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When God Chose To Intervene: A Poland 1187-? AAR
Okay, so first things first. I would like to welcome you to my first AAR ever. I have been a lurker on Paradox forums for some time, I’ve been enjoying their games a lot and just recently – yesterday, in fact – I found out this 1.05 patch for CK. It’s been a surprise to me, as the Polish publisher seems to have lost interest in maintaining the game in Poland, a pleasant surprise I may add. So after a little initial trouble (registry and stuff), I managed to install it and started a new game. I found out that all those nifty things that have been added to 1.05 made the game candy again, so not only have I decided to come back to it after what has been almost a year, but I also started an AAR-ed game.
Yes, that’s that. The game is the 1187 scenario, played as Kingdom of Poland. As already stated, it’ll be run on the 1.05 version, with no mods, and I hope that the momentum of novelties and improvements in this patch will last an entire game, allowing me to finish this monstrous undertaking. As of yet, I don’t know whether I’ll be aiming at a full campaign, but I’m rather positive I’m not aiming for a world conquest. I will try to keep clear of using cheats, unless I deem it absolutely essential to the story – nevertheless, I’m ready to accept what fate (and the scripts) has in store for my game.
As this is my first AAR, I’m not yet sure as to what style to adopt, so initially this may be a bit of an experiment, until I get the feel of things. What I play is to kinda try and role-play things, do as little gamey things as possible and convey it to you in a manner both readable and enjoyable. It is possible that I may sometimes load as other rulers, but only when it will feel really good for the story, or when I have to clear things up. Ah, I'm not versed in modding of the game, nor do I know how to change things, so should I run up a wall of bugs/errors/whatevers I'll be relying on the help of my readers .
Also, initially things may seem a chaotic. I’m not sure yet how detailed I want my updates to be, as well as I’m uncertain as to how much time I can devote to the game and how often I’ll be able to update. The updates themselves – well, I don’t know, I’d optimally want to achieve 5 year periods covered in each update. However, I doubt if that is going to be the norm, or possible at all.
The objectives of the game are going to be implicitly stated in the first set of updates, but for clarity and reference, I’ll also give them here:
• Ensure the survival of the Piast dynasty and the Polish kingdom
• Expand the lands, to encompass pagan lands situated near the Kingdom of Poland, maybe beyond
• Survive, stop, optimally destroy the Horde
• Ensure the thriving of Christian faith
These are just sketchy objectives, but ones that I’ll try to stick to. I may expand on them later, but let's not rush ahead of things.
A few final notes:
I’m not a native speaker of English. Yes, I’ve studied the language for long, but I reserve for myself the right to err sometimes. It will be due to either a) my linguistic experiments at stylisation b) me, unawares, smuggling Polish grammar dressed in English words c) plain linguistic incompetence. I hope the accidentally resulting silliness/ cheesiness/ whateverness will not spoil the fun of this AAR (if there’ll be any to begin with ).
I’m not a historian, I’m not a writer. I’m an amateur, and oft my imagination will have to stand in for facts, presenting you with my imaginations about life then and there.
I so do hope that you will at least mildly enjoy this thread.
Ok, so now I’m going to go cook the soup for today’s dinner, allow for the euphoria of starting this thread to sink in, and when I come back, I’ll get down to giving you the first episode. But I don't know how long it will be in the making, so I ask your patience. Thank You .
PS. I haven't checked that prior to the beggining of the game, so the difficulty is Norm/Norm. I think
When God Chose To Intervene: A Poland 1187-? AAR
Okay, so first things first. I would like to welcome you to my first AAR ever. I have been a lurker on Paradox forums for some time, I’ve been enjoying their games a lot and just recently – yesterday, in fact – I found out this 1.05 patch for CK. It’s been a surprise to me, as the Polish publisher seems to have lost interest in maintaining the game in Poland, a pleasant surprise I may add. So after a little initial trouble (registry and stuff), I managed to install it and started a new game. I found out that all those nifty things that have been added to 1.05 made the game candy again, so not only have I decided to come back to it after what has been almost a year, but I also started an AAR-ed game.
Yes, that’s that. The game is the 1187 scenario, played as Kingdom of Poland. As already stated, it’ll be run on the 1.05 version, with no mods, and I hope that the momentum of novelties and improvements in this patch will last an entire game, allowing me to finish this monstrous undertaking. As of yet, I don’t know whether I’ll be aiming at a full campaign, but I’m rather positive I’m not aiming for a world conquest. I will try to keep clear of using cheats, unless I deem it absolutely essential to the story – nevertheless, I’m ready to accept what fate (and the scripts) has in store for my game.
As this is my first AAR, I’m not yet sure as to what style to adopt, so initially this may be a bit of an experiment, until I get the feel of things. What I play is to kinda try and role-play things, do as little gamey things as possible and convey it to you in a manner both readable and enjoyable. It is possible that I may sometimes load as other rulers, but only when it will feel really good for the story, or when I have to clear things up. Ah, I'm not versed in modding of the game, nor do I know how to change things, so should I run up a wall of bugs/errors/whatevers I'll be relying on the help of my readers .
Also, initially things may seem a chaotic. I’m not sure yet how detailed I want my updates to be, as well as I’m uncertain as to how much time I can devote to the game and how often I’ll be able to update. The updates themselves – well, I don’t know, I’d optimally want to achieve 5 year periods covered in each update. However, I doubt if that is going to be the norm, or possible at all.
The objectives of the game are going to be implicitly stated in the first set of updates, but for clarity and reference, I’ll also give them here:
• Ensure the survival of the Piast dynasty and the Polish kingdom
• Expand the lands, to encompass pagan lands situated near the Kingdom of Poland, maybe beyond
• Survive, stop, optimally destroy the Horde
• Ensure the thriving of Christian faith
These are just sketchy objectives, but ones that I’ll try to stick to. I may expand on them later, but let's not rush ahead of things.
A few final notes:
I’m not a native speaker of English. Yes, I’ve studied the language for long, but I reserve for myself the right to err sometimes. It will be due to either a) my linguistic experiments at stylisation b) me, unawares, smuggling Polish grammar dressed in English words c) plain linguistic incompetence. I hope the accidentally resulting silliness/ cheesiness/ whateverness will not spoil the fun of this AAR (if there’ll be any to begin with ).
I’m not a historian, I’m not a writer. I’m an amateur, and oft my imagination will have to stand in for facts, presenting you with my imaginations about life then and there.
I so do hope that you will at least mildly enjoy this thread.
Ok, so now I’m going to go cook the soup for today’s dinner, allow for the euphoria of starting this thread to sink in, and when I come back, I’ll get down to giving you the first episode. But I don't know how long it will be in the making, so I ask your patience. Thank You .
PS. I haven't checked that prior to the beggining of the game, so the difficulty is Norm/Norm. I think