Megas Logothetes' and Senators' Reports

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Moved Theo to Tortosa. Lowered taxes in Theopolis and raised taxes in Antiokheia.

http://www.mizus.com/pbm/LOTR-1173-1.rar

[Rowan]

Taking save.

Save back.

[TinCow]

Custom Battle, as part of the remainder of the War of Words. This custom battle is being fought by YLC to determine the fate of the war between Nikolaos Aristenos and Michail Arianitis. Avatars that are killed in this battle will be eliminated in the game, and casualties will be represented by disbanding units. If Nikolaos Aristenos wins, Durazzo will be considered captured and will become his possession. This battle is being fought by YLC against the AI with the explicit permission of both YLC and pevergreen. This is how they wish to resolve the war.

The setup has been created to mimic the in-game situation as accurately as possible.

Nikolaos Aristenos' Army (Byzantium Faction):
1 General's Bodyguard with 2 silver chevrons
3 Spear Militia
1 Militia Cavalry

Nikolaos' army has been supplied with 2 ladders and 1 ram. As the army is small and has few build points, I decided that siege towers could not have been constructed in the short time that has elapsed since Nikolaos arrived outside of Durazzo.

Michail Arianitis' Army (Portugal Faction - Chosen as the unit stats match Byantium's perfectly, except for the General's Bodyguard which is missing 1 point in Charge)
1 General's Bodyguard
3 Town Militia with 1 Bronze Chevron each

(Note: In the game, Michail's army has a heavily depleted (around 25 men) unit of Spear Militia with 1 bronze chevron. As I cannot duplicate a partial unit in-game, all three town militia have been given a chevron of experience to compensate.)

Nikolaos Aristenos vs. Michail Arianitis - 1173

YLC may download and fight the battle whenever is most convenient, as it does not impact the current save.

To install the custom battle, unzip it to this folder:
\Medieval II Total War\Stainless_Steel_Mod\custom\

Then go to Single Player -> Custom Battle -> Load Battle

Please take a screenshot of the final results. Please also attempt to save the replay, which is done by pressing the camera button on the results screen. Then upload the replay to the Org.

[ULC]

Victory is complete and total, with the Michail the Brave (or Foolish, depends on who you ask) having died in battle during the siege while trying to rally his men. Nikolaos Aristenos has signed the proper papers and has now retired, leaving the Protoasecretes to execute his will.

[TinCow]

This save implements the results of the Battle of Durazzo. Michail Arianitis was killed in the battle and has been killed off in the game. Nikolaos Aristenos retired from public life after the battle (IC), and has been killed off in the game (OOC). As per Nikolaos' will, his newly conquered province of Durazzo and his Veteran Warrior have been transfered to YLC's next avatar, Helarionas Anargiros, who has also been moved to Durazzo. As YLC's only action this turn was to fight a battle which involved no movement, he may still move Helarionas this turn if he wants to.

Casualties in the battle have been resolved as follows:
Nikolaos' Militia Cav took few casualties and have thus been left as they are. 1.5 regiments of the 3 Spear Militia were killed. However, Nikolaos also captured about 100 of Michail's Town Militia. For IC purposes, some of these men have agreed to join the militia of their new Lord and have filled up the ranks left in the depleted Spear Militia regiment. Thus, the total losses are both avatars, one of Nikolaos' Spear Militia, and all of the defenders. This leaves 2 regiments of Spear Militia, the Militia Cavalry, and Helarionas Anargiros (YLC) as the new Durazzo garrison.

LOTR 1173-3

I am aware that there are a very large number of retinue changes that need to be made in-game. I know I'm procrastinating by not doing them now, but I will get around to them very shortly.

[TinCow]

I just realized that I forgot to accept the adoption offer that is currently up. As stated before, this adoption is for Ioannis Kantakouzinos (Kagemusha). However, he is inactive, so I am making the decision for him. pevergreen wants to take the offered avatar (Matthaios ek Thivon) as his new one, so whoever takes the save next, please accept the adoption offer.

[ULC]

I have tried to accept the adoption offer, but each time, no matter how hard I try, Mathias dies

My install does not like Mathias it appears.

[TinCow]

I get the same result as YLC. As such, please disregard the adoption. pevergreen will have to pick a new avatar. If anyone can shed some light on why the game has decided to do this, I'm eager to learn.

[Zim]

I'm not sure how helpful it is, but I've had this happen to me a lot. Sometimes it seems to happen during MOTH hits where the captain died, but I've seen it happen during MOTH and regular adoptions for no good reason from time to time, in both RTW and MTW2.

[KnightnDay]

Taking the save

Save back

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4274

[Zim]

Taking the save.

[Zim]

All done. Magnentios is setting sail and I moved Zigavinos as per an earlier request (hopefully not presumptuously).

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4275

[TinCow]

Ignoramus said he would return on January 4th to get the game moving. It is now January 6th and he is nowhere to be seen. I am thus imposing a 24 hour limit on the current turn. It will end at 12:00 GMT on January 7th. If Ignoramus does not reappear to run the game by January 8th, I will evict him as Megas Logothetes and appoint someone else in his place.

[Ignoramus]

Sorry guys for my inactivity. I got delayed on my holiday by a day, meaning that I didn't get back until the night of the 5th. I meant to move the turn yesterday, but I forgot, for which there is no excuse. I will get the game moving again today.

[TinCow]

In that case, I'm taking the save to teleport some of the newly selected avatars to their chosen start positions.

[TinCow]

Markos ek Sinopis (TheFlax) moved to Iconium.
Aleksios ek Pigis (Andres) moved to Zagreb.

Anyone else who I have either missed or who hasn't stated where they would like to start can either PM me with the starting city by the beginning of next turn, or use the move_character or character_reset console commands to do the move themselves.

LOTR-1173-6

(If it's unclear, Ignoramus can now end the turn whenever he wants and the game is back under his control.)

[TheFlax]

Taking the save.

[TheFlax]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4280

Moved Markos to join Magnentios.

[Ignoramus]

Taking the save:

[Ignoramus]

http://rapidshare.com/files/180883480/LOTR-1174.zip

[TinCow]

Taking the save to move Ioannis Erotikas (Ramses II CP) to his desired starting location.

[TinCow]

Ioannis Erotikos (Ramses II CP) moved to Theopolis (formerly Aleppo). His movement points were also reset and he can be moved as normal this turn.

LOTR-1174-1

[Rowan]

Taking save.
Save back.

Picked up Vissa's old army from Cyprus and sailed with it to Tortosa.

[KnightnDay]

Taking Save

Save back. Moved Ammonathas northwest.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4290

[Zim]

Taking the save.

[Zim]

Done, just sailing along...

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4291

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Taking the save!

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Moved Theo from Tortosa to a river crossing between Antiokheia and Theopolis.

Lowered taxes in Antiokheia and moved 2 Skythikons from it's garrison to accompany Theo.

New Save: http://www.mizus.com/pbm/LOTR-1174-5.rar

[KnightnDay]

Taking the save

Save back

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4302

Moved Andreas Dermokaitis per request of Marcus Agrippa. Seems deguerra isn't the only one with computer problems in Asteri.

[Ramses II CP]

Taking the save.