Oh man, this is hilarious.

Can you believe that King Phillipe II died at 55???????



I double checked that my startup screen said v2.01 (it did)....


Anyway, its 1130 and King Jean II is on the throne. I had a very peaceful 14 year reign - I did have to stop myself launching an attack on the English at the start, but now Aquitane/Anjou have been added to the French homelands GAs, so Major^3 can take 'em out - though I would secure Tripoli first. My king was a sadistic pervent, a Killer Queen if you will so maybe thats why no-one would marry their daughters to him.....

In the end he took a nobles wife, but I think he was more interested in his young squires cos she never got pregnant.......


I have just produced my first ship in Aragorn, and Toulouse is just a finished castle & shipwright away from producing ships. If you keep turning ships out from those 2 provinces you should get to Tripoli well before 1160 (I think its 10 seas away and it takes 3 years to build a ship). I've also started Flanders and Brittany on the road to shipbuilding. In Ile de France I've just built a church, the first step towards building Notre Dame Catherdral and I've started building a chapter house in Aragon, though you might want to build that somewhere else - as long as its built and ready to be launched the second you get a sea lane to tripoli, I just chose Aragon cos it had the highest zeal.

In order to kick start my economy I disbanded a load of Revenants peasants, increasing my annual surplus from 400 to 800 florins and enabling me to start building some infrastructure.

Slava, how do I upload the savegame? Do you just want me to email it to you?

BTW, we're on 16 points, Byz lead with 26 & Italy, HRE & England are on 25.