Hold on, gavelkind incoming! Though with the size of your realm I'm surprised it didn't already happen.
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The Eastern Vikings - Baltic Megacampaign Part 1
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While part of this world's charm is how bizarre it is compared to how things would be normally at this stage, I'm kind of rooting for the Byzantines to make a comeback and reaffirm its empire.
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So there's pretty much no blobs left. Closest to it, is yourself, actually. Then comes the Mongols I guess.
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So there's pretty much no blobs left. Closest to it, is yourself, actually. Then comes the Mongols I guess.
The only real blobbish countries are me, East Francia, and Galicia... That's about it.
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Just you wait! Ireland will rise and rule Britannia!
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So Germany is a very bizarre place in this world. First there were the Tamilosaxons... Now there's the...
Weimar Khaganate??
Weimar Khaganate??
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Western Europe has just disintegrated. I'm curious as to whom pick up the pieces.
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Now we have Slavosaxons (Saxonovs?). Europe is a mess now.
Also, are the Tamilosaxons still around?
Also, are the Tamilosaxons still around?
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Great Invasions
1000 - 1013 AD
World Map, 1000 AD
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The Wrath of Huitzilopochtli1000 - 1013 AD
World Map, 1000 AD
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The tenth century ended with the Black Death, which swept through most of the European world and killing millions in its path. Europe experienced one of the darkest periods in its history to date, as the wealthy and poor, the powerful and the peasant, men and women all died in unprecedented numbers. By the turn of the new millennium, it seemed that the scourge of death was finally gone from their world -- but then a new threat arrived off the Atlantic coast.
Stories had circulated, particularly in Scandinavia and the Baltic, of Vikings who sailed out and found a place they called Vinland, part of a land never before discovered. According to the tales, these Vikings met the native men who lived there, who warned them of a great and violent empire to their south. These natives were, in fact, referring to the Aztec Empire -- a powerful empire in the Americas who worshiped a bloodthirsty war god Huitzilopochtli, whom they fed with the hearts and blood of their enemies. In 1005 AD, a massive fleet of unknown ships sailed across the Atlantic, landing in Iceland and Iberia. As these boats came ashore, they unleashed thousands upon thousands of fearsome warriors unlike anything previously seen in Europe.
Clad in strange skins and feathers and wielding deadly weapons of wood and stone, these warriors served Huitztecol, the Aztec Emperor. When they first landed in Silves, the Aztecs quickly sacrificed hundreds of locals on a newly-built altar, but they would not be content to shed blood in southern Iberia for long -- not long after securing Silves, the Aztec army took to the march.
The Aztec warriors were lightly armored in contrast to to the medieval warriors they faced, and the soldiers of Christian Iberia thought they would be easy to dispatch. They were quickly surprised, however, not only by the seemingly endless number of these new enemies, but by the violent ferocity they showed on the battlefield. As the Iberian defenders saw horses decapitated by the razor-sharp teeth of the Aztec maquahuitl and watched hordes of warriors overrun their formations, the morale of the Iberian defenders fell quickly. As Emperor Huitztecol's warriors advanced across the peninsula, they brought many captives back to their temples to be offered up to their god.
In a period of less than ten years, the Aztecs had annihilated the Kingdom of Galicia. Many of the Portuguese nobility were flayed and sacrificed, and many more fled to Africa to escape the wrath of the Emperor. By 1015 AD, Huitztecol controlled approximately half of the Iberian peninsula, as well as all of Iceland. With an army of nearly 200,000 men at his disposal, the Aztec Emperor struck terror into the western Christian world.
A New Estonia
As the Aztecs ravaged the Iberian peninsula, the lords of western Europe feared the day that Huitztecol's men would come for their realms, as well. In the east, King Ohevald thanked the gods that Estonia was far enough removed from the Aztec invasion that conflict with the Emperor's legions seemed unlikely. In the relative safety of the Baltics, Ohevald reigned over an Estonian kingdom that was finally united and ready to expand its influence.
To the south, the Kingdom of Kiev had seen its royal family decimated by the Black Death, with the result that the kingdom passed to King Sviatoslav's grandson through his eldest daughter -- a Greek, Anatolios Kyminianos. A Christian, King Anatolios declared Orthodox Christianity as the religion of the Russians, which triggered a violent uprising by faithful Slavic pagans who resisted Christianity's influence in their lands. Ohevald used this chaos to attack Kiev himself, capturing Minsk and extending his border along the length of the Pripyat.
Not long afterward, Ohevald succumbed to cancer in 1009 AD. His death brought about the first Estonian election, testing the new electoral monarchy of the kingdom for the first time.
In accordance with Ohevald's wishes, the electors chose his eldest son, Kosk, to succeed him. 26 years old, Kosk continued the trend of the strong warrior-kings of the Karasi family, excelling in personal combat and the command of armies. Promising to build on his father's legacy, Kosk wasted no time in going to war -- choosing to attack Sweden, a rival which many Estonian kings had preferred not to provoke.
Kosk led his armies against the Fylkir in Volga, where they outperformed the Viking warriors in every regard. With a massive army drawn from his many vassals, Tietaja Kosk seized Chuvash and Kerzhenets from Sweden, leaving the Fylkir with only a small enclave in the region. The first test of Kosk's reign was complete, and he had demonstrated that he could rally his vassals together and use the might of Estonia to conquer their enemies.
Both of those skills would soon be put to the ultimate test. In 1013 AD, the kingdom would face a challenge even greater than the plague.
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Uh oh. Plague. Then a Western Horde. And now, presumably, the Eastern Horde?
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So...we're going to have Mongols now, right? Your realm seems too stable right now.
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If it is not one thing it is another. Plague. Aztecs.
Ah well, it keeps things interesting
Ah well, it keeps things interesting
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The Aztecs are here, and with no large kingdoms to bleed their doomstacks before they've captured 1/3 of Europe. This is likely to be bad…
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So...we're going to have Mongols now, right? Your realm seems too stable right now.
I'm on vacation for a long weekend (Labor Day here in the USA) -- so you'll see quite a few things happen!
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That is, if the AI is competent enough and doesn't sit around on their doomstacks.
Also, is the conversion issue fixed? If not, I'm starting to think it has something to do with the Tamilosaxons, given that Tamil culture isn't supposed to exist since India's been removed.
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That is, if the AI is competent enough and doesn't sit around on their doomstacks.
Also, is the conversion issue fixed? If not, I'm starting to think it has something to do with the Tamilosaxons, given that Tamil culture isn't supposed to exist since India's been removed.
Issue is not resolved, unfortunately. All attempts to convert die, and at the same place -- I end up with an empty English localization file. I was able to successfully export a game in 922 AD, when Tamil characters did exist in my world, so I don't their presence is the problem.
I've narrowed it down to a small time window, however. I can successfully export from 932 AD, around the time I sacked Rome. My next save in 935 AD, after the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, is the first one to fail. So I'm wondering if something happened in the Byzantinepocalypse that caused the save to break? Not sure how I would check that.
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