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Aachen - The Dark Eagle Descends​

I had an urge to try an Administrative Republic, and of my knowledge there are only four, Switzerland, Ulm, Frankfurt and Aachen. Ulm and Frankfurt are taken and out of Swirzerland and Aachen I much prefer Aachen. One thing I don't like is Burgundy being close but we'll talk about that in the AAR. One reason I chose an Administrative Republic was so I couldn't just use the method of claiming thrones and vassalising the claimee's protectors, to be honest I have no idea of any other way! Maybe 'Claims on our Rivals' but that's not very reliable, if anyone knows please tell me! I'm going to try that script style people are doing these days so feel free to give me characters but I swear I'm the only person on these forums that makes female characters!

The aims for the AAR are:

1) Stop Burgundy
2) Look nice
3) Dominate the North Coast of Europe
4) Expand into the British Isles
5) Colonise!

Contents:​
I - An Introduction to Aachen​
 
Chapter I - An Introduction to Aachen​

Karen: Gerald, here's the report on our nation and the associated map.
Gerald: Thank you Karen, let's see here.

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Gerald: Look at that, all 5 neighbours, which do you want to discuss first Karen?
Karen: Well I think Burgundy is the more pressing problem but I guess the green one to the south.
Gerald: Hush hush, we'll get to that, so the southern one, Luxembourg, probably the only one of our neighbours we can defeat without outside help.
Karen: How about the northern one? That one looks scary doesn't it sir.
Gerald: It does indeed, that's Brabant, they're by far the most powerful, but maybe one day they'll be an ally. Probably not as our relations with them are lower then our other friends.
Karen: Oh dear, so the other three?
Gerald: Archbishoprics, orange and lime-green are Trier and Liege, they're in a rivalry, you may notice they actually look like they're opposites with the same shape but inversed.
Karen: Oh yes, so the last one will be Cologne then.
Gerald: Yes, and they're also a possible target we could beat in a war, but it depends which side their army is in.
Karen: So now Burgundy?
Gerald: Patience, we still have Hainaut to cover.
Karen: They're a fellow purple state, they have Holland under a union and they're beatable in a war, now Burgundy.
Gerald: Okay, the kingdom of Burgundy is as close to a European horde you'll find, they're violent and have expressed a desire to expand this way, but we hope they won't as that would be terrible.
Karen: But they will because Burgundy don't care about the rules.
Gerald: Indeed, which is why we must stop them at any cost.
Karen: That's probably the most exciting thing you've ever said.
Gerald: You're lucky I won't be around long then, election day is coming!
Karen: Not for a few years.
Gerald: When you're my age it's nothing.

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Karen: So we're one of the four Republics of Europe.
Gerald: Administrative Republics, there are other Noble Republics like Prince Maso's Tuscany or Merchant Republics like the Hansa. But yes, only four other Administrative Republics exist, Frankfurt, Ulm and the largest, Switzerland.
Karen: Why aren't there more? It's such a good system.
Gerald: Because the people of Europe are used to having a king or queen and the monarchs aren't looking to change that.
Karen: This is why we must bring them under our rule!
Gerald: A republic can be corrupt as well, though I have some people on the case of making legitimate claims on the surrounding areas, it's going to be good as long as Burgundy isn't a pain.
 
Claims on our rivals is alot more likely (though certainly not fully reliable) for really good rulers. Those are much easier to get for admin republics than any other government due to frequent elections. It needs diplo 6 and gets 15% more likely for every step above 6 in any ruler stats.

A fairly reliable (albeit slow) method of expanding is to vassalize neighbours and diploannex them when the mission appears. You have to be larger than them to get it though.

I actually had plans on an Aachen AAR myself, but I'm pretty sure I would never have gotten around to actually do it. This will be interesting, could you weave in some Charlemagne references in it - seeing as Aachen was the capital of his empire? I'm aachen' to see where you take this.
 
Good luck.I shall follow.
 
cuendillar said:
Claims on our rivals is alot more likely (though certainly not fully reliable) for really good rulers. Those are much easier to get for admin republics than any other government due to frequent elections. It needs diplo 6 and gets 15% more likely for every step above 6 in any ruler stats.

A fairly reliable (albeit slow) method of expanding is to vassalize neighbours and diploannex them when the mission appears. You have to be larger than them to get it though.

I actually had plans on an Aachen AAR myself, but I'm pretty sure I would never have gotten around to actually do it. This will be interesting, could you weave in some Charlemagne references in it - seeing as Aachen was the capital of his empire? I'm aachen' to see where you take this.
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You've figured it out! I'm going to recreate the borders of Francia!
 
Webstantine said:
Cuendillar, when you say 15% more likely, what's the base percentage and 15% out of what, like 15% a year?
Also I need characters!
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Simply 15%, ie the weight factor of the event increases with a factor 1.15^(steps over 6). It's one of the annually possible events and as just one of those events will be chosen, it's hard to assign any probability values. No other event is made more likely by skill in all three ruler attributes that I could find. I'm not entirely certain how that kind of events work though, or if they occur on any given date.

Imaging the weight factors of all such events as a range of numbers of a certain length, whose lengths gets added up to determine the maximum value for the RNG's roll. The event that happens becomes the one who includes the roll's outcome in its range.

The range that means 'Claims!' event is 3.5 times larger for a 9/9/9 as for a 6/6/6 (or DIP 6/3/3) ruler, but as the maximum possible value of said roll isn't necessarily the same the exact probability may increase by a different value.

At least, that's how I interpret the workings of it. I might well be wrong, but I think it's reasonably close to the truth.
 
Ooh, purple. I am going to be envious if you manage to blob this one, Webstantine!

I also have no idea how you manage to keep track of all these AARs. I'm flat out trying to handle just two. :p

As for the country itself... you can see why they always seem to form their own CoT eventually. Tons of potential, especially if you can manage to get some cores in the surrounding area. You may be looking at a slow start waiting for that though, so taking an unlawful province may be beneficial.

Being so landlocked is also a huge advantage and you may wish to send out a bunch of warnings and guarantees. The papal states would make a good ally, and you will want to guarantee the emperor for sure. Maybe warn Burgandy and the Hansa as well? Brandenburg is good for a warning too, I feel.

Very nice sliders. Won't take you long to get your centralisation up and then you are pretty much golden. Are you planning to go for free trade first, though?
 
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