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Tambien very nice map tho, mayor :)

Letters from military men and soldiers on the eastern front were collected by a Alexandrian trader in the years after the chaos of 641. They give some clues to the events during the reign of another short-lived emperor, Heraklonas. Heraklonas, son of Heraclius and Martina, rejects Arab...

Thanks, nightcreature. I thought it was something like that, but was too lazy to search and check.

Yes, I read that faith points give stability, and I used my Great Prophet to increase faith points, but I haven't seen much effect of that on stability yet. Maybe because all the other things that are happening overwhelm it. Or perhaps the effect of the faith points is not immediate? The...

The chronicles of Traianos Patrikios skip straight from Heraclius to Constans II, though Heraclius died in February 641 and the Constans was not recognised as sole emperor until September (Constans was only 11 years of age at the time, which may be why he was playfully nicknamed 'Pogonatos', the...

We'll see.

From the chronicles of Traianos Patrikios: The middle years of Heraclius' reign In 621, news came from Caesarea in Charsiadon that the empires defences were again in jeopardy, not from the lack of courage against external threats, but from a debilitating sickness which had first struck the...

Sent to Dot.

I've played the Americans again and sent to Yoshi.

@Tambien and Princeof Persia: Thanks, and I hope you enjoy reading about the upcoming fall, as well. ;) Well, I won't have to worry about Sicily for a while I guess. Can't even see that far with all the Persians, Arabs, and sick Romans cluttering the view.

Haven't actually thought about how this will end. I hope I will survive to 1453, and then I'll see how I feel. If I continue in Constantinople, I'll need to invent emperors. Playing on as the 'Third Rome' Muscovy makes sense too. We'll see.

Just a casual history buff. I didn't know much about this period, was reading Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and thought I'd try out a story with RFC:E. Mostly I am warping the history I read in Gibbon, a few other books, and lots of wikipedia. Ah, you...

The chronicles of Traianos Patrikios are the most reliable source for many of the histories of the Heraclian dynasty. They are at times disjointed, with sections of questionable relevance, but are viewed altogether as accurate, and (as they were written in the early 8th century) showing some...

It's in one of the most interesting positions you could ask for - a vast, strung-out empire, poorly defended, with enemies about to pop up on all sides. And it has begun. As soon as I get the next couple updates up, you'll see what that looks like. Hmmm, Does anyone else have this problem...

Sure, I'll play them again. At this point no one could possibly do much with the Americans in order to give their civ an advantage, but as the game progresses (and they make contact with someone) then it becomes more difficult to play them impartially. Hopefully we find a player to take them...