First off, thank you
@StrategyGameEnthusiast,
@Cora Giantkiller,
@Nikolai,
@TheButterflyComposer and
@jak7139 for your recommendations on CK2 vs CK3. I'm still mulling this over in my mind.
I do still have alot of EU IV left to play, and I have competing interests as to what else to do with my limited time. I'm not sure now whether I'll jump into a CK game after this or not. But I've purchased both games now and can make that choice when the time comes.
My guess, Holland's Catholic (or Reformed), and the Defender of the Faith wouldn't protect them...
@StrategyGameEnthusiast a good guess! I'll let you know in the next update.
When you pillage , are you getting some development in your capital? Pillaging generates aggressive expansion so make sure it is worth it.
@mackwolfe I ummm.... I wasn't aware of that. And, while I'm sure it made me aware of the AE in the peacedeal stats, I'm not sure I would have known to look for additional AE on top of the territorial aggrandizement.
That might explain some stuff later on... But meanwhile, let me work on the upcoming update...
At last! Your eastern border is now secure.
I wouldn't make Friedrich a general. His numbers are great and he's only 15. I'd hope you'd want him to reign for a long, long time.
You could perhaps disinherit your heir if you want to spend 50 prestige. You might get someone with better stats.
Only Brabant's allies can join the war. So, Brabant just doesn't have many allies to begin with.
Perhaps you want more English Channel trade. It's not a bad idea. But not worth a no-CB war, I'd say.
Maybe you wanted to do
@Bullfilter a favor and return cores to Friesland.
Or maybe you wanted the land taken here to be a jumping off point against the distracted GB.
Just FYI, no-CB does give a large amount of AE in addition to the stab cost. That AE might've been better spent annexing more from Saxony. But I don't know what your goals this war are, so maybe the gains here will be worth it.
@jak7139 yes. Yes! YESSS!!! Very glad to have my eastern border secure. Sure, there's still Muscovy and Lithuania. But my old enemy is finally gone. My old ally/enemy also.
Anyway, it'll be much better for me just to do the next update and explain all this then.
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I apologize for the lack of updates, and frankly for my lack of engagement on the Forum much lately. I've been ill for 3 days, which is part of it, and working and busy with taxes, which always really gets me in a bad mood. I've also tried 3-4 times to get back into making updates but I've been running up against problems with next steps. My next steps were always having obstacles, such as that somehow I'd filled up my memory on my laptop and I needed to clear some space in order to fully come back from the whole switching computers saga.
Plus I've had a couple AAR-related side projects. For instance, I started updating my
Inkwell page (it's not done yet, but I've made some improvements). I've also (thanks to
@son of liberty and his recent interest in reading my older AARs) begun the long process of updating my old screenshots, most of which were still "showing up" but had a stupid Photobucket watermark on them (many of us old timers used Photobucket to host images back in the day, but maybe a decade ago Photobucket decided they were going to replace their free accounts with I think a $400/year charge, so these accounts mostly became stale and unmanaged). So I've been replacing the old Photobucket images with images hosted in Imgbox.
And that brings us to partly my obstacle for making new updates. I've always tried to keep backups of my files, including my photos and AAR screenshots. I've mostly gotten rid of the original .bmp files, but I've at least kept the screenshot renderings I used in my AARs. So I have files of prepared screenshots from about a dozen old AARs on my hard drive. And since I'm kind of a nut for making sure I have backups it turns out that, over time, I ended up with maybe 2-3 copies of all my AAR screenshots.
And so my hard drive was kind of filling up with all that extranea, and so I spent some time clearing all the duplicates. The good news is now I have good files with all the old AAR screenshots in organized folders and can draw upon them as I replace the old images with new ones.
All that to say I'm now finally in a headspace where I can get back to writing updates. Honestly, I feel like I should play through the current war in EU IV before I completely catch up in the AAR to where I am in gameplay. I'm worried that I may have only 2-3 updates before the "current" war starts, and I need to have perspective on that war before I really want to get into all that. So I need to do some playing, which is another place where I've been stuck lately.
But I will, in coming days, be making an update for Shining Stars in V2, and also doing more gameplay for EU IV. So hopefully I'll be back in good stead to make another update here soon.
Thank you all for your readership and comments!
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