Irish show off with your big bank account!![]()
the Vikings finally turned up in my Welsh campaign, the King himself leading two units of huscarles in a raid on Cantware...it cost me 400 men, but by the end of the day the Beardy One's head was upon a spear and the Raven Banner lay trampled beneath the victorious hooves of my war-sheep (like war-dogs, only woollier).
would have preferred a ransom, but them's your breaks.
many hard years of fighting (including one epic scrap where 6,500 Mercians attacked Powys and my 960 men saw them off with 2,300 dead and 1,700 captured including the king and his heir), bribing, assassinating and sheep-shagging followed, but the Mercians, Saxons and Northumbrians now lie crushed and broken with one 'turtled' province each, none dare roam the seas for fear of my roving warfleets (if skin boats with one mast and three blokes can justify being called a warfleet...) and my king regularly used bundles of fifty-florin notes to light the fire with.
the reason i've even got warfleets is cos i've had thre provinces spamming longboats and curraghs since i could tech up to them. the Irish and Vikings only intermittently roam the Irish sea, and no one else began sailing until it was too late.
all thanks to mining and sheep-based agriculture and archery. how culturally satisfying.
and yes, Welsh Bandits do rock, even if they have silly hair...! next up, i may go Scottish or Pictish...it's the skirts.
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