Yegorlyk to Georgia - a CK Dynasty!
 

The Tmutarakan Dynasty:

Hello folks! This dynasty is being done because I recently did stints in EU: Rome and EU: III and I thought it was time to dust off CK and give it a spin. After some careful consideration, I have decided to take an unusual county over as my own. Let me tell you about Tmutarakan.


In 1066, this nation was ruled by the 16 year old Gleb Rurikovich, after the previous ruler was killed after being poisoned earlier in the year, by a Byzantine assassin. The county went back to the ruling family of Chernigov and Ryazan, and was given to the son of the ruler.

Nevermind, I just realized that I am the firstborn son of the Prince, so I get the entire principality when my dad dies. I don’t want things that easy. It was perfect too. I’m trying to brainstorm if there is any way I can prevent it from happening, but it would be a really circuitous route. I would have to have a difference inheritance law which gave the County to someone else, and then die, so my father’s Principality would go to a brother but mine would go to my wife’s brother or something, but then I lose, due to the dynastic nature of the game. Not smart.

Ah well, I was really digging this dynasty too, with the location, the name, and everything.

Who else, then?

I could do the adjacent Principality of Cherson, two provinces. But then I’m already at Duke level. I could just do a random Count nearby – like the Count of Galaz in the Byzantine Empire or…I got it…

The Yegorlyk Dynasty

The Kingdom of Alania existed in the Caucasus Mountains from the 8th-9th centuries until absolutely destroyed by the Mongol Invasions in 1238-39. They would be invaded by the Caliphate and allied with Khazaria in the times before 1066.

In the 1060s, a Georgian-Alanian alliance was forged that would last decades. After the Mongols completely smashed the area, Tamerlane would finish the job, destroying forever many of the cities and dispersing the people of Alania, making it a memory of history.

In recent years, the people of the area, North Ossetia, have taken on the named Alania in order to give themselves a greater connection to history that places like Armenia and Georgia had, and to strengthen their international argument that South Ossetia is worthy of nationhood as a people with natural borders.

The five province Principality of Alania features three Counts and a Prince with two provinces of his own. As the ruler of Yegorlyk, we are the most exposed Christian province in the area. We are surrounded on three sides by pagans. As Orthodox, it will be our responsibility to Christianize the Pagans by conquering their land.

Thus, these are my goals for Yegorlyk:

1). Grow Economically
2). Capture the nearby Pagan province of Kasogs
3). Grow steadily
4). Declare ourselves a Prince, and break free of the chains of Alania
5). Forge a nation from the Pagans, converting them, and creating a mighty nation in the region for Christ.

(I have about 170 years to make a nation strong enough to stand up to the Mongols. Possible?)

Here is our court:

Count David of Yegorlyk
Age 27

4/4/9/5 (That’s Martial, Diplomacy, Intrigue, and Stewardship)
Gruff Diplomat


No Issue

Married to:

Burudukan
Age 17

5/7/8/5
Court Education – Still waiting result

Currently our Spy Master


Laws:

Semisalic Progeniture (my preference)
Traditional Custom (I prefer Feudal Contract)
Ecclesial Balance (not bad)

I change our tech advances to Siege Equipment, Farming Techniques, and leave it on Noble Customs.

I move to Feudal Contract

Despite being Orthodox, my people are Pagan, and that’s something we’ll have to fix soon.

Right now, Kasogs has a ton more troops than me. This will not be one of those blitzkrieg wars from me right out of the gate to gain land. We could take the other two adjacent provinces – Sarpa and Kuban, but they aren’t hot, and I’d prefer the very strong economy of kasogs as an early grab. They are also part of a large pagan tribe, whereas the Kasogs are by themselves. I also want to get them before Georgia or Alania do. I want to be the one with their economy.

Will be worth reading to find out, at least!

Here is a print screen of the initial map.

I hope so!

As you can see, the grey blob is Alania, and the northernmost of the grey provinces is me. Just south is Kasogs, in a bad color job, because it’s next to a grey nation but not of us. Bad map! Anyway, you can see the pretty blue is Georgia, the deep green above is they very large Tribe of Cuman, the purple is Byzantium. The deep red if Itil, the capital of the Kharzian tribe, and Jewish. There are other nearby Jewish provinces as well, including our province of Kuma, right beside it. The puce green is two small sheikdoms – Derbent and Albania.

Okay, since I am taking the slow path on this one, at least in the early game, then let’s just lean back and relax. Is everything ready?

We’ll take a day or two, get my courtiers, and then see what’s up and who gets what role.

Watch out for the Cumans. They're extremely dangerous.

We'll see just how dangereux they will be with me! I eat pagans for breakfast, Muslims for lunch and the Khazarian Jews for a tasty dinner. Or at least that's the plan.

Dec 27, 1066 – I was given two additional courtiers:

Sangipan of Yegorlik, appointed my Marshal because he is my only male courtier (Martial of 5)

Rusudan of Yegorlik, appointed my Chancellor (Dip of 6)

Now I want to try and find a wife for Sangipan, to become a courtier for me, with a high stewardship.

Dec 29 – Our liege has made Kuma now a County, instead of ruling it directly.

Feb 6, 1067 – My wife is expecting!

Feb 9 – The daughter of the King of Georgia agrees to marry my courtier (she’s 24 and never been married). I appoint her my Steward.

Feb 1 7- My courtiers are already expecting

Apr 10 – My wife is Ill

June 26 – My wife became an Amateurish Pettifogger

Oct 9 – Our son, Aton, was born. I know have an heir. YAY!

Oct 23 – A miracle worker offers to heal my wife and we accept, and she is no longer ill.

Dec 19 – A weird thing happens. Our Prince swears fealty to the King of Georgia, so we are now Georgian. That is weird.

It's actually a smart move on the Prince's part. More protection from the Cumans and other nasties in the area, and Georgia is one of the weaker kingdoms, so rebelling to go independent further down on the line won't be too hard.

Dola,

I usually don't play that far East, but if your Prince's main county is part of the territory needed to form the Kingdom of Georgia, that's another reason why he joined.

Jan 13, 1068 – We discover the two farming method and I move my emphasis to Farming Equipment.

Mar 4 – My two courtiers are expecting another child after having a girl.

Mar 25 – My wife is expecting again

Apr 24 – I get an event. The nobles say they will not trust a leader with a different religion. I choose to crush them. Result – 75% chance province is looted for a year, and 75% chance it converts to Orthodox. I now have a Looted, Revolting, and Orthodox province

July 6- Rebelling peasants are starving and returning to the field. I choose to open my coffers and help them. We spend some ducats, and the province loses looted and revolting.

Aug 20 – In case you don’t remember them from before, the County of Suenik has accepted annexation under the King of Georgia as well. We are expanding all over the place.

Nov 30 – We have a daughter named Irina

It's in Khazaria, one of the hardest crowns to forge. Can you imagine a harder place to make your king?

Feb 19, 1069 – My courtiers are expecting their third child.

May 2 – I get an event – a Pretty Wench Catches My Eye. I choose:

Refuse the Impulse. Gain 25 piety and a chance of becoming chaste, which failed.

May 24 – We discover wood ploughs. I order our people to look at architecture

June 8 – Kasogs wisely joins the Tribe of Cuman, the big green blob

Aug 20 – Byzantium has its fourth Principality declare independence. Two have been brought back into the fold after wars.

Sept 8 – We discover Divine Right. I next want to study spiritual art

Dec 14 – We are expecting our third child

Mar 2, 1070 – Three more principalities go rogue, but Byzantium just brought one in, but one, Trebizond, won its freedom and is now independent

Sept 13 – We name our son Itaz

Nov 3 – Cuman is finally at war. They are not marshalling troops from the small provinces, but they have one of their own nearby, one with a nice economy. Let’s see what happens

Nov 25 – I order a Forestry built

Dec 21 – My wife falls ill again.

Dec 23 – We are expecting a 4th child.

Mar 4, 1071 – I choose to raise my firstborn son myself.

Mar 25 – Another miracle worker heals my wife

Apr 12 – I send my daughter to a local noble

Apr 25 – We discover Basilican Structures. I have my people change their focus to mining

May 18 _ I can see Turk armies besieging Cuman in a nearby province, so I am getting ready for an attack of opportunity.

June 12 – We discover the shortbow.

July 19 – I choose to fall in love with my wife. We are now friends, and I gain Chaste.

Aug 20 – The Turks just took three provinces from Cuman. None that close, but dangerous stuff.

Sept 27 – We have a daughter – Borena

Nov 1 – We learn the handaxe

Nov 26 – I hand my second born son to the monks. I need a Diocese Bishop still.

Enjoy your dynasties immensely. I didn't get a chance to comment on your recent EU III dynasty, but I would like to see you reload the save before your were excommunicated and see if you can get further. I thought it was quite an interesting position to play.

Feb 10, 1072 – The Principality of Trebizond joined Georgia. Hopefully, we’ll have a strong state pretty soon. That’s good to keep off the baddies with, I suspect.

May 6 – My eldest is afraid of the dark. I choose: address the cause. He gains Trusting

June 15 – In the past month, three principalities won independence from Byzantium. Not looking good. The Turks are winnign a war against nearby Armenia, and if they annex it, they will border Georgia on all sorts of places, and war is inevitable.

The nearby Cuman provinces have stagnated in their number of troops, but I went way down when my province was looted for those couple of months, so I’ve been building my troops back up again, but it may be getting close to spin taking time, based on the low numbers of nearby forces I;m seeing.

Aug 26 – Armenia was just annexed by the Turks.

Nov 5 – My fourthborn is to be raised by nannies.

Nov 6 – I accept a fosterling from Manych

Nov 26 – One of our daughters, Borena, has died.

Jan 12, 1073 – We learn the battering ram and I order us to focus on offensive terrain.

Thanks, I appreciate it!

May 6 – Let me show you a map of how things have changed.

As you can see, the big blue splotch is Georgia. You’ll note Suenik is completely surrounded by the Turks and their Orange-Yellow color. You can also see them north of Itil now. See all of the land borders between us? I suspect a Turk-Georgian war is just a matter of time.

You can see how Georgia has really grown with Alania, Trebizond and Suenik added to it. You can see colors other than Byzantium purple to the left as the state is having problems, but the County of Tmutarakan is now Byzantine after pledging to it, so everybody is changing.

I am trying to decide if I have enough armies to strike now, or if I need to wait. I believe I can strike and take a province, but what will the counter attack look like? Can I rely on my fairly large Georgian blob to back me up and keep away Cuman after I stab into her heart and tear out a nearby province. It would be very good for Georgia to expand now, to use that growth to counter a future Turkish threat with more money and armies.

I currently have 709 troops and I expect I could have around 2000 when it is all said and done, but that will take years to have. Right now, here are the numbers for adjacent Cuman provinces:

Kuban – roughly 350
Sarpa – Roughly 380
Azov – Roughly 400
Tana – Roughly 280
Saray – Roughly 900 – not too near me

I think I’d want to strike at Kuban, the first one. The one most isolated from the rest of Cuman.

You know what? Let’s live dangerously. I DOW Kuban

June 7 – We defeat the Kubans after the Abkhazia army is sent in to help. A siege begins

June 9 – Cuman forces arrive in our district.

June 17 – We crush some Azovian troops that arrive to break our siege

June 21 – I decline a peace offer for 71 ducats with Kuban

June 23 – Georgia accepts peace for ducats (stupid) with Cuman. Pissed, I DOW Kasogs and move in.

July 10 – The King of Georgia and my Count arrive, defeat the large Kasogs army, and then begin a siege.

July 24 - As it gets close to the end. Georgia ends with peace. I spend 100 prestige to DOW them again, because I WANT THE LAND and my liege is an idiot not to.

Sept 18 – On the very day I win the siege, the Prince of Alania has a white peace with Kasogs, so I have no time to try and get ducats or the land. Nothing. Even the Prince of Alania doesn’t want anything. Furious, I DOW YET AGAIN and lose another 100 prestige. Screw it.

Nov 16 – The Prince of Alania dies and there is a new one, a infant less than one year old. I declare my independence from these idiots. We are now at war with Alania.

Dec 2 – We win the siege of Kasogs and annex it. We are now at peace with Alania for some reason, and now on our own. But we got Kasogs.


Kasogs – 4450, Alan culture and pagan religion. They have Court of Justice, Royal Post, Training Grounds and Forestry. They are currently giving us roughly 4 ducats, twice as much as our own province.

I now have a prestige of -37, but I think, all-in-all, it was worth it.

Everybody still like me. I have max relations with all of the Georgians, King, Prince of Alania, everyone, so I suspect I can come back under the fold if it gets too cold out here.


Independence, and Kasogs - a good year.

Man, what a bunch of wusses those guys are.

Good work grabbing Kasogs. I think Georgia's negotiating peace with Cumans was smarter in the long run, though.

Dec 27 – The County of Manych declines to form an alliance with me.

Jan 11, 1074 – I accept an alliance with the Prince of Pereyaslavl. They DOWd Alania who DOWd back and probably think me a good ally, but I am not forced to join the conflict, and I have an ally with about 15-20 provinces. They are pretty far away, I don’t expect anything major to happen.

Feb 2 – I get a Religious Clergy preach a Different Faith event and choose to crush them. This time, just a 40% chance of conversion. But I’ll take that. It did change to Orthodox, looted, and rebelling.

Feb 15 – it is no longer looted

Mar 3 – My firstborn wants to know where heathens come from. My answer is: Men like us, but unbeliever enemies and unfortunately he gained Hostile – ick. I was hoping for merciful or zealous, but nope.

Mar 30 – I accept a fosterling from Tmutarakan. I offer one of my courtiers four daughters as well, it seems like a good idea.

April 13 – The Count accepts

July 15 – War breaks out between Cuman and Khazars (Itil). I watch for an opening.

Nov 12 – Expecting a 5th child

Nov 25 0 Khazars falls to Cuman. Never had a shot. That’s a very valuable province that will probably go to the Turks soon. Shoot.

Feb 6, 1075 - Irina becomes ill

Apr 17 – I give in to demands in Kasogs, and the revolts ends and I lose a tiny bit of prestige.

May 28 – My firstborn becomes friends with the fosterling from Manych

Aug 10 – We have a son and name him David after me

Sept 16 – We pay a miracle worker to heal my child

Nov 23, 1075 – We have entered the Crusades era

I can;t tell you how pissed I Was.

I disagree, but I guess we'll see soon enough.

Mar 22, 1076 – I must have missed it, but Georgia is now at war with some muslims. Trebizond lost her vassal, so Georgia lost another province. They needed to get those from the war, I totally don’t understand her actions there.

Apr 21 – I order Training grounds built in my province.

June 16 – War begins. The Turks DOW Suenik. Georgia DOWs the Turks. Battle begins

There are a lot of nearby provinces that are Orthodox and under Turk control, so hopefully Georgia can bring a few under her, but I doubt it. I think it will be another win for the big bad. I think they get Suenik and maybe a province from Georgia too.

Aug 26 – We discover Relic in Yegorlik, and I move my advisors to focus on Popular Customs

Jan 2, 1077 – Georgia captured a Turkish province, can they get enough momentum to win the war?

Mar 7 – My firstborn wants to know if God exists. My answer is: Certainly, let me tell you all about him. My firstborn gets Zealous this time.

Mar 15 – White peace between Georgia and my ally, so they can keep focusing on the Turks.

Apr 23 – We go hunting with the King of Georgia, and he is now my friend.

May 24 – Another hunting trip for boar and the Prince of Alania is now my friend. Despite being 3.

July 11 – We are expecting our 6th child

Aug 1 – Suenik has captured a Turkish province. Will land be exchanged in the peace deal?

Aug 14 – I hand my son David to the nobles for training

Oct 26 – Suenik is taken and annexed and that province they had taken is gone.

Nov 3 – Seeing a chance, the Tribe of Cuman DOWs Georgia. I await an opportunity to strike, not only to gain land for myself, but to help my former friend. Besides, if Georgia falls, things may not look good for us.

Dec 21 – The Georgian capital fell to the Turks.

I DOW Cuman. I have armies of 1175 and 841.

Our allies join us

Jan 1, 1078 – Both armies arrive in Kuban and attack the defenders

We lose ot the 450 troops in Kuban after fighting their 15 martial skill general. Yuck.

Jan 10 – I ordre both armies to Kuban.

Jan 24 They arrive in Yegorlyk, and we arrive in Kuban with the other army and both begin a siege I send my defeated army to end a siege in Abkhazia

Mar 6 – We were insulted in a tourney by the Chief of Kuban. We gain a claim on Kuban and a rival.

Apr 1 – We defeat the siege of Abkhazia

Apr 4 – Thieves Guild in Yegorlyk

Apr 6 – They destroy our Forestry in Yegorlyk

Apr 9 – Victory in Kuban over a Cumani army

Apr 24 – We defeat an Azov army in Kuban

Apr 26 – We have a daughter

May 25 – We capture Kuban and annex it

Try to relieve a siege in Kasogs, or try and do more damage elsewhere.

June 17 – My ally took a Cumani province from one of their vassals permanently.

July 4 – We win a battle against a small Cumani army

I go to relieve the Siege of Kasogs, and although I have a few more troops, the King of Cuman with his 12 martial skill is there - not looking good.

July 16 – Whew, we relieve the siege – barely.

September 16 – My army loses in Azov. Another siege has begun, in Yegorlyk.


Sept 23 – In a losing battle, our Count dies!

The new count:

Aton of Yegorlyk
10 years old

Martial Education, Parental Upbringing, Zealous, Trusting, Hostile

Martial – 9, Diplo – 4, Intrigue – 2, Stewardship – 2.

Oct 1 – Our allies take two more provinces from Cuman and declare peace.

Oct 14 – Kuban is now rebelling from the siege here

Nov 17 – I manage to lift a couple of sieges with my new count with his higher martial skill

Nov 23 – We go hunting with the Count of Tmutarakan, and we are now friends

Nov 30 – We take a Heathens Are Splintered event and take White Peace with Cuman.

Kuban – Currently rebelling, with a 4350 supply limit, the Cuman Pagans here make us 0.6 ducats annually, currently.


Unfortunately, none of our three provinces are in the same duchy. I need to proclaim myself a prince. Kuban is Azovian, Kasogs is Abghazian, and Yegorlyk is Alanian.

Kuma and Alania provinces are now Cumani. Several provinces have been lost to the Turks, and Georgia is still fighting a two front war. I tried to relieve pressure, and I took a Cumani province, and my ally took three more – but it was not enough. Cuman perfectly timed their DOW on Georgia, perfectly aligned to hit them when they were already in too deep against the Turks.

Feb 9, 1079 –I give in to popular demands and the revolt in Kuban is over

The Manych court joins us, as the Principality of Alania removed them from power when their lands were taken.

Mar 5 – Georgia has been dispatched and destroyed. Cuman took a few of their provinces, the Turks took a bunch of provinces, and only a few scattered ones are left. Let me get you a map.

As you can see, there are just three Georgia provinces left, and none in the King’s demesne. Meanwhile, Cuman and the Turks have both made major advances, and I’m looking around for fellow Christians. I am now next to Tmutarakan, and perhaps Byzantium might be my next pledge. Georgia screwed up in several ways – one is they should never have gone to war with the Turks over Suenik – they should have let it go, and if they did go to war, they should have warred to win. They failed to do that. Cuman has been smart.

I would love to attack and annex Manych aka Prince of Alania, but in CK you have to have a claim on a fellow Christian land in order to take it, and I have no such claim. Right now, it would be easier to take on the Christians than the Pagans/Muslims

If I had my choice as to which province I want next, it would be Abkhazia, a valuable province with port access. Azov would give me two of the three provinces in the Principality of Azov and the ability to claim that title. Those would be my two targets.

Mar 27 – Georgia took the Prince of Kartli’s title. Then he stripped the Prince of his lands so Georgia could have a demesne. I need claims so I can take some of these provinces before the Turks and Cumani come back. It’s the only way the Christians can survive - unite under my flag. I am the only Christian nation in the region to expand successfully through war.

I send a female fosterling to our ally’s court

June 6, 1080 – After a year of quiet, we discover Offensive Terrain in Yegorlyk, and I order our supply limit to work on Defensive.


July 13 – We develop Business Practices in Yegorlyk

Aug 18 – My dad dying while young has made me hate god, and I gain Skeptical and lose Zealous

Sept 15 – Cuman DOWs us.

I mobilize my forces. I will need to keep all of my armies together under my great Marshall to have a shot at this.

Sept 23 – I send my youngest brother to the army for training

Oct 2 – A random principality far away in the Byzantium hold DOWs us. Weird

Dec 2- After a lot of winning battles, and breaking sieges, we get a Heathens are Splintered event and I take it. White peace for all.

March 10, 1081 – After nothing, White Peace with Byzantium and her vassal.

I decide to send a fosterling to Byzantium

Oct 21 – I am asked to take in a bishop, and I appoint him my Diocese Bishop finally!

Jan 21, 1082 – I take a Georgian fosterling

I'm shocked it took that long for the bishop event to fire.

Me too! I've never seen it take that long before.

Mar 22 – I wasn’t ready a year ago, I’m ready now. I have both my armies merged in Kuban. I DOW Sarpa, which brings Azov and Cuman and their allies into the fray. I then move into Tana, the headquarters of Azov.

Apr 12 – We crush the 500 strong army in Tana and begin a siege with my 3800 troops

Apr 29 – A siege starts in Kasogs

May 5 – We are attacked by Cumani troops in Tana

May 12 – We win

May 28 – Tana falls to us. We annex it.

I disband the Kasogs army and reband it in Kasogs, under the control of my great marshal. Battle begins with the Cumani forces, lead by their chief.

June 15 – We win in Kasogs and kill the Cumani Chief. They have a besieging unit in Tana

July 12 – My army lifts a siege that just started in Yegorlyk

July 19 – I organize Tana troops, around 100, to slow down the siege in Tana until I can get there and relieve my newest province.

July 26 – We lose.

July 30 – Tana falls to an ally of Cuman.

Aug 5 – We arrive in Tana

Aug 16 – We defeat them. Currently, we have no sieges on my provinces, but Tana fell and needs to be recaptured.

Aug 26 – Itil sends a peace offer for my 101 ducats and I accept. I am now at war with Cuman alone. I am engaged in battle in Kuban.

Aug 28 -= We win in Kuban. Decision – attack Abkhazia or play defense and try to keep Cuman from beginning a siege. Hmm. North or south.

Sept 10 – We defeat Cumani troops that had just arrived at Tana, as I thought. Back to Kuban, and thence to?

Sept 12 - Rebels have started in Abkhazia. I’ll skip it for now.

Oct 1 – Another battle won in Tana, and again I head back south.

Oct 25 – Win in Kasogs against a small sieging unit

Nov 12 – I choose to honor a pagan shrine in Tana and it becomes prosperous and we lose some piety.

Nov 25 – Victoire in Yegorlyk

Jan 5, 1083 – We get a event of a tournament nature, I am insulted, I push it, and I gain a claim on the Prince of Alania.

Feb 12 – Victory in Kuban

Feb 26 – Victory in Tana

I DOW Azov to get some more land.

Mar 25 – We win in Azov and begin a siege

May 14 – We capture Azov. We annex them and take a ton of money, which helps our situation a lot.

Now I have to go and raise a few sieges, but none have more than 1000 Cumani troops on them.

May 30 – We win against troops in Kuban

June 1 – We win in Yegorlyk after assembling my army there and defeating the troops.

June 11 – We win in Tana.

June 15 – Tana is now looted

June 27 – Kuban is now revolting

July 10 – We win in Yegorlyk

Aug 4 – We defeat a sizeable army in Tana and move to Sarpa to begin a siege

Aug 23 – I use the blood money to hire 1000 Norse mercenaries and add to our army in Sarpa

Sept 15 – Tana stops being looted

Sept 20 – We win in Sarpa against a major force trying to send us out

Sept 23 – Revolt spreads to Yegorlyk

Oct 5 – We take Sarpa in peace negotiations after it falls to us. We also get some more cash.

Attack Saray or head back in and hit some bad guys. I head back in.

Nov 19 – We win in Kuban

Dec 27 – We win Kasogs

Feb 9, 1084 – I take a Heathens Splintered event and we are at a white peace

Azov – This province has a road network, thieves’ guild and fishing wharf. It has 4350 sl, Cuman Pagans. .61 ducats made here

Tana – Cuman Pagans, just thieves guild, currently prosperous, 0.45 ducats, 4350 sl

Sarpa – 1.01 ducats, prosperous, nothing built here, 4350 supply limit and they are Cuman Pagans.

This war kept me in the north and away from the rich Georgian southern province,s but I still made out.


I start looking for a bride.

The one I want is the Georgian King;s daughter – and she’s 14, so I’ll wait for a bit.

Feb 12 – The Turks just took a heavy chunk of Byzantium’s provinces.

Feb 22 – I DOW Alania while I have my extra norse army with me.

Mar 22 – We defeat the Alanian army and begin a siege.

Mar 25 – Abkhazia declared independence from Cuman, since the rebels have had it all this time!

May 17 – We capture Manych, and then take the prince title and a bunch of gold and leave. I don’t get the land, jus the Prince title.

We are now the Prince of Alania.

I claim the Prince of Azov title. We are back in Georgia’s rule (since we took the title of something under Georgia’s umbrella)

We are now a double Prince. Who wants maps?

As you can see, I have marked our space, our Ally’s, Turks, and Cumani provinces. The purple is the Byzantines. The orange province next to us is also the Turks, a province they took from Cuman. Despite its color, Abkhazia is not a part of Georgia or us.

July 5 – I send a fosterling to Abkhazia

My intention to start giving away province to counts when they turn Orthodox by event.


Aug 1 – Abkhazia is vassalized by Georgia and made into the Duke of Abghazia. Smart move by Georgia, I was angling to vassalize them myself.

Sept 14 – Jewish rebels have captured Kuma, the province formerally held by the Prince of Alania, and taken by Cuman.

Oct 16 – Having finished my education, I become a Brilliant Strategist!


Prince Aton of Yegorlyk
17

Brilliant Strategist
Skeptical, Trusting, Hostile

Martial – 17, Diplo – 4, Intrigue – 9, Stewardship – 8

That’s not bad. Obviously I’d prefer a better diplomacy skill, but for your first kid, that’s not bad at all. If I were not Trusting, I would have an 11 intrigue.

Nov 18 – We develop Nautical sailing

Jan 20, 1085 – We develop Divine Duty. I order my supply limit to look at Profane Art

Feb 1 – I order a library in Kuban

Feb 15 – We discover Statues. I order my supply limit to look into the Seven Arts

May 5 – Sarpa is now rebelling due to the religion issue

May 17 – For a long time, my court looked like a child school, with all of the young ones running around and few adults. Many are now growing up. For example, one just because a 17 diplomacy Grey Eminence.

June 15 – Meet my new wife. I take a duty of more than 100 ducats as well.

Princess Ripsime Bagratuni
16, eldest daughter of King of Georgia

Martial Cleric, Temperate, Just

Martial – 12, Dip – 11, Intrigue – 8, Steward – 15

July 15 – My wife is expecting. I use the dowry to purchase training grounds in Yegorlyk

July 19 – Alania falls to rebels. I have a good feeling these rebels may take another Cumani province, and then bring them all back to our yoke eventually, like with Abkhazia

Sept 16 – The Jewish state of Kuma has wrested free of Cuman

I organize some troops and send them over. I want to take them now, before Cuman gets any ideas.

Sept 26 – I DOW Kuma and order my troops, stationed in Manych, into her province.

Oct 19 – We defeat the troops and initiate a siege

Dec 10 – We give in to some demands and a rebellion ends in Sarpa

Jan 10, 1086 – We take Kuma. A Manych army was with us, and since he has a claim to the land, he took it and annexed it, but still its good for Georgia to regain land we lost, and good for me since I expect I’ll eventually get that land under my banner.

Feb 18 - I marry my sister, Irina, to the grandson firstborn of the Prince of Trebizond. She’s pretty good as a courtier, actually.

Mar 4 – I gain rebellious rather than change my policies to fit my liege’s. I also gain a claim on King of Georgia

I’m marrying off a few of my courtiers. Want to make my domain a bit smaller.

Apr 11 – We have a daughter – Rusudan

May 1 – I marry two of my great courtiers, the son of Miriam and my courtier from before, and my silver-tongued chancellor great chick I have as well.

May 14 – Road Building gained in yegorlyk

June 9 – My Diocese Bishop dies

June 20 – Alania has declared her independence.

Aug 18 – They reject a vassalization offer from me, the Prince of Alania. I order a library in Sarpa

Sept 25 – Alania pledges herself to Georgia. That gives me an idea. I order my troops to march to Georgia, which I can now do since Alania is now us.

Dec 23 – 4000 troops under command of my Prince with his 17 martial arrive in Georgia. I DOW on my liege. I want to take them and then claim the King title for myself. Then I get all of the Georgia vassals, and in one stroke, I am King of Georgia and in a very good position.


Jan 11, 1087 – We defeat the Georgia troops and initiate a siege.
Jan 30 – Having fosterlings in my court makes my wife want to have kids more - +2 to her fertility.

I grab the title on Georgia’s count title for the province.

Feb 5 – We win the siege, and I take the title, King of Georgia and the province, Count of Kakheti, and some gold!


Kakheti – With a church, roads, training grounds being built, Thieves Guild and Smugglers Guild, this Georgian Orthodox province of 2350 is not currently fulfilling its promise with just 5 ducats to us, but it could be a lot more if we got rid of the guilds.


We have the following vassals:

Prince of Abghazia – With just Abkhazia as his demesne
Count of Manych (A rival, with rebellious, but also depressed) – With Manych and Kuma
Prince of Trebizond – With just Trebizond
Count of Alania – With just Alania

Maybe the Count of Manych will kill himself soon?


Our capital was moved to Kasogs.

I use blood money to build a library in Tana.

Woot, King title numero uno!

Yup! Let me get you folks a map with ME as the King.

As you can see, I gained a ton of prestige, but I’m in the hole with piety.

In 21 years I have become a King. I have 12 provinces under my crown. Before this short war, I had 6. I doubled it in one go.

My next goal is to be able to fend off the Cumans and Turks. I would like to retake Imertitia from Cuman (the province surrounded by us), the wealthy Saray, and Jewish Itil and perhaps some other provinces. One more victory against Cuman and I think we will be basically done. They are down to 8 provinces.

Taking the 4 Crimean provinces would be nice too

Feb 12 – I ally with the Principality of Coloneia, that’s the greenish country you’ve seen at the tip of the screens I’ve made for you next to Trebizond, in Turkey. It’s been there a while after winning independence from Byzantium.

Feb 18 – Expecting another kid

Mar 5 – They reject a vassalization offer. I thought it would be worth trying.

One of the Crimean provinces has broke free of Cuman and now at war with them. That should keep them occupied for a year or two until I am ready to strike fast, and furious and take them out.

Apr 28 – I was previously telling you when my capital, Yegorlyk, got an advance, but now that it has changed, should I slide to telling you what Kasogs gets? They developed the short sword today.

Here is my court, post War

Chancellor Yeva Siwnik, Dip 14
Marshal Kandak of Yegorlyk, Mar 11
Steward Ripsime Bagratuni, Ste 15
Spy Master Huddan of Manych, Intr 12
Diocese Bishop – Taus of Yegorlyk

Taus is a son of Miriam and my courter from the last generation. Courtiers worthy of a king!

July 2 – We discover Stonepit in Kasogs and I order a Tile Factory built here

Oct 10 – Thieves Guild gone in Azov

Nov 19 – We have a daughter named Borena

Dec 1 – I order a Tile Factory in Yegorlyk

Dec 15 – One of the daughters of Miriam/Sangipan marriage now has a 17 diplomacy and becomes my new chancellor.

Jan 7, 1088 – Rebels in Manych. I marshal the Sarpa army to head in, take them out, and disband before the end of the month.

Jan 28 – Successful

Mar 28 – I lose the Rebellious trait. Disappointing, because I liked the bonuses it gave my stats and prestige.

May 9 – For about the past ten years, I’ve been getting all of these buddy-buddy events for my girls, and they’ve formed a major clique in my court, with a ton of them in the in crowd, and all friends. It’s funny.

May 22 – I send my youngest sister to Byzantium;s court as a fosterling

June 16 – Tile Factory ordered in Kakheti

Aug 12 – I gain Romantic after choosing that the friend of my enemy is not necessarily my enemy. +1 to martial and diplo, -1 to intrigue and stewardship, and extra prestige annually

Aug 26 – Expecting a third child we are

Here’s my plan for war with Cuman when it happens.

Send my Kakheti army at Imertia, and take it.

Combine my two mains to strike at Saray.

Leave the others unactivated (too expensive)

Once Imertia falls, I bring that army north to DOW and besiege vassals of Cuman, while I keep the two Kuman armies from Itil and Saray on their toes with my larger army lead by me.

Then, once I have Imertia, Saray, Itil in my hands, and perhaps both of the northern provinces, I move to Crimea and slowly DOW and take each of their provinces until I have taken all of Cuman. (actually I discovered a couple of Cuman provinces far, far to the north, but all in the area.)

Then I have added 7-8 provinces to my total, and are in a much better strait to take on the Turks if I need to.

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

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.

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.

Nice little war there, grats!

Yeah, I was Cuman's pimp on that one

Map?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Map!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.