King of the Romans OOC thread VIII

[TinCow]

yeah TC im afraid peter despises lothar now lol

Without enemies, life gets boring. Well, fake life gets boring. Real life without enemies is rather pleasant.

[Privateerkev]

no kidding about the story lol

I just looked at the save game and Warluster's story, combined with the latest in game events, is even funnier when you see that we have a mission from the Danish Prince to murder his King.

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Also, TC is right. I don't want to sit around IC in the Diet playing patty-cake...

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My diet posts are even funnier if you realize that, in real life, I'm an atheist...

An extreme leftist radical humanist, who is also atheist, playing a devout fundamentalist, who is also an ardent nationalist imperialist, while also supporting monarchy. Too funny...

[flyd]

Right... we've had two deaths already, and we haven't yet made contact with the Mongols. I guess I'm off to end the turn. I do wonder what'll happen next. Will the French armies all decide to collapse on the Swabians? Will waves of Hungarians spawn from the ground, and Russians parachute in around Thorn? Will the Aztecs make a 10-stack amphibious invasion of Corsica? It doesn't strike me as terribly implausible.

By the way, what's our policy on marriage/adoption/hourly_men in light of recent events? Just wondering...

[Privateerkev]

Just my opinion, but I'd say we could use all the avatars we can get. As long as they are not too old and useless.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Ituralde, I suggest you change your avatar and custom title to mark the event.

[Stig]

Accept all, we might need them ... not everyone has to become Franconian

[Ituralde]

@GH:

Will do, right away!

@Warluster:

Please delete some of your PMs, I intend to send you one.

[OverKnight]

Geez I wake up and things have gotten. . .complicated.

OOC: I know about the funky inheritance mechanics.

IC: A Kaiser goes into battle without an heir. He dies in the battle. The only surviving noble emerges from the battle and states to everyone who wasn't there, that "Oh by the way, before he died unexpectedley, the Kaiser made me his heir. So I, not related to him in anyway at all, am now Kaiser."

I'm sorry but this has to raise a few IC questions, as I just posted in the Diet.

[flyd]

I really think we should have two years of mourning for the Kaiser before we bring up the question of succession.

Right then...

Battle Queue for 1256.

Initial save: http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/kotr1256-2.zip

Karl Zirn

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Karl Zirn,

The Turkish army before which you withdrew has now besieged Adana. With the reinforcements that were already collected there, you should have sufficient troops to sally against the Turks. Good luck.

Chancellor von Hamburg.

OOC note: there is excessive artillery in which were just sitting in Adana. Please do not utilize more than 4 units.

Ansehelm von Kastilien

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Ansehelm von Kastilien,

Sufficient troops have not been trained to well-equip both a crusade and a defensive army for the Thorn area. At least not given the threats that still face Thorn and the surrounding cities, such as a very large Polish army just outside of Breslau. You are to destroy this army, and then clean up any scattered enemy troops in the area.

Chancellor von Hamburg

Non-battle/optional:

Conrad Salier and Elberhard

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Conrad Salier and Elberhard,

The Mongols have crossed the Euphrates somewhere to the north. Decide on how to conduct the defense, or attack them now if that seems tactically appropriate. You may use the troops of your armies as well as the Aleppo garrison for any purpose.

Chancellor von Hamburg.

[TinCow]

I really think we should have two years of mourning for the Kaiser before we bring up the question of succession.

If it could be two weeks, I would gladly agree, but this game moves too fast for that. No one in their right mind would give a new man two years to solidify his power when the possibility existed that he had illegally usurped the throne. (Not that that has occurred, but from an IC standpoint, it looks really, really suspicious.) With the game moving as it does, we pretty much have to raise the issue immediately or ignore it.

[gibsonsg91921]

perhaps wait about 12 real hours or something then we can go for it.

warluster can appear as dieter, his servant, and clear it up

[flyd]

Obviously, you missed my joke. I said we should wait for two years, then very immdiately proceeded to post the battle queue for 1256, indicating that we have already entered that year in the game. The death, of course, was in 1254.

Also, the battle report of a tiny skirmish with some easterners has been posted.

[econ21]

Belated reaction to Jobst's death: wow. Ironically, I was going to post yesterday that Warluster and Ituralde should sort out the in-game rationale for Siegfried being Prinz. I held off because reading the stories, they seemed to be moving towards it anyway. I just did not predict it would be such a fiery resolution!

Warluster: needless to say, you have a free pick of any spare avatars. Some new ones should presumably be coming on stream.

FLYdude: I am inclined to say we accept all new avatars except duds (ie too old, too useless etc). We don't have that many spare ones.