Chapter 20: A new King rises
Upon the 17th of December 1109, Giandomenico of Italy died in his bed of a fever aged 61. My name is Æthlred Morcarson and I am an Anglo-Saxon chronicler and writer....
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Chapter 20: A new King rises
Upon the 17th of December 1109, Giandomenico of Italy died in his bed of a fever aged 61. My name is Æthlred Morcarson and I am an Anglo-Saxon chronicler and writer....
I believe someone asked for maps and so here we are, the empire of King Boleslaw II and his wife upon the death of King Boleslaw
II in 1085 and so the Empire that Boleslaw III inherited(before...
Chapter 20: Triumph
Following Boleslaw's victory over the heathens on the field of battle, his men spread out and began to lay siege to the enemy fortresses and cities. Soon other christian forces...
Chapter 19: A fresh Crusade
Returning from his northern campaign to cheers of adulation from the populace of Norway, King Boleslaw III received yet more disturbing news from his eastern territories....
Chapter 18: Northwards Expansion
With his eldest son married and preparations underway for campaigns against both the pagans of Finland and the arrogant Grand Duke of Turov, King...
Chapter 17: Union
With preparation underway for his planned campaign against the pagans of Finland and the founding of his new cities proceeding a pace, King Boleslaw III left Norway and traveled to...
@Scottish King. Just practice and use one of the more forgiving starts(A Duke i Ireland or the King of Poland tend to be quite forgiving)
Chapter 16: Northern Development
Following his passing...
Chapter 15: Honour and Grief
With his greatest enemy in Eastern Europe, the Grand Duke of Turov, in chains and the Duke of Novgorod having withdrawn to his own lands, Boleslaw III’s gaze...
The relationship between the King's of England and France was more complex than that between the Kings of the Scots and the English(at this stage). During this time period, up until Edward I tried to...
Chapter 14: Invasion from the East
As the heathens fought back the Christian kingdoms of Scandinavia, word had reached King Boleslaw III that the Grand Dukes of Turov and Novgorod had invaded his...
Chapter 13: The Storm Breaks
Upon his return from the East, Boleslaw III found Europe plunged into chaos. In his own realm, the peasants had begun to revolt in Lithuania following a...
Chapter 12: Holy Wars in the East
As the Suomenusko pagans were uniting to the north, King Boleslaw III was once again campaigning in the East. With the Fatimid empire weaker than it had...
I'd just like to point out that Stirland uniforms are officially supposed to be green and yellow(although few troopers actually wear anything more than a token representation of the state colours)
Chapter 11: Barbarians from the North
During this golden age, the entire realm prospered under the guidance of the King. Monastries and Cathedrals were built at a record pace and with an...
Chapter 10: Pax
Following his return from the Holy Land, Boleslaw III found that, for the first time since his coronation, he had little to do in his capacity as king. Law had been returned...
Chapter 9: Rebellion!
Upon hearing of the rebellion of two of his vassals, Boleslaw III was furious and rightly so for these two men had both pledged fealty to Boleslaw III upon his being...
Chapter 8: In Nomine Deus
Many months passed in the holy land as the noble crusaders moved from fortress to fortress, town to town until finally Boleslaw and his troops arrived before the...
Chapter 7: Deus Vult!
With the Pope's declaration that any who died crusading would be taken into heaven immediately and that all those who survived would have all their sins forgiven, a wave...
The Winter of 2294
Following the failure of Operation Hydra, the Mongolian armies settled in for another winter along the front line. While Operation Hydra had officially been called off after...
Chapter 6: A grand inheritance
Victory over the Turovians and his siezing of the County of Jacwiez from the Duchy of Turov, a foe who the past King's of Poland had always failed to...
No matter what else he was, unjust and greedy to name but a few of his faults, the Duke was no coward. Even as his army began to break and run all around him, the Duke and his men held their ground...
Chapter 5: A bloody dawn
Succeeding to the throne of Poland aged just 14, it was already evident that Boleslaw III was his father's son and would follow in his father's footsteps....
Chapter 4: The End of an Era
Angered by the raiding of his northenmost territories by the tribesmen of Saarema, in 1085, King Boleslaw II, by this time a very ill man and a shadow...
Chapter 3: Into Darkness
In the summer of 1081, Boleslaw II crossed the river that seperated his realm, the easternmost bastion of christendom, from that of the pagan Lithuanians. It was...
This freed his army to march north and seize the Prussian lands by force. As he had with the Pomeranian lands, Boleslaw took each holding in a siege, looting any riches found inside and putting them...
@Zeion, you won't be seeing any screenshots for the first few chapters, although you may see a map showing the ectent of Boleslaw II's Poland at some date(if I can find it amidst the mess that is the...
So I'm starting yet another AAR to add to my lst of aar's I need to uodate(although the first few chapters of this one are already written so it should be good for a while)
Chapter 1: The seeds of...
Chapter 6: All quiet in the Caribbean
Following the death of Valstorn, the Swedish offensive in the Caribbean and the America's ground to halt. Lacking a commander, the Swedish army limited itself...
Long story short, I'm trying to work out an accurate number of levies for the various houses in Alryia and how many levies each of their vassals would be able to supply and I couldn't find anything...
1. We don't know when troops fighting in formation came into being. However, the reason that they did so was because it's less dangerous for all involved and requires less skill than immediately...
Operation Hydra
In planning for months, Operation Hydra was to be the Mongol's winter offensive of the year 2294. It was hoped that the offensive could lead to an advance of 6km or...
I've always found it interesting that a lot of people think the major impact that the retreat from Moscow had on France was the vast loss in manpower, despite nearly half of Napoleons army coming...
If Vercingetorix had managed to defeat Caesar at Alesia, killing the man himself and the majority of his army, might the Romans have been discouraged from further forays into Gaul? And if they were,...
Well the Empire was slightly odd from the start, what with the Conquistador helmets and Talabheim colour scheme, so we probably shouldn't be surprised that the roster is slightly off
As a table top Empire(and Tomb Kings and Skaven) player, this roster makes me very sad. I mean, I can understand missing out the various knightly orders which, while they would be cool to have,...
Silence had fallen over the field. The artillery had ceased firing, leaving an eery silence to descend over the battlefield. Other artillery could be heard firing in the distance, on other fronts....
In my opinion, the West should either commit fully to Syria, putting soldiers in combat roles on the ground(which is, after all, what they're paid for) or withdraw completely and let the Syrians and...
I realise that there was next to no chance of the Angevin Empire lasting, however I find the possibility of it shppening interesting and wnder what other people think would happen and what would...
The truth probably lies somewhere in between those two representations of the Red army. At the begining of the war the Red armies morale was atrocious, with vast numbers of Soviet soldiers...
Title says it all. If, for whatever reason, the Angevin empire didn't collapse. How would the next 800 years of European history be effected?