Retech

Mongols aren't attacking this year. If they were, everyone would've been screwed, because your armies would have conflicting reports from leadership, and be decimated. :) Working on the battles now.

I thought you told me that you weren't going to go ahead with those battles. Or was that just with Norway. Anywho, are they in PMs? I'll do them right after I take a quick shower. ----- I repeat: I need the battle plans PMed. I can't search the thread every time I am doing a round of battle reports, and if there is information that is on the thread by not the PM, there is a high chance I will miss it.

If it would be alright with everyone, could you make a giant post of your defences in one post? Like everyone's defences, in just one post. Then I can calculate the invasion in a sweeping post and doing each battle within that, rather than making the invasion more about tiny little battles.

The Byzantines are quite content in their little niche, and don't really see the need for helping those snotty Catholics. Interesting thing though, but the Hungarians have been one of the most successful at fighting nomads during the middle ages. Shame that you attacked them and weakened their forces. :)

Everyone please remember to build the castles, fortresses, or citadels! Some of the nobles have small castles on their own, but they aren't that good.

Well actually I haven't even rolled for this year yet... :rolleyes: And it is a three, meaning they aren't attacking this year.

Keep in mind the Mongol army is mainly calvery, so they will be faster than you. Also, Mongols were nomadic, which means that they can survive without the need of supply trains.

They could probaly match the weakest Mongolian horse archers, and be in limited quantity. Or you could arm them with better armor to counteract that and use less skilled people, making it cost 900-1000.

The Muslims are just as scared of the Mongols as you are. Infact, they're closer to them. <_< Note that there is probaly going to be more than one wave. :D

The tribes state that if Europe can create a battle line in their tribal area, instead of back in central Europe, then they will help with their calvery archers, which are worse than the Mongols and the actual Turks, but they're still better than anything from Europe. Also, the Fatamid Caliphate (Egypt) looks poised to help if the Mongols start coming down their way. News to the royal courts: The Mongol army seems to be composed primarily of horse archers and lancers, as well as some foot soldiers for defence. Their first wave seems to be led by the great general Subutai, who has already won dozens of battles and conquered several nations. Reports indicate that the Mongols have begun the use of gunpowder, firing inaccurate projectiles of flaming death in huge barrages, obtained from the conquered nations of Korea and China. Like this but bigger, yet les technologically advanced. Crude and bigger version of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwacha

Roughly. Give or take a few thousand. Of course it doesn't account for siege weapons or ships, or any allies that they might pick up in Europe, like the Turkish tribes.

Someone asked if I could delay the Mongol invasion until after the next budget. I thought it would be more fun if it was determined by chance. :P

I was just giving it as an option, incase anyone wanted to figure out the chances that their budget would come in before the Mongol's came. :) The current chance from this year (I have not rolled yet today) is 52 percent that they will come before the next budget.

Just so everyone knows, the time when the Mongol's enter Europe is determined by a dice roll. A six means they invade. :P If anyone wants to calculate the probability that the Mongols will come LATER than a certain year, then you can use the formula (5^x)/(6^x), where x is the number of years until that year. For the probability that the Mongols will come on a specific year, use the formula above, except x would simply be the year before the year you are calculating for, then divide the decimal by 6.

Are there even 3500 knights left? Lots of the troops took terrible casualties because of the Scandanavian axemen or the storms, which don't discriminate between knight and peasant. Anywho, the Scandanavian countries offer the return to pre-war territory.

Yep yeppers. Not many rules to abuse though. :thumbsup: I'll go ahead and start making a character.

As playtesters, should we try to use the rules to our advantage, so that you can find the flaws and fix them?

Actually Denmark was bigger, with a budget of 5 million, but Rocco also lost some of his northern HRE land.

The Pope responds that it was a quick battle, not a long and drawn-out war. He also thinks that it was a tutorial and didn't want to include his interference.

You get the monies that the conquered lands had in their strongbox when they were conquered. Sweden had spent most of their monies already, along with the rest of the Scandanavian countries. Also, your treasury is 0 because you purchased twenty thousand men at arms, which is ten million, your total budget. ----- The pope has issued a warning to the leader of the HRE for their acts of war against fellow Christians.

Uh huh, but any information posted on the thread is basically free info for all the nations of Europe, so using that information they basically became more vigilent, because no one had thought of spying before, allowing them to figure it out that they were being spied on.

Oh, that reminds me. Most of the players with countries in Europe discover that you've been spying on them for a year, when you announce that they are moving on the thread. They are pretty good for their price, but that's because he doesn't really have any options for an army. However, if you think about it, the Mongols enjoy slaughtering mass rows of people, so blending in wouldn't really help...

Ja. I think I forgot to update your treasury. Here's a map that we could use, if you guys like it. Doesn't really matter to me, but the better the map you can find, the better you can abuse the terrain in your favor. If there is no map, I will use the "average" terrain of the country, which for most is plains.

Nah, that'll be a pretty big battle and I don't think I have much energy left in me today. I'll try to do it tomorrow morning, so you can prepare incase anything comes up in the evening.

Okay, I misunderstood. Steppes are more like plains, except the grass isn't as long and the ground is harder. Here's a wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppes