Breeding shows!

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This campaign start I made a point of working on my family tree a little. I found the French princess and caught her with 5 charm and married her to my heir, Rufus, who's now King. Lookit them kids! Two boys and two girls, and she's only 32 so I may see more still.

Then, after a whirlwind diplomatic tour, my princess, Cecilia, ran into an older man (he was a random suitor) with nice stats, so I decided to retire her. She was closing on mid-30s. She now has two boys too. She's 38 and just had the second. Her hubby, who's currently off on a little chevuchee in France, is 56 though. At least he's in a castle for the moment.

The French attacked me around turn 23 or so, got excommed, then just as Ralph of Merryfield beseiged Angers, the silly Pope died! But I guessed right on the new Polish pope and he's keeping mum so far. Angers fell, Bordeaux is next. The plan was to take the three French castles as fast as possible with one strong force, then keep Anger and maybe Bordeaux and dump Toulouse after burning everything down. (I hate the French... so gonna emasulate them and watch the neighbors carve them up while I try to get some crusading done!) I don't want to end up in a multi-faction war with Denmark, HRE, Milan, and Portugal. Portugal is allied with France, though I'm keeping it happy with some bribes for now.

Henry, the new faction heir, I married off early to a random offering. I should have held out a couple of years and I probably could have found him a princess too. Didn't know when William would die.

What's cool is I may end up with two princesses soon, since Rufus has those two daughters. They seem to be twins. They are both 7 now.

That's 6 boys from 0-10 years old at the moment.

With the latest tweaks to the traits file I'm much happier with working on general/governor raising. Losing that bad taxman from sitting in castles really helped. Haven't seen any of my tweaked ancilliaries yet (I kept the chances low), but it's early. A master of archers should turn up soon since the woodsmens (sic) guild is in.

Heh... so the French offered to let me become thier vassal. Nice froggies. Getting desperate. Talking big.