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Irish (Wealthy and Warlike)

1 (7.1%)

Picts (Powerful and Poor)

0 (0%)

Saxons (Numerous and Next to us)

4 (28.6%)

Scotish (Rich and Raidable)

3 (21.4%)

Mercians (Tiny and Tenacious)

1 (7.1%)

Northumbrians (Big and Badass)

5 (35.7%)

Total Members Voted: 10

[USEC_OFFICER]

Spoiler: Old OP (click to show/hide)

Well I'm back from a trip to London/Edinburgh, in case all two of you have been wondering where I've been. Anyways I've decided to start a Total War LP, since I can't muster the enthusiasm to raise the Fallout 2 LP again, and I've wanted to play a Total War game for a while.¹ Anyways without further ado let's pick a faction, shall we?



Err, you know what? Rome: Total War has been done to death. I was thinking of something along the lines of, say... Medieval: Total War?



No, no, no! I'm not talking about Medieval 2, I'm talking about



Ah, yes! The orginal Medieval: Total War! The granddaddy of them all!²

Hmm... You know, my trip was to Great Britain, and I do have the expansion...



Therefore I'll have to do the Viking Invasion Campaign, which takes place in Great Britain, Ireland and a couple bits of Scandinavia. The time period starts in 793 and ends in 1066 with the Norman Invasion.³ Since each turn in the game is one year, and I have the necessary basic math skills, I have about 273 turns to conquer the entire British Isles before the Normans come to mess up everything. Lovely

Thankfully all factions in the Viking Invasion Campaign are playable, so we have a fairly large list to choose from:
The Vikings (White)
The Saxons (Red)
The Mercians (Light Blue)
The Northumbrians (Yellow)
The Irish (Light Green)
The Welsh (Dark Green)
The Picts (Brown)
The Scottish (Dark Blue)

...

...

What? Is it my fault that you know nothing about Great Britain between 793 and 1066?<sup>4

1. Watching Stworca's Numidia campaign during the trip helped too.
2. Well, Great-great-great-granddaddy at this point. But who's counting? (Me, obviously)
3. If you're wondering what happened in 793, basically the Vikings conducted their first major raid on Great Britian on that date, against the monastery of Lindisfarne. Those poor, poor Northumbrians.
4. Google is your friend at this point. However, If you're wondering about the different strengths/weakness of the different factions in game, it's quite simple: kickass infantry, okay cavalry and vanilla archers. That's pretty much it. Oh sure, variations occur in the different factions (Pictish Chocolate Crossbowmen and Irish Jalapeno Javelins come foremost to mind), but none of the factions really deviate from the formula too much. The Welsh are the exception though, with elite archers instead of elite infantry.</sup>

Spoiler: Old/Dead Characters (click to show/hide)

King Sheb I


King Henrik I


Lord Sirus (died of old age twice)


Delta Foxtrot Sveinsson


Jarod Cain Weather-Hat


Xanatos the Hardy


Ed-boy Yngvarsson


Barbarossa Eight-Fingers

Spoiler: New Characters (click to show/hide)

Army Group Xantos:
Xantos the Hardy, King of Man
Jarod Cain Weather-Hat
Delta Foxtrot Sveinsson
Ed-boy Yngvarsson
Barbarossa Eight-Fingers
Royal Army Group:
Prince of Defet Head of Monkey Sigtrygg
Not Sheb or Henrik, oddly enough.
Army Group Sirus:
Lord Sirus, King of Cantware

Spoiler: Waiting for a Promotion (click to show/hide)

Nobody!

Spoiler: The Armies of the Vikings (click to show/hide)

Name: NRDL's Army
Leader: NRDL, King of Strathclyde.
Status: Kicking ass despite being out of gum.


Name: Royal Army
Leader: Nobody, yet.
Status: Giving all of its huscarls to NRDL.


Name: Army of Scotland
Leader: JamesCorella the Priest.
Status: Heading North.


Name: New, New Army of Wales
Leader: The Prince of Defet, Head of Monkey Sigtrygg
Status: Being temporarily split up for reinforcements.


Name: Xantos's Army
Leader: Xantos, King of Man
Status: Only army that gets to keep its huscarls.


Name: The Army of Northumbria.
Leader: Sheb, WARDEN OF THE NORTHERN MARCHES.
Status: Preparing invasion plans.


Name: Army of Southern England
Leader: Lord Sirus, King of Cantaware
Status: Preparing invasion plans.

Spoiler: Lord Ælfweard (click to show/hide)

Name: Army of Viking Killing Lord Ælfweard
Leader: Lord Ælfweard (If you can believe it)
Status: Being a smug bastard.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Welsh pride! I've only played a bit of Viking Invasion II (remake mod for RTW), always wanted to check out the original Total Wars.

Unite the Welsh and beat the infidels.

[Sheb]

Welsh! I mean, they're like the numid of great-britain, right?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Welsh! I mean, they're like the numid of great-britain, right?

Hmm... Kinda. Except for the fact that they get really good archers, the rest of their units are all rather generic. Not entirely terrible though, just common and slightly under powered.

[hostergaard]

How is this even up for debate? There is vikings in this game! 

I vote viking!

[ed boy]

As a scotsman, I vote the scots.

[Ehndras]

Vikings, absolutely!

[mainiac]

Irish in honor of St. Patricks day!

[Sirus]

I gotta go with Vikings. Pillage and burn!

[Ehndras]

Looks like Wales, Scots and Vikings are tied.

[Iituem]

The Norse, of course!

[JamesCorella]

As a viking, i gotta say PILLAGE!!! woops, I mean viking.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Well, the Vikings and Welsh are almost neck and neck right now, but the Welsh could still pull out a victory, since it'll be a couple more hours before I start the first turn.

Anyways I was wondering if anybody would like to claim a king/prince/general/commander?¹ Yeah, it's a bit premature to be claiming people, but I'll be focusing a bit more on characters this time through, so it'd help me make the turns. I'll definitively need somebody to claim the king², since I'd rather have him start out with a funny name instead of giving him one partway through. If somebody would claim a prince as well, that'd be great.<sup>3
1. If you want to be a general/commander, you'll also have to choose what type of unit you want (The basic types are Infantry, Spearmen, Archers and Calvary. I'll try to give you the best unit of that type that I have). Note that unlike Rome: Total War and up, each and every unit gets a commander with stats, so generals aren't limited to members of the royal family. Thus an army can be led by a ten-star unit of peasants if you could level their commander high enough (I'm not going to try though).
2. I'll see if I can't work in some player interaction into this LP, so the position of king would be more than a fancy title. At the very least you'll be able to choose which faction to attack next, and maybe who should get the various governorships/titles that the game has. I'll work something out.
3. Generals/commanders are less necessary, since the King/Princes will probably be leading most of our armies for the first turn or two.</sup>

[Sheb]

I'll be King if you agree. With a unit of cavalry of course, walking is for peasant.

[Delta Foxtrot]

I claim a general. If we pick Welsh, give me a cavalry unit to wreck havoc with. If we end up with Nordic heathens, I want archers. Let some other glory hound charge ax first into death.