Archived: Turtling as England [RXB1004]

[daigaku]

Hi,

here we go again ;-)

PART 2

Meanwhile, it´s year 1068, and quite some changes happened.

Owning: British Islands, Scandinavia (except Finland, only province held by Russians), Novgorod, Couronia, Normandy, Aquitania, Navarre, Aragon, Sardinia, Crete, and Egypt.

From Iberia straight through to Cyrenaica completely cleaned-out Rebel country. I was so fed up with interchanging respawns of Moors and Byz that I 1st) assassinated every heir before killing the Kings and 2nd) bribed and raided every single province in Iberia and NorthAfrica down to barrewn land. The trigger was a respawn of Byz, with about 8.000 men on my doorstep in Castile, with some 15.000 more heading for Iberia. I think I just killed the Emperor the year before invading into Navarre with my mere 2.200 men there....
In the beginning (from 935) money was scarce, only when I got some ship into Adriatic Sea and Gulf of Venice decent money started to come in. Building up Couronia and Novgorod to my needs is finished only now, and so I´ve got a chance to go for the Lithuanians and the Lombards, the only threatening powers left. The Lombards owning all of Europe except some aragonese spots (and my few provinces), the Lithuanians all the Steppes and part of Asia Minor.
Herefor I left the infrastructures from Sinai onwards intact(?), so the Rebels have to deal with them.





Newly built structures: Found out I can recruit "Italian Nobles" in Sardinia, so RoyalCourt is built there. In Navarre and Aragon the buildings for SpanishHorsemen ( @Cyprian2: Hey, those guys really do their jobs! ;-)) added. Right now I´ll try wether the "CopticNobles" can be recruited by English in Egypt. Because the english provinces "on the Continent" don´t give nice regional or otherwise special troops, I leave them alone and only build economy, stability and safety buildings.

Bribed army dispatched of asap, I want only my reliable troops in my provinces. I just used them as someone might use Mercenary troops, and I don´t know their abilities, so off they´ll go.

For the ones going for "total domination":

Of course, I could have kept all those lands - but, for my style of playing, to which end? Nothing special recruitable there, just some more money to make and spend. So I decided against keeping, and maybe a respawn will happen again, so there is space for something to develop ;-))
As said in other places, I like to keep it "small and beautiful", and with what I´ve achieved now I`m content.

That´s it for the moment,

greetings daigaku



addition: ......ahem......if that´s what happens playing veteran level, I´ll do it always ;-))) 20 years later that´s the situation:





Lithuanians wrapped themselves up in civil war, and I disposed of the (obviously) last Lombard King, trying to find out if a 7star assassin is capable to kill a 3star king with 6 skulls...

What might happen now is a massive respawn of one of them, or both. Pope might "explode" his territory, or remaining HRE doing the same. We´ll see.....

greetings again, daigaku