Yegorlyk to Georgia - a CK Dynasty!

[Abe Sargent]

Feb 7, 1089 – The Prince of Trebizond is now my friend

Feb 10 – My ally was annexed by Byzantium

Feb 28 – Byzantium declines to be my ally.

Mar 13 – Poultry Domestication in Kasogs.

Apr 25 – My chancellor is now depressed

Apr 27 – We have a son and name him Aspar

I am saving money for a future war with Cuman, in order to not go into the red.

Aug 10 – The Prince of the Aegean Isles is now my friend

Sept 2 – I sent him a fosterling, my second daughter

Oct 20 - Due to the draining of marshes and flats, Azov is now prosperous

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 7, 1089 – With hundreds of gold (I make a ton a month from my provinces and I am not losing any due to a large demesne), I get in position to DOW Cuman.

Jan 17 – I raise my firstborn daughter myself

Jan 27 – I DOW Cuman. I order troops into Saray and Imertia

Feb 9 – We arrive in Saray and begin fighting

Feb 15 – The siege of Saray begins as we crush the 1900 troops here.

Feb 23 – We defeat troops from Itil in Saray

Mar 4 – Saray falls and I order my troops to Itil

Mar 17 – We crush forces in Itil and finally arrive in Imertia

Mar 26 – We win in Imertia and the siege begins.

Cuman forces arrive in Tana and begin a siege, and it becomes looted and rebelling.

Apr 13 – Itil falls and I order my forces back

May 11 – We force them from Tana.

I DOW Sarkel and move northward

May 15 – After going hunting, the Count of Tmutarakan is now my friend

May 27 – Imertia falls, and I disband the army rather than move it north and keep paying money for it. We win in Sarkel.

June 21 – Sarkel falls. I dow Don Portage and move east

June 22 – Sarkel sends me 285 gold and I annex it.

Sept 3 – We have taken Don Portage and I get 178 gold and the province in peace.

Oct 11 – I DOW Crimea and order troops there

Dec 12 - - We arrive and being a siege

Dec 15 – My spy master comes to me with proof that my only son is not fathered by me, and I refuse to believe her. I need an heir. I lost trusting and gained suspicious

Jan 7, 1091 – revolt in tana, and I assemble the Azov army to put it down.

Jan 10 – Crimea falls. I annex it and take a bunch of gold (190). I DOW Low Dneiper and order my forces in.

Feb 1 – We defeat the rebels.

Feb 17 – Lower Dneiper falls. I DOW Lukomarie and move in.

Mar 23 – I accept an alliance with Byzantium

Apr 1 – I give in to demands in Tana and the revolt ends.

Apr 12 – We take Lukomarie. I DOW Chortitza. I get 85 ducats from the peace. The final CUman army is in Chortitza with all of their final armies together –about 1750 total.

May 10 – We defeat their armies and begin a siege.

June 13 – We capture Chortitza.

We take them all, and get a ton of gold, and some serious badboy. We’ll need major cooling off.

[Abe Sargent]

Our new provinces:

These are all Cuman and Pagan:



Chortitza – 4350, way away from me, and nestled between our former ally and our current ally – and nicely tucked away safe. Struggling – 3 ducats made here. Roads, tile factory, court, royal post and forestry

Lukomorie – Also tucked back, nice and safe. Nothing but thieves guild. 1 ducats, 4350 supply limit.

Lower Dneiper – 4350 as well, just thieves and smugglers guilds, 1 ducat.

Crimea – fishing wharf, roads and forestry – 4 ducats, 4350 supply limit and currently rich

Don Portage – courts, roads, forestry, 2 ducats, poor. Just north of Tana and Sarpa and east of Sarkel

Sarkel – 3 ducats, rich, also has roads, forest and courts. East of Sarkel, north of Tana.


Other provinces:

Imeretia – Georgian and Orthodox. Struggling. Just a 2350 supply limit. 2 ducats, royal post, forestry, fishing wharf, roads and court

Saray – Turkish and pagan. 5 ducats, court, royal post, tile factory and forestry.

Itil – Turkish and Jewish. Struggling, 4 ducats, court, roads, post, wharf and forestry.

[Tellistto]

Nice little war there, grats!

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Tellistto

Nice little war there, grats!

Yeah, I was Cuman's pimp on that one

Map?

[Abe Sargent]

Purple is Byzantium, our ally. Orange are the Turks. White is another pagan tribe. The green province north of my two new ones was recently new Cumani province. That blue province to the west of Sarkel past the river is a one province pagan, but I can’t take it. This is about as north as I want to go, and I expect my expansion days in the future to go south, or west. Or both!

Note our prestige, piety and gold, post war. Not bad stuff, eh?

I don’t want to give away provinces until they are Orthodox. When a ruler is not me, I can’t be sure they will make the province orthodox. Manych has been in the control of Orthodox rulers forever and its still pagan.

So I’ll stick with 60% money due to my large demesne for now.

[Abe Sargent]

June 29 – An event occurs and I decide to trade a claim I’ve had for a while on some random Byzantine province for lowered badboy.

July 4 – I marry my sister to the Emperor of Byzantium.

July 13 – Highway robber band formed in Lower Dneipr

Sept 4 – I forbid a pagan ritual in Don Portage.

Sept 6 - I order a Monastery built in Kakheti

Sept 10 – I have religious tensions in Saray. I crush them, and it becomes Orthodox, looted and rebelling. Excellent!

Oct 1 – Instead of building a bunch of stuff, I’ve been giving gold to my vassals to keep them from getting uppity due to my bad reputation.

Oct 27 – Revolts start in Chortitza after I tell them I don’t care about their holy ground

Nov 15 – Saray is no longer looted

Jan 12, 1092 – After a fosterling is being bullied by my daughter, I hold her accountable and gain Just.

Jan 13- Tana is no longer looted

Feb 1 – My wife has been assassinated, and we don’t know who did it.

Feb 4 – I take a duty of 166 after I marry the 16 year old 3rd daughter of the Prince of Charsianon, a Prince of Byzantium

Feb 7 – When Byzantium DoWs a Turkish vassal I do not come to her aid. That’s just stupid. I;m not ready for war vs the Turks, and certainly not in an offensive war I didn’t even plan.

Feb 11 – After reclaiming wastelands and forests, Kekheti is now prosperous

With a low intrigue and super high disloyalty, the Count of Manych has become a problem. Instead of constantly throwing money at him, I will try and assassinate him. I have a great intrigue, and my spy master has an intimidating intrigue. This is a good shot, I feel.

Success but the new guy is pissed off at me, despite not being found out. He probably suspects so I give him a gift of all of my gold to get him up to feasible level.

Mar 18 – Ascetism in Kasogs

I offered the new Count a wife but he declined

Apr 17 – I give in to demands in Chortitza and the revolt ends.

July 29 – Sarpa’s prosperous-ness is set back to normal

In order to stop this issue with the Count of Manych – I give the Prince of Alania title to the Count, and he takes the Count of Manych as his vassal.

Oct 20 – Training grounds ordered in Saray

Nov 7 – The Turks took Byzantium province itself from Byzantium

[Abe Sargent]

Feb 17, 1093 – We marry a courtier off. And we get this, and you ready:

16 year old, Boz-Uraz of Manych

Midas Touched, Prodigy, Energetic, Zealous
Stressed

Martial – 12, Dip – 15, Intr – 9, Stew – 15

If he weren;t stressed, he;d be even better. He came to my court as a fosterling, and I;ve raised him to this, but then the home disappeared so he is staying with us.

He is a great Duke candidate or courtier. He is my new steward, but he could also be my new general.

I marry him to my Chancellor and hope they have some miracle babies


Apr 25 – I forbid the celebrating of a holiday in Tana and luckily avoid the chance at revolting.

Apr 29 – Chained Leather in Kasogs

May 15 – Forestry ordered in Kakheti

May 22 – I choose a court education for my eldest daughter

July 1 – Three nearby Turkish provinces have been captured by rebels, but the Turks are usually pretty good at putting them down. We’ll see if they can get these ones before they become a separate tribe.


July 20 – I am now the friend of the Emir of Kermanshah.

July 24 – I am now the rival of the Bey of Lower Volga

Aug 26 – My second wife is now with child

Oct 1 – I give in to demands in Saray and the rebellion there ends.

I wanted to have Saray, Itil, Yegorlyk, Kosags, Crimea, and Kakheti in my demesne forever. The others I’ll give away.

I create the Count of Lower Dneipr, because it is severely damaged. I give it to family. It will increase my money a lot, but I hate to give away pagan land, yet in this case, an exception is made.

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 10, 1094 – After I refuse to lose a friend just because there was a power inequity in our relationship, I gain humble.

May 8 – We learn Three Fields System in Kasogs

May 22 – I will raise my son myself

May 23 – We have a daughter named Burudukan in honor of my mother

June 2 – Lose some piety when I choose to honor pagan shrines in Azov

July 9 – We discover Salt Refineries in Kasogs

Aug 28 – Our infant dies.

Nov 8 – The Turks have been freeing all of the rebel controlled provinces with ease.

Dec 12 – I choose to back my child in getting in scraps with other kids – he gains Stubborn.

Jan 19, 1095 – The smugglers are hanged in Kakheti and removed.

May 5 – The Prince of Karvuna is now an ally.

Jun 16 – The Seven Liberal Arts in Kosags

Dec 20 – Scalemail in Kosags

Feb 2, 1096 – Banded Mail discovered in Kasogs

Mar 1 – My mother died and I reinhertied Imeretia. I give it as a Bishopric to my Diocese Bishop. I also inherited a metric ton of money.

I take the Prince of Crimea title.

Templar House in Kakhati
Library in Kasogs
Tile Factory in Itil and Crimea


Mar 6 - I grant the title again

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 23 – My son gains Amiable after he is encouraged by me to make friends

June 22 – I will be educating my son at court. The army was very tempting, he has a good martial skill already, but I Went with a more well rounded education.

Aug 6 – Crimea gets his with Dysentery.

Aug 22 – I choose not the call the estates general, and our prestige rises, but the chance of raised stability failed.

Sept 10 – We have a Zealous Firebrand in Kuban and I choose to behead him and luckily, no revolt.

Nov 17 – We are expecting another child

Jan 15, 1097 – The Prince of Abghazia is now Rebellious

Jan 20 – I fell in love with my wife. She is now my friend. I become chaste

Jan 21 – Don Portage now has a normal level of prosperity

Apr 28 – The new Count of Tmutarakan is now my rival

May 6 – Mariam has passed.

June 27 – Dysentery ends in Crimea. For now.

July 23 – I accept an alliance offer from Byzantium

Aug 14 – We have a daughter and name her Irina

Jan 23, 1098 –There’s a pretty big rebellion going on in Ryn Desert – we’ll see if the Turks comes and help or if it will lay there for a while.

May 15 – There was a rebellion in Kuma, but the Count of Manych managed to put it down on his own.

June 27 – Expecting child again

Nov 30 – I hand Irina to the nannies for rearing

Dec 24 – I get a Burghers uprising event and choose to crush it in Itil. Itil is now Orthodox, Rebelling, Looted and still Struggling.

Dec 27 = Chortitza starts rebelling

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 14, 1099 – Itil is no longer looted.

Feb 26 – I get a nasty event. It says that it’s hard to control provinces too far away and Sarkel gets a thieves guild, smugglers ring, and highway robber group. Nasty

Mar 23 – Daughter named Irina. Apparently we wanted two named that.

Mar 26 – Revolt spreads to Saray from Itil. That’s not good either. This is not the good event year.

Apr 17 – I forbid the celebration of a pagan feast in Tana

June 19 – I accept a fosterling from Alania

July 6 – Rebels in Kuban

July 18 – Defeated

Aug 3 – Revolt in Tana

Aug 11 – No more

Oct 12 – We gain Disloyal Vassal Outmaneuvered and gain a claim on Imeretia

Oct 14 – Thieves in Sarkel are hanged and their guild is no mo’

Dec 23 – Due to growth in towns and hamlets, Don Portage is now prosperous

July 11, 1100 I choose to disallow a festival of pagan nature in Tana again

Aug 16 – Our old ally says no to a new alliance after we lose the Byzantium one because all of their vassals are wanting freedom.

Sept 10 – Rebellion in Tana

Sept 17 – Well, there used to be one there

Nov 1 – Our old ally is going through realm duress and his counties are splitting off in droves.

Nov 7 – The Turks recaptured Ryn Desert from the rebels

[Abe Sargent]

Do I want to take provinces from Itil?

They aren’t bad, but I can; take too many more Pagan provinces right now for my demense.

Plus I don’t want to badboy up over provinces from Itil. But, this is a defensive war, so I don’t get as much badboy from them. Hmm. I’ll need to think about it.


I mobilize my Saray and Itil forces.

Nov 27 _ I send my combined forces against Itil, led by the King himself.

Dec 9 – We win in Uzens and begin a siege

Jan 7, 1101 – We deal with a popular revolt in Itil by giving in to some demands.

Jan 8 – Uzens falls. Their force we took out has moved to Saray and begun a siege.

Where to go next?

Feb 10 – Saray falls and I order more troops to take out the Itil forces and regain Saray.

Feb 28 – We win in Yaik and begin a siege

Mar 28 – We capture Yaik and I order my troops to Bashkir

May 10 Bashkir falls

May 23 – Rebellion in Chortitza

May 29 – Put down

June 8 – We recapture Saray

June 25 – They recapture Yaik

June 28 – I forbid a pagan feast in Kuban

July 8 – The Yegorlyk army has arrived in Yaik and is attacking our last enemy there while my main is besieging Southern Ural

July 20 – We lose in Yaik

Aug 5 – Southern Ural falls

Aug 7 – The Count of Manych is now my friend. That’s a new one

Aug 20 – We defeat their forces in S Ural

Sept 10 – We get a new rival – Prince of Cherson

Sept 25 – Theives Guild formed in Crimea

Sept 27 – Aristolean Logic in Kasogs

Oct 22 – We take Yaik and now look to peace negotiations. What do I want?

I make them give me all of their gold, refuse all of their claims on my territory (except for the next two, obviously) and take Yaik and Uzens.


Yaik – Building a Tile Factory, currently rich, roads and extensive roads, forestry, royal post and court. Cuman and Pagans. Currently make for us 4 ducats. Just a supply limit of 2120. No Hill Fort.

Uzens – Currently build extensive road network, court, forestry, roads, Cuman Pagans, no hill fort, 2 ducats currently.


I use my blood money to pay off my vassals that have gotten pissed without money being tossed their way, and also to bring me out of debt.

[Abe Sargent]

Nov 22 – I got a prince in Greece as a new rival. Who cares

Jan 9, 1102 – I grant the Count of Chortitza to my old general from long ago. I grant Lukomorie to a good courtier to whom I am not related. I then give the Prince of Crimea title to this guy, and he takes the Count of Chortitza and Lower Dneipr under his wing.

I don’t like giving away pagan land, but I need to.

Jan 21 – No more thieves in Azov

Feb 4 – We are expecting another kid

Apr 7 – Sculptures in Kasogs

We are making about 100 gold every other month, so I will save a bit and start building Hill Forts in Yaik and Uzens

Apr 21 – After towns and hamlets grow considerably, Kakheti is now rich.


May 16 – I accept a fosterling from the Prince of Trebizond

May 21 – The Prince of Cherson died and now we have one less rival on our border – yay.

June 11 – Thieves Guild forms in Sarpa

July 11 – I marry my eldest daughter to the Prince of Charsianon’s grandson, and in line for succession. I get more than 500 gold from the dowry and purchase two forts in our new provinces with the money.

Aug 1 – Rebels have again captured Ryn Desert

Aug 30 – Smuggler’s Ring broken up in Sarkel

Sept 29 – Once again, I choose not to call the Estates General, and instead gain some prestige and stability!

Oct 2 – Cathedral Schools spread in Kasogs

Nov 5 – We have a son and name him Bedros

Nov 11 – I gain Weak Willed after I choose not to become a rival with the Prince of Charsianon

Nov 17 - My second born son has just inherited that Princedom after he died. If he had died a month ago, my second son would not have gotten it. The bad news is that I will be unable to shape my second son’s life, in case my first born one dies.

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 1, 1103 – I have gained the Prince of Abghazia as a new friend

Apr 3 – My Marshal wants recognition and I reward him generously.

May 5 – Because Byzantium is hemmorging vassals, many near us have gone rogue. Including, Tmutarakan.

If only I had a lower badboy…

June 28 – Frontal Charge in Kasogs

Aug 24 – Thieves Guild formed in Azov

Sept 28 – Light crossbows in Kasogs

Oct 7 – I take a fosterling from Manych

Oct 27 – bad year at the fishery in Crimea and I help them out with some ducats

Dec 13 – Local Merchant Houses in our capital

Dec 29 – I honor pagan shrines in Uzens

Dec 30 – My second daughter returns from Abghazia to my court, and I will wait to see what she learns from her education before I decide to marry her off. There’s a possibility she could be a courtier with the right mix of abilities.

Apr 13, 1104 – The province east of Ryn Desert, Emba, has declared independace fromt eh Turks, so maybe they won’t be able to get to Ryn Desert in time to keep it from also going solo. Four provinces to our south have fallen to rebels, but again, the Turks usually clear them up before things get out of hand.

May 11 – My daughter came back not good at all, so I send this naïve wirepuller to another court, as soon as I find one worthy for the daughter of a King and a King’s daughter (her mother was my first wife, the daughter of thee King of Georgia I)

June 17 – I marry my second daughter to the second son of the Prince of Armenia Minor

With my dowry money, I order a small castle built in Kakheti

June 19 - I used an event to claim the title of Tmutarakan.

July 17 – I sent my youngest Irina to Byzantium to be a fosterling

July 23 – Highway Robbers caught and killed in Sarkel

Oct 15 – I order Training Grounds in Crimea

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 12, 1105 – Tana is so poor, I decide to hand it to one of my courtiers, even though its pagan, just to free up another spot.

Apr 25 – I accept an Abghazian fosterling

May 5 – My son and heir is now 16, let’s wife shop

I’m having a great deal of trouble finding even so much as a county that is currently dynastically vulnerable and has the right laws to allow me to inherit through the daughter. I am resigned to just find a good mother.

May 15 – Mass Scale Conversions turns Kuban Orthodox, and I give it to my Diocese Bishop as the new Count of Kuban.

May 17 – My son has married the eldest daughter of the Duke of Apulia. Here she is:

Heria de Hautville
16

Wise, Lazy, Deceitful, Court Education
Stressed

10/8/10/11

The stressed isn’t great, because it reduces her fertility, but I don’t need 15 kids, just good ones.


May 21 – Azov prosperity set to rich

Sept 16 – I have gained the Bey of Ryn Desert as a rival

Sept 23 – My son is now Silver Tongued

Our Prince:

Aspar of Yegorlyk
16

Silver Tongued, Amiable, Stubborn

9/10/6/10

[Abe Sargent]

Feb 8, 1106 – My daughter in law is now a gruff diplomat

She’s pregnant though.

July 25 – Rebellion in Manych

Aug 26 – Destroyed

Oct 11 – Don Portage starts rebelling

Oct 17 – I think it’s a silly superstition when pagan priests see an evil omen in the skies over Sarkel, but no revolt occurs.

Oct 29 - Smugglers Ring formed in Sarpa

Nov 7 – Rebellion begins in Sarkel

Nov 18 – Defeated

Dec 22 – Kasogs now has mucial instruments

Dec 28 – Kakheti now has a Small Castle – nice!

Jan 12, 1107 – I give in to demands and the revolt ends in Don Portage


Jan 13 – My grandson is born, and named after me.

Apr 4 – They are pregnant again

June 1 – Thieves guild disbanded in Sarpa

Nov 1 – The Turks are reclaiming rebel controlled provinces, including Ryn Desert and several to our south in Armenia and lower Georgia

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 1, 1108 – T Guild formed in Yaik

Apr 8 – I order a library built in Itil

Apr 15 – Two of my Principalities have DOWed the free Principality of Coloneia. I join them in order to be nice.

May 3 – Smugglers Ring formed in Kakheti

Aug 20 – 4000 Crimean troops arrive in Trebizond to help lift the siege by our mutual enemy.

Sept 1 – We win. I order our forces into Chaldea

Sept 17 – We crush them in Chaldea, and then I disband. If my vassals want to pursue sieges or fighting, they can, but I helped to take out their armies, and weakened them.

Nov 7 – My vassals capture Chaldea

Dec 17 – The Prince of Crimea died and his son takes over.

Mar 12, 1109 -Chaldea is retaken

Mar 26 – Smugglers Ring destroyed in Sarpa

Apr 20 – Thieves disbanded in Yaik

May 20 – The Prince of Trebizond has taken the Prince of Coloneia title as well, plus the province of Koloneia, which he has appointed a Count to lead.

There is now a Count of Chaldea who has the province of Melitene, and I offer him a White Peace.

May 29 – He declines.

Aug 8 – I look at the Prince of Trebizond’s screen again and see he now has a new County – Napoli. At some point in time in the last three months, Napoli has joined our kingdom. Wierd. Probably an inheritance.

Sept 29 – Byzantium is down to just two vassals. Everybody else has gone rogue.

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s see a map:







I brought the Emperor up and you can see just how many people are currently at war with him. Crazy! The grey blob is the CHIEFTAIN of Hungary – yup, a pagan took over, and it’s half pagan and half Catholic.

Welcome to the crazy room, with a -12819 prestige for the Emperor.

The King of Sweden inherited the King of Bohemia, and has been expanding madly. The Papal States have just trounced through the HRE and taken tons of provinces. England has almost all of Ireland but Scotland has taken a few English provinces. The Iberian peninsula is almost all Arabic, and they’ve solidified around two powers, and taken out most of the Catholics. France is solid.

[Abe Sargent]

Oct 12 – A 12 year old fosterling committed suicide. I’d hate to explain that to a parent.

Dec 10 – Broadswords in Kasogs

Dec 19 – Chaldea offers a White Peace, which I accept

Jan 7, 1110 – I order a library in Kakheti

Jan 14 – Because it is very hard to control provinces away, I get a nasty event. Don Portage is now looted and rebelling.

Feb 3 – I give in to demands and the rebellion in Don Portage ceases

Feb 16 – The Prince of Cherson is now my rival

Mar 1 – I order troops in Yegorlyk and Kosags to assemble and to move to Kuban.

Mar 16 – I DOW Tmutarakan

Mar 23 – Don Portage recovers and is no longer looted

Mar 26 – We arrive

Apr 3 – We win

Apr 23 – The small castle falls to us. I disband my armies.

I take it and a bunch of gold.

Tmutarakan – 11 ducats are made by the Orthodox Russians here. Court, Small Castle, roads, extensive roads, Tile Factory, Forestry, Royal Post, Forestry, and Library are all here. It’s a very wealthy province for here, and it immediately becomes the wealthiest one I own, but it is in part because it is more developed than Kasogs, Saray, Itil and Karakheti. I order a Training Grounds here with my blood money.

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 28 – My son’s wife has become mad.


Nov 25 -My son’s firstborn son is now ill

Dec 27 – My vassals stupidly DOW Hungary. I order my Crimean regiment roused and take it out.

Jan 21, 1111 – We win in Oleshye.

Jan 24 – We repel an attack in Sarkal. I then disband that army.

Feb 1 – The siege in Oleshye is won by the Emperor of Byzantium.

Feb 16 – We win in Olivia and begin a siege

Feb 22 – Our grandson loses illness when we pay a miracle worker

Feb 28 – Olivia falls

Apr 24 – We take Sugrov and I take it in peace.


Sugrov – West of Sarkel is this province, with 7 ducats being made for me, moneylenders under construction, and it has: Court, Roads, Extensive Roads, Royal Post, Forestry, Tile Builder, Library and Training Grounds. 4470 supply limit. They are Cumani and pagan


I also got 388 gold and I order: Library in Crimea and Roads in Saray

[Abe Sargent]

June 1 – Uzens is now looted

I did gain some claims from the war, and hopefully that event will fire where I can give them up for lowered badboys

July 8 – Inadequate soil prep drops Crimea to prospoerous


Sept 19 – Uzens recovers

Sept 22 – The County of Coloneia had declared independence, but they were retaken today by the Prince of Trebizond

Jan 9, 1112 – I get another Distant Province looted and revolting in Don Portage

The nearby Byzantium provinces fell to Hungary.

Feb 10 – Rebellion in Don Portage

Feb 13 – I finance a great feast in Sarkel

Feb 21 – Rebellion defeated

Mar 5 – Brickwork Structures in Kasogs

June 10 – Prosperity in Kakheti set to just prosperous

June 17 – We defeat a small rebellion in Don Portage

June 21 – Monastic Schools spread to Kasogs

Nov 4 – Don Portage now is inflicted with Dysentery

Dec 1 – I build a monastery in Kasogs

[Abe Sargent]

Feb 5, 1113 = Don Portage is no longer prosperous, just normal after arable land was deserted

Mar 24 _ I order a library in Saray

May 28 – My son;s wife is no longer crazy

May 30 – There is a new King of Hungary and he is a normal Catholic. That’s bad Hungary had taken all of the pagans around me, and I could Dow them easily and take them as I wanted, but now I have to use the slow path

June 7 – We get a culture change – Itil becomes Alan culture

Aug 1 – Rebellion in Don Portage

Au 22 – Defeated

Sept 2 – Dysentery ends

Sept 10 _ I married a 16 years old daughter to a son of a prince. I took 900+ gold. With it, I:

Monastery in Yegorlyk
Small Castle in Crimea
Glass-works in Kakheti

Nov 26 – I tell the pagans in Yaik I don’t care about their holy ground, but no rebellion

Jan 7, 1114 – Crimea starts rebelling against me.

Jan 28 – I choose to crush the pagans in Sugrov. It is now Orthodox and Looted

Feb 20 – We crush a rebellion in Don Portage but my Marshall is badly wounded

Apr 2 – My heir is now friends with the Prince of Alania

May 12 – Sugrov is no longer looted.

Aug 30 – Sweden just took a bunch of Hungary provinces in war, including those near me.

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 3, 1115- Mine ordered in Kakheti

Mar 6 – The Pagans are demanding blood, and rebelling in Sarkel for a while

June 1 – Same event as above but for Sarpa

Byzantium is rebuilding its empire from the dregs of the previous one, now that its realm duress has ended.

I DOW the Tribe of Lower Don. I need a land connection between my halves without going through the sea.

July 12 – We have taken Lower Don and added it to my flock:


Lower Don – 2 ducats, has a thieves guild, road, forestry and royal post. Pagan Cumans. Currently Poor.


Oct 3 – Don Portage recovers and is no longer looted

Dec 5 _ I marry my last daughter to the son of a Cypriot prince

Dec 30 – Warhammers learned in Kasogs

Jan 4, 1116 – Tile factory in Lower Don

Feb 3 – I give in to local demands in Don Portage and the rebellion ends

Mar 15 – Library in Yegorlyk

Sept 29 – Dysentery arrives in Lower Don

[Abe Sargent]

Dec 5, 1116 –


50 Year Review:



50 years ago, we were the Count of Yegorlyk. Now we are the King of Georgia, Prince of Azov, and Count of 15 provinces.


Of our nation’s 28 provinces, here is the breakdown:

Religions:

Pagan: 12
Jewish: 1
Catholic: 1
Orthodox: 14


Cultures:

Cuman: 15
Alan: 6
Georgian: 2
Turkish: 1
Russian: 1
Greek: 3 (Napoli, Trebizond, Koloneia)



Kingdoms:

Georgia – 5 of 10
Armenia – 1 of 26
Byzantium - 1 of ???
Sicily – 1 of 17
Khazaria – 20 of 52

[Abe Sargent]

Map!

[Abe Sargent]

As you can tell, I’ve gotten to the place where I am getting enough money to invest regularly. Here is the monthly change from my seven vassals:

Prince of Crimea - +0.1
Prince of Alania - +4.2
Prince of Trebizond - +1.5
Prince of Abghazia - +0.4
Countess of Imeretia - -1.9
Count of Tana - -3.2
Count of Kuban - -3.4

What this means is I give about 100 gold to the Counts and Countess about once each every 8 months or so. So I’m pocketing about 350 gold every 8 months. That’s getting invested back into my infrastructure.

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 19, 1117 – Composite Bow discovered in Kasogs

May 17 – We defeat a revolt in Uzens

June 15 – Small Castle ordered in Itil

Sept 1 – The countess of Imeretia has died.

Aug 5 – I go with silly superstition in pagan omen seen in Azov

Oct 1 – Glass-works ordered in Kasogs

Dec 17 – Thieves form a guild in Crimea

Feb 28, 1118 – Smugglers rounded up and executed in Kekheti

May 5 – Prosperity in Lower Don set to normal

Aug 1 – Small Castle ordered in Saray

Sept 8 – Rebellion in Don Portage

Sept 19 – Put down

[Abe Sargent]

Feb 5, 1119 – Boiled Leather discovered in Kasogs

Feb 15 – We have another culture change event and Saray is now Alan

Apr 5 –Rebellion in Uzens.

Apr 17 – No more

May 30 – Our 51 year old King is now ill

July 2 – Dysentery leaves Lower Don

Aug 22 – Large Ships Building in Kasogs

Oct 15 – The Beydom of Lower Volga declared independence from the Turks, and I’m sure will be smacked back down soon

Dec 13 – Our King;s illness became an intestinal worm

Jan 14, 1120 – I give in to demands in Sarpa and the revolting there ends

Feb 6 – And that’s how long Lower Volga was free before being retaken today by the Turks

Feb 8 – I order a Small Castle in Kasogs

Mar 6 _ Rebellion in Azov!

Mar 15 – Well, not any longer

July 10 – Promissory Note in Kasogs

[Abe Sargent]

Nov 27 – At the age of 53, King Aton of Yegorlyk has passed. He had 3137 prestige, 387 piety.

His traits:

Chaste, Skeptical, Selfish, Modest, Just, Reckless, Suspicious, Weak-willed, Romantic, Hostile
Brilliant Strategist


Long live the new King:


Aspar of Yegorlyk
31

Abilities: Mar: 8, Diplo: 9, Intrigue: 5, Stew: 9

Stressed, Amiable, Stubborn
Silver Tongued

-25 prestige, 0 piety


Here is the problem with Aspar. His three rivals? They are the Steward, Chancellor and Spy Master. Ick. Here are our current advisors:

Chancellor – Maria of Yegorlyk, 17 Diplo
Spy Master – Keren Siwnik – 14 Intrigue
Steward – Boz-Uruz of Manych, 15 Stewardship
Marshal – Manuel Spartenos, 16 Martial
Diocese Bishop – Aspar Berdzenishvili


And I can’t just give provinces away to my courtiers that don’t like me, because that would hurt their loyalty.

Aspar cannot control as many provinces, due to a lower intrigue. We are going to have to give away some provinces. Disappointing, I know.

On the other hand, he has a much better diplomacy, and his vassals are much less likely to want to go walking.

I give Azov to this really good blind courtier I have. I give Lower Don to this cruel old countess who was once our crown;s Spy Master. I give Don Portage to my uncle, who was once our marshal for a while, but got badly wounded, and is now fit for becoming a count. I am his heir, since he has no kids, and that one may come back to me someday. One of the young scions of the Manych family is given Sarkel. I grant the Count of Crimea to a very well-rounded courtier with no weaknesses and yet no major strengths. I give Sarpa to the Prince of Alania. My best courtier (13, 9, 9, 10) is given Yaik, on the border with bad guys. If we manage to add more territory, he could be my new Prince of Itil. Finally, I hand a celibate marshal the province of Uzens, again to help with its defense (he has martial of 11).

Nov 28 _ I grant the Prince of Azov title to the blind Count of Azov. The counts of Kuban and Tana now report to him.

Dec 3 - I strip the Prince of Crimea title from one count, and give it to my the one in Crimea province.

Our demesne:

Segrov
Tmutarakan
Saray
Itil
Yegorlyk
Kasogs
Kekheti


My max I can have is 7 without financial problems, and I have kept the 7 most valuable provinces. All of these are Orthodox. They are also all over my Kingdom, so I can rally forces from anywhere.

I change my courtiers so now I have a 14 diplo, 13 stewardship and 11 intrigue person in those various roles, instead of the ones who are my rivals.

I’m only getting 60 ducats a month, due to my divestiture of lands.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 9, 1121 – Thieves Guild forms in Itil

Feb 25 – I already reinherited Don Portage and I give it away again to his new bride

May 6 – Yegorlyk’s prosperity is back to normal

May 21 – My stress turns to depression

Sept 1 – Small castle ordered in Yegorlyk

Nov 12 – My second born, training at the army, becomes friends with the Marshal.

Jan 8, 1122 – Mine in Itil, Monastery in Sugrov

Jan 22 – Light chainmail spreads to Kasogs

Feb 14 – Iroen Edged Wood Ploughs in Kasogs

Mar 19 – Royal Post in Kakheit

May 21 – I gain modest after I choose not to distribute extra wealth to the barons

Sept 1 – Mine ordered in Kasogs

Sept 29 – Chronicle Writing Spreads to Kasogs

Oct 1 – Extensive road network ordered in Saray

Dec 25 – I reject an alliance offer from the King of Poland – too far away

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 2, 1123 – The County of Koloneia inherited the County of Chaldea and Melitene and they are now a part of my Kingdom!

Jan 26:

We would like to announce the marriage of:

Aton of Yegorlyk II, Heir to the Throne of Georgia (9,11,13,9 – currently)

To

Claere van Loon, Daughter of Count of Loon (14, 15, 11, 13 – currently)


Claere is our new chancellor

May 1 – Thieves Guild hanged in Itil

May 4 – Striping Ploughing in Kasogs

July 1 – Templar House ordered in Kasogs

Sept 9 – Glass-works in Sugrov

Oct 21 – My daughter become a flamboyant schemer

Oct 26 – I marry my only daughter to the Prince and firstborn son of the Principality of Antioch

Dec 19 – My heir, Aton II becomes a scholarly theologian – 9/14/13/10 stats

Jan 25, 1124 – Goatherding spreads to Kasogs

[Abe Sargent]

I get my armies ready

Feb 10 – I DOW Itil

Feb 19 – Our army, led by my 16 martial Marshal arrives in their capital and begins to attack the pagans

Mar 8 – We win in Bashkirs

Mar 25 –Bashkirs falls

May 15 – We arrive in Southern Ural

July 11 – S Ural falls and I take both:


Bashkirs – Building a hill fort, Pagan, Cuman, with Court, Road, Forestry, Library, Tile Factory, Moneylenders, Glass-works and Mine. Prosperous and making 7 ducats.

Southern Ural – These Pagan Cumans have a small castle, Court, Road, Forestry, Library, Tile Factory and Royal Post, and make 4 ducats while they are rich prosperity.


I give Southern Ural away to a decent courtier. I’ll hold on to Bashkirs right now.

I create the title Prince of Itil. I give it to the Count of Yaik. It’s sad, because I lost a pretty flag for a boring one.

[Abe Sargent]

Nov 1 – I order a Medium Castle in Itil

Jan 8, 1125 – I order a Royal Post in Yegorlyk

Mar 8 – Typhoid Fever spreads to Tmutarakan

Mar 15 -= The Pike arrives in Kasogs

May 30 _ all of a sudden – hope strikes. The province of Guria, formerly the home of the Georgia crown and since captured by the Turks has just switched its allegiance to a North African muslim nation for some reason – inheritance or war whatever. I DOW it.

July 21 – My Kakheti forces arrive in Guria.

Aug 3 – We win!

Aug 21 – My second born son became Misguided Warrior, and that;s a waste of what could have been a great military talent

Aug 29 – We take Guria and I disband my forces.

We are still at war with that Sheik from N. Africa though.


Guria – Orthodox, Georgian, just a fishing wharf and that’s it, not even the normal hill fort. Currently poor, and making just 1 ducat for us.


We now have a land connection with Trebizond and her vassal. We also have retaken one of the lost provinces. Great stuff all around. It’s a super poor province, so I intend to spruce it up a bit, and then give it away.

[Abe Sargent]

Sept 1 – Forestry ordered in Guria

Sept 16 – My steward has passed. I appoint my wife as steward

Oct 4 – I order a Royal Post in Bashkirs

Nov 14 – Typhoid leaves Tmutarakan

Dec 27 – My mother in law, and my father’s second wife has passed today

May 9, 1126 – My third born son became a flamboyant scholar. That was real waste of a natural 11 diplomacy. Feh

May 19 _ I crush religious tensions in Bashkirs. The province is now looted, rebelling and orthodox.

Aug 1 0 I order a Civilian Harbour in Tmutarakan

Sept 1 – I order a Hill Fort in Guria and a Church in Yegorlyk

Sept 14 – I give Bashkirs to my 3rd born son

Dec 9 – Fairs spread to Kasogs and we accept a white peace offer from the Kingdom of Zirid

Apr 1, 1127 – I order a small castle constructed in Sugrov

June 11 -I order a school in Kasogs

June 14 – A courtier departs for another court. That’s one of the rivals of the King, and the former Spy Master for Aton

Sept 8 – Scholastics spreads to Kasogs

Nov 10 – I accept a fosterling form the Count of Manych

Nov 23 – I marry my second born to a Polish courtier and immediately appoint her my new Steward. I’m a little surprised that her 9/14/10/14 self got to 19 without getting married off. She is Midas Touched, Proud, Valorous and Gregarious – so no major personality issues either.

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 12, 1128 – I get a great event and my stability increases by one to +2

Apr 1 – I order my civilian harbor upgraded to a naval one in Tmutarakan

May 1 – I order a Mine for Yegorlyk

June 1 – Tile Factory ordered in Guria

Aug 3 – We accept an alliance with Byzantium

Aug 8 – A rebellion in Guria is put down

Sept 12 – I order a church is Kasogs

Dec 7 – None of my three sons has yet to have a son of his own. Two daughters to my first born son, nothing to my second, and finally a pregnant wife to my third

Feb 1, 1129 - I order a civilian harbor in Itil

Mar 1 – I order a school in Yegorlyk

Oct 1 – I order a Mine in Sugrov

Oct 29 – I get an event and choose to spend some prestige to keep my claims. I lost 100 prestige and kept my claim. It was saying I was too senile for my claims.

Dec 3 – I order a small castle in Guria, and then look to give it away. I give it to my second born son

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 9., 1130 – My spy master died, and I make my son, Aton II, my new one

July 26 – Jongleurs in Kasogs

July 28 – There has been a murder in the court! The suspect is my wife. I have to submit justice, and I have her killed. There was some evidence pointing her way. One of my courtiers has passed as well.

I take a wife from mainland Europe and with her 17 intrigue, she immediately becomes my Spy Master. She’s just 16 and its possible we could have a kid or two. I also took about 800 in dowry, and I use the money to finance a medium castle in Saray.

Oct 29 – Sickness and depression took our King today, as he killed himself.

Our King had 689 prestige and 151 piety.

Our rulers:

David of Yegorlyk, died 1078 in battle
Aton of Yegorlyk, ruled from 1078 until 1120, died of intestinal worm
Aspar of Yegorlyk, ruled from 1120 until 1130, died of suicide
Aton II of Yegorlyk, ruled from 1130-???


Aton II:

Age – 24
Stats: 9, 14, 13, 10

Coward, Trusting
Scholarly Theologian

With two daughters. Pregnant Wife.

No rivals in our kingdom, just a random courtier elsewhere. His only friend is the middle brother, currently Count of Guria

[Abe Sargent]

Nov 6 – School ordered in Sugrov

Here’s an interesting fact. How did Aspar become depressed, and then commit suicide? Occasionally an event will fire where a Courtier says, I can do That! And wants to take a job, but 9 times out of 10 they are worse than your current person, so you tell them No. Well, there is a chance that the person you say no to will become stressed. Once, while prince, Aspar asked, was told no, became stressed ,and eventually that stressed became depressed and he committed suicide. Take no illness or stress for granted


Dec 14 –Romanesque Vaulting in Kasogs

Jan 7, 1131 – I order a large church in Kasogs

Jan 26 – We have a daughter
Mar 25 – Saray is now prosperous

June 1 – The Turks are losing some provinces to civil war. They take them back, but still. Yet me show you

[Abe Sargent]

[Abe Sargent]

Suenik was just independant and retaken. You can see the large chunk of land in the west coast of the Caspian. You can see Emba, just across the Ryn Desert, is now free. The white province is Usturt. If I wanted to establish a presence, I would move an army down the Caspian and take a bunch of the light green provinces but they have low value, and I suspect the Turks eventually would want to take us down. So far, I haven’t pissed in their pie, and they haven’t pissed in mine. Now, I think I could take the Turks. They have a manpower of 126k, and us 88. But, they are all over the place, in Iberia, Africa, Turkey, and all over the traditional areas of Persia and so forth. I have 88k manpower despite having around 30ish provinces. We have much more concentrated forces, and I think we would blast through them in Armenia, and then up in the Urals, and then down the east coast of the Caspian, and we would easily grab a ton of provinces, I suspect. However, most are crap. Here are the base values of nearby Turk provinces:

1.21, 0.57, 0.63, 2.02, 0.48, 0.30, 0.48, and Suenik is 0.65. Here are the light green provinces in revolt: 2.18, 2.91, 0.46, 1.92, 3.0. The green province at their base is: 3.0

All of the high value ones are the Caspian Sea provinces. The high one in the Turks is the one just south of me along the coast, and the rest are quite valuable. DOWing them right now and taking a bunch of high value provinces would be useful. However – bad thing. We would have an extended border with the Turks, the Turks would likely want to take the provinces back at some point in time, we have no land connection, and it makes us too spread out – it’s too hard to support them with my other provinces.

Where else to expand, though? I have gone everywhere. There are Turks to my north now, and Christians to my west.


Yeah, I gotta do it.

I order armies to assemble.

I DOW Derbent.

I order Itil and Kakheti to assemble and move to Derbent’s lands.

[Abe Sargent]

June 30 – More provinces spit off, including some valuable ones on the east coast of the Caspian, and the super valuable Kwarism.

Aug 1 – I DOW Usurt and order my Saray army to sail there

Nov 18 – The Turks captured Derbent but we grabbed Albania

Nov 27 – Smugglers Ring formed in Kakheti

Jan 5 – Usturt falls to us. I DOW Kwarmizm.

Jan 13 – We take Albania in peace. I order forces to hop the Caspian to focus on where the real battles will be. We also got some gold which will help against our deficit.

Apr 1 -0 Our realm lost a stability

May 1 – We move into Kwarmizm

May 19 – We win two battles, Kara Kum and Kwarmizm. Sieges begin in both places.

May 20 – Kwarmizm falls. I DOW their vassal and keep moving.

June 12 – I Have to disband an army due to financials

July 12 – We capture and take Dihistan.

July 21 – We take Usturt, Kara Kum, and Kwarizm from various people, as well as some gold. Here are our new provinces:


Dihistan – Near the southeast corner of the Caspian, we make 8 ducats from the Muslim Turks. They have tons of things in the province. Too many to list. Currently prosperous

Kara-Kum – 5 ducats, north of Dihistan and on the Caspian, Muslim Turks, they have many things, but are missing some.

Usturt – North of Kara-Kum up the Caspian, poor, 5 ducats, thieves and smugglers here, Muslim Turks, Roads, Mine, Forestry, Fish Wharf and Glass-Works.

Khwarizm _ Ahh, the jewel of the east. This is the Byzantium of the area. The poor Muslims and Turks make 16 ducats are us, and have Library, Moneylenders, Roads, Extended Roads, Forestry, Mine, Glass-Works, Tile Factory and Court of Justice

Albania – Rich Muslim Turks make us 11 ducats in this west coast Caspian province. It has tons of stuff in it, but it is very alone.


I will need some serious cooling down time, but these are all great catches, and better yet, because Aton II’s intrigue is high, we can keep them all in our Demesne for now, and are making more than 120 ducats monthly.

[Abe Sargent]

Want a new map?



Emba joined another Muslim country. There is a three province nation to my east, and I will take it eventually now, because they are valuable. Albania looks very lonely. Let’s just hope it can last for a while.

[Abe Sargent]

Oct 7 – I order training grounds in Albania

Jan 28, 1133 – I send my middle daughter to Byzantium as a fosterling

Apr 4 – I order a small castle in Khwarizm

May 15 – At the age of 63, our Diocese Bishop died. We have no replacements.

June 21 – Tile Factory for Kara-Kum

July 1 – And is Usturt as well

Aug 13 – I crush religious tensions in Khwarizm when th enobles say they will not follow a non-Muslim, and it is now rebelling, looted and orthodox

Aug 29 _ I gave in to demands and the revolt ends less than a month later.

Oct 1 – Mine ordered in Tmutarakan

Oct 8 – My wife is pregnant! Pleasebeaboypleasebeaboypleasebeaboy

Feb 1, 1134 – Small castle ordered in Albania

Feb 21 – I send a fosterling, my third daughter, to Cherson’s Prince

May 11 – Due to the draining of marshes and fens, Dihistan is now Rich

May 14 – Just three days later, Kasogs is now prosperous

June 11 – I crush burghers in Albania, and it is now Orthodox and Looted

June 15- Usturt is now revolting and looted after I get an event that tells me its hard to have provinces too far away

July 14 – We have a son! We name him Uturku

Aug 10 – I give in to local demands and Ustust is no longer rebelling against me

Oct 17 – I order a Monastery in Saray and Training Grounds in Kara-Kum

Dec 1 – Training Grounds in Usturt

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 15, 1135 –I order glass-works in Tmutarakan right after I get glassblowing there

May 5 – Small Pox arrives in Kara-Kum

July 2 – My wife and I become rivals after I refuse to pay her 1000 gold to make amends for something or other

July 18 – I will raise my son myself

July 23 – Peasants in Usturt refuse to acknowledge me because of my religion, so I crush them. It is rebelling again, still looted, oh and Orthodox.

Aug 4 _ I give in to demands and the rebellion ceases

Aug 25 – I order a library in Kara-Kum

Oct 1 – I order another built in Usturt

Oct 13 – Training Grounds ordered in Khwarizm

Nov 15 – We crush a rebellion in Usturt

Nov 17 – I grant an itinerant bishop a place in my court and he’s really strong, a Master theologian.

Jan 29, 1136 – Khwarizm is no longer looted!

Jan 30 – Mangonel discovered Kasogs – this is a true invention – no other province has this

Apr 29 – Romantic Poetry to Kasogs

May 5 – The Kakheti Guild of Thieves is no more

June 17 – Church ordered in Saray

June 21 – My son gains stubborn after being told to wait until later when he asks where children come from.

Aug 24 – I order a War Academy in Khwarizm

Oct 30 – Usturt is no longer looted

Nov 4 –Neither is Albania

Dec 19 - I accept a fosterling from Guria

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 3, 1137 – Our mine collapses in Usturt and I order another built

July 1 – I order a Medium Castle in Kakheti

July 11 – Reserves spreads to Kasogs

Oct 1 – I order a Church in Tmutarakan and Sugrov

Oct 6 – I encourage my son to play outside when he wants more and more toys. He gets Stubborn again, but since he already had it, nothing happens.

Nov 3 – Church in Itil

Feb 4,1138 - Monastery in Albania

Apr 1 – Small Castle ordered in Usturt

Aug 1 – Apostolic Poverty spreads to Kasogs; I order glass-works in Yegorlyk

Aug 23 – And in Saray too

Sept 1 – The Count of Melitine was inherited by a principality in Byzantium and is no longer ours.

Sept 25 – I order a Monastery in Khwarizm and another in Dihistan

Oct 22 – I fund a royal feast myself for my nobility.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 15, 1139 – I gain a new rival, the Count of Khopyor, just north of Sugrov, Don Portage and Sarkel

Mar 22 – Emba was conquered by Hungary.

July 17 – Music Notation System in Kasogs

Sept 1 – I order that a medium castle be built in Sugrov

Nov 7 – Ryn Desert has joined Egypt, as has Turkmen.

Hmm

I organize the Dihistan army and DOW Turkmen -Egypt DOWs us back

Nov 30 – We win a battle in Turkmen and initiate a siege

Dec 25 – We fend them off again

Jan 10, 1140 – Turkmen falls and we take it.


Turkmen – The Turkish Muslims make 7 ducats for us, this is inland and the small Turkish triangle between us and the Muslims to our east. They have almost everything here already, but I order a Monastery here. They are rich right now.

[Abe Sargent]

After some consideration, I decide to grab Ryn Desert while I have a chance, despite it not being anything close to a good province



Feb 15 –

Ryn Desert – There is nothing in this Turkish Muslim province but a fishing wharf and then thieves, smugglers and highway robbers. I order a Hill Fort built here, and then give it away to a Count. It is making 1 ducats for us/him.


Feb 18 –I claim the Prince of Merv title

Mar 19 – I refuse the impulse when a pretty wench catches my eye.

[Abe Sargent]

I don’t know how – inheritance, alliance, whatever, but the former province of Trebizond – Theodosiopolis, is now under the auspices of a far away Tribe. However, the land has since gone Muslim, so I am not attracted to it immediately like I would be if it were still Orthodox

May 1 – I order a Templar House built in Albania

May 16 – Missile Barrage spreads to Kasogs

May 28 – After the Prince of Itil dies, my awesome Marshal inherits it. I need a new marshal. There are no male courtiers in my court old enough to be a Marshal. Wow.

June 17 – I gain the Prince of Cherson as a rival

Aug 24 – I take a Heathens are Splintered event to go to peace with Egypt

Sept 9 – I am at the head of 5000 troops in Trabezous to put down a rebellion here while the prince was out fighting vs Egypt. I decide to grab Theodosipolis now. I was waiting to cool down to take the rich provinces to my east by the Caspian, but these provinces have opened up, and its rare you get a chance to get them, so I should while I can.

I DOW them

Oct 17 – We have defeated their troops and begin a siege.


Nov 10 – We take it:

Theodosiopolis: Arminian, Muslim: getting just 3 ducats despite it being rich. Thieves and roads here, and that’s it. I order a Hill Fort, and turn it over to the Prince of Trebizond.

[Abe Sargent]

Nov 17 – Small Pox leaves Kara-Kum

Feb 10, 1141 – I order a Templar House constructed in Dihistan

Mar 6 – There are other opportunities that have sprung up. Tabaristan and Lower Volga have both gone to another Muslim nation in Africa, and thus are prime for plucking. Tabaristan is on the south side of the Caspian. Lower Volga is a poor province, but taking it makes sense to close in our borders.

The Turks are experiencing Realm Duress, and I expect more provinces to fall. Which means we may get better targets before it is all said and done, plus I still have lots of badboy, so I’ts not like I want to pump it up right now by taking a metric ton of provinces Sure, I’d like more, and I can take more, but you can’t expand too quickly.

Mar 21 – And just like that, another target presents itself after by Sarkel and Sugrov, as a pagan provinces declares itself independent from Hungary. Taking it closes borders and makes total geographic sense. It’s a target geddon

Apr 9 – I send my son to the army

Apr 26 – The Prince of Alania is now my friend

July 1 – The Count of Kuban has declared independence from the Prince of Azov

July 24 – My troops from yegorlyk crush the Kuban forces and then disband, so it can be recaptured by one of my vassals.

Sept 21 – The Prince of Azov retook it.

If I were Byzantium, or one of the Principalities seeing this, this would be the shot to grab a few ex-Turkish provinces and regain some strength, but Byzantium is again hemmorging provinces because it has a super low prestige (like-6000 or so) and no one wants to follow him.

[Abe Sargent]

Oct 1 – I order a Templar House in Turkmen

Oct 19 – My firstborn daughter become just a Flamboyant Schemer, so I look to marry her off.

Nov 23 – I marry her to a grandson of a Prince in Byzantium, and I get 1300 in marriage duty. I look to spend it. I order a Medium Castle in Kasogs

Jan 28, 1143 – My wife is expecting

Feb 7 – I take a Heathens Splintered event to go to peace with the Emirate of Almeria, with whom I was technically still at war over Theodoliopolis

June 1 – I order a Grand Palace in Khwarizm

July 4 – I order an extensive road network built in Yegorlyk

Aug 11 – Dysentery arrives in Sugrov

Oct 5 – We have a daughter and name her Borena

Oct 21 – Extensive Road Network ordered in Itil

Nov 13 – Unfortunately I have gained the Count of Imeretia as a rival.

Jan 1, 1143 – We order a small castle built in Kara-Kum

Jan 9 – The little prick in Imeretia chose to be disloyal and is now rebellious

Jan 15 – Astrology and Astronomy spread to Kasogs

Feb 4 – I gave the Count some gold to bring him to happy levels, and then demand he relinquishes his County-ness.

Feb 16 – He gave it up. I give it to the Prince of Abghazia, it’s one of his

May 7 – Dysentery leaves Sugrov

June 1 – If I were Byzantium, I would DoW the Turks right now, and retake Byzantium

July 21 – I get an event and pay to bring in a knight to train my son, and he does, his Martial goes up one

Nov 2 – I order Windmills in Sugrov

Nov 26 – We are expecting our 6th child.

[Tellistto]

She's still sleeping with him even though she's technically his rival? On a sidenote, what is your recipe for those rebellions in your provinces ending so soon? They always last forever when I play.