Thank you very much for leading me to TBE. I would never have started a fifteen-year-old HoI2 without the nudge. @El Pip is like an ancient Greek philosopher dispensing nuggets of knowledge with us gathered around his feet. TBC (I think that his epithet is a homage to TBE) is like a pupil trying to get the teacher's attention.
Thank you for reading and commenting. The HRE does well, if it doesn't self-destruct. The major problem that I have seen is the Emperor converting (I have seen Sunni Emperors). This game was a very low-key relaxed HRE even the vassals were not very aggressive. I recently played a game where the Empire added the Kingdoms of Denmark and Hungary (eventually spun off as the Empire of Carpathia). The Empire was at peace in 1425 and trying to reclaim a de jure barony in 1400. I do not think that there was a defensive pact against the HRE.
Kaiser @Lord Durham dies not crossing a river, but rather in his sleep (natural causes). He sees a successful Egypt crusade, but the Holy Land is lost to a Sunni Jihad. In the 1220s, the events are reversed with the Catholics taking the Holy Land and the Sunnis reclaiming Egypt. The long crusade (over two decades) would eventually put Egypt on the Catholic side for good by 1300 while there would not be another successful Sunni Jihad until 1410s with a victory in Al-Jazira. Al-Jazira would be almost immediately reclaimed by the King of Crusader Syria. Kaiser @Lord Durham would outlive his nemesis, Sultan Saladin. Before the Kaiser's death, three of Saladin's successors (two sons and a child grandson) would be murdered (two suspicious circumstances, one known). The fourth successor (a grandson also named Saladin) may be my favorite AI character as he ruled over seventy-five years (first met at age four, two weeks into reign) and took office on my birthday.
You're always most welcome. Avon has been a great success.
Rookie numbers.
These Empires seem weak, maybe someone should conquer them.
Thank you for reading and commenting. Despot Vukasin wishes to compare notes on siblings with King Þorolfr. Vukasin is the oldest of the eight 'known' children of Despot Dragos. I use 'known' because when I started playing as 25yo Dragos, he had taken the seduction focus (evil, but makes great stories) and had three paramours as well as a wife and two legal sons. The first event, that I got as Dragos, was an 'oops' bad Dragos had been fertilizing eggs in another rooster's henhouse. This rooster (another Doux) did not seem to mind Dragos' assistance as he and Dragos later became BFF's. Dragos and his wife had three sons with Dragos adding three more sons and two daughters by four sidepieces.
Thank you very much. Dyrrachion had the strait crossing and has been basically cut in half. It looks like Dyrrachion, Lychnidos and Strymon plua a county to the northeast formed the de jure duchy. Dyrrachion, Lychnidos and Strymon all have their own duchies (first two are in Epirus and Strymon is in Bulgaria).That sounds interesting!
Does this answer your question? Dyrrachion is the duchy capital.
You're always most welcome. Avon has been a great success.
Thank you for reading and commenting.
I am no dragon vet but I would recommend Tommy John surgery for Lightning. But the others you mentioned are no doubt more experienced with dragons.
But now to business...
Unfortunately, I doubt if Jarl Alfr could teach Vukasin anything regarding intrigue as Alfr has a score of 16 (this is why Alfr is written as being good at espionage but not the very best and definitely fallible). The jarl would no doubt benefit from having Dmitar come and work for him to teach him some new tricks.
AARLand has a wide constituency and Avon is a proud representative of a special part of it.
Thank you for reading. On @StrategyGameEnthusiast, he replied to Avon while I was writing my reply to you so I changed Gerbert's name to SGE. I checked with @Thaiga and he thinks that the shoulder would have more stress than the elbow for a dragon. No TJ but maybe shoulder (Beowulf) surgery. Why is King Þorolfr embarrassed by his father's conquests? Are there rumblings about the King's manhood for being childless at his age (near 30?)? Both Dragos and Vukasin are probably over ten when the unknowns are counted. (I had a great-grandfather who went double digits with first wife and second wife pushed total into teens. While I have never seen stat breakdown, I think that above fifteen would place one in the top ten percent and Dragos/Vukasin's being above twenty-five would be the top one percent. The Progonovics believe in the power of knowledge whether acquired in a classroom, a bedroom or a back alley.
| Count Progon Tough Soldier 3 of 5 children with at least level three schooling Count/Doux Gjin Elusive Shadow 5 of 5 Doux Alek Elusive Shadow 1 of 3 Doux Konstantin Elusive Shadow 2 of 2 Duchess Milka Mastermind Theologian 1 of 1 Duchess Jelena Fortune Builder 3 of 3 Doux/Despot Dragos Elusive Shadow 8 of 8 Despot/Basileus Vukasin Elusive Shadow 2 of 2 with 1TBD King Dmitar Elusive Shadow 2 of 4 with 1TBD |
This is my take on the character. There is nothing apparent in the game to reflect this. However, his lack of (ahem) production seems to point in this direction. I believe children are sometimes, if not often, embarrassed by the personality defining characteristics of their parents and it helps shape and define them. King Þorolfr's father was definitely lustful and the king is not. King Þorolfr sees a lot of the problems of his court as carry-overs from his father's lustful decisions and carousing. There's a case to be made there really.
When we get to King Þorolfr in Chapter IV, he is in his late 20s. But he is now in his early to mid-30s (thus the aged-up avatar as you suggested). The issue you lay out here will start to drive the AAR in the near future. Rumblings rarely have good outcomes.
It appears the Progonovics have quite the back alley & bedroom education! Congrats to them.
Thank you for all your support. This may be the best group of leaders that we have met. I think that we had groups without anyone over forty and the best intrigue has often been below ten. Vukasin is in a class of his own, even if brother Count @StrategyGameEnthusiast (Gerbert) scares him. The unsung part of stats is the base value, which often is the most important. Education tops out at net twelve for level four. A double-digit base is extremely rare and Vukasin had a twelve intrigue base and his son Dmitar had an eleven intrigue base. Dragos used his bedroom abilities to generate a score one over Vukasin, even though he had only a nine intrigue base. While Dmitar was a natural spy (9education, 11base), he found no joy in the work as his traits reduced his score by one.Some good stats in there. Vukasin is formidable!
AARLand has a wide constituency and Avon is a proud representative of a special part of it.
Thank you for reading and commenting. This is one of my favorite questions. I am going to go from least to most favorite that I would want to read/write about.
.) @Idhrendur started a war with Bulgaria and @alscon's brother revolted to claim the throne. Both wars were ongoing at @Idhrendur's death and left to Basileus Vukasin to finish.King Þorolfr, Make Babies! While I am no expert on Viking ways, I think that the two most important attributes are martial prowess and fathering progeny especially boys as girls/women can be captured while raiding. My only slow character was Doux Alek who did not marry until twenty-seven and did not produce a child until almost forty. His wife (Princess Georgia) did give the Progonovic family an entrance into the Byzantine power structure as he would serve as both Magistros and Mystikos for various Basileuses. He even took a mistress that was even younger than his wife in search of the elusive baby, but Georgia took the woman's husband (who was even older than Alek) as a lover. Alek and Georgia eventually produced a boy and two girls. But with late start and early death (late forties), Alek did not see his children grow up with son, Konstantin, only being four at father's death.
Maybe he wants to avoid any succession conflicts such as the whole having to reconquer Norway situation.
