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Post by Tyler on Oct 28, 2014 11:41:32 GMT -5
Hello everyone, to occupy myself and keep the forum active while the game is built, thought I'd do a little EUIV: Res Publica let's play.
The only mod I am using is a timeline extension mod, gives me more time to work with (as if 400 years wasn't enough xD)
As the title says, I shall start with England and make the first post as soon as I get some good playtime and screenshots in.
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Post by Tyler on Oct 30, 2014 19:37:09 GMT -5
My apologies for not doing this, was actually waiting for Art of War to release, got it today  Anyways, Chapter 1: The End of the Hundred Years War "Good day class, today we shall be continuing the lecture on the 100 years war, starting in the year 1444. This is, arguably, one of England's finest moments. Having had 16,000 men annihilated in Normandie and Gascogne, the English seemed out of the game for the crown of France. However, Henry IV was not ready to give up. Admist the lost of all his inland forces, King Henry ordered no more troops to be funneled to the mainland, and instead, focused on keeping the seas clean while he built a new army and a larger carrying-capacity in his navy. However, what sealed the deal was not so much the military, but the King's diplomatic moves. In the sum of about a year, England secured a Royal Marriage and Alliance with Scotland, Austria, and Aragon. He also secured legal military access through Burgundy, allowing for the use of Calais as a funnel into the mainland. However, what the king was not expecting was the death of the King of Scotland without a legal heir. This allowed for England to gain the throne of Scotland, creating a personal union with the Scottish people. It was only with the combined strength of Scotland, Austria, Aragon and England that France was able to be put in a submission hold. After the fall of Paris, the rest of France fell quickly, and the throne of France was shortly put in the hands of Henry IV, now combined King of England, Scotland, and France and easily the most powerful man in Europe. The King would now work on pacifying the French, hoping to keep them quiet until France could be integrated into England proper. He held similar goals for Scotland as well.....  |
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Post by brandt on Oct 31, 2014 9:52:44 GMT -5
That actually looks like so much fun
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Post by Tyler on Nov 3, 2014 11:45:37 GMT -5
Chapter 2: The Golden Reign of James I
"Hello class, and welcome to another lecture of English history.
Today, we shall talk about the golden reign of the son of Henry IV, James I. While it was his father, Henry IV, that won the Hundred Years War. It would be James I rule that would solidify England as the domiant European power, and finally integrate France into England.
Inheriting the crown of England, Scotland, and France from his father, James was already the most powerful man in Europe. However, he had greater ambitions than even his father, and would go on to achieve his own Golden Age, many of which consider to be the pivotal monarch of English history.
James I would start off by securing Ireland, the one part of the British Isles that he did not control, and served as a weakness to his naval wall. England was known for its vast navy, but not yet known for its vast army. By fabricating claims on Ireland, James I easily swept the trivial states off the map.
For the most part, James I was an administrative genius with a diplomatic charisma as well. Despite being hated by Burgundy at the beginning of his reign, he would eventually form a strong partnership, half-friendship and half-force, with the Burgundian monarch. James I then pulled a risky but brilliant move: he claimed the right to the Burgundian throne. The most recent monarch was of the house of Lancaster, James I house, and therefore gaves James a claim against the throne. Burgundy was outraged, but the claim paid off, as James I in ten years time was proclaimed King of the French, controlling French proper and Burgundy.
James would not stop there though, as his Portuguese royal marriage also paid off. The Portuguese King had died without an heir, allowing for James to take their throne as well.
Now James was set to dominate Europe, combined king of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Burgundy, and Portugal. Five realms united under one King.
But James I would have something even he did not expect effect his realm. The Catholic world has oppressed its people too long, and the Pope has most monarchs under a strange-hold. Luckily for the English priest and nobleman, Harold of York, James was powerful enough to avoid the Papacy's full wrath. Studying at Cambridge in theology, James had finally had enough of the Catholic faith. Outside the Archbishopric of London, he announced his proposed reforms to the Catholic church, which founded what historians call the Protestant Reformation, and London was now its founding city.Due to the zeal of London in adopting this new faith, the religion spread like wildfire throughout England. Soon all but Cumberland in North-west England was protestant, Cumbria and Scotland adopting a modified version of the reformed, simply refereed to as "The Reformed Faith." Ireland would be plagued by both faiths, and strife would soon follow as nationalist and religious conflicts ensued.
While James I was able to handle the religious situation, he still was a brilliant man, and speculated the Earth was severely under-sized. To the west, he predicted, would be a massive ocean that would lead straight to Asia. In an attempt to test his theory, he recruited the explorer Alfred Wolfe to travel North-west from Scotland in an attempt to reach China. In a way James was right, the Earth was severely under-estimated. But he was also wrong, ocean did not lie there, land did. First, the once though mythical land of Greenland was found, and after that North America proper was discovered. James I sent his best men to try and colonize the land before other nations did. While his holdings were small, they were meaningful as the first European settlements in the New World, founded in Greenland and Newfoundland today.
But James last achievement was fully integrating two nations, Scotland and France, into England and forming a union with another, Castile. Castile, weakened and embarrassed by their defeat to Navarre, was further destabilized by the death of the only heir to the crown. James, seeing oppertunity to install a Lancaster noble, claimed the throne of Castille, claiming a link from his Portuguese crown. The Castilian monarch, in an attempt to at least keep England from the crown, willed away Castile to Austria. A war ensued, with England's vast holdings to much for the Austrian Archduke, and Castile would fall in the hands of England as well. And all this before the age of 43......  |
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