Hello, so any way I find myself with copious amounts of time and a copy of EUII. Thus I will write what I hope will be a halfway entertaining AAR.
I'm not much of a character development person, so this will probably just be a sort of narrated game. I hesitate to touch the august art that this AAR writing has become, but we all have to start some place and well, you know, if you're bored too bad for you.
2011 notice: This is an image intensive thread, and many images have gone off-line since Here be Fez began. Instead of displaying broken images, I have chosen to link to where they formerly were hosted and place that link in carats like so:
< http://imgbolt.com/files/100836/eu2 2007-10-11 04-02-38-15.jpg >
The picture won't load. If you find any actual broken images, which do not display when you refresh the page, tell me and I can fix them. Please accept my apologies for the lack of pictures on the first few pages.
About me: I've had EUII since ...2003ish, and my, what a museum piece it be. Some games just get things right. I recently checked the new LibrAARy and note the nations which have never been AAR'd in a standard game. I'm rather astonished Fez has never been twisted to this purpose in so many years. So I'm doing it. Probably. Maybe. Or not?
Fez is an unimportant representative of Moors, as EUII says, "can hardly be considered a nation although at times was a power base for various factions." We will change this. We will make Fez better...
Fez, for the informed, be under attack in 1419, apparently some Filthy Spaniards want to reconquer Islamic Lands and assemble an empire. We'll see what we can do about that!
My knowledge of game mechanics be rusty, so we may see some stupid stuff happening.
I will try to make this screenshot intensive. Text AARs are so...bland, IMO. I have ~48MB bandwidth daily to deliver the story of Fez to ye, so shall it be. At about 120KB per screenshot, this gives me 100 impressions per day. Hmph. I really do adore Pictureposter though, they are nearly flawless.
Settings:
1419 Grand
Medium Agressiveness
Medium Speed
Medium difficulty
Here be the starting position.
Court song: Falalalan (Hey, that Castillian culture seeped in somehow.)
Fez is moderately stable. We are united against the horrible horrible Portuguese, which, god willing, shall soon be crushed. Depending on the speed of our camels. They need some barley now. This, you doubtless know, be hard to come by in the desert and thus the war.
Our stalwart allies in Granada will be an excellent barometer of success.
Algiers are backing us up!
And we bitterly hate Oman, wherever those heathen may be. If we ever find them, not even god shall have mercy on them for misinterpreting the prophet's words.
We have 99 ducats. (And one "honourable ducat" which resides in the palace, but that's another story, be it not?)
Quickly I adjust our religious settings. We have complete acceptance of the Sunni. Since we may one day rule over Catholic sheep, we must also fully tolerate them.
We have no idea what "Orthodox" are. Forget them.
And the Shiites? Didn't we just say they were revisionist heathen?? Thus are our religious settings settled.
Then we must attend to domestic policy. The weak lord of Fez, Uthman III (poor/average/poor) will make the coming years hard. No help at all.
I decide to centralise the nation, because we need better technology, such as...um. Camel stirrups, or whatever we're researching. Alas, the peasants have their traditional ways with their Camels, and protest. The stability be impacted. Behold!
I shall update you when some things happen. I may also link those screenshots to avoid problems later. We'll see.
I'm not much of a character development person, so this will probably just be a sort of narrated game. I hesitate to touch the august art that this AAR writing has become, but we all have to start some place and well, you know, if you're bored too bad for you.
2011 notice: This is an image intensive thread, and many images have gone off-line since Here be Fez began. Instead of displaying broken images, I have chosen to link to where they formerly were hosted and place that link in carats like so:
< http://imgbolt.com/files/100836/eu2 2007-10-11 04-02-38-15.jpg >
The picture won't load. If you find any actual broken images, which do not display when you refresh the page, tell me and I can fix them. Please accept my apologies for the lack of pictures on the first few pages.
About me: I've had EUII since ...2003ish, and my, what a museum piece it be. Some games just get things right. I recently checked the new LibrAARy and note the nations which have never been AAR'd in a standard game. I'm rather astonished Fez has never been twisted to this purpose in so many years. So I'm doing it. Probably. Maybe. Or not?
Fez is an unimportant representative of Moors, as EUII says, "can hardly be considered a nation although at times was a power base for various factions." We will change this. We will make Fez better...
Fez, for the informed, be under attack in 1419, apparently some Filthy Spaniards want to reconquer Islamic Lands and assemble an empire. We'll see what we can do about that!
My knowledge of game mechanics be rusty, so we may see some stupid stuff happening.
I will try to make this screenshot intensive. Text AARs are so...bland, IMO. I have ~48MB bandwidth daily to deliver the story of Fez to ye, so shall it be. At about 120KB per screenshot, this gives me 100 impressions per day. Hmph. I really do adore Pictureposter though, they are nearly flawless.
Settings:
1419 Grand
Medium Agressiveness
Medium Speed
Medium difficulty
Here be the starting position.
Court song: Falalalan (Hey, that Castillian culture seeped in somehow.)
Fez is moderately stable. We are united against the horrible horrible Portuguese, which, god willing, shall soon be crushed. Depending on the speed of our camels. They need some barley now. This, you doubtless know, be hard to come by in the desert and thus the war.
Our stalwart allies in Granada will be an excellent barometer of success.
Algiers are backing us up!
And we bitterly hate Oman, wherever those heathen may be. If we ever find them, not even god shall have mercy on them for misinterpreting the prophet's words.
We have 99 ducats. (And one "honourable ducat" which resides in the palace, but that's another story, be it not?)
Quickly I adjust our religious settings. We have complete acceptance of the Sunni. Since we may one day rule over Catholic sheep, we must also fully tolerate them.
We have no idea what "Orthodox" are. Forget them.
And the Shiites? Didn't we just say they were revisionist heathen?? Thus are our religious settings settled.
Then we must attend to domestic policy. The weak lord of Fez, Uthman III (poor/average/poor) will make the coming years hard. No help at all.
I decide to centralise the nation, because we need better technology, such as...um. Camel stirrups, or whatever we're researching. Alas, the peasants have their traditional ways with their Camels, and protest. The stability be impacted. Behold!
I shall update you when some things happen. I may also link those screenshots to avoid problems later. We'll see.
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