Conquer Club

Quirk wrote:Shape, you can tell your uncle I'm doing better now than when he left us. Tell him the Quirk family says "Hello."

I'll tell him I should be seeing him over Spring Break this coming week.

-Shape

tkr4lf wrote:Andy, you should post more updates of your Crusader Kings game. It's fun reading about it.

AndyDufresne wrote:So I've still got my Scotland game going pretty strong. Still aching to take over England, but luckily my nephew in my Dyansty is the heir to the throne, since I had the prince of England in my court some years ago, so stinks for his dynasty coming to end. I'm curious to see how it all turns out. Also, I wanted to mention that the Kingdom of Sweden in my game has been eliminated from map essentially. The tiny republic of Gotland has taken over their kingdom, haha. And Iberia, and even portion of southern France, is all Islamic.

So I've hopped back into my Scotland game. Right now I am at a bit of a stalemate with England, though at least someone from my Dynasty (the "Dunkelds," great terrible dynasty name, haha) is currently ruling England. I'm basically waiting for some internal crises to see if I can strike and take over some of their land in York on my border. But it will be tough, since they have a pretty big army, so I'm biding my time for now.

Outside of my corner of the world, the Byzantine Empire is falling apart, France has been in disarray for like 50 years, Iberia is completely Islamic, and the Holy Roman Empire is also struggling to keep from fragmenting. Moreover, the Papacy in Rome is literally fighting off Islamic hordes on the doorstep of Rome. For about a decade, Islamic invaders occupied Rome. I was really hoping they would take over Rome...since I still have my Antipope in Scotland, and I was curious as to what would happen. Next time the Islamic hordes strike at Rome, I might also declare war on Rome and see if I can install my Antipope.

Moreover, the Islamic empires of Persia, Syria, and Arabia have all fallen to the the Mongol hordes that have been invading from the east. And I decided it was an excellent time to foster some relations with these new menacing hordes, so I started having their daughters marry into my family and started inviting their courtiers to Scotland. My first Mongol wife (I'm an Irish Catholic ruling Scotland, Wales, and Ireland mind you), died pretty early due to the plague. But my second Mongol wife has produced some offspring. I'm really hoping I get to call the Mongol hordes into a war. Scotland and Mongol hordes, side by side.

Long live Scotland. Long live Mongolia.

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

Well crap. Scotland Highlander infantry combined with Mongol Cavalry?

Yeah, the rest of the known world is screwed.

Any RPG fans, might want to check out this Kickstarter by inXile Entertainment: Torment: Tides of Numenera

It looks like the type of game I'd love to play, and it is already well past its funding goal with 3 weeks left, and it will likely just continue to rack up money. Only downside is that game development, is of course, long and it won't be out until late 2014 or early 2015!

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

Shape wrote:

Quirk wrote:Shape, you can tell your uncle I'm doing better now than when he left us. Tell him the Quirk family says "Hello."

I'll tell him I should be seeing him over Spring Break this coming week.

-Shape

I'd request you call him names from me and tell him to visit but I understand addiction so...

I don't like these dark mornings that now come with DST. I much prefer dark evenings. **Munches on a banana**


--Andy

i cant wait till summer when its light more than it is dark

apey wrote:i cant wait till summer when its light more than it is dark

Go away. Take all my sun.

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

The song Kurt Cobain never got to.

Go away. Take all my sun.

Cookie?

2dimes wrote:The song Kurt Cobain never got to.

Go away. Take all my sun.

Cookie?

No, no. Those go to apey. He gets the bananas. Don't you know a' nothin'?

BMO

Yes.

Well, the snow we were supposed to get on Friday/Saturday decided to come yesterday and ended up with around a foot of snow.

Tonight, Village Lantern, 167 Bleeker St NYC - 6pm Laughing Buddha Comedy Club, inc yours truly.

**Munches on a banana**

Action.


--Andy

jonesthecurl wrote:Tonight, Village Lantern, 167 Bleeker St NYC - 6pm Laughing Buddha Comedy Club, inc yours truly.

I was soddin brilliant.

Soddin' is good, right?

**Leaves behind a bowl of soddin' bananas**


--Andy

Soddin' on its own is probably not. But Soddin' brilliant is soddin' brilliant.

sawed off.

-TG

This topic is soddin' sawed off brilliant I think.

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

A lesson in context, I suppose? Ha.

-Shape

March Madness Bracketology, Star Wars style.

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

5 MWC teams made it. Air Force got screwed by the NIT (mainly becuase their best player got injured against UNLV in the conference tourny), but they are in the CIT while Wyoming is in the CBI and faces Lehigh tomorrow night in Laramie.

I've played some CKII lately. Started a new dynasty. I picked Denmark and made my own character.
Have had a lot of fun (and success) in the beginning. Managed to take Bremen and Hamburg from the Holy Roman Emperor while he was dealing with two civil wars and an invasion from Hungary. I feel for him, seriously I do, I'd go insane if I had to deal with that!
The regions were De jure claims and counties that rightfully belong to the King of Denmark so he can't take them back unless he tries to fabricate a claim, in which case I can send assassins after the plotters before he he can attack me. With other words I feel safe I won't lose these regions in the next few years.