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The Cerdicings of Britannia: A Crusader Kings 2 Succession Game

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I apologize for the long delay but school kept me busy this week. The good news is that all the things consuming my time are over with now so I can finally start my turn today. I'll have the first update up by tomorrow (might be able to get one today but no promises). Now to see what the little genius teenager can do
 
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AAR Turn 6, Walker of Chaos as Blerbfred II Cerdicing Part 1
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    • So here is the first part of Blerbfried's reign
    I start things off by looking for a fitting bride for Blerbfried. I find one in a 13 year old French duchess who has a inheritable weak claim on France itself

    I also shift noble obligations to favor levies. Our demesne is wealthy enough that we don't need the taxes from our vassals. Additionally this shift leaves us less dependant on vassal opinions for troops and gives our vassals more money to use for improving their troops.

    I also reform the council of the realm to be a meritocracy, kicking any councilor that did not excel in their field. This pisses off the kings but it also grants us councilors with scores several times higher than their predecessors, besides it's not like the kings will be important for much longer.

    Finally I demand that the king of Scotland submit to me and become my prisoner over some minor plot he was leading. Predictably this fails and he raises his flag in revolt just as I wanted.

    …...Why do we own the sheep islands? I quickly dump it off on some random courtier

    Blerbfried grows up and attains the second highest degree of trickery possible. He also inherits his predecessors charitable nature, through his charity is decidedly more sinister in nature

    I decide to pursue business as my focus for now in order to boost my income. Our demense income is already excellent but i'd like to always have at least one improvement being constructed and that requires massive capital

    I join the hermetics because their events are rad and shower my advisors with money whenever they ask for it which proves fruitful for our research


    A 50 year old woman decides to seduce me. Suffice to say her efforts prove unfruitful

    While all of this was going on my armies have been steadily crushing the Scots and now I can force them to surrender. Since they were imprisoned from a war I can now strip them off one title without penalty, thus the Scotish king loses his crown and the kingdom of Scotland is soon destroyed


    After writing a stellar theorem paper that got certifications from every reviewer Blerbfried is invited to go artifact hunting with a fellow hermetic, the venture proves fruitful but does not yield an artifact


    Finally I marry my fiancee and use the resulting prestige boost to destroy the crown of Wales. Now only England and Ireland remain, alas the Irish king is too loyal to turn traitor/ I'll probably have to publicly murder him and then drive his son into revolt, but that shall have to wait for next time.

    So thoughts? Comments? Is there anything in particular you guys would like to have more focus? Or should I just continue with the current writing style? Open to any and all suggestions here.
     
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    • Looks great so far! Nice job with the vassal management. If vassal number becomes too large later we can always recreate the titles and perhaps issue them as viceroyalities or something
     
    Hi @Walker Of Chaos, hope things are going well on your end. It has been about a week. Any updates? If you're busy / not interested, it's fine to save where you are now and post it for the next player to take over.
     
    Blazinghand said:
    Hi @Walker Of Chaos, hope things are going well on your end. It has been about a week. Any updates? If you're busy / not interested, it's fine to save where you are now and post it for the next player to take over.
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    Sorry about this, exams hit and I kinda got distracted and then forgot about this. I'll can try to get something up tomorrow, if not feel free to skip over me. Apologies for this mess
     
    Walker Of Chaos said:
    Sorry about this, exams hit and I kinda got distracted and then forgot about this. I'll can try to get something up tomorrow, if not feel free to skip over me. Apologies for this mess
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    It's your call, whatever works best for you. If you want to be passed over, save with your current status and post it up and someone can play out the rest of your character. Or, if you think you can find some time to play, finish it up when you can. A shorter / more concise AAR is also fine. It's not a huge rush, I just want to make sure things don't get bogged down, and everyone gets a turn to play.
     
    Blazinghand said:
    It's your call, whatever works best for you. If you want to be passed over, save with your current status and post it up and someone can play out the rest of your character. Or, if you think you can find some time to play, finish it up when you can. A shorter / more concise AAR is also fine. It's not a huge rush, I just want to make sure things don't get bogged down, and everyone gets a turn to play.
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    I'll make one last update tomorrow covering the screenshots I currently have and then upload the save. If the next in line wants to he can continue with the save then, if not we can just reset to Eli and pretend my run never happened. Blerbfried is currently 26 so there should be plenty of game left in him

    EDIT We are in one war because inheritance was stupid but our opponent has no chance to hit back and ticking war score is in our favor. Also our heir is the duke of Valois and I he should have a claim on France. Only really bad thing that happened is that Blerbfried lost a leg

    EDIT EDIT Scratch that last info, I decided to play a bit more and the years are roaring by fast now with things mostly being peaceful and Blerbfrieds stats becoming increasingly bullshit (for example he has 34 learning)
     
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    AAR Turn 6, Walker of Chaos as Blerbfred II Cerdicing Part 2
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    • So I felt really really bad at screwing this up for everyone and when I saw how few pictures I had and so decided to play a bit more to get some more actual substance. And well things kinda escelated untill I ended up with a full play through (guilt is an excellent motivator)

    The downside to destroying all these crowns is that it doesn't exactly endear us to our vassals and they start banding together to form factions.

    Couple of months later the civil war breaks out. On paper our forces are roughly equal but the rebels are spread out and disorganized whereas our main force is concentrated and strong. For some reason steam lost the screenshots of the war but suffice to say I crushed the rebels and revoked their titles and re organized the realm to be more loyal.

    The prestige from this war also allowed me to destroy the crown of England

    An heir is born, his mother will soon die and he'll inherit the duchy of Valois. Shortly after a different set of nobles decide to rebel. Their rebellion is even weaker than the previous so I didn't bother screencapping it and decided to crush it with only my demesne. This proved less than ideal as you will see

    Yeah while crushing the last remnants of the rebel army Blerbfried ended up losing one of his legs. After that I permanently retired him from military duty. Luckily the wound did not prove fatal and he soon recovered from the worse of it

    The game apologizes for the leg issue by giving me this event

    I realize that I haven't actually done anything with my bullshit intrigue score so I assassinate the French king just because I can.

    I rank up to become a Magus and decide to go for the highest possible bonus to learning

    This happens and results in me getting the Erudite trait further amplifying learning

    Apparently learning and tech is something of a theme today as this shortly happens, Naturally I accept and now our capital has a massive tech boost.

    I decide to expand our artifacts by adding another Magnum Opus.

    The Pope calls a crusade against the Umayyads. I decide to not interfere because Muslim Iberia is interesting and their realm is one of the few that could actually challenge us in a fight and having no rivals is boring.

    My second wife dies so I grab a Bavarian princess

    I'll be fiiiiiiine

    Maybe not, I decide to call on my physician for help and well

    Two days later I die and because Steam is stupid it does not save my screenshot of the death screen. Anyways this is our next ruler

    Compared to Blerbfried he is quite lacking. However he does have a claim on France and all of his siblings hold lands of their own. As he has been a duke since the age of three I have had no control over his education and for some reason he is betrothed to a 31 year old woman/ I'd suggest breaking that as soon as possible. Realm should be relatively stable as no vassals rose up in the last decade of play time. I've also built three cities in Middleessex so I suggest keeping it as the capital.
    I'll upload the save tomorrow. Right now I need sleep
     
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    • Guys, this is quite hilarious.

    Our Emperor is French.


    Which is fine, great even, given recent events. It's just we just lost our special Anglo-Saxon buildings. It sure will make things interesting.
     
    EliudFS1 said:
    Guys, this is quite hilarious.

    Our Emperor is French.


    Which is fine, great even, given recent events. It's just we just lost our special Anglo-Saxon buildings. It sure will make things interesting.
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    Whoa, that's hilarious! Does it convert them into the French cultural buildings? Also, since we're a French ruler of Anglo-Saxon provinces, this will eventually cause English culture to emerge, right? what's the MTTH of that?
     
    Blazinghand said:
    Whoa, that's hilarious! Does it convert them into the French cultural buildings? Also, since we're a French ruler of Anglo-Saxon provinces, this will eventually cause English culture to emerge, right? what's the MTTH of that?
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    As far as I know, I think we lost them forever. We would have to build them all over again if we become Anglo-Saxon again.

    For the English culture to emerge, I though it had to be Norman culture to trigger it. So I dunno if French causes it.
     
    EliudFS1 said:
    As far as I know, I think we lost them forever. We would have to build them all over again if we become Anglo-Saxon again.

    For the English culture to emerge, I though it had to be Norman culture to trigger it. So I dunno if French causes it.
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    Ah, you're right. The wiki says it has to be Norman.
     
    Thanks for the update, btw, @Walker Of Chaos! It sounded like you were pretty busy, but you made it happen anyways.

    Here's the updated queue, looks like @Jorlem is next as we know :)

    By the way, I'm just going to loop the queue around again once we reach the bottom, unless people don't want to play for another turn. Here's the updated queue:

    Player Queue

    Completed turns:
    Blazinghand as Cynewulf - AAR Link
    Death and Faxes as Cynewulf Cynewulfsson - AAR Link
    Darrenb209 as Blerbfred - AAR Link
    Ceslas as Wulfgar - AAR Link
    EliudFS1 as Blerbfred - AAR Link
    Walker of Chaos as Blerbfred II - AAR Link

    Coming up:
    Jorlem
    Zooboss
    stratigo
    Theravis
     
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    AAR Turn 7, Jorlem as Ælfwald Cerdicing Part 1
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    • At the age of fifteen, I have ascended the throne of the land my forebearers called "Camelot", after some Welsh legend. Though they called it an empire, I know that there is only one true Empire in the West, and when the time is right I shall shuck the name "Camelot", and claim our place as the true heirs to the Western Roman Empire! But that time is not yet. Genius though he may have been, my father spent far too much time on his experiments and not enough on ruling wisely. Why he angered so many of our powerful vassals by announcing the end of the crown of England, I shall never know, but I do need to clean up the mess.

     
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    • Jorlem said:
    At the age of fifteen, I have ascended the throne of the land my forebearers called "Camelot", after some Welsh legend. Though they called it an empire, I know that there is only one true Empire in the West, and when the time is right I shall shuck the name "Camelot", and claim our place as the true heirs to the Western Roman Empire! But that time is not yet. Genius though he may have been, my father spent far too much time on his experiments and not enough on ruling wisely. Why he angered so many of our powerful vassals by announcing the end of the crown of England, I shall never know, but I do need to clean up the mess.

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    So apparently we have a bug on our hands. I never sold off land to the burghers so i'm not sure how that modifier popped up there.
     
    Walker Of Chaos said:
    So apparently we have a bug on our hands. I never sold off land to the burghers so i'm not sure how that modifier popped up there.
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    It is from an event, you might have clicked through without noticing. I'm on my phone at the moment, so I can't check myself, but if you (or someone) is up for checking the game files, and seeing how long the modifier lasts, we could figure out when it was applied. I know it lasts a while, so it might have been applied before you took over.
     
    Jorlem said:
    It is from an event, you might have clicked through without noticing. I'm on my phone at the moment, so I can't check myself, but if you (or someone) is up for checking the game files, and seeing how long the modifier lasts, we could figure out when it was applied. I know it lasts a while, so it might have been applied before you took over.
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    I know about the event, i got it some six or seven times and I'm pretty sure I refused each time. I'll have access to my computer this evening and i'll check the duration. If I did accidentally trigger it I apologize for the screw up:oops:

    EDIT Looking through Eli's run it looks like the modifier was not present at the end of his run so it seems to come from me accidentally having accepted the event.
     
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    I'm in the process of uploading/captioning the next update, that covers around seventeen years or so. I should have it done sometime tonight.

    @Zooboss, my character's heir just came of age, and as you will be playing him I wanted to get your ok on setting up a marriage for him. The person I was looking at is the seventeen year old princess of Lombardy, with a weak inheritable claim on that kingdom. She's the sister of the current king of Lombardy. If we want to aim for forming the HRE, this would likely be just what is needed. Should I go ahead with this, or leave him unmarried?
     
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