Oh, but then you don't know about the letters that went on between Hans and Leopold ~;)
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Oh, but then you don't know about the letters that went on between Hans and Leopold ~;)
No I don't know about the letters FH
To all,
I'm taking the save back.
You seem to have inspired the Dread Duke into action FH
Well, someone had to, eh? :grin:
Save is up.Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/kotr1254-4.zip
I went on a little tear away it seems :laugh4:
Well done ~:)
How many troops did you use for the whole thing? In my game, I went for Arnold+Sigismund from the north and 2 gothics and 2 2handers from the south. Did mean that quite a few managed to escape though, but lost only 79 men :grin:
Thanks FH.
I used the kitchen sink, unlike your surgical strike I see :laugh4:
Everyone is back in Budapest apart from the Zweihander's who did not have enough movement points.
They will arrive the next turn.
I still need a refit urgently so I can block these attackes in the field, plus I'd love to give Cecil an army so he can have a crack at this. But we would need at least two half stacks to do this.
Arnold is now Merciless so Leopold would be proud.
Merciless hey?
Could be fun for the future, as more seem to be picking up Dread traits (it's not like any Russian will ever be released)
Ansehelm the Despicable, son of Gunther the Honorable - i can see it now!
I had that purpose from the very beginning. It was a combination of following in his fathers foot steps in character and far too much chivalry for my liking when Arnold first came to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
Heheh, loads of sons don't want to end up as their father :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by gibsonsg91921
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Originally Posted by Stig
Leopold went down in a blaze of glory so Arnold was more than happy to oblige.
Meh, if it wasn't for Henry's begging, Hans woulda become a dread knight too. He already has several dread traits (including BattleDread which you can't turn into BattleChiv except by losing several battles) so he'll never become overly chivalrous if he fights any battles.
Hey guys. I think Ituralde's avatar is also in the Kaiser's stack. I don't think anybody would mind if he fought the battle(s) at the 48 hour expiration instead of having his character be possibly put in a highly unfavorable autoresolve.
I have no objections, the Kaiser takes ill and Siegfried leads the battle. Might explain the whole I made my third adopted cousin my heir thing. :laugh4:
Not at all, could make for some interesting IC as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by FLYdude
Sounds good to me FD.
Heh, he can knight himself, can't he? ~D
As long as we can get this moving again.
What about Jonas von Mahren, him fighting might be important to save Stettin.
Yep, Ituralde can fight the battle.
Probably best to split him from the main stack pre-battle though to allow him to get the traits etc.
Well, the problem is that they're completely surrounded, with no movement possible, which is why the battle is critical. Only a small army is blocking south though, so it could be removed first with ease.
I figure I was all right to take the weekend off, seeing as I'm not knighted and all, but it seems like I was wrong. I'll see if I manage to fight the battle this evening. I'll post again once I pick up the save, which will mean that I'll fight it shortly afterwards.
Cheers!
Ituralde
Alright, I'm taking the save now!
And to make my triple post complete. I fought the battle(s)! I won all of them,even lifting the siege from Hamburg, but to everyone who is going to take a look at kotr1254-5 you'll notice that something has gone awfully wrong.
I am terribly sorry, Warluster, I'm as surprised as you all are. After defeating the first two stacks, I saw that I had defeat the third one too, because it still wouldn't let me move on. Easy battle I thought. And it was easy up to the point, where some freak catapult ball, one of those flaming balls of fire crashed right into Emperor Jobst, sending him to a fiery death!
I was dumbstruck, but there was nothing I could do. I kept my units on the move so as not to make them easy targets. I'm sorry, killing the avatar of another player really is not very desirable. I would have prefered another ending.
On the bright side, this will make an excellent story line for Siegfrieds ascension to Emperor. Just imagine him standing over the dying Emperor, who suddenly appoints him his heir. Brilliant!
Too bad, I won't have the time to finish the story right now, please give me some time to write it all up, battle report and everything. Once again I'm sorry about the loss of your character Warluster and I hope that my last comment didn't make it look as though I appreciate his death. I just try to look at the bright side of things.
Cheers!
Ituralde
:inquisitive:
Man, that's a lot of avatar deaths, and now the emperor?
......
dude thats some weird stuff. whos the new faction heir, harold von dassel?? haha
According to the file its Elberhard?!?
well at least that one kinda made sense. its staying in the royal household this time, and if it werent for siegfried von kastilien screwin it up (no offense itty) then we'd have a kind of organized line.
the emperor dying in battle so young... thats so weird!!!
Econ will love being emperor again in such a short time :laugh4:
haha no kidding. cheater
Yeah, my first thought was somewhere along the lines of, how can I tell them that, when that fireball engulfed Jobst. I was so surprised I didn't even take a screenshot. I did take one of his charred corpse, though.
We're really having some tough luck with the avatars recently. Did I already mention that I'm sorry? :shame:
well, now ur emperor! i know how it feels to suddenly lose an avatar in battle. i hate it! lol ehrhart i miss you...
u can say that elberhard is the prince cuz u wanted to get it back into the swabian house for whatever reason, and elberhard is a strong crusader guy who likes to drop a cuss-bomb.
Oh btw, it will be Emperor Elberhard the Lewd. Didn't we somewhere in this or the last 2 OOC threads joke about that?
I thought that Elberhard was younger than Siegfried though...
Wow, this should be... interesting...
And what about Lyse now that Jobst is dead (that is if this is confirmed). Meinburg won't spawn as a princess either.
Maybe Jobst left a will?
What's actually interesting is that both Siegfried and Elberhard are the two youngest in their lines. Wonder why the game goes like that.
So, Elberhard becomes Prinz because that would be logical, but Jobst made Siegfried heir, because, being burned and all he said the words:
"Siegfried ... heir ... you ... must"
Failing to say the words inbetween, as he really wanted to say that Elberhard should be his heir. ~D
elberhard is much older than siegfried, so unless he dies in battle i dont think elberhard will make it to emperoring.
poor warluster
and wont duke gunther be surprised when he returns from his vacation. "my eldest and third are firebrands, my second is weak, but the fourth is king"
I actually want to see the look on Warluster's face when he finds out
OK, that actually sounded mean, but wasn't meant like that!
I mean I'd be shocked if I had delegated my battle to another player to come back and find out I'm dead.
My condolences to Warluster in any case!
I'd start running if I were Ituralde, Germany is no longer a safe place for him ~D
It seems as if 1254 is going to be as interesting of a year as 1154 was. :laugh4:
If something happens in 1354 that's really going to be creepy.
-edit- Ituralde, you're always welcome in Outremer. :laugh4:
If my guy died, I'd want it to be me controlling so I can make it sound heroic.
heheh, we can make something happen in 1354 ~D
Only the current young ones will still be alive by then :p
20 years is 5 years for the avatars, so that will make Ansehelm like 55 ... maybe maybe
peters gonna be remembered, dont worry bout that, he'll be around long and important lol
*rubs sleepy eyes*
A guy grabs 8 hours of sleep and look what he misses...
Holy !@#$%...
Looks like I picked an interesting time to join up! And I was afraid it was getting boring.
Sorry to Warluster and McIwoo for their character deaths but it does make for some awesome RP. Hopefully they'll both pick up some spare avatars soon and rejoin us. :beam:
And to think I was worried about Kaiser Jobst getting mad at my character in the Diet... :laugh4:
ok, time for...coffee...and more coffee... need to process all of this...
I love this game.
yeah TC im afraid peter despises lothar now lol
Man, quite the goings on here, though I would have preferred to have read about in one of the various IC threads. Sure would have been a surprise ending to the Battle Report! Anyway, with all condolences to Warluster, at least it makes things interesting.
simple yet elegant...Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
I agree and this should be fun! :beam:
I told everyone that once I got more comfortable, I'd start throwing rocks at hornet nests... :laugh4:
Time for the next installment of "As the Diet turns..."
*edit*
BTW, I just want to state for the record that I think AG is playing an awesome character! :2thumbsup:
*edit 2*
And all of this certainly puts an interesting spin on Warluster's latest IC story...
no kidding about the story lol
Without enemies, life gets boring. :duel: Well, fake life gets boring. Real life without enemies is rather pleasant.Quote:
Originally Posted by gibsonsg91921
I just looked at the save game and Warluster's story, combined with the latest in game events, is even funnier when you see that we have a mission from the Danish Prince to murder his King. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by gibsonsg91921
*edit*
Also, TC is right. I don't want to sit around IC in the Diet playing patty-cake...
*edit*
My diet posts are even funnier if you realize that, in real life, I'm an atheist...
An extreme leftist radical humanist, who is also atheist, playing a devout fundamentalist, who is also an ardent nationalist imperialist, while also supporting monarchy. Too funny... :laugh4:
Right... we've had two deaths already, and we haven't yet made contact with the Mongols. I guess I'm off to end the turn. I do wonder what'll happen next. Will the French armies all decide to collapse on the Swabians? Will waves of Hungarians spawn from the ground, and Russians parachute in around Thorn? Will the Aztecs make a 10-stack amphibious invasion of Corsica? It doesn't strike me as terribly implausible.
By the way, what's our policy on marriage/adoption/hourly_men in light of recent events? Just wondering... :laugh4:
Just my opinion, but I'd say we could use all the avatars we can get. As long as they are not too old and useless.
Ituralde, I suggest you change your avatar and custom title to mark the event.
Accept all, we might need them ... not everyone has to become Franconian
@GH:
Will do, right away!
@Warluster:
Please delete some of your PMs, I intend to send you one.
Geez I wake up and things have gotten. . .complicated.
OOC: I know about the funky inheritance mechanics.
IC: A Kaiser goes into battle without an heir. He dies in the battle. The only surviving noble emerges from the battle and states to everyone who wasn't there, that "Oh by the way, before he died unexpectedley, the Kaiser made me his heir. So I, not related to him in anyway at all, am now Kaiser."
I'm sorry but this has to raise a few IC questions, as I just posted in the Diet.
I really think we should have two years of mourning for the Kaiser before we bring up the question of succession.
Right then...
Battle Queue for 1256.
Initial save: http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/kotr1256-2.zip
Karl Zirn
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Ansehelm von Kastilien
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Non-battle/optional:
Conrad Salier and Elberhard
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
If it could be two weeks, I would gladly agree, but this game moves too fast for that. No one in their right mind would give a new man two years to solidify his power when the possibility existed that he had illegally usurped the throne. (Not that that has occurred, but from an IC standpoint, it looks really, really suspicious.) With the game moving as it does, we pretty much have to raise the issue immediately or ignore it.Quote:
Originally Posted by FLYdude
perhaps wait about 12 real hours or something then we can go for it.
warluster can appear as dieter, his servant, and clear it up
Obviously, you missed my joke. I said we should wait for two years, then very immdiately proceeded to post the battle queue for 1256, indicating that we have already entered that year in the game. The death, of course, was in 1254.
Also, the battle report of a tiny skirmish with some easterners has been posted.
Belated reaction to Jobst's death: wow. Ironically, I was going to post yesterday that Warluster and Ituralde should sort out the in-game rationale for Siegfried being Prinz. I held off because reading the stories, they seemed to be moving towards it anyway. I just did not predict it would be such a fiery resolution!
Warluster: needless to say, you have a free pick of any spare avatars. Some new ones should presumably be coming on stream.
FLYdude: I am inclined to say we accept all new avatars except duds (ie too old, too useless etc). We don't have that many spare ones.