KotR - Unanswered Questions

[Northnovas]

Yes the mercy rule. I think I was one of the first characters releasing prisoners and for the early game it kept AI armies around. I was trying to purposely build a character with chivalry rather then dread.
I was planning to always use the mercy rule I think seeing it legislated was the bug personally so in that sense there was no pretending.

[Privateerkev]

Yes the mercy rule. I think I was one of the first characters releasing prisoners and for the early game it kept AI armies around. I was trying to purposely build a character with chivalry rather then dread.
I was planning to always use the mercy rule I think seeing it legislated was the bug personally so in that sense there was no pretending.

Yeah I was just saying how Jan percieved things. Jan never forgot that Karl voted to allow murder.

Personally, I liked Karl. I liked him even more after I read the Illuminati thread. He turned out to be a very deep and complex character in my opinion. Which are way more fun to read about.

[OverKnight]

Having thought about it, I'm glad that KotR ended when it did, at least from the perspective of Outremer. The Timurids were coming, and when Andreas kicked it, very frustrating, Matthias was once again the only avatar in the region.

This would have have negatively effected our usual tactics for hordes: Isolating single stacks and attacking with mutliple ones of our own. On top of that Matthias was in his mid to late fifties, so death, one way or another, was coming. Which would then leave Outremer with no avatars. Even if I, or Zim, had reincarnated with RGBs in the area, fighting hordes, and everyone else if spawned triple golds had continued, with avatars with minimal attributes would have been grim. Not to mention that I was hankering to fight in Europe again after so many years in the desert.

I was always surprised that Outremer remained viable as long as it did. I expected a credible "Germany First" camp to develop and strip the area of resources and troops. It's a testament to Henry's and econ21's vision that it never did happen. Of course it's always nice to have a place to send the dispossesed of the Duchies and have convenient access to Jerusalem for Pope vetoing.

[TinCow]

Well, it partly survived because the Illuminati took over. We initially opposed it because it was a tool for getting one of us elected to Chancellor and because the position of King was held by our opponents. Once we held the position, we stopped criticizing it, because it increased our power. If another non-Illuminati had become King/Viceroy, we probably would have started protesting it again.

[OverKnight]

Oh yeah. . .still even if Matthias never became King, he would have opposed the rest of Illuminati moving against Outremer as a whole. I'm glad I never had to choose.

Still Lothar's faux disapproval did manage to siphon off a lot of the legitimate opposition.

[gibsonsg91921]

Meh, I really just didn't like when he disapproved of the Teutonic Crusade. That's what won Matthias over for me.

[OverKnight]

Ah the Teutonic Crusade. . .All Sturm und Drang, decades in the making and yet what was the point? It fought a total of one decent battle and sacked a second rate city. Pork-barrel spending at its worst. Though our expansion into the steppes did have a historically accurate outcome.

I suppose if we were doing econ21's deathstack specials at the time, it would have been more interesting.

It amused me as Chancellor to see that big black and gold blob out in the middle of nowhere. However it was a massive money pit that really only benefited one avatar.