Maloncanth
04-21-2007, 10:48
Right so I was playing Spain. Way fun game too, with several contenders right up until the start of High when the Hungarians, Sicilians, and Byzantines petered out and it became a three-way open ended game between France, Spain (me), and Italy. Because there were always huge stacks of Frenchmen around, I was launching probably more crusades than all my previous games of MTW:VI combined it was all very good as the crusades stripped away the vast french hordes, which kept me safer while I powered for a planned Late game push, yet at the same time, kept the french troops modern and prevented them from getting bogged down in upkeep.
So. Late in Early, I get hit by the Influence bug. It fixes itself in several years but it does its damage because my next king sucks. The decades roll past and the generation after, I have two even crappier princes but I'd already put a eugenics plan into motion so all I needed to do was get rid of them. So I idly threw them into a crusade bound for Horde controlled Volhynia.
So the crusade marches deep in French territory, during which time the Italians ate the Pope again but that didn't seem to disband mine or the simultaneous french crusade bound for Byzantine Greece. Then suddenly, the Italians jumped in and ate Volhynia. They'd been excommed before but because they'd killed the Pope, they'd got recommed and thus were valid catholics. The crusade disbands. Now, you all probably know what the question now is.
It seemed as if the game had a way of handling this. Soon, I get a message from "The Rhenish" and I have no idea who the hell they are, I suppose they're from whatever province the crusade was in (though it was french at the time). Except the Rhenish only offer to ransom one of my princes. I didn't know what was up with that but since it'd been my intention to kill them (and most of the crusade troops) anyway, I refused. So where does the other prince go?
Into hyperspace apparently. When I checked the the Royals screen, the other prince was still there but he no longer had the red lettering. That is, the game considered him alive but he was no longer the heir apparent and thus there were no heirs to Spain (this was my intention) but now I had the unique state of having a prince but no heir. Curious, I click on his name to find out where he is. Bam! CTD.
Kinda amusing if it hadn't destroyed two hours of late night play. :p
So. Late in Early, I get hit by the Influence bug. It fixes itself in several years but it does its damage because my next king sucks. The decades roll past and the generation after, I have two even crappier princes but I'd already put a eugenics plan into motion so all I needed to do was get rid of them. So I idly threw them into a crusade bound for Horde controlled Volhynia.
So the crusade marches deep in French territory, during which time the Italians ate the Pope again but that didn't seem to disband mine or the simultaneous french crusade bound for Byzantine Greece. Then suddenly, the Italians jumped in and ate Volhynia. They'd been excommed before but because they'd killed the Pope, they'd got recommed and thus were valid catholics. The crusade disbands. Now, you all probably know what the question now is.
It seemed as if the game had a way of handling this. Soon, I get a message from "The Rhenish" and I have no idea who the hell they are, I suppose they're from whatever province the crusade was in (though it was french at the time). Except the Rhenish only offer to ransom one of my princes. I didn't know what was up with that but since it'd been my intention to kill them (and most of the crusade troops) anyway, I refused. So where does the other prince go?
Into hyperspace apparently. When I checked the the Royals screen, the other prince was still there but he no longer had the red lettering. That is, the game considered him alive but he was no longer the heir apparent and thus there were no heirs to Spain (this was my intention) but now I had the unique state of having a prince but no heir. Curious, I click on his name to find out where he is. Bam! CTD.
Kinda amusing if it hadn't destroyed two hours of late night play. :p