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HistoryDude

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Ah, so it was the Kalmar Union. That makes sense.

Friesland has fallen in a dream, but it remains in the real world. Did you restart completely or from a previous save? If it was a complete restart, why didn't you use a previous save?
 
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An understandable reason to restart. Hopefully your new knowledge can be put to good use in the second game.
Thanks! It definitely did - especially just surviving the start and avoiding the coalition rush.
I liked the song/poem at the end. Really nice stuff.
Glad you did. I used to do humorous song lyric adaptations at work and have adapted them in at least one other AAR. I thought it provided a fitting send off for this one.
Ah, so it was the Kalmar Union. That makes sense.
Happy to have cleared that up and I learned a little of the game along the way.
Friesland has fallen in a dream, but it remains in the real world. Did you restart completely or from a previous save? If it was a complete restart, why didn't you use a previous save?
Yes, complete restart from scratch. I didn’t have a save of the original start and didn’t want to scum save. And I had not known a whole bunch of stuff right from the start that I’d now picked up even in just the short time I’d been playing. And it wasn’t (at the time) an AAR game, so I just preferred to begin it all and apply that (and some strategic thoughts from the first run) right from the kickoff.

I could have just started the AAR with the second attempt, but I thought it interesting to include an abject curb-stomping rather than a cavalcade of rampant world domination! :D
 
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Did he have Fries Suikerbrood for breakfast? Good Luck on try #2. I remember my first game. I rolled Granada and my goal was simply to the sun on 3 January 1492. This was when the fort system was new and estates and mission trees were visions held by developers. Thank you and good luck.
 
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