killed as she tries to escape the dungeon.
My sister Adriana is upset that she isn't married yet, so I arrange a betrothal between her and Duke Nikolaz Bonafazi of Provence.
I then declare war against the Manichean Duchess...can't remember what the name of her final Duchy is called think it may be Temes but not one hundred percent sure.
A minor battle takes place, where our forces of over 2000 slaughter hers of 900. Then a siege is completed bringing our warscore up to 86 already.
Which is when the Manichean surrenders.
With the victory ending the Manichean presence in Hungary, I can now usurp the Kingdom. But I don't 300 gold anymore, and the current ruler of Hungary is at war so it isn't going to happen, definitely not while we're here. So maybe the AI will accomplish it, but sadly we won't.
With no chance of stealing the crown of Hungary I send Duke Tvrdoslav II on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Nothing too crazy happens on the road there.
We reach Jerusalem and do the normal pilgrim thing. I was thinking maybe a pilgrimage to a muslim held land would prove more dangerous. But I was wrong it goes pretty much the same as all the other pilgrimages, which sort of disappointed me.
I did make a friend though!
And my new friend comes to me with fears that he is being blackmailed.
Which is the very last thing I get to do here in Pecs-Pest.
I would say this run was rather successful, really sad I didn't get a crown for the Mihaljevics but I guess its good enough that they're a regional power now. The three duchies they have are under Primogeniture, which means successions should stay fairly smooth for a while.
It will be rather interesting to see where they go from here. What the AI will do with them, and whether or not Theognosia will retake her Imperial Throne. If she does there would be a high likelihood of a Mihaljevic being named Emperor in a generation. And that would solidify this run as a success. Even though the ERE is but a shadow of its former self.
I can't imagine a worse starting position than this one. But it was a highly fun game clawing Tvrdoslav's way towards survival and greatness. Here's to hoping our next turn will prove just as successful.
Next update we will take a brief look at the world.
Editing to add the above image spaced it out before hitting the update button. But that is what the Duchy we are leaving behind looks like.
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Despite the failure to forge a crown ,it was a great achievement considering the humble beginning ! I wait with terrible interest the next station of our travel
Pretty spectacular. Nonetheless, I find it amusing that, for all your success, you still no longer control the county you started out with.
Looking forward to the general update. Those are always fun.
Looking forward to the general update. Those are always fun.
Every time I see the adjective 'Pecsian' on one of your screenshots, I automatically misread it as 'Persian' and wonder what the Persians are doing in Hungary... And then my brain catches up and I feel a bit dumb for a few seconds.
No throne of Hungary for you or the Mihaljevics, but definitely a sturdy regional power. I wonder if the AI has the wherewithal to get the Hungarian title, and if the realm is strong enough to withstand (or even capitalize on) the on-and-off Sunni Byzantium.
No throne of Hungary for you or the Mihaljevics, but definitely a sturdy regional power. I wonder if the AI has the wherewithal to get the Hungarian title, and if the realm is strong enough to withstand (or even capitalize on) the on-and-off Sunni Byzantium.
@mike the knight: No crown, but it was a success considering we have three duchies now The next stop will be.................
@TSSL: Yeah I wish I had reclaimed Varazdin. I just got tired of wasting men and money on trying to get it and have the war end inconclusively. But if I had stayed for another 20 years I probably would have been able to get it back, and maybe make my way into Croatia.
@TheKaspa: I haven't ever played a Republic so it'd be funny if I did land in one. I'd have to learn on the fly like I was with the Muslims But Venice I think is the only Republic, so there's very very small odds that it will happen sadly.
@Stuyvesant: I can see how you could get Persian out of Pecsian lol...I also wonder if the Mihaljevics will thrive with what I've given them. I hope they can, because that took a lot of work creating their realm!
So our first look is at the Baltic region. Rus is in trouble, it looks tiny, but they're in the middle of a civil war, as Queen Marina Dregovich just ascended the throne, and she is a young girl. So naturally the vassals are a bit angry.
Those two little splotches named Adraskan are vassals of the Persian Adraskan Sultanate that overthrew the Mortezids in a decadence revolt. All the Muslims up in this area should be Shia. In fact part of the reason Rus is having issues is that they've had a few rulers become Shia, so they're going through the same religious turmoil that we've seen the Byzantines go through.
With that said, Sweden, Denmark, Pommerania, and Perm seem to be the major regional powers at the moment. Before Pommerania used to be united with Denmark but due to gavelkind it split up. And well Poland has shrunk in size a lot!
Next we look at England, which as you can see is a disaster. The Stawells still rule as King, but the family has gotten so large that no King can sit safely upon the throne without a pretender rising up to lay claim. Due to the instability and ambition of other Stawell family members the Kingdom of England's progress towards driving the Norse out of Scotland has come to a stop.
As you can see Wales, which we created on our first turn is still largely intact and doing well maintaining its status quo. However the Cerneus have been driven from the Kingdom. The only remaining landed Cerneu is currently Duke Eadmaer of Orleans, a vassal to the French King. What's interesting here is Eadmaer isn't in Orleans, in fact he rules as Duke in his County of Teviotdale which at one time used to be owned by the Teutonic Order.
Central Europe, the Holy Roman Empire seems to finally be reaching a stable point. They had gone through countless rebellions and the Breton Emperors have used those as an opportunity to sack the former German Dukes and replace them with Breton ones.
France and Aquitaine still survive, though they've traded ruling dynasties like baseball cards. Karlings and Poitou have ruled both kingdoms. Also in this shot you can see the new capital of the Byzantine Empire is in the neighborhood of Pecs. The ERE is a shell of its old self.
One thing that can be seen in this shot is that Pommerania seems to be in a position to capitalize on Poland's decline, and could potentially create an enormous blob if the HRE leaves it alone.
Other than that not a whole lot of fun things to talk about in this neighborhood.
On to Iberia. This has been an interesting place to watch develop. I haven't interfered with this part of the map at all. And at one point it was looking like the Muslims were going to steamroll things. But the Ummayads collapsed and the Christians went on a rampage.
The Crowns of Aragon and Navarra have split up, with the Aragonese crown taking all of the lands with it and becoming the dominant power on the peninsula. Portuagal has been created, and Castille is on the rise. I can't remember which of those two also holds the crown of Leon.
Anyway the former Sultan of Andalucia has converted to Christianity to prevent further Christian Holy Wars. So the Rahhalid Sultanate is now a small Christian Kingdom. Their former holdings in Morrocco have been taken over by the Qutids.
Africa still hasn't seen much change. Abyssinia has reunited everything it had lost at one time during the tyranny of the Solomonid Queens. And the Abbasids conquered a large chunk of Egypt from the Tulunids.
Mali of course is also doing well and still West African Pagan.
The Abbasids have taken over a large chunk of Anatolia, pushing the Anatolian Sultanate further and further into Greece. If this trend continues I wonder if Anatolia will continue its march into the Balkans with the Caliphate chasing after it? Only thing that would put a stop to that is a decadence revolt I think.
Persia is no longer a mighty Empire stretching deep into the northern steppes. It fell apart during a decadence revolt which gave Shia Volga Bulgaria the opportunity to go on a conquest and become a regional power. The Seljuks haven't expanded as much as I thought they may. But they're doing rather well. Their appearance on the map helped in the downfall of the Persian Mortezid dynasty.
Far to the north is the blob of Perm. Probably one of the largest Pagan realms in the game at the moment as far as land area held.
This is the reason why the ERE is having serious issues. Look at the amount of rulers its had since we started this last turn. And now there are so many different people with claims that things are going to be rather difficult for the Byzzies to ever solidify and reconquer all the things they had lost. However, I do think if Theognosia reclaims the throne, and has a Mihaljevic heir the fortune of the ERE could change. It would mean an alliance with Pecs which would bring in a decent amount of levies. So I'm hoping to witness a Mihaljevic Restoration of the Byzantine Empire.
Speaking of which here is a better shot of the Balkans.
So where exactly are we going? Will it be as miserable as the first 15 years as Tvrdoslav? I go and hit the random button to see where CKII decides to send us.
The RNG has chosen Munster.
The most powerful Duchy in Ireland and in a position to where forming Ireland should be rather straight forward and simple. Looks like this one will be a fairly simple place to play.
Although I must say it will be weird having to interact with Wales...
The next stop will be.................@TSSL: Yeah I wish I had reclaimed Varazdin. I just got tired of wasting men and money on trying to get it and have the war end inconclusively. But if I had stayed for another 20 years I probably would have been able to get it back, and maybe make my way into Croatia.
@TheKaspa: I haven't ever played a Republic so it'd be funny if I did land in one. I'd have to learn on the fly like I was with the Muslims
But Venice I think is the only Republic, so there's very very small odds that it will happen sadly. @Stuyvesant: I can see how you could get Persian out of Pecsian
lol...I also wonder if the Mihaljevics will thrive with what I've given them. I hope they can, because that took a lot of work creating their realm! ~~~~~
Update on the State of the World
Update on the State of the World
So our first look is at the Baltic region. Rus is in trouble, it looks tiny, but they're in the middle of a civil war, as Queen Marina Dregovich just ascended the throne, and she is a young girl. So naturally the vassals are a bit angry.
Those two little splotches named Adraskan are vassals of the Persian Adraskan Sultanate that overthrew the Mortezids in a decadence revolt. All the Muslims up in this area should be Shia. In fact part of the reason Rus is having issues is that they've had a few rulers become Shia, so they're going through the same religious turmoil that we've seen the Byzantines go through.
With that said, Sweden, Denmark, Pommerania, and Perm seem to be the major regional powers at the moment. Before Pommerania used to be united with Denmark but due to gavelkind it split up. And well Poland has shrunk in size a lot!
Next we look at England, which as you can see is a disaster. The Stawells still rule as King, but the family has gotten so large that no King can sit safely upon the throne without a pretender rising up to lay claim. Due to the instability and ambition of other Stawell family members the Kingdom of England's progress towards driving the Norse out of Scotland has come to a stop.
As you can see Wales, which we created on our first turn is still largely intact and doing well maintaining its status quo. However the Cerneus have been driven from the Kingdom. The only remaining landed Cerneu is currently Duke Eadmaer of Orleans, a vassal to the French King. What's interesting here is Eadmaer isn't in Orleans, in fact he rules as Duke in his County of Teviotdale which at one time used to be owned by the Teutonic Order.
Central Europe, the Holy Roman Empire seems to finally be reaching a stable point. They had gone through countless rebellions and the Breton Emperors have used those as an opportunity to sack the former German Dukes and replace them with Breton ones.
France and Aquitaine still survive, though they've traded ruling dynasties like baseball cards. Karlings and Poitou have ruled both kingdoms. Also in this shot you can see the new capital of the Byzantine Empire is in the neighborhood of Pecs. The ERE is a shell of its old self.
One thing that can be seen in this shot is that Pommerania seems to be in a position to capitalize on Poland's decline, and could potentially create an enormous blob if the HRE leaves it alone.
Other than that not a whole lot of fun things to talk about in this neighborhood.
On to Iberia. This has been an interesting place to watch develop. I haven't interfered with this part of the map at all. And at one point it was looking like the Muslims were going to steamroll things. But the Ummayads collapsed and the Christians went on a rampage.
The Crowns of Aragon and Navarra have split up, with the Aragonese crown taking all of the lands with it and becoming the dominant power on the peninsula. Portuagal has been created, and Castille is on the rise. I can't remember which of those two also holds the crown of Leon.
Anyway the former Sultan of Andalucia has converted to Christianity to prevent further Christian Holy Wars. So the Rahhalid Sultanate is now a small Christian Kingdom. Their former holdings in Morrocco have been taken over by the Qutids.
Africa still hasn't seen much change. Abyssinia has reunited everything it had lost at one time during the tyranny of the Solomonid Queens. And the Abbasids conquered a large chunk of Egypt from the Tulunids.
Mali of course is also doing well and still West African Pagan.
The Abbasids have taken over a large chunk of Anatolia, pushing the Anatolian Sultanate further and further into Greece. If this trend continues I wonder if Anatolia will continue its march into the Balkans with the Caliphate chasing after it? Only thing that would put a stop to that is a decadence revolt I think.
Persia is no longer a mighty Empire stretching deep into the northern steppes. It fell apart during a decadence revolt which gave Shia Volga Bulgaria the opportunity to go on a conquest and become a regional power. The Seljuks haven't expanded as much as I thought they may. But they're doing rather well. Their appearance on the map helped in the downfall of the Persian Mortezid dynasty.
Far to the north is the blob of Perm. Probably one of the largest Pagan realms in the game at the moment as far as land area held.
This is the reason why the ERE is having serious issues. Look at the amount of rulers its had since we started this last turn. And now there are so many different people with claims that things are going to be rather difficult for the Byzzies to ever solidify and reconquer all the things they had lost. However, I do think if Theognosia reclaims the throne, and has a Mihaljevic heir the fortune of the ERE could change. It would mean an alliance with Pecs which would bring in a decent amount of levies. So I'm hoping to witness a Mihaljevic Restoration of the Byzantine Empire.
Speaking of which here is a better shot of the Balkans.
So where exactly are we going? Will it be as miserable as the first 15 years as Tvrdoslav? I go and hit the random button to see where CKII decides to send us.
The RNG has chosen Munster.
The most powerful Duchy in Ireland and in a position to where forming Ireland should be rather straight forward and simple. Looks like this one will be a fairly simple place to play.
Although I must say it will be weird having to interact with Wales...
Speaking as an Irishman...
Kill 'em! Kill 'em!
Speaking as an esteemed Paradoxical gentleman...
Make it so.
Kill 'em! Kill 'em!
Speaking as an esteemed Paradoxical gentleman...
Make it so.
Ulster, eh? I think your goals are pretty clear: unite the Emerald Isle (sounds like that won't be too big a challenge), then drive the Norse heathens from Scotland and finally, if time permits, restore the Cerneus to their land and crown in Wales. Kinda like a giant Celtic brotherhood in the British Isles.