Very late to this story, only discovered this game a few months back. Played demo version all of November and December, finally allowed to d/l my Christmas present last week. Found WTWSMS while impatiently waiting and have been following the posts since early Dec.
Downloaded the mod this morning and as I have only been playing for a week I am still surprised by both vanilla events as well as the mod flavored items, but here goes.
Decided to play as Romano-British and see if I could hold back the flood. Took the southern kingdom centered on Salisbury Plain (Atrebatia ?), designed my own ruler, gave him a suitable Roman name (Rufus Germanicus, old family connection) and started up.
After the usual bookkeeping (marriage, council jobs etc) I looked east for some opportunities before suddenly being hit by Horsa of Kent and getting my a** handed to me. Had to immediately go into debt to the Jews to buys some mercenaries but of course since I was surprised my levies and mercs didn't line up so I got TWO defeats for the price of one ! I finally decided to simply surrender and see if I could bide my time, but shortly thereafter I saw my old province swallowed up by my fellow Romano Brits to the west (Dumnonia)! I was considering how I was going to face threats now from all sides when I was hit with a 3,000 man insurrection that wiped me off the map (my last province was Pelagian and I was Insular). I ended up with around -300 Prestige and maybe 50 Piety and it hadn't even hit 490 yet.
Wow, great match !
Second run through I checked the map a lot closer and decided that Dumnonia was the place to be. Ready to roll CBs to the East with none in return and just poor old Cornwall to the West. A quick war and that province was mine, I then started preparing for war to the west but kept getting distracted having to raise my levies to shoo off various Irish and Jutish coastal raiders. A quick trigger finger netted me some good victories, quite a few prisoners and some fine coin, but my levies are in a sorry state even with my Marshal working full time training replacements.
I was even blessed with a fine son, but oddly when he turned 6 I got the event that he had cut himself in the kitchen and laughed about it. My priest said that he was a devil spawn and should be banished and his mother imprisoned but I looked into her Kind, Trusting, Gregarious and Contented eyes and just couldn't do it. Now I am facing increased revolt threat across my realm, the Earl of Cornwall is itching to kill me the second our truce lifts and just before I logged off for the night I got an event saying that my boy's nanny is working wonders with him. A quick check shows that she is Kind, Patient and lots of other good things, but is also a Suspected Witch.
Is this an event chain or am I just becoming Paranoid ?
TL;DR - Man I love this game and MAN I LOVE THIS MOD !
