[SS AAR] The Ascension of the Byzantine Empire

**Tobo-Potato** · June 05, 2008, 03:12 PM

The Ascension of the Byzantine Empire

This is my first AAR. I've read some AARs and claimed it acceptable to make another AAR for the Byzantine Empire. My AAR begins in the tenth turn of the Late Era Campaign on the Stainless Steel 6.1 modification. Both difficulty settings are set to Very Hard. I'm not intending to make this AAR very battle oriented not due to my command skills, whom I regard as execellent, but to my rather slow computer and my unwillingness to exit the game each time I take a screenshot.

Although I'm very interested in history, this will not be a very historically correct AAR. This is caused by my intetion to reclaim the former glory of the Byzantine Empire, if not the glory of the Roman Empire. My interest has lately turned to the Byzantine Empire and I've therefore chose to lead their faction in the game. If anybody ever stumbled over any good books on the topic please share them with me so that I can widen my perspective on this part of history.

That's it for now. I will soon upload a picture of the current state of my empire along with a detailed description of what I've done and what I'm planning to do in my campaign.

Greek fire, first used by the Byzantine Navy during the Byzantine-Arab Wars (from the Madrid Skylitzes, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid).

**Kaiserjagen** · June 05, 2008, 03:33 PM

Both difficulty settings are set to Very Hard. I'm not intending to make this AAR very battle oriented not due to my command skills, whom I regard as execellent, but to my rather slow computer and my unwillingness to exit the game each time I take a screenshot.

Remember that you can take quick snapshots of the ingame action by hitting PrtScrn button on your keyboard.

They're all saved in the tgas folder in the root of your Medieval II directory.

That way you can pick and edit the pics you want to keep after you finish playing your round.

**Kallum** · June 05, 2008, 03:34 PM

Can't wait when it starts today I have started a Byzantium campaign ass wel can't wait to see what you have done

**Tobo-Potato** · June 10, 2008, 11:21 AM

This is the first chapter of my AAR called The Ascension of the Byzantine Empire.

Winter, 1229 AD

I started my campaign by conquering several settlements in Anatolia. I proceeded by land until I reached Ankara where I'm currently resting my troops and regaining my strength to push onward into the East. One of the smartest things I've done during these first turns was to send my fleet with a small force to capture the coastal cities and castles of the Seljuk Sultanate situated on the Mediterranean coast. I did this parallel with the coquest of the inland settlements. This made a huge economic blow to the Turks and I beleive this is the main reason why I've pushed them this far. My coastal line in Anatolia now streaches from Smyrna in the west to Adana in the east.

Aswell as pushing eastwards I've decided to keep some control on the Balkans. One settlement I've captured here is Scopia. This is my strongest fortress on the mainland and the moment a I see any rebels taking control of any Hungarian city, I will strike. At the moment this settlement is Belgrade. I've also married my beatiful princess in a rather bizarre marriage. While sending her to Italy for a royal wedding and hopefully some alliances I stumbeled over a fairly handsome German general in Vienna. The general is on his way home with his band of mercenary Swabian swordsmen.

That's it for now. I'll soon update this post with a rather decisive battle in Galatia. See you there!

**Nole4694** · June 10, 2008, 10:54 PM

Not a bad start been a while since there's been a byzintine AAR.

unrelated but woot 50 posts

**~~Julius Ceasar the Pimp~~** · June 12, 2008, 04:07 PM

wow for once im new to a aar

**Caesar_1991** · June 27, 2008, 09:41 PM

Lookin good love the Byzies

**Kallum** · June 28, 2008, 07:45 AM

lol is it death?

**Tobo-Potato** · July 01, 2008, 02:21 PM

No, it's asleep... Update coming soon.

**Arksa** · July 21, 2008, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by Tobo-Potato

No, it's asleep... Update coming soon.

sure.

**wyandottecaver** · July 21, 2008, 08:31 PM

a bit off-topic but this AAR has over 900 views and only 1 short post on the actual campaign. Are there pictures of nekkid princesses or something I'm missing?

**Nole4694** · July 21, 2008, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by wyandottecaver

a bit off-topic but this AAR has over 900 views and only 1 short post on the actual campaign. Are there pictures of nekkid princesses or something I'm missing?

no they're just curious too bad though lol