Out of character thread IV

[GeneralHankerchief]

Stuperman, I think you put your placeholder in the wrong thread.

[Stuperman]

Whoops, thanks for catching that GH and FH

[flyd]

I guess I've gotten to this double-battle first.

[Dutch_guy]

I have the save, the battle will be fought at about 1400 a clock Dutch time.

[OverKnight]

The Chancellor's report has been updated to include information on FLYdude's victory.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=103

Dutch_guy has the save. Once I have it back, there are few actions left to take and then we will continue to 1184.

[OverKnight]

Hahahahahahaha @ last story

You have been taught well, my son.

Ah thanks GH, the student becomes the master.

[Northnovas]

I see a the College of Cardinals are voting again. I would recommend voting for the favourite and but the offer up again after the election. Maybe we will get a better chance of a ceasefire and since we voted for him it may better our chances.

[OverKnight]

1182 has concluded and the latest report is up:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=105

The Swabians have another avatar as shown in the report (sorry Austria ).

[econ21]

The Swabians have another avatar as shown in the report

What is his new name? (Friedrich what?)

xdeathfire, he is yours if you'd like him.

[FactionHeir]

Ehm you just adopted him without asking me?

[OverKnight]

His name is Friedrich Scherer. An interesting genesis for this avatar, no? I find it a bit amusing that he is dutifully religious. . .

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Edit: I adopted him because there was an active Swabian player without an avatar. If he had been assigned to Franconia or Bavaria I would have refused. I believe this is within my rights. You still have three spots for your own kids.

[econ21]

Ehm you just adopted him without asking me?

It was a man of the hour promotion, so I don't suppose OK would have known who was adopting him before he made his decision. But I don't think Chancellors have ever asked other players if they want to adopt. It would slow the game down and we do need more avatars. In this case, it works out well because xdeathfire has been waiting a while. He was actually above both you and the reincarnated Ignoramus in the playlist.

[TevashSzat]

Sure, I'll take him.

Kinda funny too seeing as how the man leading the army that killed the pope is dutifully religious

[OverKnight]

Eh. . .maybe he's from the Heinrichian branch of Catholicism that believes that the true Popes are the ones selected by the Kaiser. After all Filippus was not approved of by the Empire, he was selected over our choice of Otterbach I believe.

Congratulations on your avatar. Now, should he be sent to the Swabian front or to assist Leopold? I still feel bad that Austria is getting shafted.

[Warluster]

The Swabian Front! We bloody short of players over in Swabia, only me and Ignoramus!

[OverKnight]

Actually, with the Crusade gone, each House has two avatars, except Austria, in it's territory.

[Ignoramus]

Have you uploaded the latest save?(After the Papal election)

[OverKnight]

I'm at work. . .so no.

I also want to build a little suspense.

No spoilers.

Sorry.

[econ21]

Actually, with the Crusade gone, each House has two avatars, except Austria, in it's territory.

If Austria needs a second general to defend itself, it perhaps could arrange a loan from Swabia as it did with Franconia. But ultimately the movement of avatars is the Chancellor's perogative.

[FactionHeir]

Hmmmm I think we should have voted for Herden actually. We would have had enough votes to win...

Sicily as allies would have spent both their votes on us (instead of 1 each which it does if you don't vote for yourself)

[Kagemusha]

We have a bit of problem in Franconia.Dutch is going for a 5 day vacation and do we really want to autocalc each of the battles he will be fighting? He asked from me if i could play the battles,but what is the current policy on these kind of issues?

[OverKnight]

As chancellor I'm fine with this as long as it's short term. I will, of course, respect the opinion of the other players.

@FH, I'll double check your assertion, but based on the pattern of past votes, particularly the one in 1168, the most votes the HRE could have gotten is 5 out of 13. The AI tends to glom on to the same candidate, and I believe seniority, who's listed at top, is the tiebreaker. So this was the safer bet.

[Ituralde]

I believe OOC congratulations are also in order for Overknight. I had never believed that we could reach reconciliation this fast!

I haven't checked for saves yet, but we are at peace and reconciled and the Papacy still doesn't have any territory? This is just great!

[TinCow]

Yes, great work. The money paid to England was a bargain to get this in return!

[OverKnight]

Here's the save if you want to take a look.

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/kotr-1184.zip

Besides the money paid to the english, 18,500 minus the 2200 they gave us for peace, we got off free and easy. Why pay retail for reconciliation?

Of course the downside of having a landless Pope, is that he's awfully hard to find on the map.

Kagemusha is up with big bad Crusade v Jihad with an assist from the Byzzies battle. I hope he has a good system. I'll PM him.

Edit: Of course the English asking for peace and having a Preferati was a stroke a luck, I was content to wait for that Sicilian missionary to level up while fending off an impatient Diet, of course that would be luck as well but considering his location I figured it was worth a shot.

[AussieGiant]

Heee Haaaaa!!!

You're a bloody genius OK!! :)

for 18 grand you have pulled off the deal of the century.

Now if we can only try and remain "Communicated" for a few years that would be fantastic.

Now if we could only find the guy and give him a bit of cash we are set.

Maybe we should send out search parties?

[StoneCold]

He doesn't spawm near Rome this time round? weird... Good Job... butter him up good and ask for a real crusade to the levant... :)

[FactionHeir]

Landless popes still spawn around Rome. Sometimes even on the few boats off the coast of Italy. Rarely they'll wander to Cagliari or Naples. I think the furthest he got once was Palermo.
Of course if he had lands elsewhere, you can find him in the levant too :p

[OverKnight]

I think I found the pope, there's a papal fleet between Corsica and Sardinia of two units that has a question mark on board. Considering the only military unit that should be left to the Papal States should be the Pope himself, I think it's him.

I don't know why he spawned at sea. . .but I'm now really glad I made peace and not pursued a whack-a-pope strategy.

Of course, how do you "butter up" a unit at sea? I'll have to wait for him to make landfall.

[StoneCold]

Btw, with Venice that high up on the pope-meter, the attack on Ragusa will have to wait I guess? France looks quite high up on the meter too. Looks liek Breslau is the only viable target, am I right?