I almost started over last night...

[Mori Gabriel Syme]

... but I'm glad I didn't. Ever since I was excommunicated as the English for taking Brittany, the HRE & the Spanish kept kicking me in the stomach. The Spanish even attacked Wessex at one point. Finally I started pulling back my forces to Flanders & Normandy, leaving Brittany, Aquitaine, & Anjou completely undefended & destroying all improvements. Strangely, the Spanish didn't invade them, though they took Flanders.

I finally came to the conclusion that the HRE & Italians were troubling the Spanish & they didn't want to spread their forces. After three turns, I decided to assign governers to the abandoned provinces since I was still getting money from them but the previous lords had died in the countless battles (about three per turn for over 15 years). As I moved the new governors into their provinces, the Spanish were excommunicated. A couple of turns later, a Spanish princess arrived, wedding gown in tow, & I accepted the alliance. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

Now I can begin to rebuild my treasury & repair the random collection of survivors I affectionately call my army. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

The King who was Thursday

[This message has been edited by Mori Gabriel Syme (edited 09-17-2002).]

[Ulfang]

Funnily enough my circumstances are similar. I just started a new game Normal level and was also excommunicated for Warring with France. All of France is under my control so being allied with Spain and Aragon, among others, i moved against HRE and took two provinces. The following year Spain broke the alliance and declared a crusade against me.

In good ol domino style all my allies cancelled their alliances with me except for Hungary. Italy broke their alliance the same turn as they accepted a royal marriage with me lol.

Anyway i have to move all my forces to the Spanish border while leaving just enouth to defend against HRE attacks. Fought my first battle in Navarre. 400 Spanish vs my force of 1300. My General broke fighting with his 60 Militia against the spanish king on his own! Soon my entire army followed suit and it was embarrassing! I then quit the game without saving lol