Before I begin, i will ask the reader the following:
- English is not my first language, and somehow my "word corrector" is broken.
- The story itself will develop who knows how!
- Be patient with my bad way of editing the post, 'cause i'm not very good at doing fancy posts.
- And most important. Enjoy.
The Plot of my AAR is considered from a viewpoint of a Norse historian, yet to be unveiled who this person is. Bloodthirsty and cunning this writer is, and very wanting. So expect his personal ideas attached to the story.
Dificulty: VH/VH
Faction: Riki Norverg
DLV version: 6.0
Field & Settlement costs: On
Point system: On
AI garrison: On
Years have passed since the great days of the vikings.
With the arrival of christianity, our beliefs have changed, and thus, our ways. We don’t believe in the old gods, not any more. We don’t feast after a battle, won or lost, to celebrate the arrival of our fallen bretheren to valhalla.
Now, we sit... altohough we also yern, to get those not forgoten days back to us. Christendom brought peace and humility, but now, hope rises.
We Norse, are know for our kwnoledge of sailing, and thus we herd of a new weapon of cristendom: The Crusades. We were happy to ambrace our faith and to quell our bloodlust.
In secret we all thanks the great Alexios I, for asking Pope Urban for help.
Now, the wrath of the norsemen is about to be unleashed, yet once more.
Chapter One: The Rulling of Konungr Haakon, the WiseThe News.
A sturdy fleet of mighty longboats breaks the clean surface of the sea, and just in the horizon one can see Oslo, the migthy capital of the Norsemen, the seat of power of Konungr Haakon, the all knowing and wise. -May odi... I mean Jesus, guard his side-.
Originally Posted by Admiral Stern Arriving to Oslo's port
Finally arriving at port Admiral Stern, a fine oficer of the Norse, jumps hurridly to the port and rushes to get an audience with the Konungr. Withe little else to do and bored to death, the Wise accepts his servant.
Originally Posted by Dialogue between Konungr Haakon and Admiral Stern
Inmediatly the Konungr, made a summon to his son and heir, he was to take the army to conquer the city of Stokholm, filled with vicious "pagans" and "heathens", of course.
Therefore Magnus, join his army with Admiral Stern and so they both departed to the city of Stokholm. For Ruin and Death, for Glory, and "Jesus".
The Gears of war.
Soon after the departure of his son, the wise Konungr, sent a spy to scout the area, He soon found out about the desperate measures the "heathens" were prepearing.
the city itself was well protected with local militia, a fort was erected to provide a local area where to flee in case of an ill battle. And a patrolling army fit for the Norse wolves. Realising the trap that Magnus was being sent to, he decided to go to the coast and warn him of the peril he was at.
Originally Posted by Notification of the Scout to Magnus
When warned of the peril, Magnus took a blitz desition: "we need a fortification, and we need it now!" With the town of Kalmar nearby, Magnus decided that a good plan was to take the city by force -then again this town was swarming with pagans, and if not, they would be turned into pagans-. And so The siege of Kalmar began.
With the siege going a runner left the city and warned a rebelious lord about the siege, how came to the aid of the city.
To Kalmar!
When the siege engines were ready, and an absent rebel general with reinforcements, Magnus launched to siege. Rams, Siege towers and plenty of proyectile units. Some "old-stiled" raiders went to the front carring the panoply of war.near the gate with the ram, the defenders had no better idea than to open the door to kill the ones carrying the ram. -what an obscure idea of defence this peopled had, thanks to God we layed siege first and not those weaklins of the Riki Daunmark.- This opened the oportinuty to Magnus to lauch the cavalry in full charge, so they went, with tight grip on the spear, and a lust, from past ages, began to run in their veins. The enemy was vanquished in a wink. And so the defenders lost the gate.
Norsemen came in like a relentless wave. Hacking and slashing their way thru the defenders, till they realised there where none left.
The battle itelf lasted a few minutes. The odds where similar, but the Norsemen, had awakend their bloodlust once again. Never again would they silence it. Never. For Ruin and Death, for Glory, and Jesu! they cried once the city was left for them.
So, came Eric.Originally Posted by Screens from the Assault of Kalmar
Eric, the rebel lord watch from the mountainside the fires of Kalmar, although everything seemed normal, he new in his heart that his settlement had fallen to de norweingans. So he took his army to lay and planted them in front of kalmar, not sieging it, but calling Magnus to a fight. Magnus, knew what needed to be done. So he took all of his men, to war...
The battle was very bloody, from the begining the enemy charged to Magnuses spears. While Lord Eric flanked Magnus archers, Magnus Flakned his. Eye for an eye. To change the tide, Magnus took a dificult decision: a full charge to Eric's spearmen aligned near his archers, This way if he succeded he could rout half of Eric's army in one swift blow. And so he charged.
It was glorious, the charge was effortless, the rebels lifeless body flew through the air, while the ones further away saw this grim act taking place. Therefore, the rebel archer so fit to rout in dispair. With half his army gone and the other half on it's way, Eric attacked the core of Magnus army with a pitifull charge, where he was strucked by a spear to his heart, falling to the ground, like the rebel he was. Dust to dust, only great kings are allowed to perform brilliantly in battle.
The Fall of MagnusOriginally Posted by The Battle against Eric Screens
After taking Kalmar and resuplying, Magnus takes his army by sea to his objective: Stokholm.While the enemy general is on the farside of the province Magnus takes his oportunity and siges the town. armed with courage the men get easyly past the denfeders, and Magnus as the viking blood he has, carries out the final charge. Before they could take out the crosbowmen, they manage to fire. And one of the arrows penetrates Magnus plate and severs the spine, killing him instantly. Even though the defenders killed the viking general, the army rose in anger to slay everyone, thus exterminating the population in a signal of revenge.
Rest in Peace, My general.
There goes nothing.Originally Posted by the death of Magnus
After the death of Magnus and capture of Stokholm, the remaining Norsemen stood their ground to the stout army of the blasphemous rebel general Peter. With no luck whatsoever all their siege weapons arrived safetly to the walls, where the blood ran in rivers. Little could to the remaining defenders. For the enemy although a pervert who loves childs, knows the art of commanding men. A stinging defeat surge that day. The whole norse army was routed and Stokholm, therefore, lost.
Originally Posted by When a battle goes Ill
Konungr Haakon get the ill news.
While studing a report from Gardar, the Konungr, was interruptid by the sudden entrance of a messenger bearing the news of the death of Magnus. "Ill news inded, maybe God does not like the idea of the "resurge" of the vikings" he thought. grieving a little he cold his other son, Jon to leave at once to command his dead brother's armies.
While Jon was getting ready, a noble came to see his Konungr, and see if he would take him as a part of the family to sustain the weakened bloodline. Therefore Harald Raefillsson also joined the family.
"Now, where IS, that army?"Originally Posted by The New Family
Jon arrives to the coast of Stokholm to find the city in ruins and in control of the rebels. To make thing worst The Konungr is having a lot a problems at te treasury. So in order to cut off innesesary costs, Jon redeploys to Kalmar where Harald is governing. And retrieve the spy left after the lost of Stockholm. To make matters a little bit more desperate, the armies of Riki Daunmark look with greedy eyes the city of Kalmar and the castle of Oslo. Is but a matter of time for their attack.
Once everything is in place The Konungr begins to ask for help to the nobles, they, say they will help, granting him with an army, Only if the little wooden castle of visby is taken.
Therefore, Jon is aopointed with the task, to gather an army, with no money, take both settlements (Stockholm andVisby) and pacify the nobels.
To the nobels go the spoils.
Jon, turned 22, and the lords idea of visby sunk to the sea as Frederick I sunk on that river... Not very pleased they where, so they sent Admiral Stern to block Bremen's port. Meanwhile, the little resources that the kingdom was generating was invested in more ways to generate money, thus, Jon was left out, with no armies, and no education. Thanks to harald the economy has been steadily improving, but the Konungr sees that every coin gathered goes directly to banquets, hunts, and sensless thinking, just to keep the fast bastards happy. Anyhow, he knows that in return they will grant him 5000 florins for blocking Bremen's port. Thus 4000 against 5000 equals a revenue of one thousand florins, the machinery starts to move better, The Konungrs oil is a good oil.
Pirates ahoy!
Things are never easy. And they where even more dificult for the norsemen. After blocking Bremen and gathering a cosiderable forse, mainly of warmongering bishops. and some peasants, the fleet sets sail for Kalmar, where Harald will lead them to Stockholm. While navigating Admiral Stern sees a fleet of pirates just behind them, not attacking just taunting. Stern knows this doesn't bode well, because those pirates work as a scout, and before he knows he will be trapped with dozens of pirate ships. Praying to God, he asks for the imposible: "let the lads disembark near Kalmar" for he knows if he disembarks near Lund the Danskr would take this as an offense and take advantage of the poor situation of the Norsemen. And if the fleet is destroyed before, the troops asembled would be lost.
Meanwhile Jon, persuaded his stepbrother to build a Scholarium, since he will be king he must not be a brutish king, as the ones of old. Thus, the one going to war will be Harald.
The Revenge of Magnus.
While going to attack the town Harald fell ill, so he was replaced in the last moment by Jon.
Magnus fist came from the afterlife. Jon took the pleasure of puting Peter out. Stockholm was siezed but with a fierce fight, because the only units that Jon could muster where mainly peasants and the warring bishops.
The Lords once more fell the need to capture the castle of Visby, a stronghold to launch attacks to the pagans of lithuania. Good idea. But the Konungr had other plans in mind.
Moreover a new family member came to serve the Konungr. His name is Halstan Haakonsson. Son of the diseased Magnus.
Thorgils joins the family.Originally Posted by Magnus Revenge
After Magnus death the Konungr took both og Magnus sons under his wing. The daugther Hallotta, was maried to Thorgils Ericcsson. A mighty norse general. The second general after Magnus. With new winds, Thorgils sets sails for Visby, the long wanted settlement by those nobels.
In one year 2 popes died, but it troubles little our wise Konungr, because a Crusade was just achieved by the french in Cordoba. And the vikings, are too far away...
The SIege of Visby
Visby, that little wooden castle, the mana that norse noble wanted, was finally, norse.the defenders where outnumbered and with poorer quality troops, hence they perish rather quickly. Unfortunatly the same year Major (he gain a rank) Stern died out of boredom alone in the sea.
The economy is having a harsh time. The Mines and farms are having terrible problems (imagine that since the kingdom was poor is now poorer, and the two main income areas are crippled.) The Red numbers are slowly turning into more yellow one, in hope of a recovery.
The last of the viking KonungrsOriginally Posted by The Battle of Visby
When our king reached 76 years old, the lord, took him. Now he walks in heaven, or as my heart would prefer, he drinks in vallhala with odin.
Haakon's Legacy:
- Kalmar, and Stockholm joined the empire.
- Significantly increase in economy.
- Militaristic King. religion was very much left aside, if it did not grant the king with weapons for the war (he built the small chaper house to get the Norse war Clerics.)
- His borders are still quite unknown. Who knows what fantastic creatures or dangers looms in the horizon.