First a couple of notes:
-this is my first AAR, so i'll write it as a report - i see everybody is making a story out of their AAR's but i'm not creative enough to do that (i don't have to, right?)
-playing DV for the first time, but I've read about some of the new things on this forum
-edited the 1066 scenario file and gave away the province "Krizevci", according to its geographic position it should be called Sriem; new owner: King of Hungary
-gave away "Rama", Petar Kresimir didn't control lands so far to the east; new owner: Count of Rashka and Hum ( Hum and Zachumlia are the same thing, btw
, "Zachumlia" should be Croatia Proper/Royal Croatia )
-count of Rioja has a new liege - King of Aragon (i play on Hard/Furious so Aragon never lives more than 5 years, which is...dumb) - I decided this will be the only modification of non-Croatian territories
I always start by declaring war on someone, but now I'm a bit worried because of this stability thing. Who knows how that works. My usual way of playing may be suicidal. Oh well...que sera sera.
On vanilla, the Pechenegs would always be my first victim, but now i see Sicily is divided in DV. I'm tempted.......going for it!
War declared on all 3 emirates/sheikhdoms before any of them has a strong ally, like Egypt or Tunis.
Married Stjepan (my bishop) with a girl from Norway (Rannveig) with 11 stewardship. Now all my advisors have 10 or 11.
Asked Hungary and Byzantium for alliance, got rejected, rejected the Normans (because of Sicily, so they don't get there first), asked Poland and Kiev, but then Byzantium made an offer (never happened to me before...didn't play that much though).
BTW, my new allies got attacked by the Seljuks at the very beginning of the game.
Brought all my armies (4000 men) to Zara and decided to wait and see if someone's going to attack me. Palermo is coming - 2000 men strong. The battle didn't last long - the infidels were thrown back to sea. In the meantime the Queen got mad at the King. I decide paying 150g is too much to stop her from becoming the King's rival - she's too old to get pregnant anyway.
After 2 more months, i'm setting off for Palermo.
Met almost no resistance. Annexed Trapani, emirate of Palermo and now i'm sieging Syracuse - didn't even have to fight them as they sent their army to Split. My 3500 will finish the siege before their 1000 do, so no worries. I'm annexing everything because Petar Kresimir is allowed to have as much as 10 provinces in his personal demesne.
Rashka accepted my vassalisation offer. Toscana, Lombardy, Bologna, Pisa and Catalonia keep rejecting.
Rashka mobilised, i'm planning to use the war between either Badajoz and Seville (Badajoz had previously annexed Cordoba) or Egypt and Tripoli/Jerusalem/Medina.
But then came a message from the pope - an offer for a crusade (target Tunis).
I decide to pay for the crusade to get 150 prestige more than i would normally get - i need 900 to grab the title of Magistrate of Venice - and the trait "crusader".
current status: 650 prestige, -1200g
During my campaign in Sicily Venice vassalized Ragusa and conquered Mecklenburg (!), England vassalized Brittany, lost Northumbria and won a war against Normans (but gained nothing).
Germany conquered the rebel provinces of Lombardy (and through them Salerno too...too bad, i wanted that...), Genova and now they're fighting Toscana. Castille vassalized Ireland. Cumans conquered most of the Volga Bulgar lands but now they are loing a war with Chernigov.
And the border between the Seljuks and Byzantium remained more or less the same.
The conquest of Sicily is completed, reinforcements from Rashka are here - i'm ready to declare war on Zirid. New armies raised from the newly conquered territories on Sicily.
-this is my first AAR, so i'll write it as a report - i see everybody is making a story out of their AAR's but i'm not creative enough to do that (i don't have to, right?)
-playing DV for the first time, but I've read about some of the new things on this forum
-edited the 1066 scenario file and gave away the province "Krizevci", according to its geographic position it should be called Sriem; new owner: King of Hungary
-gave away "Rama", Petar Kresimir didn't control lands so far to the east; new owner: Count of Rashka and Hum ( Hum and Zachumlia are the same thing, btw
, "Zachumlia" should be Croatia Proper/Royal Croatia )-count of Rioja has a new liege - King of Aragon (i play on Hard/Furious so Aragon never lives more than 5 years, which is...dumb) - I decided this will be the only modification of non-Croatian territories
I always start by declaring war on someone, but now I'm a bit worried because of this stability thing. Who knows how that works. My usual way of playing may be suicidal. Oh well...que sera sera.
On vanilla, the Pechenegs would always be my first victim, but now i see Sicily is divided in DV. I'm tempted.......going for it!
War declared on all 3 emirates/sheikhdoms before any of them has a strong ally, like Egypt or Tunis.
Married Stjepan (my bishop) with a girl from Norway (Rannveig) with 11 stewardship. Now all my advisors have 10 or 11.
Asked Hungary and Byzantium for alliance, got rejected, rejected the Normans (because of Sicily, so they don't get there first), asked Poland and Kiev, but then Byzantium made an offer (never happened to me before...didn't play that much though).
BTW, my new allies got attacked by the Seljuks at the very beginning of the game.
Brought all my armies (4000 men) to Zara and decided to wait and see if someone's going to attack me. Palermo is coming - 2000 men strong. The battle didn't last long - the infidels were thrown back to sea. In the meantime the Queen got mad at the King. I decide paying 150g is too much to stop her from becoming the King's rival - she's too old to get pregnant anyway.
After 2 more months, i'm setting off for Palermo.
Met almost no resistance. Annexed Trapani, emirate of Palermo and now i'm sieging Syracuse - didn't even have to fight them as they sent their army to Split. My 3500 will finish the siege before their 1000 do, so no worries. I'm annexing everything because Petar Kresimir is allowed to have as much as 10 provinces in his personal demesne.
Rashka accepted my vassalisation offer. Toscana, Lombardy, Bologna, Pisa and Catalonia keep rejecting.
Rashka mobilised, i'm planning to use the war between either Badajoz and Seville (Badajoz had previously annexed Cordoba) or Egypt and Tripoli/Jerusalem/Medina.
But then came a message from the pope - an offer for a crusade (target Tunis).
I decide to pay for the crusade to get 150 prestige more than i would normally get - i need 900 to grab the title of Magistrate of Venice - and the trait "crusader".
current status: 650 prestige, -1200g
During my campaign in Sicily Venice vassalized Ragusa and conquered Mecklenburg (!), England vassalized Brittany, lost Northumbria and won a war against Normans (but gained nothing).
Germany conquered the rebel provinces of Lombardy (and through them Salerno too...too bad, i wanted that...), Genova and now they're fighting Toscana. Castille vassalized Ireland. Cumans conquered most of the Volga Bulgar lands but now they are loing a war with Chernigov.
And the border between the Seljuks and Byzantium remained more or less the same.
The conquest of Sicily is completed, reinforcements from Rashka are here - i'm ready to declare war on Zirid. New armies raised from the newly conquered territories on Sicily.
