Alright, 1.2 it is.
If we stop doing this at some point before the expansion comes out in the fall, we can start a new campaign then. If you get that you wouldn’t have to download the patch. Or at least that seems like a a safe thing to assume.
I was thinking of expediting the search for high speed in my apartment just for the purposes of the download, but even with high-speed i’m not sure if i’d be able to download it, unless there is a reliable place that doesnt choke your speed if you havent PAID them for the privilege (yeah, I’m gonna pay $10 a year for something I use once or twice.)
Hmmm, come to think of it, I will be at a hotel this weekend, and some of them still have free highspeed. I’ll try to download it this weekend. If miller is finished before I have d/l’ed it you can skip me until I figure out where I stand.
Heh. I don’t see how it wouldn’t work. Good to hear,** Ludovic**. Don’t want to lose a player over a silly little thing like this.
Sorry to have caused so much trouble guys…I didn’t realize everyone wasn’t on the latest patch. 
I did it basically because the damn game kept blowing up every time I got attacked by some shlub with elephants…though in rhetrospect I should have saved myself the pain as elephants are like tanks in this game. Nearly impossible to kill and pretty much doing whatever the hell they want…AND they have friggin CANNON’S on their backs!
-XT
xtisme didn’t leave us in such a bad position, after all. In my first turn, I was able to break all of the sieges except the one at Nuremburg. Bordeaux was especially good: despite the walls being in ruins, and the gate left open by a Spanish spy, I was able to turn back the Spaniards, only to immediatly be fallen upon by a Milanese army twice the size of the force I had defending the city. Just before they reached the shattered outer wall, I pulled back to the inner wall. The enemy general, anxious to pursue, got out ahead of his army, and was cornered in the streets of Bordeaux by two infantry units, where he was killed literally seconds before the rest of his army could reinforce him. Without their general, the army tried a brute-force assault of the compromised inner gate, where our dismounted feudal knights ground them into dog meat.
I’d planned to take Milan the next turn, but the decision was taken out of my hands when a second Milanese army showed up and tried to relieve the garrison. The relief attempt failed, and both Milanese forces were defeated, although the battle left my forces scattered and, lacking a significant cavalry element, I was unable to completely destroy either army. We took Milan, though, decisively solving our solvency problems.
The Polish empire died with its king at the sack of Thorn. We were less fortunate at Innsbruck, where our army was forced to abandon the field after the Germans destroyed the last of our siege engines before we could pierce the inner bailey. The general and his surviving troops retreated to Milan, where he took command of the garrison there to protect against remnants of the Milanese armies, who were regrouping outside the walls.
The English briefly declared war on us, but then sued for peace before any military action could be taken between our two countries. Nuremburg remains under siege, but a relief force should reach it next turn, at which point the last of our cities will be freed from foreign threat. After consolidating our forces there, I intend to march them against Innsbruck again, and then campaign down the Italic penninsula, taking Milan’s Northern provinces in order to set up a thrust at the last of the Holy Roman Empire’s territories. The Pope is very much not pleased with us, but has not yet moved to excommunicate. He’s called for a crusade against Toledo, though, and I think I can raise a large enough force in Bordeaux to take the city, and restore ourselves to Rome’s good graces again.
Good job Miller! I figured you’d be able to do some things with what I left behind. Sorry about those walls in Bordeaux…basically I was fending off sieges there for 3 or so turns before the king (who was there btw) finally died…and with the treasury at -800 there was nothing left to use to fix them. I figured you’d be able to break most of those sieges…and glad you captured the capital of Milan!
(this has actually been even more fun than I originally thought it would be 
)
-XT
Good to hear, Miller. Way to kick a little ass, too. England sounds weak. Any way you can make them a vassal?
Keep us informed. I hope we make it through the rotation a few times.
If they’re weak you should be able to take them over before the Pope can intervene, if they’ve been pushed back to the Island and you invade them all at once. (And if he does – well, you’ll be the ruler of Britain. How many divisions does the Pope have? :D)
On second thought, a vassal would be better considering our tenuous position. But bring on the second Viking Invasion if we were at peace with everyone else!
You’d have to launch a big invasion and hope that the other “allies” don’t pounce in when you’re focusing on Britain.
Vassalization (copyrighted) is the fastest method and won’t get the Pope pissed at us. Of course, the Brits have to agree to it.
I’m going to have to leave an invasion of the British Isles to my descendents. Between Milan, The HRE, Spain, the Pope, and the Byzantines, I’ve got enough irons in the fire to keep me occupied.
How are the Byzantines? I haven’t heard too much about them recently…
They big and nasty, or just nasty?
So far, I haven’t had too many direct encounters with them. There was one battle where they attacked a small group of Moors next to our army. We’re still allied with the Moors, so we got pulled into that fight and sent them packing, but they haven’t come straight at me yet, or tried to attack any of our holdings in the Middle East.
Very nice! At least the Moops like us.
Well, they won’t if you keep calling them Moops. They hate that.
At least the Byzantines don’t have the horrible Byzantine Infantry anymore from day 1. In M:TW as the Byzantines I totally forwent building a navy in the beginning because the lure of making 1 nigh-unstoppable infantry unit per turn at my capital was too tempting to resist. (And then there was the time when I won the game in 26 years as the Byzantines in M:TW, but that’s another story :))
Well, that was an ignominious end to a great king.
The siege at Nuremburg was lifted, and an assault at Berm repelled by King Thorgils himself. Thorgils left Berm with a small force, picked up some reinforcements from the garrison at Milan, and moved towards the lightly defended Genoa with a force of some 450 men.
Before he could reach the city, he was attacked by a column of elite Milanese infantry, almost double the size of his own army. In a brutally decesive battle, Thorgils annihilted the enemy army. Out of some 850 Milanese soldiers who came to the field of battle, less than fifty left it with their lives.
His forces having taken almost 50% casualties, Thorgils was forced to retreat to Milan, where he planned to winter while rebuilding his troop strength for another push at Genoa, but it was not to be. Before the Spring came, Thorgils fell to an assassin’s blade. Rule passes to his son Ingeborg, currently building up a crusader army in the province of Bordeaux. He receives from his father a kingdom in good order, with a healthy economy, secure borders, and seasoned forces poised for another wave of expansion.
I’m sending the save file to Ludovic. Ludovic, if you’re not ready for it, just forward it to Kinthalis.
Alas, I feel I am not ready for it yet, as I haven’t downloaded it yet and even if I do I will be at an all-weekend party, but I will try to download the patch this weekend like I said.
We;ll figure out where I should be in the queue after this weekend (I dunno, maybe I’ll sit on my laptop like I did my glasses last party 
) Kinthalis, if you didnt get the file have Miller send it again.
I’ve got the file and am patched up to 1.2. Will begin playing this evening!
Well, I guess I should download 1.2, shouldn’t I?
Correct.
If anyone else joins in they go to the fourth place, otherwise the queue will restart.
- Kinthalis
- Ludovic
- Alessan
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Talon Karrde
LOUNE
xtisme
Miller
I think that after the campaign ends we should shuffle the queue before starting a new one.