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Author Topic: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game  (Read 37483 times)

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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #45 on: June 22, 2013, 06:02:40 am »

Oi! Leave something for the rest of us to play :P
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #46 on: June 22, 2013, 07:56:16 am »

Battle of the century:
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Noooooooo D:
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Save - End of Turn 3

ps: I suggest an immeadiate white peace to my successor, as you're kinda at war with all of Christian Europe :P
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #47 on: June 22, 2013, 09:12:15 am »

How did those titles go? Poland to one brother - did you get Bohemia for the third? Should be entertaining anyway - like this, Gavelkind is actually pretty fun.
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #48 on: June 22, 2013, 09:16:12 am »

Nope. The little part of Bohemia and the good sized part of Ruthenia I conquered are all vassals of Lithuania, so if my successor wants to he can easily reunite the kingdoms.
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #49 on: June 22, 2013, 10:41:27 am »

hmm so i have to keep Gavelkind?
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #50 on: June 22, 2013, 10:54:05 am »

Nope. I reformed the faith so I think you can change it. Didn't actually check what laws are available now though.
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #51 on: June 22, 2013, 11:20:39 am »

I suggest you go for something weird like Tanistry. What does it even do? Family members vote?
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #52 on: June 22, 2013, 11:29:12 am »

I suggest you go for something weird like Tanistry. What does it even do? Family members vote?

Tanistry is like Feudal Elective except only your dynasty members can be voted in. Also I think it's only celtic cultures that can have it.
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #53 on: June 22, 2013, 11:33:35 am »

It's like feudal elective except everyone above baron votes, so it's a lot harder to influence the outcome. They'll also tend to vote for people who are more distant relations, living in other realms, so you'll rarely be able to educate your heir.
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #54 on: June 22, 2013, 12:01:24 pm »

Tanistry is only for Celtics.
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #55 on: June 23, 2013, 07:46:50 am »

Turn 4

It's the Year 930 and King Palemon II, named after the First Great King of Lithuania has taken the Throne of Lithuania after the Death of his Father Povilas I.
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With 35 he is already a married man and father of 5 Children. 4 Daughters and a Single Son Butavas.

Song would be song of the Battle of Zemigrod where King Povilas the First Fell and Palemon II crowned himself. Thirteen Thousand Christians against seven thousand Lithuanians. In the Crucial moment of the Battle however Finnish Sellswords appeared on the rear of the Moravian Line and thus encircled the Christians.
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caught between hammer and anvil, the Christians broke. badly.

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In the ensuing slaughter almost Nine Thousand were felled and the war was clearly in favour of Palemon.
The Bavarians meanwhile didn't arrive in time. Legend has it that Queen Mechthild (also dubbed the Cruel) did enjoy the slaughter to much to intervene. In a desperate retreat Queen Plaisance of Lotharingia managed to break the encirclement to allow her husband(King Cenek the Great of Greater Moravia) and the rest of the Coalition Army to flee.

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While QUeen Plaisance managed to escape her entire army got slaughtered. causing the death of almost four thousand men and the almost annihilation of the entire coalition army. Meanwhile the Remains of the Moravian army together with Queen Mechthild had retreated reorganized and were successfully laying siege to Boleslav. As it would turn out another Strategical Mistake by the Christian Kings. Palemon had used the time to call his brother (the King of Poland to aid) and reinforced by two thousand Poles, they were marching upon the Besiegers.
The surprised Moravians fled in Panic. The siege of Boleslav would end in another Lithuanian Victory spilling the blood of another five thousand Moravians.

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Turning the almost disastrous Campaign into a String of Victories the humiliation of the "Heirs of Karl the Great" would be completed with the capture of the Italian King Barthelemi I. in the battle of Hradec.

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broken, beaten and starving the pitiful remains of the Great Christian Army were fleeing towards the Capital of Moravia: Brno. Again defeated by the Now Numerical Superior Lithuanians the remains of the army fled into the Carpathian Mountains regrouping there, while Palemon II. captured Brno further humiliating King Cenek the Great. In one of the few genius manouvers of the Coalition, Cenek however managed to move his army past the Lithuanians and was now moving past Prague to regroup with the many wayward elements of the Moravian Army.

However Cenek made a grave mistake when he engaged the army of Prince Povilas at Passau. Holding the City long enough for Palemon to arrived the Moravian Army was again encirled, this time facing however five times their number.
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The massacre was terrible and the Moravian Army was slaughtered to the man, King Cenek surrendered...the lone survivor of the battle. Witht he Defeat of Moravia the Duchy of Bohemia had come into the fold.
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And Palemon could turn his Attentions to other important matters...for example his very interesting prisoners:
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Alone the ransom of all the Prisoners of War filled the Kingdoms chests with 300 Gold Ducats. Due to the incredible sucess of the Bohemia Campaign the many Lords of Poland decided that Palemon is the rightful ruler of All of Lithuania and sent an Ultimatum to Palemons brother to abdicate

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Palemon of course did what all proper Lithuanian Kings did and joined the Rebellion. Caught between 3 Simultaneous Rebellions( A Peasant Uprising, an Independence Movement and the Crown War itself) and the Army of Great Lithuania the outcome of the war was very predictable.

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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #56 on: June 23, 2013, 08:03:05 am »

I'm glad to see the love Palemonaitis brothers have for each other is still going strong. Truly there has never been a happier family.
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #57 on: June 23, 2013, 11:10:43 am »

Whoops that was unintended i wanted to finish the thing before posting...XD

Anyhow...here is part 2:

6 Years of War, of Constant Gruelling Slaughter had finally brought Lithuania Peace a glorious peace indeed. The Empire had never been this strong:

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In the meantime Great Moravia was a falling star...something Palemon...now known as the Holy would abuse...After barely 9 Months of Peace Palemon declared war anew.
Cenek was currently occupied in a War in Lotharingia helping his son staying on the throne. Thus nobody was there to defend Moravia from the invading Lithuanians.
At least that was the plan. However THe very moment siege was laid to Brno troops under Duke Gheorghe of Slavonia were meeting them.

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As it turned out the Slavonians were woefully unprepared for the fierceness of Lithuanian Steel. However the War in Lotharingia came to a quiker end then expected and soon Palemon was facing more than a easy landgrab.
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At Kromeriz the Lotharingians finally met with the Lithuanians.
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The battle ended obviously with a Lithuanian victory and Palemon even lead the charge that broke the Germans himself. Losing nearly four thousand, the Lotharingian army was running for its dear life.
But while Palemon lead charges in Moravia, his son Butavas was fending off desperate Norse Raiders from Norrland.

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Meanwhile the Moravian War was nearing its end at the critical Battle of Praha.

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A Battle which once again ended with the Total Annihilation of the Moravian Army.
With their defeat the Great Moravia was only used mockingly...King Cenek never figured out why.
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With Moravia brought to heel, Palemon wanted to complete his Dream of Lithuanian Superiority in the Baltic Region, and a Crucial Opponent to Lithuanian Superiority was Pomerania:
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Ruled by King Dyre Knytling, A Genius on the Field of Battle, a Man with a Midas Hand, a Man proficient in every Art known to Men. He had conquered Frisia, taken Saxony from the Franks and Held off the Swedish Hordes. This was a dangerous man. And Palemon declared war on him.
It would soon turn out that Palemon grossly underestimated the Power of the German and Danish Norsemen.

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Palemons Invasion force had to make a run as Twelve Thousand Danes beared down on them. Finally at Praha his four thousand men had to face the 3 times stronger enemy. Barely escaping with his live and a thousand men left Palemon fled deeper into Lithuania gathering as many men as possible, with the Danes hot in pursuit now reinforced by the legendary Jomsvikings led by none other then Palnatoke the Hunter.

Finally at Poznan the Lithuanians(15 thousand) and the Pommeranians(12 thousand) met. The biggest clashing of Shieldwalls in the history of Mankind. a Line stretched over a kilometre in length each 10 meters in depth, the battle would last for days on end.
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but to no avail, finally after days of gruelling slaughter, the Norse Shieldwall broke to the Terror of all involved at the Flank the Jomsvikings held. With them fleeing the entire Norse army was on the run and demoralized. The Battle had been won but at terrible cost, half the Lithuanian army lay dead and King Palemon had been wounded.
The following weeks the Army was hunting down survivors trying to regroup. Suddenly however the Pomeranian Soldiers vanished.
It would turn out that Finnish and Swedish Vassals were clamoring for Independence and rebelling. Palemon used the turmoil and laid direct siege to Brandenburg.
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As the War dragged on however Lithuania was suddenly facing more than the Pommeranians. Sweden and Ostlandet both joined the war and soon enough a repeat of Praha ensued.

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faced by Thirteen Thousand Norsemen the Lithuanian invasion( seven thousand strong) was defeated summarily. the few who escaped tried to regroup with Mercenaries coming from Vilnius.

Reinforced with Fresh Levies and Mercenaries Palemon set out again and once more laid siege to the freshly liberated Brandenburg. Finally after several Months of Sieges the Pommeranians engaged Palemons troops at Magdeburg.

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however briding the River turns out a Problem and before the Vikings can form an effective shieldwall Lithuanian troops are upon them the battle is short and bloody and soon the remaining six thousand Danes are on the run. His troops defeated and on the run, his homelands ravaged by rebels Dyre finally capitulates, handing Palemon Brandenburg and Altmark.

Palemon has been on the throne now for 15 years and his age is slowly showing, but still he wants to complete his Dream of Wendland before he dies of Old Age. A week later troops invade the remains of what once was Great Moravia, Cenek the "Great" an old wizened husk of 73 years nearly dies of an heart attack as troops begin to surround his castle. Seeing everything lost, Cenek immediately surrenders. How he gained the Nickname the Great is an eternal mystery to historians to this day.

With Moravia finally eradicated from the Maps of the World, King Palemon II. rides into Vilnius in a Triumphal Procession, were Highpriest Azulos welcome him and crowns him The First Emperor of the Dominium maris Baltici, the Wendish Empire.

Behold Emperor Palemon the Holy.
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in the year 953 during the remaining rule of Palemon, the normal going ons in Wendland where rudely interrupted by an Earthquake.
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A frantic Peasant soon approaches the Emperor tellling him of a Gate to Hell:
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Frightened by this Development Palemon immediately orders cows to be fed to the Demons inside to appease them:
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And luckily it worked:
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finally after 30 years of rule Emperor Palemon the Holy gets news that the Captain of the Varangian Guard is gathering men for a Conquest...the Conquest of Wendland. Two assassination attempts fail and one faithful night:
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Congrats my Follow Up has to deal witht he Adventuring Varangian Guard...you are so screwed XD

[ur=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96548534/Wendish_Empire961_04_27.ck2]Here be Varangian Guard Adventurers: 861[/url]


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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #58 on: June 23, 2013, 11:28:01 am »

Link doesn't work, FYI. You need to make it a Dropbox download that actually shows the download button (public link?), otherwise it just opens it as a text file.

Also... why is our CoA different? It was a weird symbol before, now it's a boat?
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Re: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods succession game
« Reply #59 on: June 23, 2013, 11:42:22 am »

Sweet. I did not expect you to win from the Christian Coalition. Those mercs I hired must have been pretty heavy on cavalry and heavy infantry.

Looking forward to the next entry :v
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