I'm playing a perliminary campaign with the Templar's in thee Early Era Stainless Steel 6.1 campaign, and i have been at war with eygpt for years, and the are constantly besieging my land. I hope it won't be all like this. It is fun though, and fits well with the kind of story I want to write.
The most "successful" Templar AAR i've seen actually had them migrate! Maybe you could try a story where they go off to join the Reconquista? Or they decide to go off to the Baltic and try to do a Teutonic Order? Just some ideas to make it different from the normal "Templars fight against Eygpt for a while, then become too powerful to have anyone stop them" sort've thing.
true that was indeed a very nicely written AAR even though I don't really like migration AARs (there are of course exceptions) but that AAR also held a key concept what I liked: they stayed loyal towards the Catholic factions(unless being betrayed like Sicily did) and were hostile to the Muslim factions. But wat Musty is telling you is also a excellent idea Join the Reconquista, be a early teutonic order and sweep the Baltic area free of infidels or join the crusade against the Cathars in southern France
now that we are talking about tips could someone give me tips about a Hungarian campaign?
You could do the Istvan-Story again. Or you could play resurging descendant of the Avars and plunder middle Europe. Or, if you're looking for struggling, you could try and and play with limited regions( say, max 4) the whole game. Crusading and establishing a (small) Levante-colony would be different, too. Just don't go out and conquer the world 'a gähn'.
Speaking of that, here's another idea. Pick the KoJ instead, and focus on one single General. After the KoJ is secure, you can get the Pope to put a Crusade and send him to the Reconquista, then send him to help out the Teutons, then maybe he returns to the Levant to find Jerusalem has been overrun and he now fights to save it.
I liked the Mighty Migrating Templars, though I think it was left unfinished. I have been thinking of my next AAR, and I want to return to my Getae save game, but that maybe after another M2 one. I have a storyline and character arc sketched out, but it will need more added to it, and the factions I have narrowed it down to, which would fit well are HRE, Spain (Portugese/Castille/Aragon), or the Templars/KoJ. It will follow one general again, but I still have to make a final decision. Luckily I have a bit of time to make since I have to finish my Sicilian AAR.
Well for what it's worth you'll get a + rep for the promise of finishing your AAR, it's a shame that to many AARtists decide to leave a good AAR unfinished and begin with a whole new project. Good to hear that you will finish your current AAR which is a fine read, shows quality and makes me look forward to your next AAR In case of advice, if you want to fight a crusade as a migrating crusading faction why not migrate towards the Caspian Sea(I understand that with factions as Aragon and Templars you choose SS as your mod), party with the Kwarezmian and Cuman Empires while you wait for the arrival of the Mongols. That is something I've never seen and would like to see
I liked the Mighty Migrating Templars, though I think it was left unfinished. His save did die iirc, he didn't willingly just desert it. party with the Kwarezmian and Cuman Empires while you wait for the arrival of the Mongols. It's something that's do-able with 6.2 AI as that makes the Mongols far more aggressive. I'd even go as far as trying to gift land to the Mongols and then say, picking Kiev and trying to withstand the Mongol assaults.
And of course, if you need suggestions. It's not the plan that matters. It's the content that matters.
His save did die iirc, he didn't willingly just desert it. I hear that excuse way to many times lol.... Either way there are enough AARs where the author decides to stop his AAR right in it's tracks and continues with a new project(which I rarely see finished as well)
Though I do get it why AARtists do that I have a new project planned out and partly written as well, though my first one hasn't finished yet. Though I don't want to fall into the same trap I won't post my new project before I've finished my current one.
The temptation to stop knocks at your door, because the old one is becoming usual, when the spark of a new idea sets ablaze the passion for something unseen, fascinating and special It's just the same with women
lol I'm busy for almost a year now and I still love my AAR but seriously Lysimachos, the moment you quit before your AAR is finished I well personally hunt you down and make you finish that AAR and good job Morinzil dont go from a directly to c always go via b
Don't worry, we'll all be old and doddery before that happens
I hope my wife appreciates the clear implication to be drawn from my habit of sticking with my AARs to the bitter end (and sometimes even beyond)...
I'm torn between two ideas. An HSR of the Punic Wars, or an RP aar of the Sassanid Empire...any advice?
personally I would like to see a RP aar of the Sassanid Empire, didn't see a lot of them out there in the great field of AARdom
I'll see if I can get a prologue done this weekend.
What's with the proliferation (well 2) of these 'You choose the faction' AARs? I can't understand how a person can be committed or interested enough to have someone else choose a faction for you to play and write about, especially if it's not a faction you like. I understand if people can't choose one to play as, but if you aren't interested in a faction enough to choose to play it, how can you be interested to stick out to the end? And a new series of Reggie Perrin staring Martin Clunes is starting, so I am very happy
