cmad1977
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I loved CK II.
What follows is a (probably too long) history of Queen Catherine of Ireland.
Setting: Ireland is a powerful Kingdom forged of the Northern(mine) and Southern(AI) powers that fought for a century unifying after a bitter conflict and a political marriage. Since the marriage the power of the Kingdom grew quickly.
Catherine was the 3rd child of a great king who was able to spread the power of Ireland into parts of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Spain(helping the Spanish force the moors out of the Iberian peninsula). His Son, and heir to the crown, was an even better example of leadership(his base stats and education were amazing). The middle child died in childhood to a wasting disease near when Catherine was born.
Her father died when she was two with her older brother crowned upon his passing.
Her older brother was then murdered THE NEXT DAY!! by the Southern Irish and civil war ensued.
Enough people stayed loyal to her fathers legacy to force a costly truth. Catherine had lost half of her fathers land in the treaty.
(Now as a player, I saw that the end of the game was coming and I shrugged and decided to t to keep what I could in the final years.)
Catherine was raised by her loyal councilors who arrange a matrilineal betrothal(eventual marriage) to the 4th heir of the English Crown.
All she wanted was to have a kid and survive to the end of the game....
when she had her first child, a boy, the spymaster caught someone trying to kill the newborn.
It was the SOUTHERN IRISH!
Queen Catherine quickly went from a meek ruler hoping to survive until her son took over to a blood soaked goddess of vengeance.
War was declared. Prisoners were... not... taken.
She delved deep in the dark arts of assasin action. So dark that even the newborn children of distant relations to the Southern Irish were slain. Distance made no difference as step brothers or 5th daughters residing in Italy or Germany were slain. Eventually... there were literally no members of that family tree left and Ireland was United again.
Her hardness even led her to assasinate the King of England(who wound up being the 3rd son after wars in the holy land) and wound up Matrilinealy married to the King of England.
And so ended the game. Queen Catherine ruled over Brittania and northern Spain and Brittany by right and by puppet king of England.
I gotta get CK3
What follows is a (probably too long) history of Queen Catherine of Ireland.
Setting: Ireland is a powerful Kingdom forged of the Northern(mine) and Southern(AI) powers that fought for a century unifying after a bitter conflict and a political marriage. Since the marriage the power of the Kingdom grew quickly.
Catherine was the 3rd child of a great king who was able to spread the power of Ireland into parts of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Spain(helping the Spanish force the moors out of the Iberian peninsula). His Son, and heir to the crown, was an even better example of leadership(his base stats and education were amazing). The middle child died in childhood to a wasting disease near when Catherine was born.
Her father died when she was two with her older brother crowned upon his passing.
Her older brother was then murdered THE NEXT DAY!! by the Southern Irish and civil war ensued.
Enough people stayed loyal to her fathers legacy to force a costly truth. Catherine had lost half of her fathers land in the treaty.
(Now as a player, I saw that the end of the game was coming and I shrugged and decided to t to keep what I could in the final years.)
Catherine was raised by her loyal councilors who arrange a matrilineal betrothal(eventual marriage) to the 4th heir of the English Crown.
All she wanted was to have a kid and survive to the end of the game....
when she had her first child, a boy, the spymaster caught someone trying to kill the newborn.
It was the SOUTHERN IRISH!
Queen Catherine quickly went from a meek ruler hoping to survive until her son took over to a blood soaked goddess of vengeance.
War was declared. Prisoners were... not... taken.
She delved deep in the dark arts of assasin action. So dark that even the newborn children of distant relations to the Southern Irish were slain. Distance made no difference as step brothers or 5th daughters residing in Italy or Germany were slain. Eventually... there were literally no members of that family tree left and Ireland was United again.
Her hardness even led her to assasinate the King of England(who wound up being the 3rd son after wars in the holy land) and wound up Matrilinealy married to the King of England.
And so ended the game. Queen Catherine ruled over Brittania and northern Spain and Brittany by right and by puppet king of England.
I gotta get CK3
