Sweden-Norway looks more like that than Sweden-Finland.
It just depends from what direction you are looking at.
Union?
I don't understand how anyone managed to invent the term 'union' to mean swedes ruling finns???
If You Can't Do It, Nubia Can! A (hopefully) comedic AAR
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Sweden-Norway looks more like that than Sweden-Finland.
It just depends from what direction you are looking at.
Union?
I don't understand how anyone managed to invent the term 'union' to mean swedes ruling finns???
Look at the Sweden-Finland combination in a one euro coin. That's perfectly cropped for this effect.
Is that why Sweden chose not to adapt Euro?
No.
BTW, please don't use
in conversation with me any more, it's annoying and it makes you come across as smug and insulting. Thanks.Sorry Eron.
Yep, they're orange on the map. Ruled by Nubia, but the populace is still Jewish.
Great update - very well done. I especially liked "I launched an invasion of Norway."
Ah - the good old days
That does go quite a ways back, doesn't it?
Great update! You seem to handle a lot of styles well.
Why thank you, though I have no plans to start a fully narrative AAR anytime soon.
On a side note, is this the only thread where Scandanavians and Finns come to argue about things, or does that happen in other threads?
If You Can't Do It, Nubia Can!
Mirza I, the Builder, and his
Improvement of the Realm
1218-22
After I told her she couldn’t be my chancellor, Hana has taken a turn for the worse. Her poetry is all about darkness and death, and she’s taken to sitting in her room burning candles.
I can’t take anymore of this. I need to get her out of the palace.
She wants something to be miserable about, I’ll give her something. I’ll send her to France. Now she’s out of my hair and I have another king as an in-law.
And another infant joins the royal family. You know, depending how this younger crop turns out, I may have to rethink who my heir is. Don’t let Alexander hear that though.
Speaking of the younger generation, I’m going to give the army another try. Hopefully Adam will apply himself more than his older brother.
I’ve never tried to educate a son at court. After much work I manage to track down the noble I handed Merkurios to and bring him back to court. My sons have failed at everything else, maybe this is the path to use.
Being the responsible businessman that I am, I’ve noticed that sending my children to live with nobles means the royal nannies are only used when the children are brought for visits. Most of the time they sit around doing nothing. Therefore to justify paying them, they will be raising Qalidutut full time.
To solve the crying baby problem I build a new nursery a hundred meters away from the mail palace.
My recent building is improved relations with the merchants. They’ve benefited the most from my benevolent rule.
My advisors have finally realized that I have no intention of fighting any more wars. So instead of suggesting new wars, they have started suggesting ways for me to undermine my neighbors.
If I have no interest in spending thousands of pounds of gold to conquer a province, I’ll have even less interest in giving thousands of pounds of gold to criminals in those provinces.
Advisors, will they ever learn?
I may have done wonders for the Nubian economy, I may have built more infrastructure than most of my predecessors combined, I may have helped people across the kingdom, but even I can’t solve the manure shortage.
Though it’s worth noting that while the lack of manure has hurt farming, it has acutally made Valencia prosperous. Only in Nubia.
What does Hana think of France? How will the younger generation turn out? Is court education the way to go? Will the advisors ever learn? Find out with If You Can’t Do It, Nubia Can!
A story with lots of pictures and plenty of words
Mirza I, the Builder, and his
Improvement of the Realm
1218-22
After I told her she couldn’t be my chancellor, Hana has taken a turn for the worse. Her poetry is all about darkness and death, and she’s taken to sitting in her room burning candles.
I can’t take anymore of this. I need to get her out of the palace.
She wants something to be miserable about, I’ll give her something. I’ll send her to France. Now she’s out of my hair and I have another king as an in-law.
And another infant joins the royal family. You know, depending how this younger crop turns out, I may have to rethink who my heir is. Don’t let Alexander hear that though.
Speaking of the younger generation, I’m going to give the army another try. Hopefully Adam will apply himself more than his older brother.
I’ve never tried to educate a son at court. After much work I manage to track down the noble I handed Merkurios to and bring him back to court. My sons have failed at everything else, maybe this is the path to use.
Being the responsible businessman that I am, I’ve noticed that sending my children to live with nobles means the royal nannies are only used when the children are brought for visits. Most of the time they sit around doing nothing. Therefore to justify paying them, they will be raising Qalidutut full time.
To solve the crying baby problem I build a new nursery a hundred meters away from the mail palace.
My recent building is improved relations with the merchants. They’ve benefited the most from my benevolent rule.
My advisors have finally realized that I have no intention of fighting any more wars. So instead of suggesting new wars, they have started suggesting ways for me to undermine my neighbors.
If I have no interest in spending thousands of pounds of gold to conquer a province, I’ll have even less interest in giving thousands of pounds of gold to criminals in those provinces.
Advisors, will they ever learn?
I may have done wonders for the Nubian economy, I may have built more infrastructure than most of my predecessors combined, I may have helped people across the kingdom, but even I can’t solve the manure shortage.
Though it’s worth noting that while the lack of manure has hurt farming, it has acutally made Valencia prosperous. Only in Nubia.
What does Hana think of France? How will the younger generation turn out? Is court education the way to go? Will the advisors ever learn? Find out with If You Can’t Do It, Nubia Can!
That's fine, I prefer your normal style of AAR ordinarily anyway.
I don't think I've ever seen that in these forums before. I believe that was a completely isolated incident in this thread alone.
Nice update!
Oh, and the advisors will never learn. Either that, or they "learn" when some bloodthirsty maniac rises to the throne and offer Mirza-style stuff then.
If You Can't Do It, Nubia Can!
Mirza I, the Builder, and his
Improvement of the Realm
1222-5
I’m going to make up for mostly ignoring the court aspect of education by sending it a bunch of my children now. Also it lets Gabriella see the noble who raised her. It’s kinda weird that she calls him dad though.
And my last child is off to court too. I’m going to have to do something about that name, I don’t know what his mother was thinking.
What? Who dares do such a thing? I bet it was Petros, he’s always been a vengeful bastard. Always bragging about how he’s such a great commander when my son had to retake remedial tactics. I guess now he’s just vengeful.
And a dick. He may not be a vengeful bastard anymore, but he’s still a vengeful dick.
Who the hell is this? This isn’t Petros. This is the guy who thinks he’s a worthy heir of James? I can’t even remember him. He’s an Iberian prince, so he must have done something in the war against Burgandy, but seriously? Talk about a big ego.
The strain of continued peace is taking its toll on Arsenios. Wait, what does that even mean? This should be easy for him. It’s not like he has to worry about keeping the kingdom going while I’m off in some uncivilized land draining the treasury with a war.
Maybe his refusal to embezzle the kingdom’s funds is stressing him out.
Army life is not agreeing with Adam. During the last march it started to rain and my son chose not to change out of his wet clothes. Now he’s sick. His mother is worried, but I tell her to let him tough it out. He’s like 5th in line for the throne anyway.
It’s time for another episode of everyone’s favorite show “Let’s Pretend Catholics have any Significance in the Strategic Situation.” This episode introduces the Catholic attempt to take Lisbon from the Muslims.
It won’t be hard to figure out the plot. Odds are a whole bunch of nothing will happen until the Bohemians manage to march across Europe to Iberia and kill the Muslims there.
Then the Pope will declare a great victory and all the Catholics will go home and talk about how important they are in the fight against Islam.
This is why playing with flint and steel is bad. It’s all fun and games until some sparks land in a bale of hay. Then the next thing you know the entire dockyard is in flames.
Only you can prevent dock fires.
And only I can punish arson. Now I know having the culprits burned alive may have seemed extreme, but I’m a make the punishment fit the crime kind of ruler. And I know they were children, but we need to be firm with our youth. And an example needed to be made.
I doubt any kids are going to be playing with fire now.
The merchants of Annaba are mad because they claim burning children alive goes against their religion. That’s okay, I’ve got nothing against burning adults too.
Is court education the correct choice? Does Petros have some nefarious scheme planned? What’s wrong with Arsenios? Will children keep playing with fire? Find out with If You Can’t Do It, Nubia Can!
A story with lots of pictures and plenty of words
Mirza I, the Builder, and his
Improvement of the Realm
1222-5
I’m going to make up for mostly ignoring the court aspect of education by sending it a bunch of my children now. Also it lets Gabriella see the noble who raised her. It’s kinda weird that she calls him dad though.
And my last child is off to court too. I’m going to have to do something about that name, I don’t know what his mother was thinking.
What? Who dares do such a thing? I bet it was Petros, he’s always been a vengeful bastard. Always bragging about how he’s such a great commander when my son had to retake remedial tactics. I guess now he’s just vengeful.
And a dick. He may not be a vengeful bastard anymore, but he’s still a vengeful dick.
Who the hell is this? This isn’t Petros. This is the guy who thinks he’s a worthy heir of James? I can’t even remember him. He’s an Iberian prince, so he must have done something in the war against Burgandy, but seriously? Talk about a big ego.
The strain of continued peace is taking its toll on Arsenios. Wait, what does that even mean? This should be easy for him. It’s not like he has to worry about keeping the kingdom going while I’m off in some uncivilized land draining the treasury with a war.
Maybe his refusal to embezzle the kingdom’s funds is stressing him out.
Army life is not agreeing with Adam. During the last march it started to rain and my son chose not to change out of his wet clothes. Now he’s sick. His mother is worried, but I tell her to let him tough it out. He’s like 5th in line for the throne anyway.
It’s time for another episode of everyone’s favorite show “Let’s Pretend Catholics have any Significance in the Strategic Situation.” This episode introduces the Catholic attempt to take Lisbon from the Muslims.
It won’t be hard to figure out the plot. Odds are a whole bunch of nothing will happen until the Bohemians manage to march across Europe to Iberia and kill the Muslims there.
Then the Pope will declare a great victory and all the Catholics will go home and talk about how important they are in the fight against Islam.
This is why playing with flint and steel is bad. It’s all fun and games until some sparks land in a bale of hay. Then the next thing you know the entire dockyard is in flames.
Only you can prevent dock fires.
And only I can punish arson. Now I know having the culprits burned alive may have seemed extreme, but I’m a make the punishment fit the crime kind of ruler. And I know they were children, but we need to be firm with our youth. And an example needed to be made.
I doubt any kids are going to be playing with fire now.
The merchants of Annaba are mad because they claim burning children alive goes against their religion. That’s okay, I’ve got nothing against burning adults too.
Is court education the correct choice? Does Petros have some nefarious scheme planned? What’s wrong with Arsenios? Will children keep playing with fire? Find out with If You Can’t Do It, Nubia Can!
Great response!
On the subject of arguing Scandinavians I'm sure I've had Finns and Danes arguing on one of my AARs too. Given the previous argument on your thread I think that means that the Finns are the trouble makers.
*stirs the pot*
So kids from the Delta sneaked into Gabiyaha and burned down the port and were set on fire for it, after which merchants in Annaba got burnt at the stake?
Right...
Iain, that wasn't an argument, that was a minor dispute. An argument between a Scandinavian and a Finn would look like a fight out of that movie you love. You know, Braveheart...
Right...
Iain, that wasn't an argument, that was a minor dispute. An argument between a Scandinavian and a Finn would look like a fight out of that movie you love. You know, Braveheart...
Iain, that wasn't an argument, that was a minor dispute. An argument between a Scandinavian and a Finn would look like a fight out of that movie you love. You know, Braveheart...
So Finns are Scadinavians?
Holy crap, who says that?
I am not a double maker, I just always get into a situation where I must defend my homeland.
Why is nothing happening in Nubia outside the court?
Or does the ruler ever go out?
And has Lisboa ever been a Christian city before?
Huh?
I am not a double maker, I just always get into a situation where I must defend my homeland.
Yeah, that's just how we are. Spirit of the Winter War and all that.
See, don't ask questions like that, but ignore my response or rant about the evils of Braveheart instead. That way, things like whining on the internet being equated with throwing bottles of gasoline at incoming Russian tanks won't happen.
Eron, which cities can become the target of a crusade? And let's all hope that Georgios of Dongola will soon become the king of an independent Nubian Iberia.
Huh?
Don't worry - I'm only joking. I was merely suggesting that because we've seen arguments between Finns and Swedes and Finns and Danes that it must be the Finns being antagonistic
You don't want me to rant about Braveheart - you know full well it will take up several pages!
I'm assuming then "Is Finland part of Scandinavia?" is the sort of discussion point that will lead to lots of frantic arguing?
There's a limited list, I think, even in vanilla. Can't be many more cities left to take. IIRC it's something like:
Jerusalem
Antioch
Alexandria
Constantinople
Rome
Tunis
Burgos
Seville
Lisbon
Don't worry - I'm only joking. I was merely suggesting that because we've seen arguments between Finns and Swedes and Finns and Danes that it must be the Finns being antagonistic
Of course you are, maybe I should have added a
or something to go with the . Difficult, these smiley things Nah, I remember Swede-Dane arguments with no Finns included. Even one that got so out of hand that a Swede was banned from the AAR thread.
Not really. For Finns and Scandinavians (as far as I know) it's pretty obvious that Scandinavia is Sweden, Norway and Denmark. When talking about all of the Nordic countries, other words are used. For some reason, English use of the word Scandinavia is different.
But hopefully we can get back to Nubia now so no-one has to care about this stuff. It was probably a good choice for Nubia to not finish that invasion of Norway - it seems to me that there's enough bickering in Nubia as is without adding any Nordic people to the fold.
Then compile an abridged 'Greatest Hits' version and give the people that. Focus on how Mel is even more insulting to the Scots than he is to the English.
No, most Finns are mature and intelligent enough to come up with a concise and non-hostile answer to that question.