Hey! After you read Chapter 1, could you please tell me how to make a list of the different chapters (with the links of each chapter) in the first post, so I can edit it?
Thank you!
Thank you!
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I'm pretty sure you have to create threadmarks above each chapter, and then add a threadmark index which saves all of the threadmarks (you have to title the index, put a short description (I think with the start date of the AAR) and indicate whether it is completed, incomplete, on hiatus or dropped) if you want to easily link to chapters, I don't know how to link it in the first post, sorry.
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Easiest is to make threadmarks, yes. That's an option when you post in a thread you have started, and it can also be added later by editing the post. To make a manual list, make a hyperlink to the post in question, by copying the url to the post. This can be done by clicking on the top right of the post. Like the #21 of your latest post @CaesarOfCK . Then copy the url in top of the browser.
Like this:
Then, to make it "pretty", use the "insert link" in the post interface:
Then you get this:
Post #21 can be found here
Like this:
Then, to make it "pretty", use the "insert link" in the post interface:
Then you get this:
Post #21 can be found here
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Hey! I did the thing manually for chapters. This what I will use for now, I still don't understand how to make threadmarks and have the "Reader" Mode that a lot of writers have in their AARs. If you have a tutorial, it would really be helpful!
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I think I can help. When you make a new chapter, it will look like this:
Just enter the chapter name, of your choosing, where it says "threadmark label". Can be "Chapter 1" or "King Henry VIII the Awesome" or whatever you want. It will show up in the threadmark list.
If you want to give a threadmark to an already existing post, it will look like this:
Just add the name to the chapter/threadmark at the bottom, of your choosing. When you click save, it will show up in the list.
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Welcome to the forums! Your playthrough seems to be going good so far.
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Yeah! I didn't encounter that many issues in Chapter 1 but things will change a bit in Chapter 2!
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Hey! Thanks a lot for all the tips! Thanks for showing me how to do it through screenshots, it's very helpful to understand!I think I can help. When you make a new chapter, it will look like this:
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Just enter the chapter name, of your choosing, where it says "threadmark label". Can be "Chapter 1" or "King Henry VIII the Awesome" or whatever you want. It will show up in the threadmark list.
If you want to give a threadmark to an already existing post, it will look like this:
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Just add the name to the chapter/threadmark at the bottom, of your choosing. When you click save, it will show up in the list.
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Chapter 2: Troubles are brewing (1084-1093)
Chapter 2: Troubles are brewing (1084-1093)
Before dealing with the unruly vassals, Philip pondered for a bit. Why should he imprison the wife of his brother? Wouldn’t that anger him? Wouldn’t his nephew, in any case, inherit the County of Vermandois? Wouldn’t it be better that he becomes an adult before he inherits the county?
As a generous liege, he decided to forgive the woman. While he was thinking about the Duke of Burgundy’s fate, a letter arrived to his castle. It informed him that the Duke of Burgundy lost a tyranny war and his daughter became the new Duchess of Burgundy.
Having finished dealing with these two problematic vassals, Philip would soon find that more troubles are brewing.
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Robert The Frisian, the man who he had fought against 15 years prior, had created a faction to install himself on the Frankish throne. Philip decided to pacify the other member of the faction and make him the marshal of the kingdom. While this was able to weaken the Salian Count, it wasn’t enough to get rid of him completely.
Philip would then depart to the Holy Roman Empire where he would participate in a Grand Tournament, he would participate both in the recital and the board game but lose both these competitions. He would encounter many people on the road back: A hermit who would tell him about some prophecy, a beautiful woman who wanted his love and a knight who wanted to fight him.
When he returned to Paris, a letter would be waiting for him. The letter bearing the seal of the King of England would tell him grave news: His daughter Constance died in the court of the Norman king. To deal with this event, Philip would mourn her for 3 days then enter into hermitage for a bit and pray to The Lord to make him stronger in order to deal with traumatic events. After finishing his hermitage, Philip would change the religious minority policy; Philip would make other faiths unwelcomed in his realm. He would also increase his crown authority to boost his revenue.
Few months after that, the Pope would invite, to Clermont, in the Frankish realm, many scholars and representatives of religious and secular power of Christendom. Since the Muslim heretics were near the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and posed a grave threat to the Christians of all of Europe, the Pope called for a Crusade for Jerusalem.
Philip being a respected ruler by the Church, he would send a letter to the Pope, advising him to redirect the Crusade to Hispania that was near the Christian rulers of Western Europe. The Pope would accept and preparations would begin for the Crusade. This is how the Council of Clermont would end.
While preparing for the Crusade, an event would take Philip by surprise. The Count of Flanders would declare war for the Frankish throne. Philip, sensing that the war would be hard without allies, would arrange a betrothal of his second son with the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, securing an alliance with the most powerful ruler of Europe.
Before being able to call the Holy Roman Emperor into the war, the Salian count would call to the war his ally, the Landgrave of Saxony. The Holy Roman Emperor would send a letter to the Frankish king, explaining to him that since one of his vassals is at war with Philip, the emperor could not join this war. Furious, Philip would burn the letter and begin searching for another alliance.
Philip would marry another one of his children to the Norman King of England, securing an alliance with his unruly vassal, in order to pacify another one; those were the politics that shaped the Kingdom of The Franks.
While waiting for the arrival of the Norman king, the Crusade against the heretics in Hispania would begin. Not being able to participate yet in the Crusade due to his war, Philip would concentrate on his northern front. Philip would use the speed of his troops to organize a defeat in detail of the Flemish troops. He would have scouts tell him that the Flemish troops were divided in too and the first of them entered the territory of the Holy Roman Empire while the other one had a hard time trying to keep the pace with the first army. Philip would exploit the failures of the enemy troops to coordinate and start an attack on the second army. The first army would soon realize that the other troops are behind being ambushed by Philip and return helping the slower army. This wouldn’t be enough for the Flemish forces to win against the King of the Franks’ troops, who was overjoyed to have his first military victory at the Battle of Cambray.
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Philip would begin sieging the Flemish holdings of the Salian Count. He would lay siege to Bethune before being joined by the Norman king who would lay siege to Saint-Pol. The Frankish forces would advance to Ypres where they would siege the castle before arriving to the capital of the County of Flanders, Brugge. There they would receive a letter coming from the capital of the Salian Count. The Salian Count died and his realm was partitioned, ending the War of Succession of the Frankish throne.
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Before dealing with the unruly vassals, Philip pondered for a bit. Why should he imprison the wife of his brother? Wouldn’t that anger him? Wouldn’t his nephew, in any case, inherit the County of Vermandois? Wouldn’t it be better that he becomes an adult before he inherits the county?
As a generous liege, he decided to forgive the woman. While he was thinking about the Duke of Burgundy’s fate, a letter arrived to his castle. It informed him that the Duke of Burgundy lost a tyranny war and his daughter became the new Duchess of Burgundy.
Having finished dealing with these two problematic vassals, Philip would soon find that more troubles are brewing.
Robert The Frisian, the man who he had fought against 15 years prior, had created a faction to install himself on the Frankish throne. Philip decided to pacify the other member of the faction and make him the marshal of the kingdom. While this was able to weaken the Salian Count, it wasn’t enough to get rid of him completely.
Philip would then depart to the Holy Roman Empire where he would participate in a Grand Tournament, he would participate both in the recital and the board game but lose both these competitions. He would encounter many people on the road back: A hermit who would tell him about some prophecy, a beautiful woman who wanted his love and a knight who wanted to fight him.
When he returned to Paris, a letter would be waiting for him. The letter bearing the seal of the King of England would tell him grave news: His daughter Constance died in the court of the Norman king. To deal with this event, Philip would mourn her for 3 days then enter into hermitage for a bit and pray to The Lord to make him stronger in order to deal with traumatic events. After finishing his hermitage, Philip would change the religious minority policy; Philip would make other faiths unwelcomed in his realm. He would also increase his crown authority to boost his revenue.
Few months after that, the Pope would invite, to Clermont, in the Frankish realm, many scholars and representatives of religious and secular power of Christendom. Since the Muslim heretics were near the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and posed a grave threat to the Christians of all of Europe, the Pope called for a Crusade for Jerusalem.
Philip being a respected ruler by the Church, he would send a letter to the Pope, advising him to redirect the Crusade to Hispania that was near the Christian rulers of Western Europe. The Pope would accept and preparations would begin for the Crusade. This is how the Council of Clermont would end.
While preparing for the Crusade, an event would take Philip by surprise. The Count of Flanders would declare war for the Frankish throne. Philip, sensing that the war would be hard without allies, would arrange a betrothal of his second son with the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, securing an alliance with the most powerful ruler of Europe.
Before being able to call the Holy Roman Emperor into the war, the Salian count would call to the war his ally, the Landgrave of Saxony. The Holy Roman Emperor would send a letter to the Frankish king, explaining to him that since one of his vassals is at war with Philip, the emperor could not join this war. Furious, Philip would burn the letter and begin searching for another alliance.
Philip would marry another one of his children to the Norman King of England, securing an alliance with his unruly vassal, in order to pacify another one; those were the politics that shaped the Kingdom of The Franks.
While waiting for the arrival of the Norman king, the Crusade against the heretics in Hispania would begin. Not being able to participate yet in the Crusade due to his war, Philip would concentrate on his northern front. Philip would use the speed of his troops to organize a defeat in detail of the Flemish troops. He would have scouts tell him that the Flemish troops were divided in too and the first of them entered the territory of the Holy Roman Empire while the other one had a hard time trying to keep the pace with the first army. Philip would exploit the failures of the enemy troops to coordinate and start an attack on the second army. The first army would soon realize that the other troops are behind being ambushed by Philip and return helping the slower army. This wouldn’t be enough for the Flemish forces to win against the King of the Franks’ troops, who was overjoyed to have his first military victory at the Battle of Cambray.
Philip would begin sieging the Flemish holdings of the Salian Count. He would lay siege to Bethune before being joined by the Norman king who would lay siege to Saint-Pol. The Frankish forces would advance to Ypres where they would siege the castle before arriving to the capital of the County of Flanders, Brugge. There they would receive a letter coming from the capital of the Salian Count. The Salian Count died and his realm was partitioned, ending the War of Succession of the Frankish throne.
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Surely Flanders should have been excommunicated for declaring war during Crusade preparations?
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Unfortunately the Pope didn't care about the rabbles of feudal lords. Once he knew that the king of the Franks already gave an oath to participate in the crusade, he seemed to not give much interest to which one would sit on the throne.
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Sure thing! We need to help the newcomers to settle in.
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Game doesn't work like that, but realistic, yes I think.
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Nice beat-down of Flanders. Shame the Count died before he could wear chains and lose holdings. Love the use of colors. Green = places, Purples = people, Red = you? Thanks
Yes. Green= secular titles or places. Orange= religious titles or places. Purple= people. Red= Capital of my realm, title of my realm or title of my character.
I'm happy that you noticed that!
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