SKNES: Architecture of Aggression

[Grandkhan]

This has been a wild ride This has been a great NES, and thankyou for modding it!

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Yeah, Thanks. It was FUN

 

[Lokki242]

Gets back from travelling... finds out this. I'm sure as hell gonna miss it. This is where NESing started, and lived for me. Thanks for a wild ride SK.

 

[Gem Hound]

I enjoyed this one an really wanted to see a Brythonian Colonial Empire.

 

[Blue Bacon 3]

That's all right, it was a fun read. Thanks for modding. : )

 

[momo1000]

Thanks SK, it was great! And sorry for bugging you with so many projects

 

[DrSeward]

Thank you, it was a good reading! It's too bad that I haven't decided to participate a bit earlier.

Hopefully we'll see some kind of sequel in the future

 

[Mickzter97]

Aww

Thank you SK... it was this very NES that got me hooked on NESing. It was this NES that gave me hours of fun. This was the first NES which I had the lot: Betrayal, Conquering, falling, Economic strength.

Thank you SK for the best darn NES i have played*



*Yep, you beat CI...coz I mean more here than in CI

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Goshdanggit. I'm sad now. This was an indeed fun NES, and my gateway to NESing. Thanks for the fun times, and thank you very much for modding it!

~Bair

 

[Gem Hound]

*Yep, you beat CI...coz I mean more here than in CI

Beats CI by far. (I'm Brittany, the tiny speck between the Franks and England)

 

[Mickzter97]

Lol yeah it does...SK was simple and fun...CI take time to get in, but its still great fun

 

[spaceman98]

Sad to see this go. It was great while it lasted, thankyou for the fun game!

 

[SouthernKing]

Thanks everyone, for all the praise. I'm glad that people enjoyed it
i'll do the wrap up this coming weekend.

 

[TheLizardKing]

It's a shame I can't drink more Christian blood. Good NES.

 

[SouthernKing]

Update 11: Finale (1000 AD/390 AH)​

Despite all the fighting, all the warfare, the great war of the Crusade simply fizzled out. While the three sides were officially still at war, there would be no great battles, no gargantuan sea clashes. Instead, a state of cold war, of small skirmishing, prevailed. The Mediterranean shore was forever changed, for it was no longer safe for travel.

It was Iberia that truly reaped the fruits of the war. With little fighting and a permanent peace secured, traders found it safer – and more profitable – to take a land route through North Africa rather than the treacherous Mediterranean. Barcelona, Badajoz, the rebuilding Vandals, and especially the Maghreb Caliphate prospered.

The Holy Roman Empire itself regained power, focusing inwards and on ensuring integrity within the Empire. This proved to be somewhat successful, ensuring Catholic unity in Europe. But not all was well. Venice, along with much of the southern Empire, began to decline in wealth as the old trade routes shriveled up. Aquitaine, on the other hand, prospered as wealth flowed in from the south.

The Roman civil war ended rather anticlimactically, with the Angora emperor dying on the battlefield. Despite outside attempts – mostly by Catholics aiding the rebels – to keep the Angora rebellion intact, it rapidly collapsed as most of the rebel supporters surrendered. Control was restored to Constantinople, and life went on as before, more or less.

Nevertheless, the Empire was weakened. The Hellenic splinter state of Sparta fought to the death, recalling the glory of a certain earlier battle, and the Romans lost nearly a third of their army trying to put down a far smaller force of defenders. Later historians would agree that the rebellion, coupled with the closure of the Mediterranean started a shift in Orthodox power towards Armenia.

More than Armenia, Taman prospered in the post-war period, off the booming trade through Transoxiana flowing into the rest of Europe. By 1000, Taman was one of the few western nations with contacts in Song Dynasty China.

The Muslim nations survived the war more intact than ever. The massive armies assembled in defense of the Outremer were turned upon internal enemies within the various sultanates and caliphates, destroying any hope of rebellion by almost anybody. With a healthy overland trade economy, only a few trading nations would outclass the Fatimid and Abbasid Caliphates, and especially the Zengid Sultanate, in wealth.

Persia would become a bloodbath once again. The Ghaznavid Sultanate went to war with Khorasan over a matter of honor. Baluchistan, seeing an opportunity for a land grab, happily joined in and promptly had its armies crippled. In the end, the conflict was indecisive, accomplishing little more than a permanent weakening of all sides.

The Forn Sithr world began to recover after the scare that had caused Catholics in Scotland to briefly secede from the Dominion, and began prying the seas farther and farther west. Eventually, travelers would happen on a completely undiscovered land. To the east, the Suomi state continued to centralize, eventually growing into a regional power eclipsing its neighbors in Novgorod and rivaling Jutland.

Poland joined the Dominion, but was a backwater, poor and forced to deal with threats from angry tribes in the interior. Meanwhile, the German states regrouped, preparing for the day when they could attack again.

As a new millennium dawned, the powers looked forward to a new age. At the same time, new threats were about to plunge into the Mediterranean world, eager for power…

 

[SamSniped]

...
Well. Looks like I wasted X hours making and editing plans for the invasion

 

[GamezRule]

Honestly, as soon as peace returns, things would more or less go back to normal in 100 or so years. One nitpick: Armenia could never really become a bastion of power, as all their trade would need to go through Constantinople. Of course, the Caucasus is not really a place with a lot of potential anyway, and I'm not really sure how a trading nation could be based there anyway.

 

[Grandkhan]

Prospered? Thats all I get after 200 years of raiding and pillaging? I feel conned!

In all seriousness, did the Vandals ever get Corsica and Sardinia back?

 

[SamSniped]

Probably not. You were going to get invaded and blockaded again. Once nuke makes the HRE group public, you can see my plans.

 

[Grandkhan]

Ah, the Vandal Sultanate of Carthage. Got Carthage back without even lifting a finger or losing a single soldier.

I'd also like to make the point that had my plans in the last turn succeeded, I was going to sail around Gibraltar and conquer Ireland, and make that the next centre of Vandal culture.

But I couldn't because of the immense Mediterranean war, but the Maghrebs reconquered Carthage and returned it to me, so I kinda figured I'd roll with it.

Didn't have to expend a single soldier to get it back either.