King of the Romans OOC thread XII

[Stig]

Heheh, not really. Bavaria is kinda out of enemies soon
Austria would be the better option.

[RoadKill]

But if I do join Austria, wouldn't that mean I would be fighting Hungary and Poland? I don't want to fight horse archers

[Stig]

Austria fights Hungary
Franconia fights Denmark, Poland and Russia
Swabia fights France
Bavaria fights Sicily, till they are off the European Mainland (I suspect that after that Bavaria will use one of it's HA's to start aiding other Duchies, attacking Southern France for example)

[FactionHeir]

You want my avatar?
I don't mind HAs.

[econ21]

Roadkill, given Stuperman said you can have a free choice of avatars, I can offer you Wilhelm Heidelberg now. He's our only spare avatar and an Austrian. You can read about his traits in the Library. He looks fine to me. He is based in Vienna right now and has an alchemist, making him good with gunpowder weapons. Perhaps you could persuade the Chancellor to create a gun-heavy army for him?

As an Austrian, you would mainly fight Hungarians but also perhaps Poles - Krakow is near to Vienna and Budapest, and there are large Polish armies there.

The Hungarians seem to be fielding a lot of dismounted knights. The Poles used to specialise in Polish nobles, who are like javelin armed knights and so pretty formiddable.

I would advise you to accept Wilhelm, as the East seems a little less crowded with avatars than the West and AussieGiant, the Duke of Austria, is an active role-player so you may find it a lively House. It certainly needs more members.

If you don't want Wilhelm, we will stick with plan A - see what happens in the next two turns and if nothing comes up, hire a recruitable general.

[StoneCold]

Stig, the Bavarians still got the Spanish to worry about. Unless the fleet is strong enough to sink every fleet they throw at the HRE.

So is it still in the plan to ask for peace or vassalage with the Sicilians once they are kick out of Italy?

[RoadKill]

Okay Wheilm is okay, he has pretty high peit and loyalty, despite the fact he has 1 command point and 1 chivalrous, but thats fine. My only problem is his age though, oh well I'll take him.

[econ21]

Okay Wheilm is okay...

Great - I've put you on the playlist.

You might want to make your introductions in the Diet and in the House of Austria thread, then feel free to hang out in the Tavern. It would be a good idea to sign up in the sticky active duty thread. To be on active duty right now, you need to have 1.2 (not Kingdoms or 1.3) loaded and installed Factionheir's modded vice n virtue files (it's very simple and does not stop you playing unmodded games). We will switch to 1.3 at the next Diet (5 turns time).

Wilhelm's first order of business should probably be to get himself knighted. That means being in a stack in a battle. You probably should PM Overknight so that you can head towards Budapest and the 2nd Austrian Household Army.

It's a good idea to periodically upload savegames - you can find them in the uploader (see the filespace sticky:)

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=29005

Ours are all called kotr.... and then have the date. Sort the filespace by date and you will easily find the latest save.

[RoadKill]

Econ, I'm extremly terrible with this type of stuff, so a lot of the things need to be taught to me, so it would be nice if you or anyone can guide me through each step. for example, I have no idea how to upload or do anything with the save games.

[Stig]

Stig, the Bavarians still got the Spanish to worry about. Unless the fleet is strong enough to sink every fleet they throw at the HRE.

Yeah, but for something like that you only need 1 HA

So is it still in the plan to ask for peace or vassalage with the Sicilians once they are kick out of Italy?

I believe that once was the plan yes

speak for yourself, Jan has never seen cold weather his whole adult life. He has to use the heat as his excuse. ^_^

He can always come back and try to fight Danes
Soldier: "Sir, we must attack now."
Jan: "But it's so cold, and there is no sand. What is this white stuff anyway? Why are my fingers blue? And my sword feels so cold, I don't dare to touch it."

[Privateerkev]

He can always come back and try to fight Danes
Soldier: "Sir, we must attack now."
Jan: "But it's so cold, and there is no sand. What is this white stuff anyway? Why are my fingers blue? And my sword feels so cold, I don't dare to touch it."

Dude, I don't think Jan has ever shivered in his whole life. The cold would make him grumpy. And a grumpy Jan would not be good for anyone.

And Ansehelm in Outremer would be equally as amusing.

Ansehelm as he talks to a crusader: "so, when it turns to night, it gets cooler right? no? It gets down to 106 degrees!?! Thats cool!?! And what is this stuff that keeps blowing around and getting in my armor? It itches! Sand!?! And what do you mean the King won't let me execute 2400 people at once? He said I'll lose my army command if I do!?! How are we supposed to conquer these lands if we keep releasing prisoners!?! What!?! We aren't allowed to conquer?!?"

[Stig]

Ansehelm as he talks to a crusader: "so, when it turns to night, it gets cooler right? no? It gets down to 106 degrees!?! Thats cool!?! And what is this stuff that keeps blowing around and getting in my armor? It itches! Sand!?! And what do you mean the King won't let me execute 2400 people at once? He said I'll lose my army command if I do!?! How are we supposed to conquer these lands if we keep releasing prisoners!?! What!?! We aren't allowed to conquer?!?"

Let me put it like this:

Ansehelm thinks Rome is a bloody hot place and he thinks the Diet should be move to somewhere above the Alps so he can sit outside in the nice warm snow.