Kingdoms in Chaos - A Normandy AAR
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Father had gathered his generals on the beaches near Caen. They had all stood there as he announced his ambitious plan to sail across the channel, and reclaim the title of his forefathers. He would become King of England and Normandy, if God was with him. As his men cheered him, a dark man slipped between them. As he toasted with them to victory, the man slipped a curved blade between his ribs. Robert looked on in horror as his father's lifeblood leaked out onto the sand, even as his assassin was laid low. He spent the next week in a daze as he was anointed Duke in his father's place, and his father was buried. Several of his new vassals broke away, claiming their loyalty was to the ideals embodied by the now dead William the Bastard.
Messengers soon came from all over Europe. William the Bastard had not been the only casualty of the dark men. Catholic rulers all over Europe had been killed like vermin, and every time the assassin had been brought low immediately. Only one had been captured alive, though he died at the hands of Scottish Clansmen after a week of brutal torture. Each man carried on his person coins of strange metals, a further oddity, as if their presence so far from the Arab lands was not enough.
Europe was in disarray. Dukes and Counts argued and battled for control of any land. Every kingdom had three or four nobles clamoring that they had the right to the crown. It was Chaos. The world had dealt a cruel hand to many men, and it had not cared to soften the blow for young Duke Robert II.
NOTE1: I did a lot of command line work to blow up every big kingdom and empire in western Europe. I'm going to be playing through as "Normandy" though obviously I will be growing into France or England and then Britain or France as an Empire. I feel like there's going to be a lot of wars going on, and it will be great fun.
NOTE2: At some point after I get the Old Gods and Charlemagne DLC (probably after the next sale) I will do another version of this AAR from the earliest start dates.
Index:
- Kingdoms in Chaos
- Duke Richard II of Normandy
- Duke William III of Normandy
Father had gathered his generals on the beaches near Caen. They had all stood there as he announced his ambitious plan to sail across the channel, and reclaim the title of his forefathers. He would become King of England and Normandy, if God was with him. As his men cheered him, a dark man slipped between them. As he toasted with them to victory, the man slipped a curved blade between his ribs. Robert looked on in horror as his father's lifeblood leaked out onto the sand, even as his assassin was laid low. He spent the next week in a daze as he was anointed Duke in his father's place, and his father was buried. Several of his new vassals broke away, claiming their loyalty was to the ideals embodied by the now dead William the Bastard.
Messengers soon came from all over Europe. William the Bastard had not been the only casualty of the dark men. Catholic rulers all over Europe had been killed like vermin, and every time the assassin had been brought low immediately. Only one had been captured alive, though he died at the hands of Scottish Clansmen after a week of brutal torture. Each man carried on his person coins of strange metals, a further oddity, as if their presence so far from the Arab lands was not enough.
Europe was in disarray. Dukes and Counts argued and battled for control of any land. Every kingdom had three or four nobles clamoring that they had the right to the crown. It was Chaos. The world had dealt a cruel hand to many men, and it had not cared to soften the blow for young Duke Robert II.
NOTE1: I did a lot of command line work to blow up every big kingdom and empire in western Europe. I'm going to be playing through as "Normandy" though obviously I will be growing into France or England and then Britain or France as an Empire. I feel like there's going to be a lot of wars going on, and it will be great fun.
NOTE2: At some point after I get the Old Gods and Charlemagne DLC (probably after the next sale) I will do another version of this AAR from the earliest start dates.
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