If Italians can't take care of their own peninsula, someone's got to do it for them.
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It's a tradition that the Italians can't take care, but usually it are not the Englishmen who take care of it...
Nikolai, it's not so easy to keep up if you treat each update as a koan.
You know you want to.
Beamed, Stephen is not sneaky. Noble, shy, romantic, determined, but not sneaky. The old bastard is trucking along just fine. He's 57!
Specialist290, I was contemplating your comment and trying to think of the AAR that did that while driving to work today, and had an embarrassing duh moment when I realized that you are correct.
Snugglie, lord knows the Haufenstaufens couldn't do it. Man, I love that dynasty. Hohenstaufen, whatever. It still sounds pretty rude.
Murmurandus, the English, by virtue of living in France and holding court in Gascony, are rapidly on course to becoming not particularly English.
. . . so, in the next chapter, I hope Stephen, with his -1 stability, keeps the Italians in line. So far, I've been revassalizing them when they rebel against me. This last time, I dismantled that republic and gave half of it to my bastard son Robert and the other half to nobles living in England. That seems to have done the trick, but I suspect Deus Vult is designed to make ruling Italy, France and England difficult. . . also, part of Gascony is owned by the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which is hard to notice since it all borders my land and is also orange. Ho!
You know you want to.
Beamed, Stephen is not sneaky. Noble, shy, romantic, determined, but not sneaky. The old bastard is trucking along just fine. He's 57!
Specialist290, I was contemplating your comment and trying to think of the AAR that did that while driving to work today, and had an embarrassing duh moment when I realized that you are correct.
Snugglie, lord knows the Haufenstaufens couldn't do it. Man, I love that dynasty. Hohenstaufen, whatever. It still sounds pretty rude.
Murmurandus, the English, by virtue of living in France and holding court in Gascony, are rapidly on course to becoming not particularly English.
. . . so, in the next chapter, I hope Stephen, with his -1 stability, keeps the Italians in line. So far, I've been revassalizing them when they rebel against me. This last time, I dismantled that republic and gave half of it to my bastard son Robert and the other half to nobles living in England. That seems to have done the trick, but I suspect Deus Vult is designed to make ruling Italy, France and England difficult. . . also, part of Gascony is owned by the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which is hard to notice since it all borders my land and is also orange. Ho!
I guess that makes two of us, since I wasn't even thinking about that AAR in particular... Nice to have a little refresher, though
Specialist, there is a very old AAR in the EU2 section that was written in Haiku, but we're talking 2003 here, so it might not be what you're thinking about.
Link
Link
Hullo!
Stuyvesant, I hope you like it. And that's a VERY old AAR, but inspiring nevertheless.
Fiftypence, howdy, stranger!
Specialist290, it's nice to know you care.
Onward! To updates!
Stuyvesant, I hope you like it. And that's a VERY old AAR, but inspiring nevertheless.
Fiftypence, howdy, stranger!
Specialist290, it's nice to know you care.
Onward! To updates!
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Briefly, the Angevins
Part IX
Briefly, the Angevins
Part IX
When 40-year-old King Maurice ascended to the throne in 1249, he solved his loyalty problems by spending nine thousand ducats.
Hey, you big jerk, you were supposed to wait until I updated! Now you're in the lead again!
Crap, I didn't approach the cha
Crap, I didn't approach the cha
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Briefly, the Angevins
Part IX
Briefly, the Angevins
Part IX
When 40-year-old King Maurice ascended to the throne in 1249, he solved his loyalty problems by spending nine thousand ducats.
Isn't that the damned truth.
Feedback... in reverse!
Murmurandus, it's economy, but I'm not sure you could call this "finest".. . .
Mr. Capiatlist, one of the problems with Deus Vult is that the advisors have huge stats, and so do the monarchs, so a 30 stewardship is quite normal. This makes everybody very, very rich, which means 9000 ducats is not much. I kinda hate it.
Beamed, I am so very, very, very, very, very sorry. So sorry. What was I waiting for?
Morsky, beat them and buy them, perhaps. That's the Angevin way, depending on how fast the vassals move from 100 to 0.
Llywelyn, you can critique this depending on whether you think Maurice's actions are a metaphor for tax cuts or social welfare. This might be the most deep AAR I've ever written.
That's kind of sad.
Fiftypence, that price is between 100 and 1000 ducats, depending on the size of their personal demesne, if you know what I mean.
Tskb18, I had to go look that up:
the quality or state of being profligate
It didn't help.
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Uh, so no update. I started a Scottish 1066 game that's been too much fun and I haven't played the Angevins enough to make another update, which is pretty pathetic if you really consider the entirety of that sentence. My Count of Mar pulled a mini-Conquerer by invading and taking Iceland to get a ducal title, and built up enough of a powerbase in Scotland to start thumping some of the king's vassals. Or so I thought: I accidentally double-retreated an army and lost 3000 men in one click, and ended up losing everything. I saved and reloaded as another county to see where my exiled count wound up, and he wound up in the court of his wife (a Dunkeld princess and newly-made Duchess of Galloway), which I used as a base to build up enough strength to get my revenge. So far, revenge has consisted of taking two Irish provinces and going on a crusade in Spain, which might mean I'm doing it wrong. Mary Dunkeld is a totally hot duchess, but she just went insane and spends all of her time counting money.
Murmurandus, it's economy, but I'm not sure you could call this "finest".. . .
Mr. Capiatlist, one of the problems with Deus Vult is that the advisors have huge stats, and so do the monarchs, so a 30 stewardship is quite normal. This makes everybody very, very rich, which means 9000 ducats is not much. I kinda hate it.
Beamed, I am so very, very, very, very, very sorry. So sorry. What was I waiting for?
Morsky, beat them and buy them, perhaps. That's the Angevin way, depending on how fast the vassals move from 100 to 0.
Llywelyn, you can critique this depending on whether you think Maurice's actions are a metaphor for tax cuts or social welfare. This might be the most deep AAR I've ever written.
That's kind of sad.
Fiftypence, that price is between 100 and 1000 ducats, depending on the size of their personal demesne, if you know what I mean.
Tskb18, I had to go look that up:
the quality or state of being profligate
It didn't help.
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Uh, so no update. I started a Scottish 1066 game that's been too much fun and I haven't played the Angevins enough to make another update, which is pretty pathetic if you really consider the entirety of that sentence. My Count of Mar pulled a mini-Conquerer by invading and taking Iceland to get a ducal title, and built up enough of a powerbase in Scotland to start thumping some of the king's vassals. Or so I thought: I accidentally double-retreated an army and lost 3000 men in one click, and ended up losing everything. I saved and reloaded as another county to see where my exiled count wound up, and he wound up in the court of his wife (a Dunkeld princess and newly-made Duchess of Galloway), which I used as a base to build up enough strength to get my revenge. So far, revenge has consisted of taking two Irish provinces and going on a crusade in Spain, which might mean I'm doing it wrong. Mary Dunkeld is a totally hot duchess, but she just went insane and spends all of her time counting money.