07 Jun 18 UTC | Spring, 1201: Good luck infidels! |
07 Jun 18 UTC | Spring, 1201: I mean Pagans... |
07 Jun 18 UTC | Spring, 1201: Wrong yellow. |
08 Jun 18 UTC | Spring, 1201: GameMaster: NMR from Holy Roman Empire. Send the country in CD. |
08 Jun 18 UTC | Spring, 1201: GameMaster: Missing orders for Spring, 1201 (Diplomacy) from a country with 2 or more SCs. Extending phase.The game will continue after this phase even if you do not find a replacement. |
08 Jun 18 UTC | Spring, 1201: Well then |
08 Jun 18 UTC | Spring, 1201: saw that coming... now we wait for a new comer |
09 Jun 18 UTC | Spring, 1201: GameMaster: Someone has taken over Holy Roman Empire replacing "NotANazi". Reconsider your alliances. |
09 Jun 18 UTC | Spring, 1201: OK. Everyone is my friend for joining... right? |
29 Jul 18 UTC | Well done Denmark. Hungary - did I not warn you that this is exactly what would happen if you kept trying to push south? |
29 Jul 18 UTC | Congratulations to the King of the Danes, worthy conqueror of early 13th century Europe! Now that this has been my first 1201 game, I feel confirmed in my estimation that Rus is really terribly off. F Novgorod is of no help to A Kiev, and A Kiev can only reinforce F Novgorod by sacrificing any hope of first year builds. Denmark is pretty much compelled to take out Novgorod as F Novgorod has no early target but Denmark, and at that point Hungary can dogpile Rus as well from the other side. There is a strong compelling for Denmark and Hungary to work together early to eliminate Rus, but as Denmark and Hungary can't hurt each other, Rus has very little leverage to talk Den/Hun into acting any differently. Theoretically England, HRE could tackle Denmark to convince them otherwise, as could HRE, Papacy and Byzantium with Hungary - but they have already their plate full with other strong relationships, and Rus has nothing to directly offer them either but a quaint 1-unit-offensive on either Denmark or Hungary. Rus, Denmark, Hungary (and also the other powers mentioned), can you confirm my impression? |
29 Jul 18 UTC | I think this map is fun. Maybe a little bit too less SC is in, but that is why is special. I think Rus had a chance, I just betrayed him, and I made an all-in against him. HRE helped me out, so I would able to defeat him. Later I made so much mistake at the south, so I just couldnt win and I also made a mistake with Byzantyne's diplomacy. At the end of the game I would be able to make some steps against Denmark, but I didnt want to betray him, he was very forward with me, and I think he would already win it another way because in the best case I could only take 1-2 SC from him. It was just not worth it. I think this is a balanced map, and it was a good game. But you have right with Rus, he has the worse starting position. Maybe Denmark is the best starting position. My only problem is that the Ayyabuyid-Byzanthine conflict just cant be avoided as the French-English conflict as we could see it in this game. Maybe the Castille-Almoravid conflict is also a little bit fixed. But maybe they are able to avoid it if Castille gets more SC. That is it. Thank you for the game guys. The funny thing that I am actually Hungarian so it was funny that it drawn it to me and I think that if I compare to the 13th Hungary's map, I was succesful :D |
30 Jul 18 UTC | I agree that it is too tough for rus |
30 Jul 18 UTC | And I really felt that I had no choice but to fight the byzantines |
30 Jul 18 UTC | Yeah, it's kind of hard not to fight Almohad from Castille's position. |
30 Jul 18 UTC | Ya. I figured our fight was inevitable. I tried swaying you a different way at the start to see if we could have a different outcome but your position against me makes that a kot less appealing. |
30 Jul 18 UTC | Im just surprised i held out to the end to be honest |
30 Jul 18 UTC | NOV should be an army as having a fleet is too limiting and makes RUS very hard to play IMO. HUN thanks for the loyal support, even if it was one-way with me actively helping you in return for you leaving me alone. |
30 Jul 18 UTC | I'm not quite sure why the Papacy gave up on me and went with the doomed-to-fail HRE, it just let the Danes sweep in. Well deserved victory Joe. |