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Chancellor’s Report on 1310

Another dark year: riots continue in Stettin, Prague, Zagreb, Paris, Marseilles and Venice[1]. Half of all militia regiments have deserted or refused to report for duty. I fear this desertion will now start spreading to regular units.

This unrest is partly the aftermath of the late Kaiser's assassination, with neither Duke Hans' nor Duke Lothar's investigations settling the matter. Added to this, there is now widespread resentment towards my gifting of Outremer and my ruling jointly with the widow Theodora. Some even criticise my speech and sense of humour as unseemly - the stupid @#$%^&!!!ers!

Quite frankly, the Reich is falling apart. Outremer is gone or going - Adana, Antioch, Damascus and Edessa have already been gifted. The crusader counts have all gone, leaving only King Jan and I to blow out the torches. Bavaria is the home of the men who ordered Kaiser Siegfried to be killed. Franconia hails the imprisoned rebel Peter von Kastilien as a hero. Swabia’s leadership is hampered by plague and my need for its Duke, my dear brother, to act as enforcer for the Reich. But my greatest concern lies in Austria. For there, in Ragusa, Dietrich von Dassel has used his position to provide sanctuary to the heretical monk Alexander Luther and together they are raising a large army. Duke Hans is racing to take contain the situation with the Prinz's army, pending the arrival of Duke Arnold.

Army movements this year:
Swabia: SHA1 positioned itself between Caen, Bruges and Paris. SHA2 moved to restore order in Paris.
Fraconia: PHA remained near Thorn; SHA moved to restore order in Hamburg.
Outremer: AOS drove back an Egyptian army from Damascus, which my army destroyed. AON refitted in Aleppo.
Austria: AHA1 returned to besiege Bucharest. Fortunately, Hungary has been excommunicated - increasing our freedom of maneouvre. AHA2 began to march from Krakow to besieged Budapest. The former Kaiser’s army under Duke Hans began to march on Ragusa.
Bavaria: HAG defeated a small French force. HAO began the siege of Thessalonica.


Elberhard



[1] OOC: For a spoiler on how the poll about city calming affected the game, click below.

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Player's instructions on how to deal with riots were used to see if cities were brought under control (i.e. had taxes lowered from VH). The poll options corresponded to character stats: loyalty, dread, piety and chivalry. I rolled a dice: a roll of four or more allowed the city to be calmed. Each dice was modified according to the governor’s stat corresponding to the poll option a player picked: +1 if the stat was 1-5; +2 if it was 6+. For example, a high dread character who chose to threaten draconian punishments would only need a “1” to calm his settlement.