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Ganso

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The Bornholm Identity
from simple farmers... to something else



Scenario : 1066
Ruler : Ragnar of Bornholm
Difficulty : Hard/normal
Patch : 1.05
Mods : SMACK + BOPACK + IP2B
Goal : Mostly to survive and achieve some manner of greatness
Rules: no grabbing foreign titles, no heathen bashing unless requested by my liege, no cheating.

Notes: This will either turn out into a very boring gaming experience... or something else. I hope the last. :)
 
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The Bornholm Identity
Those lazy days


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Count Ragnar and his son Egil

Bornholm, Baltic Sea, 1067


Count Ragnar felt old. Not because he was old, which by general standards he was, namely because any self respecting dane would have hismelf killed in battle by the age of 35, amassing some wealth and a large disrepute in the way to Valhala. Or Heaven, God forbid the old ways, seeing as all King loving subjects were christians.


Ragnar of Bornholm was one of the few "left behind's"; when the time had come for the last raids on northern Alba he had been deemed unfit even for the voyage not to mention the whole "cut their heads, grab their gold and women" subject.


And as such, by a stroke of luck or, as he used to say, "my bad star", the inhabitants of Bornholm, (circa 400, 127 bearing arms, mostly of the sickle and make-believe-spear kind) had given him the longhouse of old Braki Brainspiller up on the highest hill of the island and named him King.


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Bornholm; sheep, cows and sturdy peasants​

and more to come...
 
Lazy days indeed. It will be very interesting to see where you can go with this. I admit, I lose much patience when I play the smaller counties as it gets a little tedious - somewhat like playing the Indian tribes in EUII. But it will be much more fun to read about them.
 
The Bornholm Identity
Those lazy days (second part)

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Bornholm Island

Ragnar was King by name, his dominion consisting of settling cattle disputes, the occasional woodchopping rights and who tended who's goats. But he was a simple man and simple men have simple needs, and his bones ached with the cold baltic wind and as such he got married again, much to the displeasure of his son Egil, now a rapidly growing lad who spent his days playing and learning the military ways with the local militamen.

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Ragnar the Old, Petty King of Bornholm

Time went by slow in the island but old men got older and children were born and even Count Ragnar was given, by the grace of God, a daughter, named Katarina.

Time went by, not without Ragnar having some fun outside his marriage but making it up by taking up a man of the cloth in his county.

("You see a good looking wench" event + the pope asked to accept a bishop)


Everybody in the county, including the heir, Egil, knew of the bastard that was born, Peder, but took it lightly; few years had yet passed from the time when a chief was supposed to have one wife and many concubines, bastard children being as rightfull sons as the ones from the first wife, even if cut off from inheritance.

("A bastard is born "event)

TIme went by, weeks turned to months and months into years and the people of Bornholm grew little but steady and Ragnar gathered enough resources to provide for them and for that his servants and his serfs loved him.

(Fishing Warf construction started)

As quietly as he had lived his life, in the first days of the Summer of 1070, Ragnar of Bornholm passed away.
Not a warrior by birth and life, his wish had been to be interred in the common ground of the local wooden church but for his goodness to his people he was buried in one of the mounds of the ancient warriors and his death much felt by the populace.
Ragnar, the Good, as he was later called, not so much his son would be...
 
Well i like it but i just got 2 quick n00bish questions

1) What is IP2B Never heard of it
2) How do you get all the mods working together?
 
Ah the boring years. Can we expect the Vikings to go and plunder the Pagan lands to the south?

And to answer Deamons questions, IP2b means Improvement Pack 2. Download Thread. Go down to the end of the thread. You need only IP2b.

Shuma made a whole in one packet of the mods and IP2b that Ganso uses (or he did it manually, but that's the faster way) and posted a download. You can find it here.
 
Looks really good. I'd love to see what you can do with this.
 
Just ticking over - pretty much as you must this early int he game. One presumes you will be open for any dynastic opportunities that are not too ridiculous.
 
Ganso said:
Ragnar, the Good, as he was later called, not so much his son would be...
Will his son be the Bad or the Ugly? :D
In any case, let's hope he'll have the opportunity for some expansion.


CSK said:
Shuma made a whole in one packet of the mods and IP2b that Ganso uses (or he did it manually, but that's the faster way) and posted a download. You can find it here.
Well if anyone is interested, that combo doesn't have the BOPACK graphic files included, so you still need to download and install them seperately.
 
Thank you all for the replies. More updates very soon... ;)
 
Forgot to add. I love the title of this AAR.
 
The Bornholm Identity
Egil's Saga


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Young Egil meeting the Slavs of Rügen


In the early summer of 1070, Ragnar "The Good" Bornholm passed away suddenly, at the age of 44, leaving his heir, Egil Ragnarsson, in charge of the domain of Bornholm and his tender aged daughter, Katarina, at the care of the local monastery.

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Egil was now 15 and somewhat of different character as that of his father, more prone to bursts of violence and bad temper and not one hint as loyal to the Knytling king as his father had been.

One year after his father's death, Egil, now 16 years old, and facing pressure from his serfs, started looking for a suitable wife.
There was no place for love, that was reserved for cute wenches, he had to strike a good bargain, or that was what his councillor and steward said.

In 1072, Egil, now a 17 year old young man, after the call of the Pope to all Christendom and the King of Denmark having declared war upon the infidels, Egil himself, despite his flaws a pious man, felt the urge to travel to the Holy Land.

(You feel the call of God event)

As the danish King assembled his troops the north slavs of the Mecklenburg region raided Bornholm county but luckily the stormy seas and the staunch bravery of the islanders made the disgruntled invaders return to the mainland.

The Obodriten tribe occupied the west of the country, while the Wilzen occupied the east, and the Ranen controlled Rügen; they were slavs who had come after the age of the Romans and had settled but had yet to take the Cross as their religion and continuous pressure from the Polish Archbishop and the germanic nobles had forced them to wage war, even if against their peacefull northern neighbours.

Egil would have to keep his Holy Land designs as just that for now, seeing as the unfaithfull heretics and pagans were so close to home. The danish King himself seemed to think similarly and was amassing it's main army just north of Mecklemburg and crossing the Baltic towards Rostock with Duke Harald, the King's brother.

Egil saw his opportunity to attack the nearby island of Rügen and without waiting any longer ordered his warriors to board the longboats and cross the waves to the nearby island.

Luckily for him the local warriors had been called upon by their high chief to fight the main danish army and now Egil was left with the change to subdue the pagans and take control of the island.

The warriors of Rügen returned as quickly as they had left and Egil had his first taste of war. Even slightly outnumbered he managed to suceed and rout the enemy.

(Egil's army: 214, Rügen's army: 349)

He received some disturbing news though: the pagans were advancing northwards from Holstein where they had beaten the King's brother and were laying siege to the local garrison.

The King's brother, Harald, afraid for his life, settled peace with the barbarians, who retreated south to deal with the King's main army and Egil, whose forces were dwindling day by day.

The danish army faced the pagans in fierce combat and Egil, incapable of removing himself from Rügen, currently fighting the local chieftain, despaired as he saw both forces equaly matched and, as the danish won the day, the King sign a peace treaty with the barbarians. His desire to take Rügen had failed, his forces returned home disheartened and Egil, bitter with the King of Denmark, returned to his estate to tend his wounds and plan his next move.