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Alright! I have a dinner date tonight so it might be tomorrow that a new update is put out but the game has been progressed. An event came up and I figured now was a good time to go over a few mechanics, as Imperator is probably the least familiar of the pdx games. I'll probably a do a few of these kinds of posts to slowly introduce different mechanics so people are more informed about the potential consequences of our actions. You can safely skip over this post if you don't care about any of this. If you've been paying attention to the ck3 dev diaries some of this might be familiar. Here we have Stability, Agressive Expansion, and Tyranny.  And Here we have some corrupt clerks "losing" (ie stealing) the nations grain supplies. Necessary supplies for maintaining our army in the field or overcoming harvest failures! Amastris, being a wise and gracious Basilissa, strings the Tibetans up outside the bazaar, and throws a few suspect clerks off the acropolis facefirst, to the sound of thunderous applause from the hooting mob. The personality cult surrounding the Godqueen was already at a feverish pitch, but we do get some Tyranny out of it! But wait, isn't Tyranny bad? Well....sometimes.  Tyranny does have severe consequences regarding the loyalty of important office-holders and primary-culture happiness. Both of which might contribute to a character getting overthrown or a rebellion/civil war happening. But it also increases slavery output, reduces the price of certain tyranical diplomatic actions, and increases the speed of cultural assimilation. This is incredibly important because  Our kingdom is almost entirely wrong-culture group. The character loyalty penalty is mitigated because our Queen is leading the army and we have no governors, as the monarch directly governs the capital region, which we haven't expanded out of yet.  Here she is desperately attempting to teach greek barbarians how to be civilized. We'll go over governors later, when we actually have some. Aggressive expansion is simple.  It sucks. It also makes everyone surround us hate and fear us. We get this mostly through annexing new territory. Since we're mostly wrong-culture this poo poo hurts baaad. Stability is also simple.  It's good folks. If it drops below 50 these bonuses turn into penalties and any ambitious claimants to the throne or disloyal governors might start raising armies. Plot progression soon! Zedhe Khoja fucked around with this message at 10:53 on May 6, 2020 |
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May 6, 2020 10:49
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 The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion!  Amastris, comforted by her scouts assurance that Macedon was tied up fighting Antigonos allies in Greece, was alarmed when she heard that Cassander was making his way towards the Hellespont with a large force. A force much too large for her forces to defeat if Lysimachos joined them. Thankfully, the King of Macedon was foolish, and rather than wait for his fellow Diadochi to join him while Antigonos consolidated ever more soldiers in the west, attempted to force the straight to Chalkedon's north, guarded by a small force of lightly armed Ionians. Maybe he assumed Amastris wouldn't break her siege to challenge him? Or that he could scatter the Ionians before she arrive?  Whatever the case Amastris welcomed the mistake. Her victory would be borne out of the underestimation and contempt her enemies had for a female enemy.  Lysimachos must have been feeling desperate, or maybe he just didn't know what awaited him on the Asian shore, as he followed Cassander's lead in wrecking his army upon the Hellespont.   The Thracians fought like lions before being driven into the sea. The siege takes months, but the city finally falls before being swiftly annexed. Antigonos sends an army into Thrace to begin battering down the walls of Byzantium, but is pounced upon by the reorganized army of Lysimachos.  The Phrygians take massive losses and rout before Amastris can make the crossing herself, and as a result the ensuing battle is a mutual slaughter. Amastris loses nearly a third of her army before the Diadochi withdraws to the interior. The siege of Byzantion is reestablished and reinforcements are drawn from an increasingly small pool of available manpower. Two months into the siege word comes from the west that Pyrrhos has been deposed en absentia by his kinsmen Neoptolemos, a nephew of Alexander the Great and grandson of Phillip by way of Kleopatra, at the urging of Cassander and Ptolemy.   Pyrrhos is barely stopped from taking his men and boarding a ship to Epirus by the wise counsel of Amastris. Pyrrhos would simply be murdered if he set foot in his city, and the entire army combined wouldn't be enough to reclaim his Kingdom. In an attempt to soothe the rage and grief of the former king, Amastris adopts him as a member of her royal household, equal to her natural born sons. Later the queen takes the lad, who in the past several years of campaigning by her side had grown into an athletic and intelligent young man, to the trading markets that had popped up on the outskirts of the besieged city, set up by merchant-ships hoping not to have made their journeys from distant lands in vain. A tiger from Indos had given birth on the voyage to Greece, and Amastris was glad to pay the fortune the Merchant asked for one of its cubs, whom Pyrrhos dubbed "Achilles" after his famed ancestor. Anything to see Pyrrhos happy.  Farther north, the armies of Lysimachos are having some difficulty with the incursion of nomads that is now deep into the Thracian heartlands. Byzantium falls, without the siege ever being challenged. Amastris, fearing the nomads might rob her of her prize, ignores the various armies and makes a beeline for the capital.  Amastris watches as an army twice the size of hers marches past in the distance, seemingly oblivious to the fact that their largest city (and only fortress) was under siege. The Scythians took precedence it seemed. Maybe they thought it better that a "greek" army take the city than a barbarian one.  One last futile battle. It was another six months before the citadel finally threw open it's gates to the attacker. Both the city and the besieging army were starving at that point. And when it finally did Amastris did nothing to hold her soldiers back.   What followed was a sacking that would go down in history for it's savagery:  Ancient description of a sacking  Diaskenthos posted:
 Lysimachos and Arsinoe were put in chains while a pit was dug outside the city and the army rampaged. A day later, rather than the wild animals the couple were expecting, they faced each other, with crude scraps of wood and metal thrown into the pit to serve as weapons. To Arsinoes shock, Lysimachos needed little urging to turn on his wife. But Lysimachos was old, and Arsinoe young, and experience only counts for so much...  Arsinoe was raised up into the royal court as a reward, perhaps to serve as a living reminder of Amastris divine wrath and mercy, perhaps as a trophy. Or perhaps she simply did not wish to anger her powerful father, Ptolemy Soter. It wasn't hard to bring Cassander to the peace table after this. Lysimachos realm, lacking anything resembling an heir, was divided. Everything west of the Euros was given to Macedon. The Anaxes of the various Thracian tribes were allowed to extend their realms to the sea. The Scythians lackies, the even more primitive Tyrgettae, settled the Euxine coast. Byzantium was given what was left, and was forced to swear fealty to the Basilissa Amastris.  Around this time, the temple of Aphrodite in Amastris collapsed.  Many pointed to it as a bad omen, or a punishment for the atrocity at Lysimacheia. It was swiftly rebuilt, reassuring the public. But the nobility of the kingdom, already alarmed, were driven to a frenzy of superstitious dread. The word "Tyrant" was being whispered more and more within the halls of the temples and palaces. One particularly loud voice came from one of the Bythinian prisoners.  But was swiftly silenced. Another loud voice, a free noble, targeted the Basilissa's comrade-in-arms and adopted kin, Pyrrhos, making accusations that extended into the Basilissa's royal tent. The royal guard made a public demonstration of him and let him limp back home.  Amastris is just beggining to settle back into domestic life watching Antigonos collapse from the safety of her capital when she receives a number of urgent messages. quote:1. Antigonos is not collapsing. He is in-fact winning, against all odds. Likely in part due to the numerous other wars Seleukas was fighting.  Sweet
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May 7, 2020 15:57
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A Egypt B Monarchy B Let the Scythians do what they want Can't exactly sign off on restrictions to our god queen. Perhaps some lesser, later monarch might warrant it, but nothing to be done now!
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May 7, 2020 16:33
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A B B And I would never sign that declaration of treason! Already our queen will be suffering the loss of one of the princes, must we inflict more misery on her?
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May 7, 2020 16:56
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A B B No Constitution, only increasingly brazen and entertaining god-queen hubris. Also, would you mind not using timg tags?
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May 7, 2020 17:42
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A B B and No to putting restrictions on our clearly divine leader
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May 7, 2020 18:01
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C B B
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May 7, 2020 18:09
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A B A A constitution? That's just silly! No.
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May 7, 2020 18:53
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CAA That last part seems the most dangerous and urgent.
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May 7, 2020 22:28
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 A B B No, as I have a weak constitution myself, and would rather not deal with another one.
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May 8, 2020 23:02
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C Let's not forget that Antigonos refers to our Godqueen as "Satrapia" I think we can let him sweat a little A I could watch Democracy all day B Let's stay out of Scythia's business, they are staying on their side of the line. No Constituion
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May 8, 2020 23:23
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A A B No to a Constitution, for now. We'll later make a Constitution based on the live and works of our God-Queen and defend it as Holy Text
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May 12, 2020 08:27
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A A B paff, these "noble" men should get back to the barracks and leave the ruling to the wiser sex. No, Amastria should be ruled by God-Queen Amastris.
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May 12, 2020 19:38
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