OOC Thread and Chatroom

[Ituralde]

Just in time!

Regard what I wrote as OOC then, I always liked the notion of some border conflicts that spark the final war against the Turks!

[flyd]

Well, I've suddenly decided to try drawing some visualizations of the house structures. The first one shows the rank ladder, and the second actual oath hierarchy. Let me know if there are any mistakes, and if you have any ideas on how to better visualize the houses.

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[Andres]

Is our House thát small compared to others?



Why does nobody love us?

[OverKnight]

That's very nice looking FLYdude , what program did you do the chart with?

[flyd]

That's very nice looking FLYdude , what program did you do the chart with?

Inkscape

[deguerra]

nice work. incidentally, that is what i use for the coats of arms. i hadn't realized tagmata was down to two either. didn't you guys start out with four?

[Northnovas]

nice work. incidentally, that is what i use for the coats of arms. i hadn't realized tagmata was down to two either. didn't you guys start out with four?

We did but TC has gone to bigger and better things and Ichigo was having CPU issues, hopefully he will return.
Were just two peas in a pod.

[Privateerkev]

Well, I've suddenly decided to try drawing some visualizations of the house structures. The first one shows the rank ladder, and the second actual oath hierarchy. Let me know if there are any mistakes, and if you have any ideas on how to better visualize the houses.

Ituralde's character is only a strator at the moment. He lost Sinop and I haven't seen the Caesar give it back to him. (If he did it through PM, then my apologies.)

As for Germany, I blame it on that crazy old Kaiser Heinrich. No telling what he might do. He's so crazy, I bet he'd even attack the Pope himself. ;)

[Ituralde]

Ignoramus already gave it back to me in a PM, although I guess he would have to make a note of it in some public thread. *hint* *hint*

[OverKnight]

Gah! Those crazy Germans.

I think we might have been burned by playing like we're dealing with the vanilla game and being reminded we're playing SS, again. The supply system and loyalty systems were a bit of a change, but this. . .this is unexpected.

Despite some severe short term consequences, I welcome this sort of surprise. The less predictable the AI, the less likely we are to meta-game.

Of course short term, a massive Crusade army is out there somewhere while most of our troops are on the other side of the Empire, our western and northern borders are bare and Aleksios is a bit isolated. I can almost hear the theme from Jaws playing.

[Ramses II CP]

Bah, we have Jedi generals! We can defeat anything!

I sincerely hope that no one is offended by my latest addition to the story thread. The opportunity to work a somewhat legendary figure into the story (Aliya) in such a way was not to be resisted.

[TheFlax]

Offended? Amazed would be a better descriptive in my case. Great writing Ramses, I sincerely loved it, especially the descriptions and some of the details you put in there.

[Cecil XIX]

Gah! Those crazy Germans.

Just imagine if the Crusading Army was commanded by Otto von Kassel, and Aleksios had to fight him. What a story that would be! I'm so dissappointed it's just some nobody we've never heard of named Athalwolf von Prag.

...Of course, since he's from Prague I wish him the best of luck.

[OverKnight]

Just imagine if the Crusading Army was commanded by Otto von Kassel, and Aleksios had to fight him. What a story that would be!

Otto von Kassel gets morphed into Otto von Tirol in SS I think, based on my recollection from trying out an earlier version. Part of the mod is to make the names more "authentic", though that is up to debate.

I'm assuming Athalwolf von Prag is an adoptee, as his name bears no resemblance to any of the beginning German characters.

This game is already weird enough for me as I'm playing the leader of the "hated Greeks" from Matt's point of view. Fighting the Germans just adds to this.

@ Stephen Asen: Feel free to comment in the OOC thread, that's what its here for. Believe me, you'd be elevating the usual discourse.