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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
The report on 1308 is up (I realised I mislabelled the year on the early two reports).
We are now in 1310 in game. I will load up the save and see if there are any battles. I won't act on the VH taxes as the poll on governor responses has another 24 hours or so to run.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
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Originally Posted by AussieGiant
Well if that is the case..."I'm goin' in boys, don't try and stop me!!" :charge:
remind Arnold that the woman is grieving. try to be gentle...
Of course something tells me she would eat Arnold for breakfast... o_O
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
I've made most of the moves for 1310.
This is Bavaria's year - there are two offensive battles:
Friedrich Karolinger (Warmaster Horus)
Fredericus Erlach (Stuperman)
There may be a defensive battle this turn, so please complete the above battles within 24 hours.
The save is here:
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/1310-1.zip
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
A good reason to become a Republic. :laugh4:
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I have the save. I'll try and get the inquisitor.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
Just a comment about Peter as Prinz: we will roll with the punches and come up with an in game rationalisation of this (Gibson and I have one in mind already). But in the story he is not Prinz yet. Historically, the HRE Kaiser was elected. In our alternate history, the next Kaiser is selected by the present one (ie the the player controlling the Kaiser has to come up with a cover for the AIs bizarre picks).
Also - on the present saves and future ones, people are free to take a look, then PM me with instructions with what they want their characters to do or where they want them to go next turn. Players may want to be thinking 4-5 turns ahead: where they want to be when all hell breaks loose. In the absence of instructions, I just move them where I think it would be in character for them to go. I don't have time to liaise with everyone over their moves, but I will try to accommodate any requests I receive.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
I'll wait for the Siege Engines, if that's no problem. It's just... Catapults and me... We don't mix too often.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
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Historically, the HRE Kaiser was elected. In our alternate history, the next Kaiser is selected by the present one (ie the the player controlling the Kaiser has to come up with a cover for the AIs bizarre picks).
That's easy, we fake some elections when Elberhard dies (would Peter still be alive at that point), and we simply make sure Peter gets the position.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
In our world the Kaiser is not and never has been elected. He's chosen by his predecessor.
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Not if the Kaiser chooses no Heir
Siegfried was in a way elected.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
I've pressed end turn for 1310 and there were no defensive battles. I am wondering about accelerating things and moving on to 1312 tonight. Any objections?
This would be a day faster than the 1 turn/2 days pace I planned, but I will be unable to get to a computer that can play M2TW on Friday and Saturday, so it should balance out.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
It's fine with me. Regarding the unusual choice of heir, I would wait until the catastrophe is over before having that become official. I'm sure we can come up with some reason for it by that time.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
I'll have a look on Hans' moves before you end turn. Give me a few hours to get back though.
As for heirs, we dont have to go with the game decision as pointed out during the succession debate. Its very simple to make us choose our heirs and have them get the appropriate traits. The only limitation really is diplomatic marriage, princess spawning and bodyguard size.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
Like I said during the succession dispute, I like that we still go by the game's crazy heir mechanics. It adds an element of surprise to the game. Plus it gives the opportunity for a "rags to riches" type story. A lot of us will not have our avatars reach high office. The semi-random heir machine allows us to have the hope that our lowly count will one day become Kaiser. Otherwise it will just go to the person with the most political connections. The game picking Jobst, Siegfried, and now Peter has added something to the game in my opinion. :yes:
*edit*
and I know I omitted Elberhard but he is a fairly "logical" choice for the game to make in my opinion.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
Agreed, I very much like the random wild choices precisely because it puts everyone on an equal footing, at least for that particular aspect of the game. Obviously, political savvy is highly meaningful here, but perhaps it should not rule everything.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
Just thought I'd say, this catastrophe scenario has brought out some great RP in the stories and the Diet. It's fun every day to wake up and check on what the latest disaster is, but even more fun to watch for the reactions and interactions.
Thanks for the great reading.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
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Originally Posted by Tamur
Just thought I'd say, this catastrophe scenario has brought out some great RP in the stories and the Diet. It's fun every day to wake up and check on what the latest disaster is, but even more fun to watch for the reactions and interactions.
Thanks for the great reading.
We haven't even got to the real catastrophe event(s) of 1320-1340.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
pffft. tancred? he works for me!
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Now that I can actually see the game it seems to be a bit of a dogs breakfast :beam:
What's Ehrhart Ruppel doing traipsing around Austria?
Plus Peter is still married to a large army and the Siegfried is alive....oh my god!! :laugh4:
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
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Originally Posted by AussieGiant
Now that I can actually see the game it seems to be a bit of a dogs breakfast :beam:
What's Ehrhart Ruppel doing traipsing around Austria?
Plus Peter is still married to a large army and the Siegfried is alive....oh my god!! :laugh4:
I think you are looking at an old save.
Try the one Stuperman posted earlier on this page:
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/1310-2.zip
None of what you said is true about that save. ... Apart from the dog's breakfast part.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
Hey everyone, I have a bit of a problem for some reason my MTW 2 has stopped working..... So yah... So if I get engaged in battle, get someone else to fight it, or just autoresolve it. If you want to help solve the problem I posted a thread in the MTW 2 section.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
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Originally Posted by Northnovas
We haven't even got to the real catastrophe event(s) of 1320-1340.
True, but the scripted plotline is entirely for the 1300-1320 period. 1320-1340 will be the choose-your-own-adventure style of game and the plot will evolve almost 100% based on what the players decide to do. It will be interesting, but in a different way. I have no major 'events' planned for the 1320-1340 period, because doing so would require me to know exactly what was going to happen. Since it's impossible to predict what choices 15+ people are going to make, I am going to be creating the events on the fly instead.
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Re: King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII
I like how it's going. There's a lot Peter has yet to do.