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elvain

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let's ake the wait bit more creative and inspirative, what do you plan to be your first game with HIP compatible to Horse Lords and with SWMH map expanded to the east?

Share your ideas and let's help each other with finding the best character/place to play first.
 

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I mentioned this in another thread but I'm gonna go with a custom Byzantine Emperor. Maybe post-Manzikert to make things interesting.
 
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1066 Naples or Sicily, custom character. I want to try a new mod that should work with HIP: De jure adjudication, it allows you to modify the de jure duchies.
 

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I'll bite, with the aid of insider information. My first choice is Beja, which has interesting features threefold: its new portrait set, being nomadic, and neighboring nomadic, feudal, and republic realms. AI Beja seems to struggle a lot based at least on my test runs, so I'm curious how I could change things.
 
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I'm unsure actually, but I narrowed it down a bit. I'm thinking of either an Afghan start, a Frisian start, or a North African Barbary Coasts style game. I'm guessing I'll go with feudal/iqta for the Afghan start, and merchant republics (via HIP decision) for the Frisian/Berber starts. I'm unsure of the start date, but if I'm doing Afghan it'll be 867 since I dislike how united Afghanistan is in the 1066 start. I'll probably do 867 for the Frisian start too, and maybe 1066 for the Berbers.
 

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I'll bite, with the aid of insider information. My first choice is Beja, which has interesting features threefold: its new portrait set, being nomadic, and neighboring nomadic, feudal, and republic realms. AI Beja seems to struggle a lot based at least on my test runs, so I'm curious how I could change things.
New portrait set, ei? Any chance we could get a preview of it? :)
 

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Probably a Tocharian game and pretend I'm the Yuezhi.
Don't want to disappoint, but Tocharians were removed due to combination of hilystery and controversy combined with lack of clear and bulletproof historical evidence about who they really were
 
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My first game will be as Alexios Komnenos in the Alexiad start with the ultimate goal of restoring the Roman Empire and all of it's former lands, as well as possibly expanding a bit into Persia. Maybe all the way to the edge of India, but no farther than that. I'm looking forward to fighting off the Pechenegs. Should make the Alexiad start even more fun.
 
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Up front will probably be some throwaways. Maybe Ireland or the "Republic of Lubeck", which I haven't ever gotten around to. A run with nomads might be appropriate for the first post-HL HIP release, too.

My first campaign is going to be with a tweaked Ancient Religions mod where Hellenic and Zoroastrian experience a renaissance. It will be interesting to see if they can be "competitive" rather than outright hostile when bigger threats present themselves.

The aim will be to get them to somehow work together to blunt the Mongol invasions (or at least deny them the southern routes through the iranian plateau/caucusus/anatolia. Ideally they would be channeled into Europe (let the HRE deal with them!)
 

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I will give leading the Blackcaps to glory a go I think, lots of stuff going down on the Tauric plains.