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achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!

kw0134 posted:

Plotting what Grey's next LP ought to be is a treasured pastime in Grey LPs.

Did not know this. Glad to be part of such a tradition.

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Slaan
Mar 16, 2009



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

Kanthulhu posted:

If we are going to suggest game titles for Grey Hunter to LP I think he should do Six Ages: Ride like the wind. He could even do something like this: a croctopus taking control of a bronze age clan and trying to get them alive through history. The amount of bullshit that game can throw at the player is hilarious.

It's been a while since we had a KODP our Six Ages LP here on the forums.

I wonder how he'll end up sinking the royal navy decimating the Rings horse herd this time

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

kw0134 posted:

Plotting what Grey's next LP ought to be is a treasured pastime in Grey LPs.

Then everyone has forgotten a year later when the current one end

Maigius
Jun 29, 2013


Grey Hunter posted:

I've often thought of telling the tale of Sir Smashington-Smyth, the upper class twit barbarian

I hope you don't mind, I'm stealing this idea for the next campaign I'm in.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


From - Lord Admiral Grey Hunter,
To - Her Royal Highness, Empress of the Croctapus Empire.






On the back of the defeat, Mordrid picks a weaker target – we cannot allow our pawn to get depressed.



Oh. To late.



At least the queen seems up to the task!



Apparently these guys were already at war with our vassals. So we're saving them as well – will they be appreciative? Of course not!



We smash their forced on the field of battle.



How did Mordrid become 57?



The kings lover is exposed to the court.



People take this poorly.



So badly someone tries to sell him a rusty spiked codpiece! Don't say these simians are not capable of witty social commentary!

The war progresses well at least.



Mordrid has a child with Octreda, but he is not willing to legitimize it yet.



One last victory wins the war.



His grandson gets the land.



Two new titles are created.




And handed out.






A new court jester is recruited, but his comedy is not to my tastes. It's mainly a string of complements hoping for cash.



Octreda gives birth to another bastard – this one is a boy!




So he is immediately made the heir.



The lad is apparently already recognised as a handsome gambler – but is sickly.




A new tapestry to commemorate Mordrid's many victories is commissioned.



The queen, who is not the most impressed with this blatant and open infidelity, tries to keep herself relevant.



I have to say, criticising other people heritage is a bit rich from this king!



The tapestry eats more money. For a wall hanging!



It's of course dedicated to Octreda.



Which of course costs EVEN MORE MONEY!






Unfortunately for the queen, she produced another daughter.



Everybody wants to pay this weaver! Mordrid pockets this though.



The skilled doctor is dead.



The thing arrives – and I have to admit it is impressive for the technology – and it will make the family more famous and well liked, as I feel everyone will look at it and realise at the least the current king is not King Mordrid!






Time to expand the kingdom!



The peasants seem to take this as opportunity to rise up!

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I send one army to deal with them.




The main war is not a quick one.



The northernmost rebel army is the strongest – and they take Vitim before my army reaches them.



They are smashed.



And another group just rises up in another part of the country!



More little fires to put out.






News comes that the bastard Hereweard is no longer here.



Mordrid turns once more to the leaf.



This reduced his ability to rule his lands, so more is handed out.





The peasants are cut down.



Their leader is a strong warrior, and is recrutied.



The nation grows, but in spite of the king, not because of him.

I continue to await word.
Yours, Grey Hunter.

Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Feb 27, 2023

SIGSEGV
Nov 4, 2010


Is that western neighbor powerful enough to be a threat? If so, are you going to cut it down a bit until it isn't or are you going to goggle up the south to have more to counter their less? (Very handy that the south completely shattered.)

Rody One Half
Feb 18, 2011

We're inching closer and closer to genuinely desirable real estate!

quote:

So badly someone tries to sell him a rusty spiked codpiece! Don't say these simians are not capable of witty social commentary!

Rogue Trader - The Deadliest Game (Tabletop RPG actual play) - Session 16

The war progresses well at least.
I don't think you meant to include a part of this

Finnish Flasher
Jul 16, 2008
This is most amusing, I will follow this.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


From - Lord Admiral Grey Hunter,
To - Her Royal Highness, Empress of the Croctapus Empire.




Your highness, the Siminans I control are once more at it – their king hopes for a son of course!



Now you should really be part of Albion!



This will not be a long war.



They are hopelessly outnumbered!



I am a few years late on my map of the area! There are only a few larg nations, and most are much smaller than this landing site I have crafted for you.



Mordrid is ecstatic! A Son is born! Hopefully this one will last longer than the last one!



We also finish up this war.



Of course, I prompt we immediately move on to the next one!



To save some money, Mordrid only raises his men at arms.



They prove more than up for the task – taking the enemy banner and scattering their forces.



To the victor the spoils.



The lands are passed to one of his grandsons.



The border between Albion and the Khanate is growing, but the two sides seem to be at peace for now. I would much rather clean up these weak targets than risk a large one without need.



Though it is tempting – Mordrid is getting on in years, and I don't want to have to deal with the paperwork for the succession on top of a war!



I have literally lost count of the number of Mordrids' daughters!



Mordrid adopts one of the small hunter-creatures that move around the palace. The humans seem to like cuddling them, but they dislike me – they may good snacks however!



He decides to name it after me for some reason!






Mordrid brings down another beast. This time he mounts it on the wall.



Everyone seems happy with the conversion rates.




Gah! He's at it again with the putting people on pointy spikes!



He is getting more and more irrational, he starts ranting about one of his lesser champions, and he storms off to grab the new posion he wants to try out.



I can only guess the old fool put the poison in the wrong drink, as he was found dead the next morning.
This leaves a two year old in charge of the country – a ruler I can properly mould to my schemes!



The rest of the council is not happy about having a toddler in charge though!



There is honestly nothing to be said about the whelp.




Mordrid had not taken good care of the heirlooms, and these people have so little history to cling on to – so money is spent to repair them!



It looks like keeping the kingdom together under a child king may be a challenge! I took the Hellspont ridge with only 78% casualties, I can do this!



The queen mother uses her position to find herself a job.



Gwain's most important task is adopting his late fathers cat.




The Queen waits until her husband is dead to spawn a second son – I assume this is out of spite.
The boy is named after his grandfather.



At least Gwain looks like he'll be up for a fight!



I make sure the boy gets a soldiers education. I need to keep increasing your lands!






The first revolt kicks off.



They are numerous, and without a warrior king to lead them, we make sure to keep numbers on our side.



Some clever manuvering allows us to defeat one army.



Then the second.



Making it a nice short war.



This is a shorter missive, but I thought I should let you know I continue to fight in your name.

Yours.
Grey Hunter

AtomikKrab
Jul 17, 2010

Keep on GOP rolling rolling rolling rolling.

The inevitable child ruler,

Although if you make it out of these alive and relatively intact they tend to be pretty decent, especially because you are already past short reign penalties by the time they hit majority.

Kanthulhu
Apr 8, 2009
NO ONE SPOIL GAME OF THRONES FOR ME!

IF SOMEONE TELLS ME THAT OBERYN MARTELL AND THE MOUNTAIN DIE THIS SEASON, I'M GOING TO BE PISSED.

BUT NOT HALF AS PISSED AS I'D BE IF SOMEONE WERE TO SPOIL VARYS KILLING A LANISTER!!!


(Dany shits in a field)
What are those purple borders inside our territory, around Albion's waist?

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Kanthulhu posted:

What are those purple borders inside our territory, around Albion's waist?

A couple of our vassals are fighting a minor war. And have been for decades.

Slaan
Mar 16, 2009



ASHERAH DEMANDS I FEAST, I VOTE FOR A FEAST OF FLESH
Any way we can intervene to stop that war? It's messing up the pretty map:argh:

AtomikKrab
Jul 17, 2010

Keep on GOP rolling rolling rolling rolling.

Slaan posted:

Any way we can intervene to stop that war? It's messing up the pretty map:argh:

Zoom out to fix the map up

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
King Gwain! There's a big green guy here demanding your head! And it's not Merlin!

In this kingdom, that's probably how the legend might start. :)

SIGSEGV
Nov 4, 2010


I notice that lovely is in a pretty lovely situation right now.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

Fuck you say?!

Slaan posted:

Any way we can intervene to stop that war? It's messing up the pretty map:argh:

They'll die out eventually

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


From - Lord Admiral Grey Hunter,
To - Her Royal Highness, Empress of the Croctapus Empire.






There always seems to be someone wanting to destroy everything you've built.



Not only do they hate Gwain for being a kid, but they also hate his father! I can see they are worried he will turn out to be another monster.




Bribes are sent to try and keep them in check.



Gwain adopts a hobo.



This is no reason to not keep on expanding the borders.



No one knows what he sees in this guy, kids are weird.



Someone to the south declares war on us. I had forgotten that was even a thing in the last hundred and odd years!



Their forces flee from us.



We finish off the northern war.



The aggressors come back with a larger army.



Battle is joined.



And news comes our forces have been routed!






Our forces rally and march south.



And we engage again.



This time we defeat them.



They seem to have another war on.







Then things go a bit wrong – those two trouble makers start their war.



They have planned this well – their forces appear as if from nowhere outside the capital.



We need this force north – we engage one of the southern forces.



Another victory is secured.



There is no way our forces can make the trek through the mountains in time to lift the siege.



The city is sacked, and Gwain is forced to sign the humiliating peace treaty. I myself am held at bay by a huge force of spearmen as they threaten to wall me up!



This does not rank as one of the best days in my life. But I assume this is only a temporary setback.



Gwain, as a child just shrugs it off and goes climbing.







The work of getting it all back continues.



The first target is an easy one.



They should be wanting to join us again!



Gwain is somewhere making trouble.



It's a small step forward.



It's given to a relation.



Time to take the next step.




They are able to get their forces combined quickly and defeat one of our armies.



Gwain meanwhile, oblivious, is being a good little boy.



They then sweep south.



This time however, our forces are in a good position and defeat the numerically superior army.



The court continues to work on teaching Gwain to become a king. As all we need to do is get the money together to get the ceremony – and a little more land so we can back up the claim.






Our former vassals apparently can't stop fighting amongst themselves.



This allows us to divide and conquer.



He's growing up fast.



Soon he'll have to worry about all this. We, what I tell him to worry about anyway.



This is a tighter battle, but we pull it off.



The war is over.






Smallpox, a local disease much feared by the primitives has arrived, and we forgot to hire a doctor!



There goes 50 gold from the king fund.



But honestly, this one is looking to good to lose to a random disease on a world that doesn't even have antibiotics!






The new doctor, with a few hints from me, gets the plague under control quickly.



One of Gwain's sisters is married off quickly.



While the lad himself learns how to deal with prisoners properly.







We are called to war by an ally, but with Gwain's coronation day rapidly approaching, we are not planning on wasting any troops.



Then the boy falls ill, mere months before the coronation! The doctor is urged to do all she can! I give all the aid I can.



Mistakes are made, maybe I held the book upside down, but whatever the matter, it is no time for recriminations!



We are able to prove the positive genetic traits present in the Pendragon bloodline. No one knows what I am talking about of course.



The boy gets better despite our best efforts.








The day finally comes where the boy is considered a man.



There is a marriage ceremony.



Then a coronation.



Things are getting back on track.



Though there is still a long way to go!

Yours, Eternally waiting,
Grey Hunter.

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?
I know it's just a narrative gimmick, but I kind of wonder what people in game generally think about "the monster in the Pendragons' basement" who runs things from behind the scenes.

Kanthulhu
Apr 8, 2009
NO ONE SPOIL GAME OF THRONES FOR ME!

IF SOMEONE TELLS ME THAT OBERYN MARTELL AND THE MOUNTAIN DIE THIS SEASON, I'M GOING TO BE PISSED.

BUT NOT HALF AS PISSED AS I'D BE IF SOMEONE WERE TO SPOIL VARYS KILLING A LANISTER!!!


(Dany shits in a field)
A very minor setback

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

Hey grey hunter, are you running any mods or specific DLC for this game?

wedgekree
Feb 20, 2013

GunnerJ posted:

I know it's just a narrative gimmick, but I kind of wonder what people in game generally think about "the monster in the Pendragons' basement" who runs things from behind the scenes.

It's a dragon. Duh. Just a flightless one without wings and that can't breathe fire!

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Leperflesh posted:

Hey grey hunter, are you running any mods or specific DLC for this game?

No Mods, Northern Lords, Royal Court and Fate of Ibera.

Tevery Best
Oct 11, 2013

Hewlo Furriend
Smallpox is a viral disease, antibiotics wouldn't help.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Tevery Best posted:

Smallpox is a viral disease, antibiotics wouldn't help.

Does Croc look like he knows what he's doing?

AtomikKrab
Jul 17, 2010

Keep on GOP rolling rolling rolling rolling.

Tevery Best posted:

Smallpox is a viral disease, antibiotics wouldn't help.

Antibiotics would probably have helped with whatever other stuff that person had going on due to general lack of sanitation, thus reducing the bodies overall immune burden and providing it a better chance to beat the smallpox.

NO IDEA if that is actually a thing but whatever.

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

Grey Hunter posted:

No Mods, Northern Lords, Royal Court and Fate of Ibera.

Cool OK, thanks! I have the base game but none of the DLC and I was wondering what was producing certain differences.

Fun LP!

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


From - Lord Admiral Grey Hunter,
To - Her Royal Highness, Empress of the Croctapus Empire.






There is a little confusion over who is going to pay for the wedding. Gwain has a ton of prestigue, so he takes the cash.



He's then pushed into the throne room we've apparently not been using because we were not a king? And people are complaining we've not been seeing them? I have no idea.



He puts in some spyholes.



Then focuses on strategy. We then pack him off to help our ally in the war.



On the march he tries something different, and of course loses some of his army!



He finds some of them drinking, and joins in.



Others have started a cult.



And drives the remaining men hard.



But in the end he is able to get all his men back together, and has learned a few things along the way.



Just in time to start a major battle!



There are a lot of enemy. More than expected.



The battle costs us heavily – both the Marshal and Chancellor are slain.



The Queen falls pregnant.



That cat was still around?



Hey, why do we have land down here? I shout at the mapmakers but they can't answer me!



Our ally unsurprisingly loses his war.






The apparent curse of daughters continues.



We start our own war.



Then the country to the south whose name I would have to cut my tongue off to pronounce declares war on us. A two front war is not ideal!



It's just chaos!



Gwain implements all his generals ideas.



The enemy call in allies, we are now properly outnumbered.



Thankfully the inland sea keeps us apart as we besiege the lands.



Gwain focuses his learning on moving his men around quickly.



Capturing his daughter brings the war to near to ending, but not close enough to finish it.



We also reclaim a tapestry that was captured when they broke old Albion apart.






Our forces move to protect the capital, and a stalemate develops – no one wants to attack a prepared position in the mountains.






It's summer before things begin to move.



Some elite reinforcements arrive, and the though we outnumber them, the tide of battle begins to turn.



I'm not sure how Gwain can suffer the shame of losing to a force half his size!



We still have the child, so we call for a white peace – we were never getting any land out of this anyway.



Then it's time to focus on the war we actually started – the foe here has used our preoccupation to turn things around.



Gwain is ill – I stay out of it this time.



Things still go wrong.



The Pendragons all like to fight!



Our forces arrive to get the war back on track.



Victory is soon ours.



The king immediately feels better.



He tries to convince one of the drunkards in court to stop drinking.



He fails.



She is annoying the queen, so of course Gwain sides with the queen.



He then sets up a tomb for a local saint.



Then he tries to keep relations between the ruling Anglo-Saxons and the locals in a good state.



Apparently the western realms have some heresy – which is when they believe in the same sky-man, but argue on how to worship him – I know, it's crazy!



The men at arms are expanded.






I advise the king on a method of manipulating the enemy and tricking them into overextending.



These simple simians cannot understand the tactics, and things go poorly.



We'll show them who's foolish!



It's long past time we started to try and move past the tribal stage.



Gwain explains to me in far to much detail his fantasy's, I tell him to visit a brothel to experiment.



He brings how an unwanted guest.






Time to once more expand the kingdom. For some reason they now want him to be pious, and doing this will hurt his standing with god.
I care not.



We quickly take the first settlement.



Then the County of Shityy join the war on our enemies side.



The lovers pox doesn't stop Gwain from trying to get a male heir.



We rout the Shityy forces.



As we chase down another army, we learn the queen is indeed pregnant.




Curse this mountainous terrain!



We start building grander halls.






A son is born! And it's not at the end of a rulers life!



Though the queen is now spreading malicious poems.



What? Both of us suddenly have land down here?



Apparently it belongs to our Nephew! Why does no one tell us when parts of the old kings are inherited! WHAT DO I PAY YOU FOR?



We send forth troops to conquer the land and end the war.



Done!



Wait! That was not the bit of land we were fighting for! You can't just give us.... oh. He can can he?

Sigh.

Send those troops, I implore you your highness!

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

Fuck you say?!

Leperflesh posted:

Cool OK, thanks! I have the base game but none of the DLC and I was wondering what was producing certain differences.

Fun LP!

I'm guessing a lot of his extra content comes from Royal Court seeing I haven't forked over the $$ to grab that one and a lot of the events are new to me

AtomikKrab
Jul 17, 2010

Keep on GOP rolling rolling rolling rolling.

:allears: the randomly getting or you know what LOSING land because of inheritances never gets old.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

AtomikKrab posted:

:allears: the randomly getting or you know what LOSING land because of inheritances never gets old.

Yeah, especially like this where a kingdom collapsed, there is still a web of inheritances two generations deep.

kw0134
Apr 19, 2003

I buy feet pics🍆


Hundreds, thousands of soldiers can die at a whim of the liege, but this one makes me legit sad.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

Fuck you say?!

kw0134 posted:


Hundreds, thousands of soldiers can die at a whim of the liege, but this one makes me legit sad.

I murdered a child and they were dead next to their scraggly cat. I felt SO BAD I loaded an autosave and cancelled the plot.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Veloxyll posted:

I murdered a child and they were dead next to their scraggly cat. I felt SO BAD I loaded an autosave and cancelled the plot.

You'll never qualify for a medieval king then.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


From - Lord Admiral Grey Hunter,
To - Her Royal Highness, Empress of the Croctapus Empire.






I have to report, your highness, that the peasants of this world are still revolting.



They are still no match for a proper army either.



Our retinue then has to march south.



The rebels mass some serious numbers.



But our troops are better armed and better lead.



At least these constant rebellions are a good source of knights.



Time to reclaim some more of lost Albion.



They somehow manage to get troops into our capital – at the same time as some raiders turn up. They spend their strength on fighting each other while I watch from the battlements. Their armies keep glancing up at me and I do think my majestic form was a nice distraction.



Gwain arrives to mop up the victors.



We chase their forces south.



And defeat them again.



And again. The war comes to a quick end.



We are nowhere near to proud to not take gold from someone who is splashing the cash.




It is spent on creating two new titles.



Interestingly, the two sides of court, the Mongols and the Anglo-Saxons are beginning to copy parts of each others lives, they seem to be forming a truly Albion cultures.
See! Those Anthropology lessons were not a complete waste of time!






I have attached some notes for the paper I shall write on primitive cultures. I shall get to work as soon as this world has been subjugated.



We try and give the newly conquered land to Gwains Brother Arthur, but it seems he has arranged himself an incestual marriage, wandered off back into central Europe and taken up the life of a mercenary, and gotten his face messed up.
Apparently he's to far away to contact, which may be for the best.



We make a Welshman a high chief instead. Apparently it's slightly less embarrassing. I do not get the joke.



We also give a title to the kings Nephew.






The new culture is beginning to spread.



The Welshman dies, and rather than make a joke of the position, Gwain appoints one of the few courtiers that considers themselves to be Albion in culture.



A Daughter is born.



That sword they had made is apparently getting pretty famous. Apparently whoever wields it is the true king of Albion, and I am a wizard dragon who bestows it on people.




Apparently the Lovers pox can cause degradation in the mind of its sufferers, and Gwain seems to be acting less rationally at the moment.



He's only thirty and already considered a foolish lunatic. He's a useful puppet though!






I convince him to press his claims on a large and rich part of the lands we have lost.



They have a huge army.



The largest battle we have yet seen begins.



It is a brutal fight, with a third of the participant being wounded or killed, but Albion comes out victorious!



We press the advantage.



He may be mad, but everyone has heard of King Gwain of Albion!



We win another rather pyrrhic victory.



They keep rebuilding their forces, and we have to keep chasing them down.



And crushing them.



After a harsh winter of seiges, we have to nip back into our territory to raise more troops.



Wulfgyth comes of age and is married off.



Yet another huge battle is fought.



And won!



The war has come to an end.



Someone has redecorated the throne room.



Gwain decides to fund another inspired artist. This time its not another bloody tapestry!



Albion is rapidly reclaiming the lands lost in Gwains youth.



Eldhun is a powerful vassal who hates us, we begin to sway him.



Why? Becuase he's has a claim to Dauria that we would like to press.



Lancelot is becoming a diligent student.



The book is completed.







We press Ealdhun's claims.



Half of our army gives chase to theirs – they are trying to take some of our land.



We catch them and crush them in battle.



Then Shityy comes in with their forces.



The main enemy army retreats south and runs into the other half of my army that has been conquering their lands.



This is not blind luck and in fact part of my sublime tactical doctrine.



It's nothing to do with the insane king Gwain at all!



All that is left is to destroy this Shityy army.



We declare victory.



And Albion is nearly back to her former strength.

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
So, having never played this game, I wonder how many generations you can have in a single play through. Is there a limit?

AtomikKrab
Jul 17, 2010

Keep on GOP rolling rolling rolling rolling.

achtungnight posted:

So, having never played this game, I wonder how many generations you can have in a single play through. Is there a limit?

There is a time limit to the game, 1453,

So however many rulers of your dynasty you churn through in that period more or less... uh its good to spread the genes out and do as many matrilineal marriages with daughters as you can to ensure there is SOMEONE of your bloodline who is at least a count so you can keep playing if the worst happens.

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
So 1453 is when Croc’s fleet will arrive. Got it.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


From - Lord Admiral Grey Hunter,
To - Her Royal Highness, Empress of the Croctapus Empire.







Your highness knows the importance of keeping the law, and Gwain makes it plain he is in charge.



I also make sure he keeps on training.



It's time to massively expand the country – this is a powerful foe and a once in a lifetime opportunity!



There are more Pendragons around.



Lancelot really believes in their sky man.



The first battle is a simple victory.



Koza can see the balance of power rapidly changing.



There are babies all over the place!



We have seen no sign of these supposed eight thousand men, and their cities are falling rapidly.



Oh look, there's some of them!



They start marching into our lands.



They march through and try and retake the lands we have conquered – I dispatch a good force to crush them.



It's not a long battle.






Our lands expand massively.



The lands are handed down to Lancelot.



Oh yay, another peasant revolt.



Do I need to tell you how it went?



The Pendragons have so many daughters.






Gwain holds court, and allows everyone to carry their pitiful swords.



I also order him to hold a census – we need to know how many people we have so we can properly tax them!



In an absolutely spiffing jape, when Wulfgyth, Gwain's daughter, demands a position at court, he makes her the Jester – she cannot refuse without losing face, but she has learned a lesson!



We hire more servants and put down fresh hay for the guests.



This has a near instant effect.



The survey is complete – it will take time to repay itself, but it's a long term investment.






Our vassals are complaining about “Pretty boarders” and “Lands rightfully ours” so we go to war again.




It's not even a war really.



To get some proper action, Gwain runs some wargames.





A lot is learned that day.



We create another title.



It's handed out to a worthy vassal.



One of our rivals eats its neighbour, and gets quite large.






We can't have that can we!



This will be Lancelot's first war, and he looks more than ready for it!



Our troops are march into their lands. Their armies are to the south in someone else lands.



We dispatch an army to smash them.



It is an easy victory of course.



We sack the capital, take the heir hostage and end the war.



For all their size, we take them down in less than nine months.



Saethryth is a powerful vassal, so we will have to work on getting her on our side.



Making her our spymaster is a risk, but it will go a long way to making her happier.






The victory hunt goes well.






Time passes quietly as we amass the prestigue for the next waves of wars. One of our vassals curries favour by giving the king a book.



It's a very fancy book though.



We keep on top of the foreigners. you have to.




There is much celebration – apparently we have entered a new millennium, and a thousand years since they killed their prophet (He got better apparently)
During the celebration, we talk of time, and Gwain points out that I have been here for a century and a half! And giving them strong advise for all that time – the question comes up how old I am and how long I will live – I say that I am three hundred, and my species normally last for about five hundred years, but as a member of the royal family, I have received the best in gene therapy and rejuvenation techniques, and can expect to last two and a half thousand years.

This left them stunned speechless! I think they were worried I might be retiring soon! I left them with no worry about that!



The kingdom is at new heights, with several choices of expansion available to us.



The question that really stands out, and one I hope I could get a reply on is which direction to head – we could expand south towards a rich country called India, or west into Europe – we have many miles of either mountains of steppes to cross first, but it's nice to have a medium term goal.

Awaiting your response, your loyal servant,
Grey Hunter.

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meatbag
Apr 2, 2007
Clapping Larry
In all universes, Albion goes to India.

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