Rus in high: strategy and tactics

[Gilrandir]

I guess Danes got Danmark-Pomerenia-Livonia and Findland. Sweeden and Norway are empty.

It seems you have been watching my game over my shoulder. It happened exactly as you described. I can't help but wonder at Danes who never pay attention to iron-rich Sweden and go for a more distant and poor Finland.


Danes brought down the English, though inadvertently. As the Danish king took his permanent abode in Livonia his subjects in Denmark were far from happy which resulted in some rebellions. On one occasion rebels captured Denmark and the English jumped at the opportunity and invaded it. But they were poorly informed as the Danes returned with a vengeance the same turn. So the English were embroiled into a war which (I don't doubt) they didn't intend. The Danes (as well as rebels) were worsted, then besieged in the castle and there their king and his only heir were starved to death. So the Danes are no more and this act of violence caused a huge upheaval in the catholic world. The English were excommed. In vain did the English ambassadors at all European courts try to persuade the powers that be that it was an accident and they are ready to make amends. The Aragonese attacked them and captured Toulouse, the Spanish started a war and captured Aquitaine (and Anjou, I believe) plus they sent a crusade to Wessex which rebelled the turn before the crusaders arrived (I would like to see that three-sided battle between rebels, the English and the crusaders). So the English are on the verge of a collapse begging the Pope to lift the excom.
Meanwhile in the east I captured now-rebel Finland, bribed Livonia and moved in against the Polish and in the south I captured Edessa and Antioch from the Eggies. So the catholic nations got vexed and HRE (as no doubt the most powerful of them) declared a crusade. I still can't see it and don't know its objective, but I invaded Tripoli which had been captured by a German crusade. That's how the things stand at the moment.