MTW Campaign Question

[King Kurt]

Hey King Kurt, good to see you again! I don't suppose we could hear about your Sicilian campaign, could we? (I'm currently giving the Bohemians a try in XL.)

Martok

Yes, I have been following your Bohemian efforts - seems they are better suited for drinking coffee, wearing long jumpers and discussing poetry than conquering Europe!!!

Sicily is on the back burner at the moment, too many holidays, kids off school, work etc for a few hours in front of the screen. The current situation is that the Spanish are annoying me, so I am about to remove them from Asia Minor - which could be interesting as all provinces were gained by crusades so that should be a massive blow against Spanish influence. Also I have just been excommed - for no apparent reason as far as I can see!! - so my forces in Italy are about to raise the Papal states to the ground - remove the Pope, destroy the infrastructure and then leave - do not want to be there for the re-emergance. When i have a bit more story to tell, I will post in see Naples and die.

[Martok]

Martok

Yes, I have been following your Bohemian efforts - seems they are better suited for drinking coffee, wearing long jumpers and discussing poetry than conquering Europe!!!

LOL. Yes, it would seem that way. Maloncanth is going to give them a crack, so hopefully he'll have more luck than I will!

In the meantime, I've started another campaign as the Norwegians. Things are going *much* better this time around.

Sicily is on the back burner at the moment, too many holidays, kids off school, work etc for a few hours in front of the screen. The current situation is that the Spanish are annoying me, so I am about to remove them from Asia Minor - which could be interesting as all provinces were gained by crusades so that should be a massive blow against Spanish influence. Also I have just been excommed - for no apparent reason as far as I can see!! - so my forces in Italy are about to raise the Papal states to the ground - remove the Pope, destroy the infrastructure and then leave - do not want to be there for the re-emergance. When i have a bit more story to tell, I will post in see Naples and die.

Cool man. Looking forward to hearing more when you have time!

[Arciel]

Do the HRE really collapse sooner or later?? In most of my campaigns, especially the English one, it's always me, the Byz, Almohads(or Spanish, whoever wins) and the HRE completely dominating the map... Of course, there's also this weird campaign I had, the initial rebels(the rebels at the start of the game) conquered half of europe!! Not just because of civil warr or anything like that, they just moved from province to province, eliminating the Hungarians, Polish, Novgorods, and the Italians.. That was one crazy campaign all right...

[naut]

Yes they do seem very prone to rebellion.

[Martok]

Do the HRE really collapse sooner or later?? In most of my campaigns, especially the English one, it's always me, the Byz, Almohads(or Spanish, whoever wins) and the HRE completely dominating the map... Of course, there's also this weird campaign I had, the initial rebels(the rebels at the start of the game) conquered half of europe!! Not just because of civil warr or anything like that, they just moved from province to province, eliminating the Hungarians, Polish, Novgorods, and the Italians.. That was one crazy campaign all right...

Yes, that is pretty unusual, Seedexodus. In most games, the HRE is very prone to falling into civil war--mostly from either losing a couple provinces, and/or from being excommunicated. So despite their size, the Germans are usually fairly easy pickings. This is particularly true if you get a coalition of factions to gang up on them.