Megacampaign part 1 - Old Dacia

[HistoryDude]

Well, Dacia had a bad time, but they recovered.

Cappadocia will be problematic in the future. Their feelings of betrayal could lead to their own betrayals - Dacia's weakness will be a perfect time for them to take revenge.

 

[Falhxer]

Well, Dacia had a bad time, but they recovered.

Cappadocia will be problematic in the future. Their feelings of betrayal could lead to their own betrayals - Dacia's weakness will be a perfect time for them to take revenge.

Little spoiler, well not really a spoiler because it's from a previous play, but regardless. This is my second run and in the first run. Cappadocia WAS the main reason my empire was destroyed, of course, good ol' fashion barbarian invasion while i was at war with them didn't miss.

 

[Falhxer]

Of revenge, tyranny and terror 266 – 291

Burgundian blood: a campaign of retaliation 266 – 271
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In the following years the newly acquired territories were plagued by rebellions and dissent. Adrianopoli was the first to rebel, followed by Byzantion, then Epirus and just few weeks later Salonica and Thessaly too. Dacia had to deal with widespread rebellions. A lenghty campaign of supression was iniated, often the rebels fortified themselves and there were cases in which they even ambushed the army causing heavy casualties. The war was officially over, however the area was still plagued by conflict and war, the rebels did not accept the outcome.

The city of Byzantion was finally retaken after a lenghty siege, many thousand dying in the process. Tarabostes II took personally the task to oversee the city and integrate it in the Dacian Kingdom. The pagan city was a completly different world from the Christian Dacia.
As soon as all the provinces were pacified hundred of priests were sent to the pagan regions. Byzantion was bastion of Hellenic Faith in the East, once the city was converted, the Hellenism fell at incredible speed in the region, it however endured in the West for centuries.
Tarabostes II was a deeply religious man and took drastic measures.
Every single temple in city was closed and converted in a church or straight up demolished to discourage pagan belief. New custom and laws were imposed, many entertainment methods were prohibited and even more buildings specific to that culture and religion were destroyed.

He was a stoic and simple man, the population of the city distasted him. The hedonistic lifestyle and the decadence it brought with it was apparent in his eyes. Despite the city flourishing and thriving during the continuous wars. The decadence was spritual, in the eyes of the king and it risked to spread like a contagion to the people of his kingdom too if left unchecked. Tarabostes was sure, that moral and spiritual decadence was the reason the old Roman Empire fell. After the war with Carthage the empire started to decline and all what was left was a muribond Greek remnant, a hostile Egyptian Empire in the Africa and a somewhat, doubtful Gallic - Roman Octavian Empire surrounded by savages on all sides, destined to disappear soon.
The people in Byzantion, became poor and miserable after the Dacian conquest, the city was horribly damaged especially during the aftermath of the first rebellion, the economic damage was massive. They would rebel over and over only to be slaughtered each time. The city would be largely destroyed and experience a demographic fall. But it would not lose by any means the valuable strategic importance it holds and demographic replacement would make the city majority Dacian in the future. In a cruel fate of iron the city would see itself again sieged centuries later, the population slaughtered to an extreme degree and replaced, because of some silly disagreements between the Pope and the Patriarch in Byzantion, resulting in the destruction of an old decaying empire.

The third and last war of the king was a war of vengeance, altough it was not intended initially like one.
Burgundy managed against all odds to keep most of its territory and make gains against their neighbours. Less aggressive and more focused and diplomacy they allied themselves with many tribes, including the old enemy, Gepidia.
They were fighting against the Rugii to preserve Saxon sovereignity when the call to war that would change their fate for ever happened.
Gepidia under grave threat, the Dacians were invading, they wanted their lands. The Burgundian Chief agreed to protect Gepidia in sign of agood faith and most importantly as further dacian expansion would prove dangerous for Burgundy itself. His name is lost in history and there are only few accounts of him, describing him as extremly arrogant and stupid. Hw would not ask for peace until the total dissolution of his army, not that the king nor the generals knew any of it and it had been decided already to wage war for total victory over Burgundy. The war began in June 269.

Twenty thousand falhxmen marched against the small tribe of Gepidia they used the mountains to their advantage inflicting significant casualties before retreating in Burgundian land. The general learned from his mistakes and started to employ different tactics to make his army faster and less suscetible to ambushes. Too bad he would not survive the war, as...he fell from the horse in an unfortunate incident and died after the war in Burgundy was won.

The second fight almost wiped out the Gepid army. The Gepids managed to deal moderate casualties to the Dacians despite being outnumbered heavily. It was already winter and the progress was slow and the march was slugish in unkown enemy territory.
The weather was terrible and in the forest, the Gepids had the advantage of surprise. but in the end numbers meant they were about to lose, regardless of employed tactics. The army pushed further in Burgundian territory the last Gepid army was almost destroyed but it did not matter as they later were starved out or probably wiped by hostile tribes. The way to the last Gepid stronghold laid open, to their surprise the Gepids had still a fighting spirt as they hastily recruited over a thousand cavalrymen, to their misfortune the Dacian strategy was to deal in a fast and aggressive way with Gepidia and to impede them to connect with Burgundy, they were no threat in question of numbers but they were familiar with the area and were excellent ambushers. A well placed ambush could easily wipe out half Dacian army, trasnforming the campaign in disaster in the matter of one defeat. Beithys, the best Dacian commander, was no fool and after the disastrous result of Tarabostes took the matter in his hand in a ruthless pursue wiped out Gepidia quickly out of the war. The king, was impressed by this and instead of stopying here and asking for peace decided to continue the war, next target, Burgundy.

So far in the war, no Burgundian army was encountered, it took an entire year to occupy completely Southern Burgundy. The generals agreed it was foolish to blindy push in unknown territory, while leaving open pockets of enemy territory. The enemy could easily attack the shacky supply lines and even the army itself. During that time entire villages disappeared from the map to never appear again. The only evidence to tell us they ever existed are archeological ones.
The level of brutality surpassed by far the one Burgundy showed during their own invasion. Nevertheless it was revenge, a blind revenge towards the barbarian people who dared to invade Dacia. As Central Germany prospered and developed, Eastern Germany was subject to costant wars that reduced the population in numbers, this favoured slavic migrations in the future, they migrated even as far as in Dacia. The emperor was in desperate need of manpower and people to pay the taxes as the Caliphate was growing in power and Etruria was becoming a threat again.

In november 270 twelve thousand marched further, Burgundy responded with a force of fourteen thousand. It had a massive cavalry contingent of five thousand but it proved to be quite ineffective.

The Burgundian chiefs hoped to ambush the Dacians, encircle them with the cavalry and slaughter them all. The Dacian army was mainly comprised of heavy infantry and heavy armored cataphracts. The newly horse aquisitions in Cappadocia, allowed for an even stronger cavalry.
In the heat of the battle the Burgundian cavalry was butchered by the cataphracts. While Burgundian infantry was a mix between light and heavy infantry and fared quite well with the element of surprise, they had to retreat after the cataphracts charged at them and suffered heavy casualties. The first Daco-Burgundian battle, proved to be a disaster, Burgundy has fallen behind in warfare innovation and now was paying the full price.

Few weeks later following the victory, the Quadi rebelled in Southern Burgundy, cutting out important supply routes. Thirteen thousand were sent to deal with the rebels but they were incredibly slow to deal with the problem. Forcing the army to raid even harder in enemy territory subjecting the local population to even more pressure.
Once allied of Gepidia, they were betrayed by them and divided up between the two new allies.

The next two battles were fought on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The Burgundians were unrelentlessly chased and destroyed, no prisoniers were taken. The desperate chief decided to ask for peace and in february 270 peace was negotiated.

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Burgundy was forced to cede one bordering province, return land and release conquered tribes. In addition to that they had to give all the treasure, resources and supplies Dacia did not manage to sack during its campaign.
The people of Burgundy were left to starve or to freeze in the cold and unforgiving winter. Gepidia too, was forced to give all the lands bordering Dacia, leaving it as a small strip of land between Goths and Burgundians. They had to give harsh monetary reparations but were spared from the famine. As they were not directly responsible for invading Dacia.
Only in March the Quadi were pacified. After this war Burgundy would never pose any threat against Dacia. The decisive future wars would also result in their loss and a small tribe would take their place and enter the Dark Ages.

The queen' regency 272 – 278
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Tarabostes II gained popularity unheard of before, he was not called that, directly during his lifetime but later the title would be given to him, Tarabostes the Restorer. A fitting title for him, controversial as his life. It is unclear what his successors meant by that title, if he restored the glory of Dacia after punishing Burgundy or restoring the properity and strenght of Dacia, prior to the religious wars, the plague and of course the Germanic Invasions. In one sense or another it could be both, even if historians argue it refers to a specific action only. Either way the king only enjoyed briefly his new found fame and popularity as he was assassinated in the summer of 272. His death is surrounded in total mistery, he was found dead the next morning after a great feast. His throat has been sliced and the king died in a puddle of blood. Even during the times, his death became subject of the most wild rumours and guesses, we will never know for sure.

His nephew Oroles I, was only an infant and his mother, Blegissa had received the approval of the pileati (mainly of the higher nobility) to rule on behalf of his son until he comes of age. She was a widow as her husband died, well...under misterious circumstances.
They tought it would be a period of peace and the pileati could size more power for them, reverse some reforms the previous king made and tighten their grip on the new king.
How wrong they were. The new queen proved to be a hungry powermonger, manipulating the court, assassinating the opposition and finally controlling the young king, not willing to cede power as he grew. In the end she would be the last member of the dynasty of Spartocos, the Albocense. Or rather her son, but she received was adopted in the familiy in a honorary style. Altough some may reclaim its lost legacy in the Medieval Ages, more likely carefully crafted lies to gain prestige thanks to its old legacy, rather than direct descendants.

In 273 she decided to maker her first move. Adrianopoli was under Cappadocian rule but Dacia had claims on it. Fabricated claims, some of the upper nobility saw Cappadocia as an unreliable weak state and decided to gain land on its expenses. A claim dating back to previous war.
Ignoring the advice of the pileati to renounce the claim as stability was maintained in the region and Cappadocia was already a Dacian subject making Adrianopoli in a certain way Dacian too, she took the province under her direct rule. In the end most nobles did not care very much as it was taken from Cappadocian nobility and it was not something at their expenses. They instead viewed it as merely the caprices of a noble woman. The Cappadocian noblity was greatly displeased and outraged. This act only enforced their opinion of Dacians as mere barbarians that took whatever they want, with no regard for claims or rights. Uncivilized barbarians to the core despite what they were claiming.

In autumn of the same year a massive civil war broke out in Gallia. Many senators have lost their faith in the Octavians. Their ineptitude to stop the invading barbarians and poor administration of the empire was leading it to inevitable ruin. The following year saw more turmoil on Roman lands but this time in the East. Pontus prepared an army of twenty thousand to seize East Rome. The regent-queen was quick to warn Pontus should they enter Hellas she would declare war over them. Nothing was said about the Ionian Coast in regard.
In 274 the Gepid population rebelled, it was all in vain as they were readily pacified.

In the following years the kingdom experienced a serious problem of salt crisis. The problem bacame so serious that to solve this issue the regent-queen resorted to conquest. She turned her eyes on Gotinia. Once a Dacian ally, now target for conquest. Fifty-six thousand were sent towards the Zalmoxian kingdom. The last Zalmoxist remaining state for the banished zalmoxist dacians. The Daco-barbarian kingdom was fairly civilized, with paved roads, rich temples in honor of Zalmoxes and even tolerated other faiths too. Cities built in stone, developed trade centers and wealthy citizens. The prosperous small kingdom was about to be turned into a wasteland, sacked of all its riches and left to burn in ruins. Once the war was declared the Kingdom of Sardinia came to the aid of Gotinia.
The invasion was rapid and Gotinia failed to organize its armies in time, Sardinia was not able to offer any assistance as most of their fleet was lost in a sea storm. This crippled them severly both on naval and military terms.

The small Gotinian army of fourteen thousand stood no chance, thirty-seven thousand Dacians attacked them and with five thousand men lost and the commander dead. A new general took command and started a quite unusual march towards Inner Dacia despite leaving the homelan to the mercy of the invaders. He tried to find refuge inside the borders of Germanic tribes and somehow conduct a guerilla style warfare. However Dacia not long ago had finished a succesful campaign against Burgundy and no Germanic tribe wanted to risk Dacian wrath as they all saw what a possible invasion meant. But this also meant they would unify in a big coalition should Dacia once more try to invade Germany.

One the brink of desperation and while laying siege to Zusidava to pillage the city, twenty-five thousand attcked them. The Gotinians had no choice but to retreat after losing half army. They took refuge in the captured city of Clepidava. The siege took an entire year, while they were resisting and finally surrendered in 277. The war was over, Gotinia was almost wiped out of the map, the land was divided between Maladina and Panensis. Despite not engaging the Dacian armies, Sardinia was perceived by Dacia as a threat ready to jump on any occasion and declare war on them.

The neaby League of Urbinum was already in an inxerobale state of decline. The small duchy of Etruria was being reconquered by the newly formed duchy of Venice. The Venexians were called now Venetians and news were saying they converted to Chalcedonian. In the South of the penninsula, the city of Salernum left the League and proclaimed a Counter League. Meanwhile The Western Roman Empire was also restored, Rome has been reconquered by a new emperor, was peraphs the empire on rise again? Maybe, but not in these centuries for sure.

Achieving total regional hegemony 279-291

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Oroles I came of age in 285 and was coronated king. He was a fairly skilled administrator and decent commander. Many in the nobility ranks and common folk considered him, initially, a just ruler, but despite his best efforts he would be soon over shadowed by the power of his mother. He desired to rule the kingdom but his governing skills proved to be rather mediocre. He was nor a good commander or an able diplomat. It became obituary to rely on her for most matters of state . Often going as far as ignoring his advisors and the nobility and only listening to Blegissa and her trusted ones.

The new king became despised for his indecisiveness and was seen as easy to manipulate. His mother was even more despised and soon plots to kill and overthrow her became common place across all the major cities in the kingdom. She was a merciless despot and stopped in front of nothing, many nobles were forced to flee for their lives as her persecution of nobles became common place too. In just a few years she made the entire nobility her enemy but it did little matter as long as few key figures and the army were loyal only to her. She was untouchable and her rule unquestionable.

Not all things were bad under rule, at least for the crown itself. New reforms and taxation systems were imposed, all over the kingdom. A universal coin was imposed in all the client kingdoms making them even more dependent of Dacia and less prone to revolt.
The vassal kingdoms were also imposed a harsh taxation, most of the trade was diverted directly into Dacia. Needless to say such drastic measures contribuited to directly weaken the client states and strenghten Dacia. The client states were trapped in a state of complete helplessness. It is estimated that more than forty percent of income in Dacia, was taxation on trade only.
By over exploting its clients Dacia was rapidly rising from a local power to a world power that would soon have influence beyond the home region. It had all the benefits and none of the issues of religion, ethnicity and slave rebellions client states like Maladina and Pannensis had to deal on almost monthly basis. The only stable kingdom was, of course, Thracia as it was culturally more united.

In fact when the historians of the time refer to the spread of Christianity in Dacia they meant, just Dacia, the homeland, they considered the client states as mere extensions of the kingdom, backwaters, buffer zones against aggressive neighbours, as the people inhabiting them them were neither Dacian nor Christian. Thracia was the only exception, united under one religion and people. Wars in future would spark over Thracia leading to the deaths of milions of soldiers.

Thracia was the first to feel the devastating effects on its economy just three years later. Of all the client states, Thracia was by far the wealthiest, populous and internally united. After gaining access to the sea, the economy simply flourished.
Pannensis and especially Maladina were divided in zones of Hellenic, Christian and illyrian faith, making the conflicts constant. Only almost a century later, Christianity finally prevailed and not without controversy as the Arian Faith also originated in Maladina, the further from the core of Dacia the more the religious schims.

The administration under Blegissa was also responsible for expanding the army, so much historians estimate was only second to Romanus Aegipti. Many of the poor strata were encouraged to become soldiers or settlers on the fringes of the kingdom, it was a slow but steady process of colonization of the area around Dacia. They were offered lands and freed of their debts, obviosuly a significant number of people, out of desperation agreed to settle in the new lands, despite the costant threat of barbarian raids.
The queen - regent seeing how profitable the tarde was, encouraged seas expeditions. The whole Black Sea was covered, Magna Graecia, the Levant, the Berber Kingdoms, the Germanic Kingdoms in Northern Italy as far as reaching the columns of Hercules. But the Dacian traders were also planning further, Brittania.

In 288 a another war was started. Byzantium was desperatly clinging to what remained of its collapsing administration.
Most of its army was located in Magna Graecia, so the Dacian falhxmen did not encounter much resistance in Greece, an under equiped army of seven thousand was easily routed out. The emperor himself was leading them and he barely escaped alive, fleeing to Sicily. Many cities were severly under garrisoned as the able bodied men were sent overseas to fight for the imperial hegemony.

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The empire was on hostile terms with almost all the neghbours in the Italic peninsula. The League was fighting a desperate civil war. Old Roman loyalist welcomed a new emperor and declared the Newly Restored Roman Empire. Unfortunatly such empire would not endure, the Germanic lords of Etruria would hold total control over Italy until the bloody Etrurian Wars where Dacia tried to invade and completetly conquer Etruria, risulting in partial failure after hundred of thousands of dead.

A newly created League to counter balance the growing power of Urbinum was the League of Salernum. The city of Salernum was conquered by the League in war a few years earlier and was almost wiped out of the map in an act of revenge. The newly Roman Empire was an already big problem but now even Salernum the defiant city was rebelling too. The war was lenghty and ruthless but only minor gains were made and when finally the city itself was conquered and sacked a cold peace was negotiated. Rome was launching its own attack. Urbinum hoped, that wiping out Salernum the Counter League would collapse and the remaining cities would have to choose to join the League or East Rome. Unfortunatly for them, it was not case, the League became a Duchy, an even more centralized governement was created. The wars on the Italic Penninsula were only starting, after a period of peace.

The Eastern Empire found itself at a hostile stake with the Restored Western Empire. The eastern emperor claimed he had lawful imperial autority over the city of Rome and that the new emperor was an impostor.
Co-reign was not acceptable in the eyes of Ioannes XI, the eastern emperor. He hoped to retake control over Italy because Greece and Asia Minor were lost and impossible to retake, with the Dacian threat looming over the weakened empire. He knew it was only a question of time before Dacia would invade soon.
He was right, the only mistake he made was the “when” of the invasion. The Dacians came down to take what remained of Greece much soon than he expected. As Greece was lost, the supplies were suddenly cut, the armies were no longer able to continue their war against a weakened Salernum and The Restored WRE, that was at war with League too, peace was the only option, for now.
He started to organize his armies to counter any Dacian landing as soon as he arrived in Syracuse.

Ioannes XI would have to make a last stand and if he was lucky maybe Magna Graecia could be saved.
He was regreting that his wars of aggressions were poorly coordinated. He could won if only he timed his battles right, if only...
Now that Dacia attacked...
The emperor had grim toughts, the empire was truly dead. Rome was vulnerable, East Rome was crippled many years ago by the damned Romanus Aegipti, the traitors of the empire. They were almighty powerful with strong imperial legions holding the entire Egypt and surrounding areas under their iron grip. They called themselves Romans, the last true heirs of Rome, how wrong they were, only those who controled Rome could call themselves Romans.
In the end Ioannes XI would never control the city and die a broken man. He dreamed of being that someone who could restore the biggest empire in history to its old glory, too bad he had neither luck nor capable generals on his side and enemies outside and withtin the empire.

After two years all Greece was conquered. The lack of a strong navy was showing over and over. This war was no exception, despite Dacian rudimentary ships, the Byzantium lost a major naval engagements before retreating. The emperor was sure the enemy would land in Syrakausai. So he stationed his sixteen thousand on the shores to cut down any Dacian trying to land. The Dacian admirals and generals were loyalist to Blegissa, appointed more fo their loyalty rather than skill. Sirakusai was the second capital of the Empire and in fact the capital of Magna Graecia, taking the city would mean winning the war.

Dacia borrowed hundred of ships from Thracia, Cappadocia and even the Palmyrean Kingdom.
Twelve thousand men were loaded and sent. In a stroke of bad luck a huge rebellion broke out in Katanzarion, they threatened the legions and there was even the chance the rebels could collaborate with the enemy.
Ioannes XI was forced to send nine thousand to crash them rapidly. At the same time the Dacians were on their way to Sirakusai, the rebellion was dealt with but at this point it was too late to return in time back to the city and so they started to set up on a defensive position once heard the bad news.

The Dacian landing was almost a disaster, a suposed landing of twelve thousand became a landing of six thousand as half fleet was blown away by a huge storm causing it to arrive with huge delay. The Dacians after landing were immediatly welcomed by the greeks. The battle, altough on small scale in confront to other most famous ones, was extremly brutal and caused such big casualties that would prove to be devastating for any other army but not for the Dacian falxman. The pagan belief that they were immortal and after the death an eternal life of paradise would follow the courageus and brave did not fade with the advent of Christianity. In fact was only enforced, the invincible immortal Dacian falhxmen. Such belief would be shattered in future on more than one ocasions, but never like in the Great War where milions died for empty promises.

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The casualties were exceding over forty percent. The Greeks were pushed back but a high cost and even more were waiting on the over side of the strait. The remaining 8700 were marched towards the city. Nine thousand were waiting forthem this time, the ships were already returning back to load even more troops, the emperor noticed worried.
The falhxen were sent to slaughter, out of 8700 men, 5200 men died. Careless of casualties, careless of all, they just kept advacing and advancing. In fact the first army had to retreat deep in Sicily while the second would regroup with them too, losing more than two thousand men.

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Despite such disastrous victories, Dacia was advancing and the Basileus could not afford to see the country side and his cities ravaged and in August he pledged to peace. The demands he received were harsh , the entirety of continental Greece and the surrounding islands. To his partial relief, Dacia had abbandoned the idea of conquering Sicily, the casualties proved to be too high, surprisingly, for now at least. The ships in reality were turning back and leaving the soldiers to their fate as they failed to conquer the island and were deemed unworthy of returning by sea but by land, many of them died trying to return home in the hostile enviroment of the peninsula, the punishment for failure was cruel.

In spite of the setback in Sicily, total hegemony in the Greek Region was achieved. Now Dacia would turn its eyes elsewhere, the greed of the conquest was slowly blinding the kingdom. Despite what many would think during its golden period this would inevitably cause the downfall of the empire, the instability, the size and the riches would attract many enemies that wanted land, riches or simply wished the destruction of the much hated empire.

 

[Falhxer]

I have two news one is a good and another is ... good too !!!

I tried again to see if i can access my old saves as they were not deleted or anything. Redownloaded the 1.29 version of the mod, deleted some folders here and there, reinstalled eu4 and this time it worked. I suspect it was the launcher at the time that had some issues reading the mod.
So the megacampaign will continue aswell, with the history of the nations mini chapters i wanted to do. Where i mainly concentrate on that specific nations that had indeed an impact.
As for the next game i will mod. On the mod im actually quite doubtful, as i had the possibility to try ckiii, for free on steam. I liked the game, but im more accustomed to ckii.
You know what, ill keep it a surprise for when the second part will come out. Regardless on what game will come out, some dramatic turn of events will happen, heheh.

P.s. how do i make to work the spoiler thingy? i cant see it.
P.s. edited some grammar (never think about other things when typing, some weird s**t, may happen)

 

[HistoryDude]

Dacia has its revenge on Burgundy.

Also, it seems as if Dacia is not very stable.

This queen sounds like bad news.

 

[Idhrendur]

Nice to see this back!

 

[Falhxer]

There will be a slightly higher delay for the next chapter, because of three words:
ported to Imperium Universalis. (but there are four words, does the title count as separate or whole?)
Yes, the new chapter will start anew, the general story of the AAR will go the same way, but in a more alt-historical way.
Well, lets not spoil, for now.

The modding work is going well, around 40-45% is completed.

 

[Falhxer]

Small teaser

The Hunns in ET were, well, quite useless...Not in this case...i have, plans, special plans for them.
The overall progress is going quite well, majority of the map is done. Missions for important nations on the way and some (scripted) events to make the story like in ET but in a much more dramatic and realistic way and well, some random events too, why not, of course won't change where the narration is heading. Merely just improving it.

 

[Falhxer]

Hello everyone, i have some bad new and some good news. As you know i had in mind to port from one mod to another. It was a long process, way longer than i anticipated. It took almost an year, of course there were times of long hiatus. Today with great regret I discovered I broke the mod, the submod I was working on.
I had in plan to continue the AAR in February, unfortunately it came not to be.

The good news are, as I got into modding Stellaris in a more serious matter for another AAR I planned, I learned some new tricks and ways to speed up the process.
Now that I use a new text editor, I would be able to catch up with 70% of the map in few weeks. Of course there are trickier parts of the map that require a longer time.
The version i used was also 1.30 now i should be able to catch to the modern version of EUIV.

Said this, I'm sorry for who followed and liked to read my AAR, meanwhile i will revisit, slowly, all the parts i wrote and try to correct grammar mistakes i made. Made it's a bit late for those who had to bear the horrors but at least this will spare new readers from it.

I will try and hopefully be able to resume the AAR by the start of the March.
What will it have different from the previous chapters? You might or not, ask yourselves. Why did I decide to port to another mod instead of keep telling the story on the same one?

Well, on one hand I felt that Imperium Universalis is a great mod (and I really enjoy playing it) to tell the story in this specific era, even until the 700s when my story stops and i convert (mod it) to the next game.

"So just a new fancy map much more detailed than your regular EUIV, you maybe enjoy the changes, but us readers? It does really not changes much for us."
You might think, and you guys are absolutely right, to solve this issue i will have planned custom modded events that will guide and maybe spicy up the story.
I will not change history, or rather alt-history of my extended timeline EUIV mod. Not entirely, some changes will occur, but only to enrich the story, some events i wanted so badly to happen in ET mod did not happen for one reason or another, possibly because i also used more mods that maybe caused the main mod to not work properly as intended.
I will use events to keep the story railroaded towards that endgame but I also noted the AI tends to drfit towards that ending even in one of those initial test plays i had, so do not think events will just rail road too much towards another mod ending so i just wasted time porting, haha, this sure is getting confusing, right ?

Anyway, a new year for a new great AAR continuatio!! The story will only get better, at least I can promise you that.

 

[NarcomancerPL]

Ok so if I understand it correctly you are continuing the same story, but in Imperium Universalis instead, right?

 

[Falhxer]

Ok so if I understand it correctly you are continuing the same story, but in Imperium Universalis instead, right?

Yep, with a lot of added flavour of course.

 

[NarcomancerPL]

Yep, with a lot of added flavour of course.

Good luck I'm interested about this better quality both storywise and in writing you mentioned

 

[Falhxer]

Here i'm again here, with "good news" and rather bad ones. The good is that i managed to completely mod the entire map, religions, armies and so forth only to have things broken the last moment... I can't fix it no matter what and I don't have the strentgh to start a third time all over again...
I'm quite honestly getting tired of all this, i wanted to come here with a joke about me and my usual streak of broken promises to deliver chapters in time...
Sadly it won't come to be true...i had so much planned but it is what it is.

Since now I'm working and not anymore a jobless bum living in his parents basement, yeah unfotunatetly i have to be a productive member of society , let's smile a bit despite all. After all i still have my old extended timelime mod screenshots so...well, we continue as usual.

Said this, it deeply saddens me but at the same time i did what i could but each time i have something working against me other and other and other. I don't even want to think about it when i'll start modding ckii or ckiii once i'm done with this part of the megacampaign.
I will still keep the same style more or less, add more images and improve my skills in map making so i can at least still have something cool to show off.

This time i won't tell you when the next chapter comes , i know i can't keep up with my own schedule for chapters anyway, but what i can tell is that will be a BIG one.
Also i will start a very unusual project in the ckii section, also a megacampaign.

"HOLD UP!!!" you might think, if i can't keep up with one and waste a lot of time in pointless things how will be able to keep up with TWO megacampaigns?
I won't blame you if you call me a madman but i see it as a perfect solution, once i get too focused on one project and run out of steam and ideas I usually tend to get rather long breaks in order to come in mind with the structure for new chapter or what to write in the first place, so i can simply focus on the second one, so one complements another one. Also i've been working on this new, for now secret project a lot, you will like it if you will stumble upon it since it's not the usual AAR you may encounter.
Enough shilling my other project, back to this one, sometimes lesser is better, i got too ambitious and i wasn't lucky, it happens, it doesn't matter how much effort you put into something, it sometimes, just doesn't work and you can't see the why and thus can't find a proper solution. What i believe is important is just keep going and things will eventually sort themselves out.

I apologize to my readers and let's rise from the ashes once again!!

 

[HistoryDude]

Multiple mega campaigns at the same time are hard, but you can probably do it. Your logic is sound.

Just don't get distracted by multiple other projects... (incidentally, this is why almost all of my projects are on hiatus)