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GSD
May 10, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
there can never be enough caliphornias

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Talas
Aug 27, 2005

Muslim America is awesome and should be done at every opportunity.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


GSD posted:

there can never be enough caliphornias

It's always Sunni in Philadelphia.

Byzantine
Sep 1, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 16 hours!

GSD posted:

there can never be enough caliphornias

That is literally the origin of California's name.

Telsa Cola
Aug 19, 2011

No... this is all wrong... this whole operation has just gone completely sidewaysface

Byzantine posted:

That is literally the origin of California's name.

It is actually named from a mystical island from 16th century spanish romance novel so its even better.

Soup du Jour
Sep 8, 2011

I always knew I'd die with a headache.

Can't wait for our colonial vassal the Emirate of Al-Abama.

TildeATH
Oct 21, 2010

by Lowtax

Soup du Jour posted:

Can't wait for our colonial vassal the Emirate of Al-Abama.

Arab, Alabama will be pronounced correctly in this timeline.

Deceitful Penguin
Feb 16, 2011
Again, I really hope that Hashim had the best DLC on when he started, because that will give the best scenario for the New World by far.

or even

Random New World :getin:

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Again, I really hope that Hashim had the best DLC on when he started, because that will give the best scenario for the New World by far.

or even

Random New World :getin:

That would make Victoria 2 challenging.

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters

Lord Cyrahzax posted:

Wiz's Hohenzollern lp, the Paradox ur-lp

I don't think that's quite the same as it happening in a game where the Muslim colonial power is the "protagonist" if you will

hashashash
Nov 2, 2016

Cure for cancer discovered!
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Deceitful Penguin posted:

Again, I really hope that Hashim had the best DLC on when he started, because that will give the best scenario for the New World by far.

or even

Random New World :getin:

If you're talking about Sunset Invasion, then no, it wasn't on (pretty much because we started in Iberia, so I'd have been destroyed every time unless I blobbed like crazy, which is never fun). Most of the South American and Mesoamerican nations will start with the High American tech group anyways though, and I'll probably include a New World-scenario in the pre-EU4 vote, to throw a surprise or two in there. Not too sure what they're going to be just yet, though.

hashashash
Nov 2, 2016

Cure for cancer discovered!
Court physicians hate him!
Chapter 27 – Decade of Turmoil – 1405 to 1414


The death of Sultan Ma’n hit Al Andalus hard, very hard. He had proven to be a stabilising force in Iberia, repelling countless Christian invasions and quelling any unrest within Al Andalus, and his death threatened to plunge the sultanate into a long period of unrest.

The Sword of Allah’s conquests ranged from Lisboa to Jerusalem, but the Holy Land couldn’t exactly be ruled from Qadis, so the first order of business was sending young Khudayr and his regents to rule the Sultanate of Filastin.



Ma'n’s firstborn son, Sayf, succeeded to Al Andalus itself. As he was still a mere child, however, the Majlis would rule in his name until his coronation, about a decade later. Within the Majlis, it was a rich landowner by the name of Ali Ghizvanni who quickly rose to power, with the merchant-turned-politican sweeping into power and declaring himself "Grand Vizier" - the first since Musa, the Bull of Caceres.



As always, however, there were many those who opposed the new Grand Vizier - especially the old names of the Majlis, who detested the hold that a mere merchant had on the Sultanate. Most prominently, Emir Abdul-Razaq of Palermo emerged as a staunch rival to Grand Vizier Ali, with the Jizrunid emir sure to cause trouble in the near future.



Back in Qadis, Grand Vizier Ali immediately began dictating policy by declaring war on Christian Iberia, which now consisted of Portugal, León, Castille, Navarre and Aragon, all united under a single crown. The united kingdoms had recently been suffering through internal turmoil, however, so Ali was expecting an easy enough war, with the Grand Vizier personally leading the Mubazirun across the border, and attacking the Christian enclave of Silves.



Unfortunately for him, however, the Iberian Christians were not a beaten force just yet…



King Lop had been expecting another Muslim attack for years now, and had spent his time wisely negotiating a defensive pact with France, the only nearby power who could bring a halt to the recent waves of Andalusi expansion.



So within days of the war being declared, tens of thousands of Christians flooded across the border, assaulting and capturing half a dozen forts in quick succession.



To his credit, however, Grand Vizier Ali did not panic. Surrounding himself with experienced generals, he pulled his forces back and waited for an opportune moment to strike. That moment arrived about a month later, when an ambitious French general drifted too far south and lay siege to Tulaytullah, allowing Ali to swing north and freely attack him.



The Christians were obviously not expecting such a sudden attack. The Andalusi managed to quickly overwhelm and surround them, and within mere hours, every Frenchman on the battlefield was dead or in chains.



Hoping to capitalise on the victory, Grand Vizier Ali immediately went onto the offensive, pinning down a smaller Castilian army at Guadalajara.



This time, the Christians were able to coordinate their forces and quickly reinforce the battle, but it wasn’t enough to shift the tide in their favour. After four hours of thick fighting, the Andalusi forced the Castilians to retreat in disarray, leaving 20,000 corpses littering the field behind them.



Shortly afterwards, Ali received news that the French were attempting another invasion, from both the west and the south. The vizier sent half of his men westward, engaging a 30,000-strong French army near the city of Moraleja, where they were thrown back into Castille.



At the same time, the other 15,000 Andalusi attacked the second French force, which held a slight numerical edge. Through the use of their superior cavalry, however, the Andalusi were able to flank and rout the Christians, pushing them back into Silves.



With that, the French were forced to fall back and the war turned firmly in favour of the Andalusi. Grand Vizier Ali shifted to a more defensive strategy, holding the border in the north whilst a small contingent of the Mubazirun was sent to capture Silves. As they neared the Castilian fortress, however, a significantly larger army struck forward and engaged the Muslims.



The battle was close and bloody, with thousands falling on both sides of the field, but it was the elite Mubazirun who came out on top. As the chaotic Castilian levies fled the battlefield en masse, the Andalusi stormed the royal pavilion and captured King Lop himself, carting him to the Grand Vizier in chains.



With that, the war was brought to a halt. At the behest of Ali, King Lop agreed to cede Silves in a relatively favourable peace, returning to his capital of Burgos in humiliation.



Across the Mediterranean, meanwhile, another war was just coming to an end. The Catholic Basileus of the Latin Empire managed to repel the Nicaean attempt to restore the Eastern Roman Empire, but at great cost, with half of his Orthodox vassals rising up in massive independence revolts.



Further east, the Farzadid Empire of Persia was beginning to crumble after the death of its founder, with large tracts of Azerbaijan rebelling against Isfahan.



Back in Iberia, Grand Vizier Ali returned to the capital, his support bolstered after his decisive victory. As regent, he began to educate young Sayf on the duties of a sultan, providing him with the very best tutors that the House of Knowledge had to offer.



Al Andalus would not be left in peace for much longer, however. Late in 1410, several unruly nobles - including the emirs of Granada, Mursiya, Balansiyyah and Cagliari - banded into a league together and sent envoys to Qadis, demanding that Grand Vizier Ali either loosen his hold on the sultanate or face open revolt.



Grand Vizier Ali wasn’t one to shy away from a conflict, however, and sent the heads of the envoys back to their masters.



The recent war with the Christians had been a taxing one, however, so Ali was only able to raise a host of 18,000 levies. Faced with a significantly more powerful enemy, the vizier knew he had to make the first strike, quickly pinning down a rebel army near Qurtubah.



The loyalists had to make a difficult crossing to reach the enemy, but the river was still and tepid, and the Andalusi were able to take the besiegers by surprise.



After a few hours of bloody fighting, the rebel lines were broken and they were forced to fall back, taking heavy casualties as they did so. And even better, the Emir of Balansiyyah drowned whilst crossing the river, with his heavy armour dragging him to murky depths after his boats were overturned.



The battle wasn’t decisive, however, not by a long shot. The Andalusi pushed south and lay siege to the Red Fortress of Granada, sending a reconnaissance force further east to scout for further information.



And the news they brought back wasn’t good…



As fortresses began falling to the rebels, Grand Vizier Ali realised that he wouldn’t be able to overcome them without a larger army. So he secured a large loan from the Jewish community in Qadis, using it to raise a Berber mercenary force in north Africa, which was quickly sent to reinforce the existing Andalusi levies.



A week before the mercenaries arrived, however, the rebels sprung south in surprise attack and engaged the Andalusi army at Granada. In a bloody battle that nearly cost Grand Vizier Ali his life, the rebels managed to rout his forces and send them running, abandoning their siege of Granada as they did so.



Having suffered heavy losses, the prospects of seizing a decisive victory were looking more bleak with every passing day. Ali retreated to Qadis, where he reorganised the remnants of his army before pushing north again. Without the numbers to carry out a successful attack, the vizier was forced to adopt a defensive strategy instead, and he managed to entice a rebel army into attacking him at Qalatrava.



Ali positioned his forces along a river, and after falling on the rebels with countless devastating attacks and raids as they struggled against the current, the enemy abandoned the battle and fell back into friendly territory.



With his men reinvigorated and inspired once more, Ali shifted onto the offensive, engaging a hostile army at Jaén a few weeks later. Numerically weaker, the rebels didn’t hold long before being routed, with the loyalists scoring another important victory.



The Andalusi pushed towards Balansiyyah, where another rebel army was besieging Almansa, recapturing the strategically-important fortress of Mursiya along the way.



Early in 1413, Vizier Ali began the final offensive of the civil war, sending his forces to pin down and destroy the last of the rebels. The rebel army was slightly bigger, but it was full of tired and war-weary peasants, so it didn’t take much for the professional Mubazirun and mercenary forces to overwhelm them.



With the rebels on the run, it looked like the end of the civil war was finally in sight. Ali wanted to march on the rebel capital and burn it to the ground, sending a message to his rivals and enemies. Before he could do so, however, an exhausted runner arrived from Qadis, carrying an urgent message.

War with the Christians, and this time, they were the ones attacking.



Surely backed by the King of Castille, Duke Muno of Porto declared his intention to re-capture Lisbon and Algarve. And it didn’t end there, because more envoys arrived mere hours later, this time from France.



Doge Pons of Toulouse, a vassal of the King of France, was seeking to expand his holdings along the Mediterranean, and what was a juicier target than the war-torn and weakened Sultanate of Al Andalus?

And even then, as though invasions from two different directions were not enough, another declaration of war arrived just days later. This time from Palermo, Emir Abdul-Razzaq Jizrunid was no doubt eager to carve out his own piece of Al Andalus...



And all of the sudden, Grand Vizier Ali was faced with war in all directions, wars which he almost certainly could not win.



But that didn’t mean he wasn’t going to try. Ali quickly abandoned his plans to march on the rebel capital, instead sending an offer of peace, hoping to eliminate a front altogether.



Before he could hear back from the rebels, however, Doge Pons’ army arrived from Toulouse. Boasting almost 18,000 men, the Occitans engaged the Andalusi at Balansiyyah, likely expecting an easy victory over the smaller army.



This army was made up of trained and tried soldiers, however, and they refused to fold. Instead, the Andalusi let the Occitans bleed themselves dry before counter-attacking in force, scoring a decisive victory after a few hours of bloody fighting.



With the Occitans thrown back, Grand Vizier Ali was able to conclude a white peace with the rebels, who agreed to contribute some of their own levies to the defence of Al Andalus in return for full amnesty.



Ali then marched his bolstered army westward, where the Portuguese had captured Elvas and besieged Lisboa, the regional capital.



The battle was short and decisive, with almost ten thousand dead Portuguese littering the battlefield by day’s end.



Shortly after the victory, Ali received news from the east, where the Sicilians managed to land near Mursiya. They then marched on the fortress, which was little more than ruins at this point, and captured it after a short siege.



Ali knew he had to deal with one opponent at a time, however, so he decided to march on Porto rather than turn around. The Portuguese capital was lightly-fortified, so it didn’t take much to scale the walls and capture the citadel, bringing their short-lived invasion to an end.



With that, Grand Vizier Ali began the long march back to the east, where the Occitans and the Sicilians were pillaging and burning without opposition. Before he even entered Al Andalus again, however, yet another declaration of war arrived…



The new century has only just begun, but already, it’s looking like it’ll be a century of chaos and mayhem, a century of unrest and turmoil, a century of bloodshed and war.



edit; By the way, the Emir of Palermo (who just declared the independence war), is actually a Jizrunid. He's descended from Raf, the son of Sultan Ayyub the Victorious and brother of Sultan Ali the Mad, and apparently he decided to form a cadet dynasty - the ‘Reggios’ - but I'm just gonna keep referring to them as Jizrunids.

hashashash fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jun 10, 2019

hashashash
Nov 2, 2016

Cure for cancer discovered!
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edit: ignore this, added to the actual update instead.

hashashash fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jan 17, 2018

PurpleXVI
Oct 30, 2011

Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!
Just how much of Europe and North Africa is currently at war with the Jizrunids? Goddamn.

Ralepozozaxe
Sep 6, 2010

A Veritable Smorgasbord!
I hope we don't get murdered by Agelop Ramsbury in the next write up.

Luhood
Nov 13, 2012
Blasted opportunists, all of them! May Iblis take their very souls! :argh:

TildeATH
Oct 21, 2010

by Lowtax

Luhood posted:

Blasted opportunists, all of them! May Iblis take their very souls! :argh:

That's Grandpa Iblis.

Deceitful Penguin
Feb 16, 2011

Hashim posted:

If you're talking about Sunset Invasion, then no, it wasn't on (pretty much because we started in Iberia, so I'd have been destroyed every time unless I blobbed like crazy, which is never fun). Most of the South American and Mesoamerican nations will start with the High American tech group anyways though, and I'll probably include a New World-scenario in the pre-EU4 vote, to throw a surprise or two in there. Not too sure what they're going to be just yet, though.
Alas, alas. It can actually be quite amusing to swear fealty to them but I suppose teh HA tech group still being in is at least a consolation.

Also:


wait, 2/1 ???

That isn't even the whole duchy of Jerusalem and he should have a way higher demesne?? Is this some kinda CK+ thing? He should be having at least the min 2 from being a king...


also dang, you're hosting these on imgur? LPix is usually better if you wanna archive the LP later

GenderSelectScreen
Mar 7, 2010

I DON'T KNOW EITHER DON'T ASK ME
College Slice
Imgur loves to delete my images in less than 24 hours. LPix is the way to go.

hashashash
Nov 2, 2016

Cure for cancer discovered!
Court physicians hate him!

Deceitful Penguin posted:

wait, 2/1 ???

That isn't even the whole duchy of Jerusalem and he should have a way higher demesne?? Is this some kinda CK+ thing? He should be having at least the min 2 from being a king...


also dang, you're hosting these on imgur? LPix is usually better if you wanna archive the LP later

I'm not too sure, but it's probably CK2+, they've completely revamped demense laws.

As for the host, I've been meaning to switch over to lpix for a while now anyways, imgur's a real bitch to work with.

Cycloneman
Feb 1, 2009
ASK ME ABOUT
SISTER FUCKING

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Alas, alas. It can actually be quite amusing to swear fealty to them but I suppose teh HA tech group still being in is at least a consolation.

Also:


wait, 2/1 ???

That isn't even the whole duchy of Jerusalem and he should have a way higher demesne?? Is this some kinda CK+ thing? He should be having at least the min 2 from being a king...


also dang, you're hosting these on imgur? LPix is usually better if you wanna archive the LP later

I think it's because he's a child and it hasn't set his regent yet.

Snipee
Mar 27, 2010
Do we have 0 allies in these wars? What happened to the Muslims of North Africa?

HannibalBarca
Sep 11, 2016

History shows, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man.

Snipee posted:

Do we have 0 allies in these wars? What happened to the Muslims of North Africa?

didn't Ghana happen

hashashash
Nov 2, 2016

Cure for cancer discovered!
Court physicians hate him!

Snipee posted:

Do we have 0 allies in these wars? What happened to the Muslims of North Africa?

Morocco hasn't been too friendly of late, and the other Berber states are constantly infighting. Ghana was just a fad :(

Rody One Half
Feb 18, 2011

HannibalBarca posted:

didn't Ghana happen

A Ghana that doesn't respect the snake in the well is no Ghana at all :colbert:

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

Rodyle posted:

A Ghana that doesn't respect the snake in the well is no Ghana at all :colbert:

Which LP was that again?

sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013

Flavius Belisarius posted:

Which LP was that again?

Grey Hunter's Ghana LP

Deceitful Penguin
Feb 16, 2011

Cycloneman posted:

I think it's because he's a child and it hasn't set his regent yet.
Yeah, but he should still have the counties or at least more than 2...

gently caress, one of the reasons why I usually land someone instead of keeping it is to get rid of the hassle of having to assign all the drat land. That or stop playing, then start next session with hunting for dynasty members, dwarfs, idiots and wrong religion/culture dudes, depending on how amusing I wanna make things.

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

sheep-dodger posted:

Grey Hunter's Ghana LP

Ah yes, the "is it kind of racist to make this many dick jokes?" thread.

hashashash
Nov 2, 2016

Cure for cancer discovered!
Court physicians hate him!
Chapter 28 – The Fall of the United Kingdoms of Iberia – 1414 to 1422


The fifteenth century was still young, but from Delhi to Lisbuna, armies were clashing and wars were raging. In the eastern Mediterranean, the two major powers dominating the stage were the Despotate of Nicaea and the Sultanate of Armenia, constantly embroiled in conflict.

Late in 1414, however, the Iconoclast faithful managed to crush the Sunni power in a decisive battle outside Antioch. In the ensuing peace treaty, they demanded Cilicia and large amounts of tribute in return for peace, humiliating the young and self-proclaimed caliphate.



Meanwhile, further west, the powerful Kingdom of France was also on the offensive. After observing the chaos in Iberia with interest for years now, King Frederi finally opted to declare war for the strategic island of Sardinia, hoping to expand his influence in the Mediterranean.



And in Qadis, almost absolute power was concentrated on a single person: Ali Ghizvanni. The Grand Vizier had humble origins as a merchant and tradesman, but by the early years of the fifteen century he had risen to become the richest man in the West, with his galleys monopolising the flow of trade between Asia and Europe. The vizier had poured vast sums of this wealth into his ambitions - buying political influence and exacting promises, purchasing vast estates in Salamanqa and Plasencia, and most importantly, funding the many wars between Al Andalus and Christendom.

Whilst Ali was warring against the forces of Christian Iberia and France, his young charge in Sayf Jizrunid was left to be raised by tutors and clergymen.



Ali himself spent most of the time with his army, which consisted of a conglomerate of Andalusi levies and Berber mercenaries. Al Andalus had already spent the past decade mired in civil conflicts and defensive wars, but in January of 1415, the Grand Vizier finally felt confident enough to go on the offensive again.

The Andalusi army marched northeast first, engaging the Occitans near Castelló, a powerful fortress straddling the border between Al Andalus and Aragon.



The Occitan army was tired and numerically inferior, so there was never any doubt as to who would come out on top. After a few hours of fighting, the Christians were finally broken and thrown back, bringing the Occitan invasion to an abrupt end.



The Andalusi took minimal losses, so Grand Vizier Ali marched the army westward as quickly as possible, hoping to repel the Castilians before they could capture any holdings.

He engaged a small force besieging Tulaytullah just as summer arrived, but the battle was quickly reinforced by a much larger Christian force, numbering more than 20,000 levies.



This time, the battle was long and bloody, with thousands on falling on both sides. The entire war pivoted on this single battle, however, so neither side were willing to retreat until they were utterly broken.

Thousands of levies and dozens of commanders were killed on both sides, but eventually, the elite Mubazirun unit managed to crush the enemy cavalry and outflank their army, crushing it in on either side in a devastating pincer manoeuvre. Before they knew what had hit them, the Christians were throwing their swords to the dust and dropping to their knees.



King Pol hastily pulled the remnants of his host back, with his broken army fleeing in disarray. The Andalusi didn’t pursue them into enemy territory, however, manpower was precious and had to be conserved, so Grand Vizier Ali shifted to a defensive strategy instead.

Predictably, the Christians were back before the year was out, laying siege to the small town of Pedregal late in November. The Andalusi pounced without delay.



And once again, the Christians were annihilated. His prospects growing bleaker with every passing day, King Pol agreed to meet with Grand Vizier Ali for peace talks, eventually agreeing to concede defeat and pay heavy tribute in return for peace.



Unfortunately, however, bad news soon followed. Word arrived in Qadis of several French victories in Sardinia, where the rebels were utterly crushed over a series of short battles, allowing King Frederi to capture the entire island with absurd ease.



Nevertheless, with the surrender of Christian Iberia, two of the three wars had been brought to an end, and both in victory. From Tulaytullah to Qadis, country-wide celebrations were being conducted in honour of Grand Vizier Ali, but there was still one more enemy to defeat...



Emir Abdul-Razzaq, the grandson of Raf Jizrunid and great-grandson of Ayyub Sayfullah, had landed with a powerful host at Balansiyyah. From there, the determined commander pushed south and besieged Almeria, and this is where Grand Vizier Ali fell on him with 15,000 seasoned soldiers.

Once again, the battle quickly descended into yet another bloodbath, but after several hours of bloody fighting and considerable casualties on both sides, the rebels finally cut their losses and fell back.



The victory wasn’t decisive, however, and Emir Abdul-Razzaq refused to surrender, escaping across the Mediterranean and back to Palermo to raise another host. After recapturing the fortress at Mursiya, Grand Vizier Ali loaded his men onto hastily-constructed transport ships, and pursued the rebels back to Sicily itself.



Initially, it looked like the campaign would be simple enough, with the only nearby hostile army numbering just 3000. As it turns out, however, the Emir of Palermo had a few surprises up his sleeve…



Using his vast gold reserves, Emir Abdul-Razzaq recruited a 15,000-strong Italian mercenary force, which he marched straight into the loyalist army. Grand Vizier Ali attempted a hasty retreat, but the rebels pinned him down before his entire army could embark.

The Andalusi didn’t fold easily, but once surrounded by the rebels, there was simply no chance of a victory. After three hours of thick fighting, the loyalists finally broke and retreated in disarray, closely pursued by the rebels.



After being crushed in another engagement, Grand Vizier Ali was forced to the negotiating table, he would not be able to salvage another victory. Emir Abdul-Razzaq’s terms were harsh – full secession from Al Andalus, as well as vast sums of gold and treasure – but such was the price of defeat on the battlefield.



Ali returned to Qadis with a shell of an army, the kingdom teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and half the Majlis ready to rise up against him. But he had done his duty, and after decades of constant warfare, Al Andalus was in peace once more.

And, as it turns out, the timing was perfect. Sayf came of age just weeks later, and after a short ceremony, was formally crowned as Sultan of Al Andalus. A shy, softhearted young man who held the word of Allah dear, he is precisely the leader that the crippled, war-weary Sultanate of Al Andalus needed just then.



As Muslim Iberia enters a rare era of peace, the rest of the world continues to seethe and fume. To the immediate north, the once-powerful Kingdom of Castille had erupted into civil war after the disastrous loss to Al Andalus, with half a dozen principalities rising up in revolt against Burgos. Powerful dukes crowned themselves kings in Portugal and Galicia, the unruly lords of Navarra seized their independence, and the sons of Cyneric reclaimed their father's hard-won kingdom - at long last, the united kingdoms of Christian Iberia had fractured.



Meanwhile, in the Levant, the balance of power is once again transformed as the Shia Fatimid Caliph inherited vast tracts of land from his relatives in Syria.



Posing the greatest danger to the recent victories of Islam, however, is the heart of Christendom itself - Rome. Late in the summer of 1424, Pope Callistus calls a Crusade against the Emirate of Palermo, marching tens of thousands down the length of Italy to engage the heathens.



Very few actually answer the Pope’s call for war, however, with the various Christian powers too absorbed in their own struggles. The Celts and the English contend for primacy in the British Isles, border conflicts once again send France and the Holy Roman Empire towards war, the Balkans are divided between dozens of feuding princedoms, whilst the East has become the battlefield whereupon Christendom and Islam clash…

Whatever the outcome of the Crusade, it cannot be denied that the end of an age is fast approaching.

hashashash fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Oct 13, 2018

HannibalBarca
Sep 11, 2016

History shows, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man.
How do you plan on navigating the CK2>EU4 conversion?

hashashash
Nov 2, 2016

Cure for cancer discovered!
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HannibalBarca posted:

How do you plan on navigating the CK2>EU4 conversion?

I actually finished playing CK2 a couple weeks ago, and... I kinda got a bit ahead of myself, so most of the conversion is already done. I was going to just use the converter, but that ended up being a shitshow, so I ended up converting most of it by hand.

shades of blue
Sep 27, 2012
You have 1500 ducats in the bank, why didn't you raise up a merc army to reinforce your other troops in Sicily? Regardless, we need to reconquer all of Sicily and the Mediterranean islands. Those independent Christian principalities to our north look ripe for the taking as well.

shades of blue fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Apr 16, 2017

hashashash
Nov 2, 2016

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Sampatrick posted:

You have 1500 ducats in the bank, why didn't you raise up a merc army to reinforce your other troops in Sicily?

Didn't expect there to be another 17000 rebels. Two lost battles and capturing Napoli was enough to force me to surrender.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


Hashim posted:

I actually finished playing CK2 a couple weeks ago, and... I kinda got a bit ahead of myself, so most of the conversion is already done. I was going to just use the converter, but that ended up being a shitshow, so I ended up converting most of it by hand.

Yeah, the converter is rubbish and good for nothing more than creating country files, and even there with caveats. I take it you've used the Clausewitz Scenario Editor to keep yourself sane? Also, which year are you concluding the CK2 part of the game?

Slaan
Mar 16, 2009



ASHERAH DEMANDS I FEAST, I VOTE FOR A FEAST OF FLESH

Hashim posted:

Didn't expect there to be another 17000 rebels. Two lost battles and capturing Napoli was enough to force me to surrender.

Its too bad. Sicily was the jewel of the Andalusi empire

hashashash
Nov 2, 2016

Cure for cancer discovered!
Court physicians hate him!

ZearothK posted:

Yeah, the converter is rubbish and good for nothing more than creating country files, and even there with caveats. I take it you've used the Clausewitz Scenario Editor to keep yourself sane? Also, which year are you concluding the CK2 part of the game?

Nope, the scenario editor kept crashing on me, so I had to do all the province stuff by hand :v:

The CK2 part'll end at 1440 though, just so I have an excuse for the inevitable border changes and new nations that pop out in EU4.

Deceitful Penguin
Feb 16, 2011
I wonder if the Icelanders will once again go on vacay~

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011
Does this mean it's flagchat time soon? :allears:

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Ikasuhito
Sep 29, 2013

Haram as Fuck.

Flavius Belisarius posted:

Does this mean it's flagchat time soon? :allears:

Why does everyone hate flagchat? Flagchat is the best!

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