This AAR is going to be about Norway who is at a terrible situation as Denmark's vassal. Norway will struggle to get on the world stage as they are surrounded by possible enemies. This is a Norwegian Saga.
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King Sigurid III of Norway knew his realm needed heavy improvement to become a power and that it would take lots of time. It had been a year and he had indroduced many reforms that he knew would be hard on his nation's coffers. His treasury had used to have 300 ducats now he had 50. He had introduced Tax Collectors to the cities of Oslo,Bergen,and Trondheim to make more profits. He had also improved the quality of his soldiers but now they would be more expensive. The providence of Narvik had used to have 300 hardy settlers and now it had 600 hundered settlers but 300 acually lived around one town that had shops and some farms. King Sigurid had also sent merchants to Germany and they now were selling Norway's goods to the world. King Sigurid knew that these were the baby steps needed to become a world power. It was now Anno Domini 1420.
Harald Talmarsson's armor was very uncomfortable when marching and he was getting very annoyed by it as he was marching to Narvik. Nothing much had happened in the land of Norway in the past 9 months and now it was August. 100 more immigrants had moved to Narvik and some more merchants had been posted in Germany but all the important stuff had happened outside of Norway. The war in France was still a stalemate except for Burgundy asking for 38 ducats in tribute and peace had been proclaimed between Burgundy and France. Harald was sick of being a soldier and wished that he could be a noble instead of marching up in northern Norway where summers were like early spring. Then an arrow wizzed by. The Lapps were attacking! Harald drew his sword and went to attack the heathens. A Lapp hacked at Harald with a heavy Battle-Axe. Harald parried and punched the Lapp in the stomach and then cut off the heathen's arm. Then the horns of Norway sounded. The Lapps had been beaten back! Harald now knew this was going to be a long fight and realized he could earn glory in the artic fields. Now Harald was glad he had been levied into the kings army.
I profess to not reading much, though that was a very fine start, good luck with it.
Excellent to see Harald be victorious in his first battle. Great start so far, although some period images would greatly add to the effect of the writing.
I will follow this one for certain.
I will follow this one for certain.
Oh yeah by the way I can't take screenies so I can't show you my empire but I could take a blank map and fill in the nations.
Period image I guess would be a pic of a monarch or some castles of the era, Norwegian infantry or something like that....just curious, why cant u take pics?
You could use Print Screen and then minimise and copy the image into something like Paint.Anarhco Liberal said:
Yes, I meant pictures of the Monarch as well as weapons, castles, landscapes ect of the time period. Print screen and paste will get around the problem with F11, as Duke of Wellington pointed out. This is how I always take screens in order to do quick editing to get them just right.
Tis sad that this is on hold, as it has a promising opening. However, I hope your other AAR goes well to the end and we will be waiting to see this resumed.
Tis sad that this is on hold, as it has a promising opening. However, I hope your other AAR goes well to the end and we will be waiting to see this resumed.
Harald Talmarsson's visions of glory ended in a day in early September when the Lapps decided they would have one more try at destroying, and pillaging Narvik. All 500 of them came to Narvik during the night, and hid behind bushes, and trees waiting for the perfect time to attack. They came in screaming their warcries 30 minutes, and they torched many buildings around the outskirts of town. The garrison was sounded, and Harald rushed to confront the Lapps. A very large gruesome man came up to him in a rush swinging his long sword with all of his might. Harald parried again, and again until he found the perfect oppurtunity to stab the man. As the Lapp came up for another blow he stabbed him in the gut, and slashed the man's arm off. As Harald looked across the battlefield he could see Lapps raping women, and killing inoccent settlers. Harald knew that this was not a place to earn glory, it was a place of brutal killings, and rapings. Harald reformed around a banner carrier along with 300 men, and after 100 bowmen fired their bows at the Lapps they charged in fury. It was all over in minutes as the Norwegians pushed the Lapps off the battlefield with their superior technology, and organization. Finally it looked as if the Lapps would not bother Narvik again. 3 days later on a rainy, cool day a courier came in saying that Hammerfest had been burned, and all the residents had been killed. Harald knew that he could have done nothing for them, but he still felt guilty in his heart.