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demokratickid - Quite, I don't imagine Horde battles tend to be all that neat.
Chief Ragusa - Well it happens.
billy bob - But they're winning and uZBEKs cannot win.
nette001 - It would have been. Pity they didn't try it.
Chief Ragusa - Well it happens.
billy bob - But they're winning and uZBEKs cannot win.
nette001 - It would have been. Pity they didn't try it.
The water was icy and stabbed at Gan-Ochir like knives. Not in itself a good thing. But compared with the men on the riverbank who would have been stabbing at Gan-Ochir with bayonets it was idyllic. The Volga flows swiftly and Gan-Ochir like any true Hordesmen was certainly not at home on or in the water. He could do little against the current and spent his remaining energy keeping his head above water. In this endeavour he was mostly successful and after what felt like hours and many litres of muddy water later he was swept into an eddy and thankfully able to make his way spluttering to the bank. In the last shreds of daylight he crept under a bush and immediately fell into a deep sleep. It had been a long day.
Two weeks later Gan-Ochir limped in through the door of his modest cottage on the outskirts of Saratow. He was immediately greeted by the shrill voice of Barilda.
"Where have you been?", she demanded. "Look at the state of your clothes. That shirt wasn't more than a month old when you left. Now it looks like an antique, and not a valuable one mind. We could have done with with something valuable. We're short on money and let me guess you didn't manage to loot one single mansion. It's been terrible for me with you gone. Up at the crack of dawn to milk the cow and up til late keeping this place tidy on the off chance that you decide to waltz back in. Not that you'll appreciate it of course, what with the amount of muck you're......."
Gan-Ochir sighed and tuned out, it was nice to know that some things don't change in this life.
That was certainly something that could not be said of the Golden Horde. Over the previous two weeks it had seen more change that it had for almost its entire existence. The Monarchist army had been caught completely unaware on the banks of the Volga as it marched on Astrakhan. Those that hadn't perished from bullets and bayonets of the Horde Council's reinforcements and been scattered into the Volga where most had drowned since swimming was a skill viewed in the Horde in much the same way that witchcraft was viewed in medieval Europe.
For the Horde Council the close call they had had with the Monarchist uprising was quite enough to show them the way forward. As long as a Khan existed in the Golden Horde, no matter how insignificant his role, he would always represent a figurehead for the enemy to rally around. So two days after the Battle of the Volga Ulugh V, still aged only nine years was brought to the central square in Astrakhan and before a huge crowd on stunned onlookers beheaded. Thus came to an end the life of the last and youngest Khan of the Golden Horde.
The rest of the royal family and anyone with a tentative claim to the throne met similar fates over the next week either at the point of an axe or knife (Guns were frowned upon as cowardly and poison, strangulation etc not viewed as proper since they failed to shed blood).
With the threat of the Khan and possible successors removed the Horde Council decided they no longer needed to keep up the pretence of legitimacy that ruling in the Khan's name had provided. Thus the Council went open about who was in charge. As a further sign of how times were changing they also went so far as to rename the Golden Horde and provide a new flag.
New names and insignia for the state formerly known as the Golden Horde.
After nearly four hundred and fifty years of existence the Golden Horde and its Khans were no more.
The End
Wow! That's quite an end to a great story! Here's to Golden Horde- Scourge from the East! Over two years later, it is done! A hearty congrats! What's your next AAR idea?
What an end, to an awesome AAR, too bad I didn't post earlier, well better late than never.
No, its over! 
I must congratulate you, Duke, for one of the best AARs in all of AARland. Truly brilliant and entertaining.
I must congratulate you, Duke, for one of the best AARs in all of AARland. Truly brilliant and entertaining.
The Golden Republic sounds so much less threatening than the Golden Horde or something from Star Wars ruled over by C3-PO.
Aargh the ride of the Khan's is over. Thanks for the entertainment.
Aargh the ride of the Khan's is over. Thanks for the entertainment.
The end? Well then I'll have to congratulate you! Although it feels kind of weird that it's finished
Its over? After 138 pages it's over?
Fantastic Job, this AAR always had me laughing. Any plans to start a new AAR, or are you planning to take it easy from now on?
Fantastic Job, this AAR always had me laughing. Any plans to start a new AAR, or are you planning to take it easy from now on?
Duke, would it be possible to release your events and monarchs in a little modpack? It would be nice to have lots of "history" after Sayyid Ahmad II, because I lack abilities in scripting besides copying say 80% of a script from the event file and adding a few effects; which I still need to look up.
Well that was a hell of an ending....I never saw it coming. Pity the last Khan died so ignobly. A Republic? How Genghis and the late Khans must shudder at the thought. I'm sure there was some kind of earthquake from all the spinning in the graves from the multitude of dead khans.... A magnificent tale that has come to a conclusion. Well wrought, DoW!
An opus that came just short of two years in length....by two months...
A magnificent tale that has come to a conclusion. Well wrought, DoW!An opus that came just short of two years in length....by two months...
demokratickid - Thank you. No real thoughts on a a future AAR yet. It will happen but for the moment it nice to not have one on the to do list.
Wari Bana - Thank you very much. Well next on the list is get the EUIII library up to date again. After that well who knows
Shortynds - Thank you. Quite right there better late than never, it's nice to see anyone who has been reading pop in, even if it is at the end.
germanpeon - Thats quite some praise and not one I think I deserve but thanks all the same.
Chief Ragusa - Not a problem, glad you've enjoyed it. The Republic is far less threatening. So it seems a logical place to draw a conclusion.
Saulta - Aye, it did feel a bit odd typing those words too. The End. It seems so final Not something this AAR would ever achieve.
Maximilliano - It is. It doesn't seem quite right but it is. No plans at the moment but I certainly don't think I could say I'm done with AARs.
Walter Model - The events and particularly the Khan were prepared pretty roughly. Events generally just set to go off at a certain date with no other triggers and the khans I just edited in the save file so there is no list remaining of them. I could provide the list of events but it'd need a lot of work to become anything really usable and I'm not really skilled noe motivated to do that at the moment.
Amric - That quite a lot of praise coming from a writer such as yourself. It wasn't a nice ending but I don't believe the Golden Horde ever was the land of fairytales. Haha A good comment about the spinning in the graves, too true I imagine. It actually did run over two years in length, I began this on the 5th of January 2006. Thanks for your comments through out.
Wari Bana - Thank you very much. Well next on the list is get the EUIII library up to date again. After that well who knows
Shortynds - Thank you. Quite right there better late than never, it's nice to see anyone who has been reading pop in, even if it is at the end.
germanpeon - Thats quite some praise and not one I think I deserve but thanks all the same.
Chief Ragusa - Not a problem, glad you've enjoyed it. The Republic is far less threatening. So it seems a logical place to draw a conclusion.
Saulta - Aye, it did feel a bit odd typing those words too. The End. It seems so final
Not something this AAR would ever achieve.Maximilliano - It is. It doesn't seem quite right but it is. No plans at the moment but I certainly don't think I could say I'm done with AARs.
Walter Model - The events and particularly the Khan were prepared pretty roughly. Events generally just set to go off at a certain date with no other triggers and the khans I just edited in the save file so there is no list remaining of them. I could provide the list of events but it'd need a lot of work to become anything really usable and I'm not really skilled noe motivated to do that at the moment.
Amric - That quite a lot of praise coming from a writer such as yourself. It wasn't a nice ending but I don't believe the Golden Horde ever was the land of fairytales. Haha
A good comment about the spinning in the graves, too true I imagine. It actually did run over two years in length, I began this on the 5th of January 2006. Thanks for your comments through out.
This was one of the best AARs I've read so far - although haven't been commenting too often, I have always kept track of the newest updates. Like others, I do hope you get round to writing something new, in any format - be it comedy, gameplay, narrative, whatever. You will surely have me as one of the (if a bit silent usually) followers.
Wow, just adding my voice to the list of people congratulating you, this has been a wonderful AAR.
I'm already looking forward to your next effort once your creative juices have recovered.
I'm already looking forward to your next effort once your creative juices have recovered.
Though I am cwushed about the ignoble end of the Horde, I can only laud the AAR. Great stuff.
Bah, anticlimax.
Where are the hordes of Uzbekian armies marching across the Siberia?
Rebel stronghold rising across the lands?
The Khan wading in rivers of blood?
European wenches with buxoms larger then barrels, eloping with the rough and rugged tartar with a heart of gold? Mmmmh...
Where are the hordes of Uzbekian armies marching across the Siberia?
Rebel stronghold rising across the lands?
The Khan wading in rivers of blood?
European wenches with buxoms larger then barrels, eloping with the rough and rugged tartar with a heart of gold? Mmmmh...
Great work DoW.
The only natural thing now would be starting a Horde game in EUIII, at the time were the horde has one puny province, preferibly while in war with the Crimean Ottoman Alliance if there is such a position.
The only natural thing now would be starting a Horde game in EUIII, at the time were the horde has one puny province, preferibly while in war with the Crimean Ottoman Alliance if there is such a position.