Hi Axalon (and whoever else looking around here),
the beautiful: Noone stands a chance against my forces. A third up to the half of my army mixed bows, the rest fierce swordsmen from Scotland breaking rows, saxon warriors to take apart the rest and saxon heavy spears to hold any cavalry. Scottish nobles, flanked by Irish Horsemen crashing into flanks, those swift irish Spears tidying up after them - phantastic warfare! About 900 after restart, every relevant province fully built on Castle-level (all those Master-buildings giving a nice boost), after spending hooorendous treasures for building up, slowly the cash comes flowing ;-)
Aragonese, the very first "friends", turned on me, now extinguished. Norse hold Denmark and Sweden, anxious to keep peace, having not a single Longboat in the seas(keep them alive for bitterly needed trade)... Moors crashed into Aquitania 4:1, suffered heavily (some 2400 dead, my losses 167!).
I must admit, this English rooster is a very, very fine one. Had not expected anything could compare with the Norse, but here you go ;-))
A nice experience: Dismounted Royal Knights are about as nasty as those incredible Norse Bodyguard. A bit more vulnerable to arrows it seems, but they sober any enemy force which has to deal with them, standard outcome is 10:400 losses, sometimes up to 650. Comparable with the Norse, with 20 men up to 1200 kills.

Weird: Heirs are strangely chosen. A King, aged 55, married late with 35, dies - and not his 17year old son, but a 48year old brother inherits the throne. Hmmmmmm.......
A Marriage is proposed by another faction, but in the year of the bidding King dies, question about marriage is anwered positively, but new King stays unwed. Hmmmm......

After all this fussing around with other games, it´s great to be back to the One-And-Only. Again, thanks a lot,

greetings from wild southwest germany,

daigaku