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Hi, this is not my first AAR, I have still my Mazovia AAR ongoing.

But this something special since I play every Thursday together with my best friend CK via LAN and we decided last week to make an AAR of it. Consider that this will not take time from the Lithuanian line of the Piasts since I wouldn't play it on Thursday anyway.

I made several new Kingdoms (Pommerania, Crimea, Novgorod, Trapezous, Greece, Thesallia, Finland, Albania etc.) and deleted all Kingdom titles in the 1066 titles folder, this means NO KINGDOMS IN THE BEGINNING.

I play the Duke of Brandenburg and my friend Smart plays the Duke of Saxony.
 
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The heroes of this story are:
Udo Staden, a generous forty-one year old man, who was married with a sixteen year old woman and had a son and a daughter.
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And Magnus Billung, a twenty-one year old guy who wasn’t married nor had kids.
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Brandenburg in 1066.

In December they both met again.
“You know I hate it to be Duke. As you do. Help me against the tribes of Mecklemburg and Pommerania so I can get King of Pommerania. Therefore I will help you against the Danes so you can make yourself King of Denmark.” Udo said.
“Of course I will help you dear friend. What shall I do?”
“I need your men to save my cities from the Wends. And I will need money, wars are expensive you know.”

1067: On the 28th of January Udo declared war on Wolgast, a vassal of Mecklemburg. His plan was to fight only the Wends first and Pommerania after that. And he would take them from the east and go westwards. Meanwhile Magnus took the men of his most northern vassal, the Bishop of Bremen and Hamburg. This would be enough.

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The Count of Lübeck declared war on the Wends to and because Udo feared the Count could take Mecklemburg he moved his troops there. Wolgast had to wait. While Udo was leading the siege of Mecklemburg together with the men of Lübeck, the Wends besieged the cities of Altmark and Brandenburg. Udo couldn’t take his men form the siege of Mecklemburg since the Count of Lübeck would take it then so he asked his friend Magnus to fight them. Magnus accepted and crushed both armies easily.

On the 25th of July Mecklemburg was taken.
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On the 11th of November the city of Rostock was liberated. Meanwhile Magnus went back home since there were no Wends to fight anymore.
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1068: Werle was taken at the 7th of January and on the 6th of May Wolgast, which Udo wanted in the beginning of the war to take first, was liberated.

Heinrich the son of the Duke got unhealthy and ill.

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2 AAR at the same time. Get a life ;)

And of course I have no problem with someone else starting as Magnus Billung. It is even fun, to see and compare. :)
 

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Veldmaarschalk said:
2 AAR at the same time. Get a life ;)

And of course I have no problem with someone else starting as Magnus Billung. It is even fun, to see and compare. :)
You shouldn't complain, you update much more than I do. And as I said I would play anyway. But since we forgot the story over the week and so started everytime a new game, we decided we should write a AAR out of it so we can stay at one game.

And he will probably do much worse than you, he just plays to less to compare.
 

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On the 11th of July Udo took Rügen, the last isle of the Wends. So in this area the years of pillages by the Slavic pagans together with the wars against them were gone. The area was now peaceful and German again, as it should be. The war was now officially over and Udo went back home. But before he was gone he made Leopold of Wetterau Count of Rügen.
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1069: On the 11th of January Magnus held a big festival. He had married Luitgard of Zähringen, a Swabian and sister of the Duke of Kärnten. All Dukes and most Counts of the Holy Roman Empire were there. At the fest Magnus, who was certainly a bit drunk, told everybody how evil and deceitful the Danes were and that Holstein would be a Saxon city, even Slesvig would be Saxon, so both should be part of Saxony. He officially claimed only to be the real Count of Holstein but said more than once that Slesvig should be Saxon too. Of course Udo was agreeing with Magnus, mainly because he wanted to give something back for the Saxon support in his war.

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In Wolgast religious tensions were rising so Udo crushed them and forced them to convert to the right faith, which was for him of course Catholicism.

A few days later he did the same in Mecklemburg, but the Wends there didn’t care about and so the main population stayed pagan.

Udo granted an itinerant Bishop a place at his court and the workers in Brandenburg discovered how to build and use a tile factory.

1070: Thieves were spreading in Werle.

Udo thought it was a great time to fight the tribe of Pommerania, which was now rather weak, and so declared war. Now Magnus didn’t have to help him with troops, but with money.

Udo’s second son Johann was born. It was the 15th of April.

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On the 25th of July Magnus first kid Ludwig was born.


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1071: Adelheid, the first daughter of Udo, began her studies at the court. One month later her brother Heinrich did the same and joined her on the studies.

On the 20th of April Udo’s second daughter Gertrude was born. Sadly she died a few days later due to bad health.

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On the 14th of July Magnus’ daughter Richwara was born.

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On the 4th of August Danzig was liberated and the war was over. It was even easier than the first one.

Udo made his Chaplain Bishop of Danzig and his son Heinrich Count of Rostock.

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No kingdoms, that's something new. I hope this turns out as good as your other AAR.
 

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Thanks you like my other one. But this currently has three Kingdoms I didn't delete because they are not recreatable. And I will easily be King next time I have 9 of 14 provinces for the King of Pommerania the rest are Hamburg, Holstein, Lübeck, and Lubusz.

And what I maybe have to say is that I somehow lost my friends screensaves and had to make new ones, thats the reason Magnus is on the picture 26 and so on.
 

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Three unrecreatable? I thought it was anly Narvarra and Nubia that was unrecreatable? What is the third? PAPA?
 

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Lurken said:
Three unrecreatable? I thought it was anly Narvarra and Nubia that was unrecreatable? What is the third? PAPA?


AFIAK, Narvarra is recreatable. I could be wrong.
 

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I just wanted to say that my friend won't come to me tommorow since this is a holiday here and he is skiing. So no update until Thursday next week (15th), this only means more time for Mazovia, since I have no homework today.
 

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First to clear this: I play 1.04b (August) and will update to 1.05 ASAP. In the betas uncreatable are: Navarra, Pisa, Venice and Nubia.

Orders are of course also not creatable but spread as their land is conquered by Catholics.

The Papal State spreads like Orders plus any Bishop with 500 gold can create it.

And in the end I can say that I can play today on it so there will be an update this evening. And maybe even tommorow another one, depends on how much we play.

And since I have two weeks Christmas holydays I can play again on it. But there might be a possibillity may cousin plays and not my friend.
 

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Some new rules:
Only one crusade all 5 years, per new attacked heathen +5 years (if you attack 3 heathens you have to wait 15 years to crush heathens again).

PvP starts in 1100 then the players may always attack each other without a reason.

I also write things down that were spoken, red for me and light green for my friend.

And you can give us traits like in CK for the said and done things.
 
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Udo made himself also Duke of Pommerania.

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1072: Udo claimed Lubusz would be a good German city and should be a part of Brandenburg.

In February he made himself also Duke of Mecklemburg. The same month Budivoj Nakanid, the Count of Lübeck came to his castle.
“Why are you here? Weren’t we always competitors?”
“I swore to serve the Duchy of Mecklemburg as long as it is Catholic, no matter if I am the Duke or somebody else.”
”Then serve me if you want.”
”I don’t serve you, but the Duchy.”
”And where is the difference? The state am I! And now go home and pay taxes.”

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Magnus and Luitgard were expecting a child.

In June there was a chance Udo could call the estate general but denied.

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Otto von Görz was granted a place at the court and was made Marshal of Brandenburg.

An itinerant Bishop became Chaplain on Udo’s court.

Adelheid became merciful and forgiving.

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In November Magnus declared war on Slesvig and asked Udo to join the fight. Udo accepted and sent his vassal from Lübeck to Holstein.

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In December Magnus, who like Udo stayed at home to watch the fight from a save distance, some said he was just not willing to pay for his own troops but this was hardly denied by his Chancellor, was called by the midwife because his second son was born and he should give him a name. He gave him the name Gerlach. Bad taste.

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1073: Udo had sent 1000 men to Holstein and they, together with 1400 Saxons, won against 1200 Danes. A few days later Udo was asked to make peace for 70 gold and accepted.

Again Magnus was expecting a child. Man they are active.

Ludwig, the first son of Magnus, didn’t want to give his friends his toys and was called selfish therefore.

Magnus sent 400 men reinforcements to Holstein as this castle was hard to take.

In July Magnus got the news that his father Ordulf had died. He got 52 anyway. What do you want more? Magnus had a father?

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The same month Adelheid got lazy again. She had lost it some months before.

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In November Magnus’ next daughter Konstanze was born.

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In December Magnus had to see that his son Gerlach died.

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Wow man, Magnus married Luitgard as she was sixteen. She is twenty now and they had four kids until now, that means a kid every year. Not bad, as I said, high activity.

1074: In April a noble warrior asked to get a place at the court of Saxony. He will be a looser, but I have too much money. Then Konrad of Altenau got Marshal as he had 13 martial. Guess I was wrong then.

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Again Luitgard was expecting a child. Noo! Not again. What shall I do with this mass of children? Like the rabbits, they are!

Meanwhile the clergy came to Udo as they felt that the time was to tell the word of god in Mecklemburg. Of course Udo, who was a faithful man, told them to embrace their cause with all their heart and purse. Mecklemburg was Catholic now. But at a high price as it was looted, poor and the peasants were revolting.
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