Attacked by Lithuania & the OFFENSIVE against Genoa! | HRE RP Part 11 | VHVH | Stainless Steel 6.4
*TIMESTAMPS* - For those who want to skip to the action!
0:00:00 Intro, Battle & Campaign Overview
0:02:05 The Battle outside Novgorod against Lithuania!
0:12:21 Campaign Map/Management
0:21:07 The Second Battle of Liguria
0:26:28 The Campaign Map/Management
0:29:05 The Third Battle of Liguria
0:34:45 Campaign Map/Management
0:38:26 The Fourth Battle of Liguria
0:45:42 Campaign Map/Management
0:49:45 Assassination Attempt
0:51:05 Campaign Map/Management
0:52:29 The Fifth Battle of Liguria
0:55:44 Campaign Management & finishing off stragglers
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Welcome to the eleventh episode of my Holy Roman Empire Roleplay Campaign for Stainless Steel 6.4, a complete overhaul mod for Medieval II: Total War.
Last time out we continued our offensive against the Genoese, around their capital and we also reclaimed Milan! Meanwhile we're still locked in bloody battle with the Byzantines in the East. fighting three large battles against them too! ^.^
Today we're attacked by the Lithuanian Grand Duke, and continue the offensive against Genoa! Can we survive? Hope you enjoy! :)
*THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE LORE*
The Holy Roman Empire is a particularly misleading name for Europe's largest collective of kingdoms and fiefdoms, regardless of which way one looks at it. For starters, it is the Byzantine Empire that truly carries on the legacy of the ancient Romans, and the notion that the Kaiser (the Germanic name for "Emperor") truly serves the Roman Catholic Church is presently quite laughable.
A great rift in opinion exists between Kaiser Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII as to the legitimacy of the Papacy's recent move to do away with secular investiture, a change of law that has taken away all of the Kaiser's power over the Catholic Church. How the Kaiser should react to this is undoubtedly the biggest dilemma facing the Holy Roman Empire at present. When a ruler of nations allows a man of the cloth to dictate what he can and can't do, he sets a bad precedent. Of course, if he leads his people into open conflict with the church itself, he is arguably setting an even worse one.
With both extremes looking like perilous choices the Kaiser will need to find the best middle ground he can, very much the same situation he faces when looking at his borders. The Empire itself is Europe's middle ground, centrally located, with opportunities to expand in almost every direction, but also potential competition to come with each opportunity. It is a far cry from the days of Charlemagne when all of Western Europe answered to the Emperor. Now France is a separate entity, Italy has become a formidable group of city states, the Danes block the route into Scandinavia, and the kingdoms to the East are more of a threat than a place to lay claim to.
Should the Kaiser successfully deal with the dissent that lingers within the Reich at present, there seems no reason the Reich cannot consolidate and expand into something to rival the first Roman Empire... Though this time it won't be a simple matter of bettering the barbarians.
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