She is old and ill, and your letters are doing nothing to help her. At least not to write to her anything of importance. I do not want you to write to your mother anymore. Indeed, we have friends all around us, and the skilled diplomacy of Manuel II is going to secure the safety of our country.
A similar proposal has been sent to Theodoras, and we expect them to agree. His first daughter has married the ruler of Morea, solidifying our alliance with them, and assuring us that our two countries will stand together against any foe. I doubt that we should be worried though, as I expect him to serve out his term diligently and become one of the thousands of namless officers that have served the Empire over the years.Īs for the troubling situation he paints in the army, I have to assure you that Manuel II is doing all he can to secure the safety of each and every one of us. He dreams of greatness for himself, and I hope that he does find it, but with greatness comes responsibility and, all too often, grave consequences. He is young, and as he did not have a father growing up, there is much that he yet does not know and will have to discover for himself. But I will do as you have always told me - believe in God and in our Emperor, and all things will take care of themselves.ĭo not trouble yourself with Nicholas' letters, they are nothing more than the ramblings of an excited youth who had just entered the service of our great country. And more, I do not see any way that we could fix it.
Our army is no match for the brutal Turks who command all lands around us and bully our Emperor as if he was their errand-boy. Our Emperor is Emperor only on word, and rules no more than a single city that has long lost its former greatnes. You have taught me well and my knowledge of history fills me with pride for the glory that our Empire once held, but this same knowledge makes it so painfully clear to me the decline into which our country has fallen. I cannot tell you how worried and proud at the same time I am about serving our Emperor, Manuel II. If you want to suggest something for the start, now is the time to do it. I want to get as many people involved in this as possible, and so please, go ahead and offer suggestions, and I promise that I will let people in the thread make decisions in my game.Īnd now, without further waiting, I will go and begin playing the first installment of the AAR. I am truely amazed at how well Kan's HOI2 AAR is going and I would love to see a similar result for this AAR.
That is, however, only useful if we manage to survive that long. We are playing with AGCEEP so there are fantasy events for Byzantium (mostly bad) that extend past its historical lifespan. Start as a weak, hopless 1-province minor and see where we can go with it. So now we decidied that we both have time to try this again.įor a second country we decided (neither one of us wanted to decide, but I eventually forced Josef to) to play Byzantium. There was a lot of fun in watching the same country go into different directions. So I have to say that I was pleased with the first AAR Josef and I did while it lasted.
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