Recent content by asnys

So the Byzantines lost a rebellion, and somehow converted to tribalism...

Geeze, Bruno is the energizer battery of kings: he just keeps going and going and going. Having begun his reign as Grand Chief of Saxony, he has reformed the Germanic religion, settled his tribal people in cities and castles, crowned himself king of Pomerania and Denmark, burnt so many cities of...

Worth trying.

Gah. So my shieldmaiden spymistress daughter is an ambitious genius with stats out the whazoo, including a 25 Intrigue and 18 Martial. All of my other kids are basically average at best. And my kingdom is a bunch of misogynist pigs who aren't about to make a woman queen. :( (Tolerance tech is...

Well, I managed to reform the Germanic religion for the first time, establishing the Fylkirate as Chief Bruno of Saxony. The French and German Catholics are pretty much imploding; we're extorting tribute from the child-king of the French and the Germans have fallen apart into half a dozen...

So I just started a game as Amalfi in the 769 start. Two years in and the Byzantine Empire just converted to gavelkind succession...

Thinking about trying a 769 Saxony start. Never tried playing a tribal leader before - well, I've never stuck with it for more than a year or two in-game - so does anyone have any advice? I'd like to stay Norse if possible.

Honestly, I think Howard Scott would start with heavy political and economic pressure on Canada and Mexico to request annexation, along with funding technocrat political parties. And then, when that doesn't work, just invade and annex, and shoot anybody who resists. He wasn't a subtle guy. That...

It's tough to say - people and ideas change on their way to power - but for Howard Scott as he was IOTL, unifying those countries into a single state was a core aim of the project. So I think direct annexation would be their objective.

I did a lot of reading about technocracy a while back for a TL that never materialized. Besides what's already been mentioned - that Scott was a totalitarian with occasionally genocidal inclinations - I thought I'd add a few more specific points. Historically, the Technocrats wanted to keep the...

I was assuming that boosting would also be disallowed. That actually raises an interesting question: how do you define a hydrogen bomb for a treaty? This is trickier than it seems, especially if you still want to allow boosting. I've seen academic papers debating whether or not research into...

I have a really hard time believing that either the Western or Soviet leadership would ever go for this. It's essentially impossible to detect cheating on this, for one thing, at least once they start doing underground testing. If they somehow did, the first thing that comes to mind is that...