Napoleon? Frederick the Great? Hannibal? Amateurs, all of them.
Well, he's at least quite confident...
Well, he's at least quite confident...
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This isn't really weird, but I had to laugh. Even in another timeline, England is still eager to quickly marry Mary of Scotland. Literally the day after she turned sixteen the English were like, "OHOHOHOHOHOHOH HEYA!"
Napoleon? Frederick the Great? Hannibal? Amateurs, all of them.
Well, he's at least quite confident...
Never seen that event, cool!
This is a story about the man who saved Christendom.
So I was playing a Charlemagne playthrough. Was playing as Charlemagne's grandson, the third Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor Karl II, when I decided that since things were going well I would attack the Ummayads.
Unfortunately due to them being on good relations with all the Muslims in the world, I ended up fighting a few more people than I thought I was going to.
So just to clarify, out of 987 Muslim vassals and rulers in the world, I was at war with 907. There were only 80 Muslim landholders in the world, that were not at war with me.
I decided I would press forth and try and defeat the Umayyads before the rest of Islam got to me.
I was happily trouncing the 19,000 strong Hispanic armies with my 17,000 strong, loyal, Christian army trying to win the war before this guy arrived.
Caliph Mahdi 'the Great', Conqueror of Africa, Subjugator of Persia, and Bane of Byzantium, at the head of his 35,000 man armies.
I carried on fighting the Umayyads and smaller allies in Aragon, defeating about 20k of troops whilst losing about 5k myself. Had a good 55% warscore.
Then it happened...
The Crown Prince of the Abbasid's, heir to all of Islam from Tunsia to Kashmir began his invasion of Hungary.
Well his Highness' armies 'brutally' tore through my unguarded provinces, with no one stepping in his way.
Then after six months of strolling around hungary his armies pulled back to his own lands and the Abbasid's sent no more troops.
So I continued my battle with the Umayyad armies when I realised that the real threat had only just appeared. The Great Caliph himself was sailing straight towards my empire, ready to land in the Bay of Biscay and surround my troops in spain.
So the Caliph had landed with his 'army' but fortunately a Navarrese noble rode forth to do battle with the Great Caliph.
And the brave count defeated Mahdi the Great, ruler of the most powerful Muslim state since the Umayyad Caliphate at it's greatest extent.
Mahdi the Great retreated through Spain and never returned, leading to the success of Karl II, Emperor of the Romans in Liberating Aragon.
And that is the story of how an Amateur Plotter defeated the forces of Islam. All hail Saint Frances of Bearn, savior of Christendom!
So I was playing a Charlemagne playthrough. Was playing as Charlemagne's grandson, the third Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor Karl II, when I decided that since things were going well I would attack the Ummayads.
Unfortunately due to them being on good relations with all the Muslims in the world, I ended up fighting a few more people than I thought I was going to.
So just to clarify, out of 987 Muslim vassals and rulers in the world, I was at war with 907. There were only 80 Muslim landholders in the world, that were not at war with me.
I decided I would press forth and try and defeat the Umayyads before the rest of Islam got to me.
I was happily trouncing the 19,000 strong Hispanic armies with my 17,000 strong, loyal, Christian army trying to win the war before this guy arrived.
Caliph Mahdi 'the Great', Conqueror of Africa, Subjugator of Persia, and Bane of Byzantium, at the head of his 35,000 man armies.
I carried on fighting the Umayyads and smaller allies in Aragon, defeating about 20k of troops whilst losing about 5k myself. Had a good 55% warscore.
Then it happened...
The Crown Prince of the Abbasid's, heir to all of Islam from Tunsia to Kashmir began his invasion of Hungary.
Well his Highness' armies 'brutally' tore through my unguarded provinces, with no one stepping in his way.
Then after six months of strolling around hungary his armies pulled back to his own lands and the Abbasid's sent no more troops.
So I continued my battle with the Umayyad armies when I realised that the real threat had only just appeared. The Great Caliph himself was sailing straight towards my empire, ready to land in the Bay of Biscay and surround my troops in spain.
So the Caliph had landed with his 'army' but fortunately a Navarrese noble rode forth to do battle with the Great Caliph.
And the brave count defeated Mahdi the Great, ruler of the most powerful Muslim state since the Umayyad Caliphate at it's greatest extent.
Mahdi the Great retreated through Spain and never returned, leading to the success of Karl II, Emperor of the Romans in Liberating Aragon.
And that is the story of how an Amateur Plotter defeated the forces of Islam. All hail Saint Frances of Bearn, savior of Christendom!
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First FEMALE Catholic court chaplain in Europe!
Are you sure it is female or just a guy with really long hair that looks like a female ?. Which sometimes does happen in games . Still is strange indeed
It's actually not to too strange
I was Norse, which can employ female court chaplains, then I converted to christendom while the female priestess remained employed but it looked strange first!
Well, good luck with that.
I don't know if its, 'the wise' nickname, or the fact he's also a heretic. Not that heresies mind in Persia. God save Saoshyant Gausbert the most and truly Wise! All hail Fratizoaster!
The War of Five Kings:
The "real" king is some bastard nephew of Harold Godwinsson named Hacon. The pretenders are Harold Godwinsson himself, William the Conqueror (who apparently were booted right back to Normandy after his conquest), and two Hwicces in the north. Hacon's only supporters are another of Godwin uncle and an underage cousin, earl Harold de Vexin-Amiens of Dorset (that has changed culture to Anglo-Saxon), and William the Conqueror's oldest son down in Maine.
And in addition to this clusterfuck of a civil war we also have France, who also wanted in on this free for all and pressed his claims on Normandy. The only corner of the British Isles that's still in relative peace is Cornwall, which is under Norwegian control, and even then Norway is busy wrecking havoc up in Scotland.
The "real" king is some bastard nephew of Harold Godwinsson named Hacon. The pretenders are Harold Godwinsson himself, William the Conqueror (who apparently were booted right back to Normandy after his conquest), and two Hwicces in the north. Hacon's only supporters are another of Godwin uncle and an underage cousin, earl Harold de Vexin-Amiens of Dorset (that has changed culture to Anglo-Saxon), and William the Conqueror's oldest son down in Maine.
And in addition to this clusterfuck of a civil war we also have France, who also wanted in on this free for all and pressed his claims on Normandy. The only corner of the British Isles that's still in relative peace is Cornwall, which is under Norwegian control, and even then Norway is busy wrecking havoc up in Scotland.
That is actually quite cool. I am not sure if I should be glad or sorry that such thing never happened to me. It would have been epic.
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-Well, maybe we didn't have rain in the last couple of years, but fortunately the snow is coming regularly.
lol I learned something new todayI have you know, that it snows in Bukhara every year:
Pic or it didn't happen:
Yo dawg, I heard you liked eagles so we put some eagles in your eagles
That is epic!
I have you know, that it snows in Bukhara every year:
Pic or it didn't happen:
OT, but that is a great pic.