I’ll go after appleciders.
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Ludovic
Mr. Kobayashi
Interconnected Series Of Tubes I
appleciders
I’ll go whenever, with instant gratification requesting sooner rather than later. Winter break, huzzah! I will miss the permanent arrows mod. 
Would you mind going just before appleciders, Kinthalis? Earlier on he (?) requested to be at the end of the rotation.
no prob.
Quality.
Least Original User Name Ever
Ludovic
Mr. Kobayashi
Interconnected Series Of Tubes I
Kinthalis
appleciders
I can’t play until a week from Sunday. As long as I’m not holding anyone up, I don’t care about my place in the rotation. I’m not thrilled with the Poles (weak foot archers) but I’m OK with it.
No problem. If Sunday rolls around and we’ve already gone full circle whomever had the turn last can just email you the save file and put you in the rotation at that place from then on.
Weak foot archers maybe, but the only faction other than England able to recruit archers (Lithuanian archers) who can deploy stakes ; good for the upcoming Mongol/Timurid fights.
I never noticed. I like flame arrows.
Not true; the Turks can do it. But let’s not switch to them!
Seriously, I don’t think that the Poles are well suited to fight the Mongols or Timurids; they’re a little too focused on mobility, rather than turtling up, which is my normal anti-Mongol strategy because no one can out-mobile the Mongols. But this is all academic; I don’t care that much which faction we play, it’s just fun to argue about our preferred factions. And if we’re only playing Hard/Hard, we’ll be perfectly fine.
You’re right; I completely forgot Janissary archers could deploy stakes.
I’m still in, as well - I’m better used for the early-game or mid-game than the end-game. The poles suit me fine - heavy cavalry and decent expansion opportunities in all directions.
(Anyone up for securing Dublin or Caernavarnon on the British Isles to get a trading port to northern/western Europe set up straight off the bat? We shouldn’t get entangled with neither the Moors, Spanish or the Poertugese for a while, and at least the Spanish are decent trading partners when they displace the Moors from the southeast coast. That isle to the east of Sicily is also good.)
I say blitz hard to the west- the Germans are ill-equipped to handle the Poles, especially early on. If we can get into the Dutch trading cities, we’ll be well set.
Simmer, little grasshopper. We’ll get cities to the West without getting Excommunicated.
Order of play:
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Ludovic
Mr. Kobayashi
Interconnected Series Of Tubes I
Gukumatz
Kinthalis
appleciders
Fine for everyone?
We start now, yes?
Go go go!
Fuck. I start tomorrow!
Ay ay! LOUNE, you want to start a new thread chronically the carnage or stay in this one?
Oh, and if everyone could PM their emails to the person above them on the list, that would be tremendously helpful.
I can try and set up an ftp for us tonight. Might be more convenient than emailing the saved file. How big are save files for this game, anyway?
Well, I can’t see why an ftp would be needed. Isn’t that just causing clutter?