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This is awesome, I can't wait to see Azerbaijan expand and became great.
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Jimmy4400nav posted:This is awesome, I can't wait to see Azerbaijan expand and became great. Again. Edit: Seriously, I love the way this is going. The idea of seeing Azerbaijan expanding in EU3 for a reason - to regain its former glory - as opposed to just "oh, we wanted to conquer some folks" makes for a far more compelling narrative. DivineCoffeeBinge fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Aug 19, 2011 |
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Aug 19, 2011 18:08
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The Saurus posted:Wiz, the growth of Crete and Swabia into great powers fairly early on in the LP was fulfilling as it was a direct result of the actions and consequences of both you the player and the audience. You seem to have taken the wrong lesson from all of that... Stop being so Rebel Blob. Wiz, i think you deserve a break after CK finishes. You're updating nearly everyday!
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Aug 19, 2011 18:12
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Frionnel posted:Stop being so Rebel Blob. I will take a break, don't worry. It's gonna take a long time to finish the EU3 scenario too. I just kinda got carried away when I realized how awesome the EU3 scenario is going to end up being, so I've been pushing hard for the end of CK so I can start planning out EU3. 
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Aug 19, 2011 18:16
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Wiz what do you use to get all the screenshots? Do you use a screen grabber like hyperdesktop or something?
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 Chapter 19: The Last Ildeguzid (1380 - 1400) With a child on the throne, Steward Tunga is appointed regent. The Najjars have served at the Azerbaijani court for decades, and his son is married to Kilic's sister.  Tunga rules in the tradition of Kilic's grandfather, using the wealth of Azerbaijan to improve the life of its people and the prosperity of the realm.  He also makes sure to shore up his support among the nobility by buying them off.  The young Sultan has early taken an interest in the Koran and religious matters, so he is given a religious education.  Tunga's son by the same name oversees Kilic's education, and some at court whisper that the Najjar family is turning the young Sultan into their pawn.  In 1390 the Pope, desperate to regain some of his lost prestige, calls for a new crusade to recapture Antioch. Response among the Catholic rulers is lukewarm, and only a few of the lesser Kings pledge their support.  Kilic reaches majority in the same year. He takes the throne, but allows the Najjars to continue running the affairs of state, dedicating his time to Koran studies and scripture debates with learned scholars. Regent Tunga passes away, but his son of the same name simply takes up his father's duties as steward and effective head of state.  Tunga arranges his marriage to the niece of the Sultan of Egypt, but the matching produces no children.  In 1395 the prosperity of Azerbaijan is clear for any and all to see. Decades of peace have resulted in flourishing trade, rapidly expanding cities and a growth in agriculture. A manifest symbol of the wealth of its rulers is the new Grand Palace constructed in Tabriz, an enormous and lavish building sitting at the heart of the city, surrounded by lush gardens.  The Crusade against Antioch ends in 1398, having achieved nothing. It seems the princes of Europe are no longer willing to invest the money and time for conquests in the Holy Land.  In 1399 Kilic falls ill with a sudden fever, an illness that seems to strike out of the blue. His health quickly declines, and after lingering on for a few days he passes away.   Having left no children, the throne passes to his nephew, Savtekin Najjar, the son of Steward Tunga. The Ildeguzid dynasty, once the greatest dynasty in the Muslim world, has now vanished from Azerbaijan as well, brought low by its curious inability to sire male heirs - and perhaps the misplaced trust of its last ruler.  Coming up: CK Epilogue and maps. Wiz fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Oct 3, 2011 |
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Aug 19, 2011 18:34
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You... YOU.... WIZ. THAT WAS PERFECT
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Aug 19, 2011 18:38
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I have to say, in the long term all those wars and conquests were spectacularly useless.
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Aug 19, 2011 18:40
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Ras Het posted:I have to say, in the long term all those wars and conquests were spectacularly useless. I wouldn't say useless, it kept the middle east from being overrun with catholics.
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Aug 19, 2011 18:41
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Yeah, the only thing we stood to gain with Semisalic Gavelkind was putting rulers of our dynasty on foreign thrones, which going into EU3 would give us some hefty diplomacy bonuses with our neighbors and the chance to inherit them. Now Azerbaijan stands alone.
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Aug 19, 2011 18:43
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Wiz posted:Coming up: Epilogue and maps. Epilogue? I thought you said this was tied to Azerbaijan, not the dynasty.
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Nevets posted:Yeah, the only thing we stood to gain with Semisalic Gavelkind was putting rulers of our dynasty on foreign thrones, which going into EU3 would give us some hefty diplomacy bonuses with our neighbors and the chance to inherit them. Now Azerbaijan stands alone. The only other place left with Ildeguzids was Khwarizm anyway.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Epilogue? I thought you said this was tied to Azerbaijan, not the dynasty. Epilogue of CK, leading into EU3.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Epilogue? I thought you said this was tied to Azerbaijan, not the dynasty. CK Epilogue. We're still going to EU3.
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Ras Het posted:I have to say, in the long term all those wars and conquests were spectacularly useless. It was pretty interesting, too, and it made for a great story. I'd love to read the history books of this world.
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Wiz posted:CK Epilogue. We're still going to EU3.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Ah. Curious timing, then. That's what happens to a dynasty that sires three girls for every boy.
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Aug 19, 2011 18:46
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Wiz posted:That's what happens to a dynasty that sires three girls for every boy. I've had that problem with both CK games I've played so far. I would murder for an unpopular succession law that allows for women to inherit.
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Aug 19, 2011 18:54
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Conskill posted:I've had that problem with both CK games I've played so far. I would murder for an unpopular succession law that allows for women to inherit. Please don't kill anyone!  There's a .exe edit that allows females to inherit when you have a succession law that has the word 'semi' in it on the paradox forums. There's also a cognatic succession mod in the extras folder in DVIP.
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Conskill posted:I've had that problem with both CK games I've played so far. I would murder for an unpopular succession law that allows for women to inherit. Just marry them off to their uncles, cousins or grandfathers. Keep it in the family.
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Aug 19, 2011 18:59
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Our dynasty...
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CK actually is hard-coded to ensure a an even mix between male and female of characters. This means if more males exist, a new child is more likely to be born female and vice versa. However, since at the beginning of any given scenario there are usually significantly more males, children are more likely to be born female until the game evens it all out. :paradox:
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Conskill posted:I've had that problem with both CK games I've played so far. I would murder for an unpopular succession law that allows for women to inherit. There are no laws that allow for women to inherit? How did the queens (like the Queen of Jerusalem from earlier) come about then?
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Gerblyn posted:There are no laws that allow for women to inherit? How did the queens (like the Queen of Jerusalem from earlier) come about then? They're scripted into the scenario start, I'm pretty sure wiz was also playing with the cognatic succession mod, so he may have gotten some naturally.
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Gerblyn posted:There are no laws that allow for women to inherit? How did the queens (like the Queen of Jerusalem from earlier) come about then? In addition to what Brutus Salad said, you can get ruling countesses/duchesses/queens by granting them titles. Their daughters won't be able to inherit (though their sons will), but the woman will retain power until death or when the title is taken from her.
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Also single female rulers refuse all marriage proposals, so farming titles and lands out to close female relatives like mothers, sisters and daughters is a great but gamey way to shed land when you have a bad ruler, safe in the knowledge it will return to you in a few decades.
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And they can't marry anyone from outside their demesne else it'll be annexed by the husband's country. Yeah, i hope Paradox actually includes it in the game this time...
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Aug 19, 2011 19:51
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Can't wait for final world map. Anyway, I think Khwarizm should be buffed in EU3 by getting the western parts of Kazakh. The little country that could deserves a bit more fightinng chance than being pseudo-Nogai.
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The lack of a strong monarchy tradition might help if anyone is as interested in seeing Azerbaijan becomes a republic as I am. Wiz, thanks for making this LP different - I salute you for resisting the urge to make Azerbaijan a regional power to match the others.
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Aug 19, 2011 20:09
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Great way to end CK. Can't wait to see how the EUIII map will be.
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I've never played a Paradox game before, or followed any of the other Paradox LPs. I don't understand any of the game mechanics but I have enjoyed the narrative so far!
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Conskill posted:In addition to what Brutus Salad said, you can get ruling countesses/duchesses/queens by granting them titles. Their daughters won't be able to inherit (though their sons will), but the woman will retain power until death or when the title is taken from her. I think this is what Zara Yaqob basically did in Ethiopia when he ruled, right? I mean, it was more of a centralized imperial thing though, but he did appoint only female relatives to important positions.
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Aug 19, 2011 21:11
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How are u posted:I've never played a Paradox game before, or followed any of the other Paradox LPs. I don't understand any of the game mechanics but I have enjoyed the narrative so far! And that's all that matters  It was reading LPs on these forums, particularly Wiz's spectacular Hohenzollern Dynasty LP that got me into Paradox games to begin with. LPs on Something Awful actually taught me pretty much everything I needed to know about Paradox games.
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Aug 19, 2011 21:15
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Wow. Our dynasty actually died out? I'm not fully registering this haha.
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Pakled posted:LPs on Something Awful actually taught me pretty much everything I needed to know about Paradox games. They do a better job of teaching than the actual Paradox manuals generally do, that's for sure.
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Bravo sir! Well I guess this gives us a better reason to no longer split all the land everytime a king dies.
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Chapter 20: Epilogue The year is 1400 in the Christian calendar, 821 in the Islamic calendar. The Ildeguzid dynasty has fallen and a new dynasty has taken the throne fo Azerbaijan. Few understand it at the time, but Azerbaijan, and the world, is about to change. The medieval world of Crusades, of Knights and Barons, of Caliphs and Beys, is coming to an end.  In its place, a new age is dawning. An age of exploration...  ... an age of art and culture...  ... but above all, an age of war.  What role will Azerbaijan play it this new age? What will the history books say of the Najjar dynasty?  (Before adjustments)  (After adjustments)  Republics: Frisia, Tuscany, Pisa, Rhodes, Gotland, Lübeck, Hamburg, Pskov, Iceland Bishoprics: Rennes, Salzburg, Bremen, Mainz, Dijon, Thüringia, Münster I might spin off some more vassals and make some more republics/bishoprics depending on how game balance ends up. Also, at some point during the question I am going to post a long list of historical questions to be voted on that concern things happening in the parts of the map that are outside CK. The questions will be something like "Did the Mongol invasion of Japan succeed?" and the exact consequenses of them for the scenario will be kept secret. The idea behind this is to spice up the world outside europe a little, but without it being just drawing the map as I like. Conversion to EU3 is going to take a lot of time, so feel free to make suggestions about the scenario such as vassals to spin off, historical questions to ask, events to include, or anything that comes to mind really! Wiz fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Jan 30, 2012 |
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Honest question, not being an rear end in a top hat: Is Persua a new country or a typo?
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Man I typoed a lot in that map. It's Persia, obviously - I was pretty tired when labelling the map, so its got a bunch of little mistakes.
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sniper4625 posted:Our dynasty... 
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