Tournaments

[Alhazen]

I was just thinking it would be cool to have special events available, such as the ordering of great tournaments for a region or city under your reign. These would no doubt be costly events, large sums of money paid to organize and order them, but would result in an increase in prestige of the monarch. Or, when other realms declare tournies, to send your best nobles to them to participate in order to gain prestige for your realm.

Also, this may cost a decrease in piety, since the Church was usually so adamant on condeming tournaments..warnings from local bishops or even orders from the Pope.

 

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I hope they are implemented. It would be nice to have one of your rebellious nobility die during an "unfortuate" joust.

 

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I guess (or, rather, hope) that these will be implemented as part of the quest system Snowball are speaking of...

 

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Originally posted by Tambourmajor
I guess (or, rather, hope) that these will be implemented as part of the quest system Snowball are speaking of...

WHAT QUEST SISTEM????? can some one tell me about it?

 

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Originally posted by I_Killed-Kenny
WHAT GUEST SISTEM????? can some one tell me about it?

I think that it is "Quest" system.

You know...attempting to recover a piece of the true Cross while on Crusade, the Holy Grail...etc. I would think that these things would bring "piety points" and such.

 

[Winkelried]

They haven't posted about anything realted to it for quite some time. I do hope that the quests didn't get axed.

 

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Originally posted by Doc
I think that it is "Quest" system.

look better I put Quest


*damm keybord!!!*

 

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One of the French kings had an unfortunate jousting accident (splinter in the eye), I think, during a tournament celebrating the peace... I think...

 

[Captain Frakas]

yes Henri II de Valois-Angoulème in 1559

 

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It's not absolutely needed, IMO. It would be nice to have tournaments implemented but, if the producers have to leave out something to clear space, tournaments should be one of the first things to go.

 

[Endre Fodstad]

Tournaments would have to be triggered anyway-they weren't there at all until late in the 11th century and resembled mass practice for war rather than our concept of tournaments as in sport-like activity until the late 13th, and even later.

Hunting "accidents" was a lot easier way to rid yourself of opponents - fewer witnesses too...

EF

 

[Alhazen]

I think it would be nice to have options like a "royal decree" and then have several categories..such as implementing a new Festival for so much money, which raises happiness or perhaps raises loyalty of certain nobles if you hold it in their honor. Tournaments again would cost more money, and raise the prestige of the realm and the monarch, while perhaps lowering piety and relations with the Church. You could maybe declare fairs, and hire traveling entertainers to come into your realm.

 

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Originally posted by Dimwit
One of the French kings had an unfortunate jousting accident (splinter in the eye), I think, during a tournament celebrating the peace... I think...

I think Geoffrey Plantagenet, Duke of Brittany, was also killed during a tournament.

I know the Staufen brothers, Conrad III & Frederick II, were said to have held the first tournament in Germany in 1127 outside the walls of Wurzburg. When did the practice begin in France?

 

[The Larch]

Originally posted by Dimwit
One of the French kings had an unfortunate jousting accident (splinter in the eye), I think, during a tournament celebrating the peace... I think...

Didn't also Phillip the fourth of France die in a jousting accident? Templar curses, anyone?

 

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Originally posted by The Larch
Didn't also Phillip the fourth of France die in a jousting accident? Templar curses, anyone?

He suffered an indisposition while hunting, and spent the next two or three weeks in a bed before finally dying.

Still the templars' fault, though.

 

[Winkelried]

Originally posted by Endre Fodstad
Tournaments would have to be triggered anyway-they weren't there at all until late in the 11th century and resembled mass practice for war rather than our concept of tournaments as in sport-like activity until the late 13th, and even later.

Hunting "accidents" was a lot easier way to rid yourself of opponents - fewer witnesses too...

EF

IIRC William II the Red died that way. It was suspected that this wasn't exactly an accident since Henry I seemed to be quite well prepared to take over.