Being an Account of the Reign of His Royal Highness, King Knud I, Part the Second
The years following the conquest of the Low Countries see the installation therin of a civilized infrastructure, including roads, ports, and a network of garrisoned watchposts to suppress banditry, and from these efforts provide the Crown with the funds to replace the personal guards of the nobility and the broad levies of freemen with a corps of professional warriors truly loyal to the Kingdom, rather than their own interests or those of their patrons. From the newly-completed royal castle at Arhus, these men of the royal house prove capable of accomplishing with ease the successive conquests of the Stettin coast in 1108, Riga in 1112, and the rebel norse tribes of Helsinki in 1118.
While this seaborn campaign is a triumphant success, and brings the independant principalities along European side of the Baltic firmly under Danish control, the news from the south is less warming. After a cursory attempt at extortion, the Holy Roman Empire has betrayed its word and its name with a declaration of open war!
Three years per turn? That makes me twitch so badly...
Ja, -n
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."
The years following the conquest of the Low Countries see the installation therin of a civilized infrastructure, including roads, ports, and a network of garrisoned watchposts to suppress banditry, and from these efforts provide the Crown with the funds to replace the personal guards of the nobility and the broad levies of freemen with a corps of professional warriors truly loyal to the Kingdom, rather than their own interests or those of their patrons. From the newly-completed royal castle at Arhus, these men of the royal house prove capable of accomplishing with ease the successive conquests of the Stettin coast in 1108, Riga in 1112, and the rebel norse tribes of Helsinki in 1118.
While this seaborn campaign is a triumphant success, and brings the independant principalities along European side of the Baltic firmly under Danish control, the news from the south is less warming. After a cursory attempt at extortion, the Holy Roman Empire has betrayed its word and its name with a declaration of open war!
Three years per turn? That makes me twitch so badly...
Ja, -n
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."