I'll be brief here. I tried one of these AAR's for Songhai, eon's ago. I burnt out on it due to parallel projects and school. I have too much time on my hands these days. In order to not burn myself out by trying to write a masterpiece (I like to write..) I'll take a historian's bird-eye perspective.I will post at the end of each of my ruler's deaths, with maps (that's what you all care over anyways! you want to 'see' my progress! 
Rules/Settings
Mod- MEIOU
Cheats - I created Caesar, for my next heir with 9 9 9 stats. Also I gave it a 'gift' of gold at start. Pretend they found it in an ancient burial chamber.
Country - Roman Empire
Goal - The Total Conquest of the Known World. No Country is safe. No Continent too dangerous. No fog too impenetrable. However, I will be going about it as directed by whim, missions, and ahistorical glory.
I
An accounting of the rule of the Venerable Matthaus Palaiologos, from 1 January, 1354, to 1 January 1356
For the many serfs of the meagre Empire, it was just another day. No worse or no better.
Yet for Matthaus' heir Iohannes, it was a day of unparalleled importance. For just two months previously, Iohannes was the heir to nothing but a legacy of failure. With the Roman Empire having lost it's holdings in Africa, the Holy Land, Anatolia, Greece, and the Balkans there was not much inheritance left for the seventeenth in line to the throne.
However, the Hand of God (the name his family called the Imperial Throne) would not sit empty. Nor would it sit unadorned as it had for the previous four hundred years. Iohannes' declared, with his newborn babe Caesar in his arms, that a reunification of Rome shall occur and that its might soon be recovered.
As was his family's tradition, Iohannes ascended the throne on 1 January, 1356 to become God's sentinel on Earth. He faced a hard trial, with nought but four provinces and the Despot of Morea to call upon in God's name.
Yet what the peasants did not yet know, was that their ruler was blessed by God, and his young son even more so. For while entombing his Imperial Majesty, Autokrator Matthaus, an ancient catacomb from a much earlier era was discovered full of gold.Yet,despite such un-asked for bounties, the future of Rome looked grim.
To the north lay the treacherous Bulgarians and Vlachs, who abandoned the Empire in it's hour of need ages ago in favor of their own self-styled Kingdoms and Empires. To the North-west/west lay the lands of the Serbs, and expansive people who once had also been under the foot of Rome, now they challenged her might.
Even more daunting was the Turk, the filthy mongrels in their emirates, and tribes. The Ottomans in particular deserved mention, as their stranglehold on trade in central Anatolia led to their prominence and remains that way, and don't forget what gold could not take was because the sword already had.
And don't forget the Greeks to the West/South-West in their various city-states and fiefdoms. The Roman Empire had suffered under the wrath of God for centuries yet Iohannes was surely blessed, right?
II
An accounting of the rule of the impressive Iohannes VI Palaiologos, from 1 January, 1356 to 12 November 1380.
Iohannes took the throne of an impoverished realm under the wrath of god, with a small imperial fleet (Classis Byzantium) and smaller imperial army (Comitatus Praesentales). Yet the discovery of the gold-filled catacombs allowed for an immediate military build-up, only limited by the sparse manpower available to them.
With mixed feelings, Iohannes declared war quickly on two otherwise occupied territories, The Kingdom of Serbia, and the Ottoman Emirate.
Using their distractions to his advantage two new provinces were quickly absorbed, followed by a weak city-state in Greece, Neopatria. At this time, Tarnova invaded the distracted Roman Empire, using Iohannes own tactics against him.
Yet the defenders of the beleaguered Roman provinces held fast while the understrength Comitatus Praesentales came to their aid. After a series of small battles, Iohannes cornered the Tarnovan army outside their capital. After glorious victory, peace was signed for the now Roman-core province Maritsa.
Approximately five years later, the Ottomans and Kingdom of Aragon both attacked the Roman Empire separately, calling their own minor allies with them. Throughout this conflict, the Knights' province Samos rebelled and join Rome, causing the Emperor to invade the Ottomans in order to protect it. Iohannes also recruited the border force army, Limitanei Makedonia, to protect the homelands and borders against invaders while the Emperor was away.
The two wars went on for about five years, before the Romans finally managed to secure a white peace with the Turks. This allowed them to focus on the Aragonese and their allies in Greece. With Castilian financial backing the war rapped up to a quick conclusion, in the three battles of Morea, Achaia, and Athens. On the eve of victory, as he celebrated, news arrived from their new allies George. War with Qara Konyulu, and Eretnaoglu.
Yet before the Emperor could begin his conquest of ancient Roman territory in Eretnaoglu he was assassinated by Ottoman rebels. Murdered in his 76th year of life! The people mourned vast lakes of tears for Johannes, but all was not dark. For in his death rose the proud 24 year old Caesar Palaiologos to the throne. A ruler that was whispered to be brilliant, reclusive perhaps, but a genius. Time would only tell what he would accomplish.
Rules/Settings
Mod- MEIOU
Cheats - I created Caesar, for my next heir with 9 9 9 stats. Also I gave it a 'gift' of gold at start. Pretend they found it in an ancient burial chamber.
Country - Roman Empire
Goal - The Total Conquest of the Known World. No Country is safe. No Continent too dangerous. No fog too impenetrable. However, I will be going about it as directed by whim, missions, and ahistorical glory.
History of the Roman Empire
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I- Autokrator Matthaus Palaiologos, 1354-1356
II- Autokrator Johannes IV Palaiologos, 1356-1380
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I- Autokrator Matthaus Palaiologos, 1354-1356
II- Autokrator Johannes IV Palaiologos, 1356-1380
I
An accounting of the rule of the Venerable Matthaus Palaiologos, from 1 January, 1354, to 1 January 1356
For the many serfs of the meagre Empire, it was just another day. No worse or no better.
Yet for Matthaus' heir Iohannes, it was a day of unparalleled importance. For just two months previously, Iohannes was the heir to nothing but a legacy of failure. With the Roman Empire having lost it's holdings in Africa, the Holy Land, Anatolia, Greece, and the Balkans there was not much inheritance left for the seventeenth in line to the throne.
However, the Hand of God (the name his family called the Imperial Throne) would not sit empty. Nor would it sit unadorned as it had for the previous four hundred years. Iohannes' declared, with his newborn babe Caesar in his arms, that a reunification of Rome shall occur and that its might soon be recovered.
As was his family's tradition, Iohannes ascended the throne on 1 January, 1356 to become God's sentinel on Earth. He faced a hard trial, with nought but four provinces and the Despot of Morea to call upon in God's name.
Yet what the peasants did not yet know, was that their ruler was blessed by God, and his young son even more so. For while entombing his Imperial Majesty, Autokrator Matthaus, an ancient catacomb from a much earlier era was discovered full of gold.Yet,despite such un-asked for bounties, the future of Rome looked grim.
To the north lay the treacherous Bulgarians and Vlachs, who abandoned the Empire in it's hour of need ages ago in favor of their own self-styled Kingdoms and Empires. To the North-west/west lay the lands of the Serbs, and expansive people who once had also been under the foot of Rome, now they challenged her might.
Even more daunting was the Turk, the filthy mongrels in their emirates, and tribes. The Ottomans in particular deserved mention, as their stranglehold on trade in central Anatolia led to their prominence and remains that way, and don't forget what gold could not take was because the sword already had.
And don't forget the Greeks to the West/South-West in their various city-states and fiefdoms. The Roman Empire had suffered under the wrath of God for centuries yet Iohannes was surely blessed, right?
II
An accounting of the rule of the impressive Iohannes VI Palaiologos, from 1 January, 1356 to 12 November 1380.
Iohannes took the throne of an impoverished realm under the wrath of god, with a small imperial fleet (Classis Byzantium) and smaller imperial army (Comitatus Praesentales). Yet the discovery of the gold-filled catacombs allowed for an immediate military build-up, only limited by the sparse manpower available to them.
With mixed feelings, Iohannes declared war quickly on two otherwise occupied territories, The Kingdom of Serbia, and the Ottoman Emirate.
Using their distractions to his advantage two new provinces were quickly absorbed, followed by a weak city-state in Greece, Neopatria. At this time, Tarnova invaded the distracted Roman Empire, using Iohannes own tactics against him.
Yet the defenders of the beleaguered Roman provinces held fast while the understrength Comitatus Praesentales came to their aid. After a series of small battles, Iohannes cornered the Tarnovan army outside their capital. After glorious victory, peace was signed for the now Roman-core province Maritsa.
Approximately five years later, the Ottomans and Kingdom of Aragon both attacked the Roman Empire separately, calling their own minor allies with them. Throughout this conflict, the Knights' province Samos rebelled and join Rome, causing the Emperor to invade the Ottomans in order to protect it. Iohannes also recruited the border force army, Limitanei Makedonia, to protect the homelands and borders against invaders while the Emperor was away.
The two wars went on for about five years, before the Romans finally managed to secure a white peace with the Turks. This allowed them to focus on the Aragonese and their allies in Greece. With Castilian financial backing the war rapped up to a quick conclusion, in the three battles of Morea, Achaia, and Athens. On the eve of victory, as he celebrated, news arrived from their new allies George. War with Qara Konyulu, and Eretnaoglu.
Yet before the Emperor could begin his conquest of ancient Roman territory in Eretnaoglu he was assassinated by Ottoman rebels. Murdered in his 76th year of life! The people mourned vast lakes of tears for Johannes, but all was not dark. For in his death rose the proud 24 year old Caesar Palaiologos to the throne. A ruler that was whispered to be brilliant, reclusive perhaps, but a genius. Time would only tell what he would accomplish.
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