The Frozen Crusade: Teutonic Order PBM

[Zim]

Good news, I should be able to get it up in a few minutes. Sadly, Hans' battle is a bit lame, it's only against rebels (the Lithuanians are on their way, though). Waluster has an assault on Palanga, which has a weak garrison, but they have a decent reinforcing army.

[Warluster]

I won't be able to fight mine, please Auto Resolve.

I hope Scherer is luckier then the one in KotR.

Edit: Seeing as it is a decent battle, maybe someone else would want to fight it?

[Zim]

I let a young whippersnapper command the dismounted Ritterbruder and you can't fight the battle. Tsk tsk.

You should cream them in autoresolve.

[gibsonsg91921]

I'll fight my battle now and Zim can auto-resolve when I get it back.

I like fighting rebels and creaming them, I'm not too great a battler. I'm ok though, I have a few Heroic Victories in KOTR and had one that was my only battle in Magna Carta.

[Warluster]

Ah, Magna Carta. What happened to that? it just died...

I let a young whippersnapper command the dismounted Ritterbruder and you can't fight the battle. Tsk tsk

[long reminicsing rant] Well back in my day... [/long reminicsing rant]

I'll try and think up some other stuff, like MP. Good way to find stuff is go over history.

[gibsonsg91921]

Yeah, let's try to make this game a precedent people follow! Haha

[Zim]

Alright, I got it!

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/...sade1252-1.zip

If that doesn't work, go into the filespace and hit last modified twice, it'll go right to the top.

With Warluster unable to fight the battle, that leaves only one.

Meister Hans

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Hans, you have departed Konigsburg with a decent force and met the rest of your army east of Marienburg. You now control a large army, albeit somewhat mixed in quality. You have marched east, intending to take Hrodna on your way to Minsk, but have been stopped by a small group of rebels. They are old style pagans, and seek to undermine Order rule by stirring unrest in the area. Their army is small, and this is merely the first test of your new army.

[gibsonsg91921]

up up and away!

edit: fought, not gonna bother posting the screenshot. 4% losses, 87% kills.

save uploading

[Zim]

Sorry, gibsonsg91921. When I saw there were no new posts in the thread, I assumed you hadn't done the battle yet. I'll get us at least one more turn tonight.

[Zim]

Ok guys, another turn has passed. Poland came begging for an alliance, and Palanga was taken, but we have some tough decisions to make as well. Check the council thread for details.

Also, we have another avatar, Athalwolf von Essen. His stats are great.

[gibsonsg91921]

So deguerra is Karl Scherer and RoadKill is Athalwolf von Essen? Excellent.

[Zim]

Alright, before I can end the turn we have one battle for Karl Scherer (deguerra).


http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/...sade1253-1.zip

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Karl, you have sieged the village of Bialystok. It has a fairly weak garrison and no walls, allowing it to be assaulted right away. Meister Hans was kind enough to lend you some infantry for the assault. Use them well, because in doing so he endangered his own siege of Hrodna. He will need you and most of your forces to reinforce him there to make his assault on it next season easier.

Also, I'm disappointed moreof you weren't outraged IC by the Novgorod-Lithuanian alliance.

[deguerra]

am at work at the moment. will do my outraging and fighting when I get home :D

[gibsonsg91921]

I can outrage soon!

[Zim]

Hooray outraging!

[deguerra]

save is up

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/...sade1253-2.rar

(hope .rar is ok, I didn't have anything else)

Battle was fairly uneventful. Village was better fortified than expected, and with a decent AI would have given me a fair run for my money. As it was losses were about 10% (30 men) although I must confess quite a few of the ChristKnights copped it :D (nine of them).

We gained a grand 1 florin from occupying the village. Both exterminating and sacking would have killed 14 people and gotten us nothing. So I figured 1 was best :D

Screenshots and a brief report at some later stage.

[Zim]

Cool. I'll take the save and move it to the next turn. Hans may have a battle over the AI turn.

I can handle .rar files.

[Zim]

As I expected, there was a battle in the AI turn. Hans, sieging Hrodna, was attacked by three armies. Two are tiny and suck, and the last one is larger and sucks. All together they might be a challenge, but since they'll likely come one by one, it should be easy. I'll get the save up as soon as I can.

Elite Ferret will be getting a battle next turn, to relieve Windau, which appears to have a decent force sieging it. From there, he'll move south to take some unit from Dietrich, and starting kicking butt.

The war is heating up, guys.

[Zim]

Forgive the triple post, but I wanted the thread to show as having a new post so it doesn't get skipped over.

gibsonsg91921, you're up.

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/...sade1253-3.zip

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Meister Hans, you have sieged Hrodna, albeit with a smaller force tha orgially planned. You have been attacked before Bruder Karl can reach you with the soldiers you lent him. There are three Lithuanian armies. Two are small and of no consequence. The other is closer to the size of your own army, but contains much weaker troops. Together, they might be a threat, but you could probably take them piecemeal as they enter the field.

Hey guys, how are we handling expansion in the long run? I know we'll want to reconnect the Order territories, but will we keep up a similiar pace after? In short, how long a game would you like?

[gibsonsg91921]

I'd want a long game. As long as it stays active, I don't see why it won't be as fun as KOTR.

[Zim]

Ok, I wasn't sure. I know we don't have rules like Edicts to incorporate, but that make sense as a military Order. I just wanted to make sure I didn't push expansion too fast in my term.

I've found that if you leave the western half of the map alone long enough, sone of the three factions there becomes dominant. Since thy're all Catholic and not targets, that gives us a good target for the end game.

Should we put together some kind of stack composition rules like in KOTR?

[gibsonsg91921]

Picking up the save, I'll double post when I'm done and it's uploaded.

[gibsonsg91921]

Done, Heroic Victory. The Novgorod's proposed trade rights and map information before i got a chance to save and i accidentally refused, which isn't bad cuz im sure we would have anyway.

FrozenCrusade1253-4.zip is the file.

[Zim]

Ok, you ended the turn then? Hans has a battle so I might as well let Elite Ferret take it before I do anything. Did you get the city?

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/...sade1253-4.zip

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Meister Maximillian, when your castle of Windau was sieged you raced from Riga to relieve it. Your force is large but somewhat mixed in quality. Nonetheless, it is more than a match for the opposing Lithuanian force. You should be careful with your troops, though, because next you march south to take in some of Dietrichs, and from there you will go into Lithuanian territory.

[gibsonsg91921]

Yeah, the turn is over. I sacked Hrodna and executed the prisoners.

[Ferret]

Taking the save.

[Ferret]

well I would if it didn't link to atomic gamer :P

I'm guessing it's a .rar file in the archive then.

[Zim]

It's a zip, I must have done something wrong typing up the link.

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/?C=M;O=D

[Ferret]

umm a new guy got offered as soon as I loaded up the save he has:
0 command
1 dread
7 loyalty
3 piety

he is below 30 (IIRC) and is called Markus Otterbach. I accepted seeing as the benefactor was my avatar

[Zim]

I'll mention him in the Council post for this turn.