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Everybody who's younger than him, is young... :laugh4:
hahah... but he is a balding white hair dude now just like your avatar...
Great read econ. Looks like you had some very intense battle. Hope the many pavise were worth it :)
Chancellor's report for 1227 and 1228 are now up to date with previously hidden information.
Also, forgot to mention, but we can hire Gothic Knights at Sofia. While this may be a wow-factor, ever since 1.02 and shield fix, they aren't all that great anymore.
Just to reinforce my previous statement, I will be playing my battle when I get home tonight, about 6:30pm EST.
Wow, nice job econ, and good luck TC
I auto-resolved the battle the other day (loaded the Assult in durazzo save) and won so I wasn't too worried. But still you Anihilated thier army, only several more to go. ~:D
Great battle Econ!:bow: It seems that soon there will be lots of action in the outremer thanks to our Mongol friends.:charge:
I'm right in thinking there are multiple waves (3?) of Mongol stacks, right? It's not over when these 5 are defeated, is it?
I heard there are three waves, with the second the largest. I've never experienced it though and don't know if the later waves will appear at Baghdad as the first wave fortuitously did. (In another run through of this PBM, the first wave turned up faraway in south Russia (Yerevan?) which would have been a major disappointment.)
Yerevan is still in ME, just under Sarkel mountains.
There are 3 waves. The later waves featured even tougher generals and rocket launchers. Takes a long while to get them to appear though. They appear at the same point where the first wave did.
OK, looking at the Citadel FAQ, I guess I meant north of the Caspian sea rather than Yerevan. They really were far, far away from us and spawning there would have been a major disappointment as we would have had virtually no interaction with them. I did not do any reloading to get them close to us, but am happy they came where they did.
I've updated the FAQ to say waves 2 and 3 appear where wave 1 came.
Yep FactionHeir is right.The rest are coming your way also. Im looking forward to Ituraldes assault against the Mongols. With even victorious battles with about 50/50 casulties the Crusader Kindom could be in lot of trouble,specially if the Egyptians and Turks chip in also.:smash:
Well that's some pretty imposing news.
3 waves hey. It's going to be decades of high intensity war down there.
Mongols flying Apaches? sounds like fun. :inquisitive:Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
And then the Timurids after that, and they're even worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by AussieGiant
Well, if the appear in Russia, the HRE mainland will see the hordes instead of in th Outremer, Franconians and Austrians will see some serious actions if that is the case, with the poles and huns probably wiped out.
And then the plague just when you need your economy the most. :D
Btw, I forgot to mention it before.
In a few of my reports you can see mentions of Adolf der Bartige doing some hidden stuff.
Well, he finished what he was doing: spy on Jobst and his army and spy the Danish survivors as well as the battle ground.
If anyone together with Warluster or just on their own wants to write the alternative more or less true and complete story on what happened with the Danes, feel free to.
Hey
What ever happened to the investigation into the 'event' that lead to our current war with the danes?
is it just being written off OOC as game mechanics, and mostly ignored IC
or what?
See my post above.
Also, I have dug a bit through the file and noticed that Sane is an AntiTrait to Hypochonndriac, so if you stay in a settlement with a church for any amount of time you can become Sane. Also finishing church buildings gives a Sane boost. Maybe there is yet hope for Steffen :p
Just a church? or will the Cathedral in rome work too?
Any church type. I think that's why I subconciously was buildng the cathedral.
Wait, the Cathedral in Rome was just built in your term?
I just started construction on it this turn, yes.
Whuh-oh. Heinrich ordered construction of the place back in the late 1150s. Heh.
Well, maybe Heinrich will rise from the grave to thank his grandson? :D
One story at a time. :wizard:
Good story, GH. Sorry if Henry's wheez proposed in the Council of Crusaders seemed to deflate it - although I don't think it did. Your story did not sound that doom laden to my ears: more Starship Troopers than All Quiet on the Western Front.
If my proposed wheez goes too far in terms of exploiting game mechanics, I apologise. Duke Leopold or the Chancellor could always reject it or better it (they are smart guys, in and out of character :bow:).
I was actually thinking of Full Metal Jacket meets Lord of the Rings, but whatever floats your boat. :tongue:
This is my longsword. There are many like it but this one is mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
Personally, I want to see Leopold take them all on. Victory or death!
FH, why is a teutonic knight unit in Elberhard's stack not on crusade? Is he the one holding back the stack's movement?
I moved Elberhard with the infantry over first and then joined the crusade (explains low movement) and later decided to give him Teutons too as the knight limit was not reached. At end turn it auto joins though, so no worries. Don't want to abandon/rejoin as that may cause him to become a coward ;)
Ok, thanks, not sure abt the crusade mechanism... Btw, none of the crusade from other nations reached the middle east yet? I thought a few nations' army stacks passed by us before we formed our crusade?
France is stuck north of Innsbruck, Portugal still at Pamplona, Spain in Northern Africa and we defeated the Venetian stack inside Durazzo and the Danes north of Staufen.
The Venetians in Durazzo had taken the cross? We were besieging a crusade army? Or did they leave the Crusade to attack our forces?
Another thing I just noticed is that all three of the remaining orginial avatars (Leopold, Henry and Otto) are clumped together in Outremer. I thought Crusading was a young man's game. :laugh4:
Well you guys did bring a lot of young avatars and if Hans wasn't stuck in Hungary he'd join in the fray too for his second crusade. If you guys get hit too bad by the Mongols though, he might just have to (but with Gothic Knights) :D
The Venetians inside Durazzo were a crusade army resting I think. At least the banners they had in Kagemusha's screenshots had the crusade annex. At least we didn't get excommed - the current pope is merely 34 years old.
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God help you if you fail to assasinate the pointy hatted one though. Also, he is one of own, or at least used to be an Imperial Cardinal.
Would require an edict by the diet anyway to do it, so he's safe
From the crusader thread:
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Originally Posted by FactionHeir
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:dizzy2: Really?
I can only imagine the uproar. . .
I don't think it would have broken the PBM's back, but I can only imagine the the fleet of Charter Amendments that would have been launched that day.
wow rome is our crown jewel
I think what I'm gonna do is to mop up any French forces around Paris, swing up to Bruges, take it, and come back to defend before the French could react. Bruges is relatively isolated from most of the French so it shouldn't be that hard to take. Factionheir has mentioned taking Angers or Toulouse, but they seem to be surrounded by too many French territories and think it would be pretty hard keeping them.
Looks like that with the mongols in the Outremer, there are some pretty intense battles. Too bad I would be able to fight in any of them. Maybe the Timurids though, but I don't think this PBM will last until then
we can make it last long enough to get to timurids
Been launched that day?Quote:
Originally Posted by OverKnight
Try the next Diet session for starters. I don't care if it's a different character, I'll find some justification. Rome is mine! :viking: :furious:
i for one would have been peeved
Ok guy's that it.
Unfortunately I've check out of my home and will be heading to Canada until July 17.
That means all battles that need to be fought by Arnold will be infact conducted by Ituralde.
Damn!! Sometimes I hate my job!!
Have fun AG. :canada:
Thanks GH.
Good write up by the way. I can't wait for these series of big intense battles.
I can feel some real history is about to be written in this PBM :2thumbsup:
Damn I wish I was able to fight my battles!! I'd be just hammering the Hungarians.
It certainly would have made Henry as popular as Heinrich :D
Ahhh safe travels AG
Thanks FH
Good Luck AG
TC, your story post sounds more like a glory hungry nut than a chivalric knight. If I am the senior commander in the battle, I would have lots of second thought about knighting you after seeing that display... :P
That was the entire point of the story, StoneCold.
I liked the battle report TC, it certainly conveyed that even though Lothar is a skilled general, he's still a callow youth. If he was alive today, he'd be camped out at a spawn point pwning n00bs to max out his stats.
Hopefully as events progress he'll gain some wisdom, or at least some humility.
Why is Swabia constantly taking cities without so much as edict?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xdeathfire
Good point Kage
Sides I think we should leave France alone and allow to rebuild. Otherwise this game is easely over, without having gone to the new world
I suggest giving cities back to France in exchange for peace.
Swabia has taken 1 city this session which is Paris. What do you mean by constantly?
New HA orders are allowed as TC pointed out a few pages back.
Well isnt Paris enough for this Chancellor term? We are going fast towards the victory condition and i thought that allowing to conquer cities was a thing that should be decided in Diet.:smash:Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
Kag, I know what you mean, that's why I started that discussion a few days back, but was over-ruled... so maybe you can start a CA in the next diet to limit expansion again. :D
TC, I know that is the aim of your story, but if I am the chancellor, I would have difficulties justifying my decision to knight your avatar given the craziness of your action, other than your kill numbers... :P Maybe a provisional knighthood which will be confirm or strip in further campaign depending on performance? :P
Any further conquest would be at the chancellor's disgression as to whether to continue old or take up the new orders. Considering Paris has loads of French stacks surrounding it, the prospect of taking another French city is rather low at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kagemusha
StoneCold: I was thinking of whether to knight Steffen or not. Provisional knighthood is actually a good idea. Need to think a bit more on that.
Not knighting him would be entirely justified and would work well with my story. I encourage it.Quote:
Originally Posted by StoneCold
Well, the BHA does need a leader though and while the taking of Sofia reduces the Hungarian threat somewhat, there are still loads of half stacks floating around and being trained at Bran.
I think I'm going to have to talk to Lothar's dad :p
If lothar's knighthood is just provisional, he can earn his full knight hood when we take out the Milanese. I realise that this is a bit away, I was hoping to have Corsica and Sardinia under siege by the end of FH's Chancellorship. I'll issue new orders to the BHA once the situation at Zegrab is under control. (I guess most of this could [should?] have gone IC, meh)
@GH is Henery had given up rome, Conrad and Gerhard might have found some common ground
edit: Just saw FH's post, hhmmm.....the milanese might have to wait....
Too bad! Should have taken the save yesterday to my thing with Leopold. Looks like it is harder to have im die in glorious battle than I thought.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that two of our most chivalrous generals opt for the quite unchivalrous Night attack, while one of our most dreadful generals wants a chivalrous head on battle?
Well night battles aren't necessarily unchivalrous. It saves lives and allows for further negotiations and peace instead of total annihilation;)
Charging headon against 3 stacks is also not chivalrous behavior towards those serving under you :p
The fun thing about it is, that after I had a look at the saves I came up with the exact same plan that econ21 proposed, where I attack from the South. Well so much for my brilliant surprise plan. Now all the glory will go to the Emperor. :beam:
I will reply in the Crusader Council and then I would like to download the current save and fight this battle, one way or another. Mabye I'll flip a coin to see how brave I'll be in the end. :2thumbsup:
Is this alright with you FactionHeir?
So are you going with Henry's original plan or his modified plan that incorporates my suggestion?
Good luck on the battle Ituralde! I hope Leopold comes out alive from it.:yes:
Great battle Ituralde!You made defeating Mongols look very easy and its not.:bow:Edit: Great end for an great character.
Fairly well fought. Maybe you should have gone by the first plan and taken all 3 at once.
Thanks!
It was great fun and I have to admit the real difficulty was to get Leopold killed during the battle. Also I couldn't let him die to early otherwise I'd loose for sure. The first one was quite difficult, while I found that battling Khan Jebuk is quite easy as he tends to rush at you. Aradai the Wrathful on the other just takes a nice defensive position and let's you have a go at it.
I uploaded the next savegame 1128-5 and also a Leopold save. It's just the last save where he's alive, maybe that's helpful for the Mausoleum or some such.
It was also a nice feeling to just execute 25000 florins worth of enemies.
And I urge everyone to try out the battle against all three stacks, did it for enjoyment at the end. It was wonderful. Just looking at the masses of soldiers comingt at you, fighting desperatly and then suddenly seein the horizon full of reinforcements. Looks like one of the armies arrived late and you had only been battling half of them. :no:
Fun times! :2thumbsup:
Hehe, fighting all three at once was fun. I think the worst about that was actually kerping toward the timelimit. Once Aradai was dead, all his reinforcement units were down to steady/shaken when they reached my lines, making them easily routable.
geez now mainland austria is just arnold and sigmund von mahren
They gained 2, and now the lost 2
Maybe we should throw who ever marries Hedwigis Von Saxony next to Austria? Btw has there been proposers for her?I think i might be intrested playing eventually one of the children from that marriage.
Wonder who Ituralde will play as next. Austria lacks avatars yet again.
There have been no proposals so far, but that may change. I'm planning to accept any suitor (even if they got only "generally loyal")
I haven't decided whom to take either.
Thing is, that there's still two von Mahren gals who could marry. Could obviously, but if we continue to kill characters at this rate, it should happen soon. :2thumbsup:
I'm just a Austrian at heart!
I tried the three-stack battle yesterday, but instead of conventional tactics, I decided to go with an epic charge at the Mongol center, ignoring the horse archers. It wasn't long before the entire army was completely encircled by horse archers, but I did destroy two of the Mongol infantry/lancer cores, along with Aradai and the Khan, as well as some of the horse archers. Unfortunately, there were too few men left by the time the third group arrived on the flank.
Good job on the real battle, Ituralde. I'm glad to see that you didn't try to keep Fredericus out of trouble. He is the only one left in his bodyguard, has double-gold-chevron experience, and a bunch of new bravery and scar traits. He just won't die.
I think the Mahren girls will eventually get proposals. Henry and Otto won't last much longer either. With 4 avatar losses in such a short period, plus the addition of a few more territories, marriage proposals should start popping up again. I would suggest that all marriages be accepted, but adoptions should only be accepted if they are for Austria.
Its quite likely we'll get a few MOTH next time I send a captain to take out a few rebels. Guess I'll need to save/reload to know who the MOTH goes to.
Well, I'd be a little descriminating..I remember there was one proposal that had an 'activley disloyal' trait, as much fun as that would be to RP, I doubt he'd last long with the CPU haveing lotsa money for bribes.