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My first character, Malsnectan I "The Gentle", King of Scotland and Jerusalem (you know him in 1066 as the Duke of Moray), has just died naturally on the 11th of March, 1122, at 74. Using my soft-cheat method outlined earlier, I had a 20.9k score in one generation. I trait cheated to get all the positive traits from 1510 to 1720 (temperate, charitable, diligent, kind, patient, humble zealous, brave, gregarious, ambitious, just, and honest) along with chaste, and also cheated to restore them in case I lost them randomly. Several other good ones, such as besieger, just happened, and I gained a few others through event. This resulted in attribute scores of 21, 18, 16, 10, and seven, on a Business focus. Needless to say, I have had True Christian Knight for the last five decades.
Let's see what I've done, in roughly chronological order. I: married a Danish princess, overthrew the Dunkelds while Gospatric of Lothian rebelled, with my reign beginning in 1068, (with the nice consequence that I imprisoned him afterwards; I kept him in there for 10 years, so I could wait to revoke his duchy), supported the Scottish-culture vassals in Gudrod of Soreyar in their independence revolt, and them vassalized them. The father of the Earl of Carrick is the Earl of Man, who stayed loyal to Gudrod, so I eventually got that peacefully. I then conquered Gudrod's domain holding of Argyll, and then, after a full truce Inse Gall, and, a few years later, with the help of my Danish allies and a Jewish loan, I defeated Harald Hardrade (he had peaced out of England) and took Caithness, restoring Scotland to its de jure borders.
I spent the 25 years from then to 1110 holding off William the Conqueror, siring nine children, building a shit-ton of internal improvements (Moray went from, I believe, 29 gold in tax at the beginning of my reign to 93 at the end), and just accumulating prestige and piety, interspersed with slowly fabricating and using claims on just under half of Ireland. Then, I spent all my money on joining a crusade for Jerusalem. nice I got there,, I realized that Fatimid armes were simply 4,00 men to large to have a chance, so I literally switched to them (I do individual saves) and dismissed 3,000 levies while disbanding and releasing their vassal mercenary company. We won, and I, albeit barely, was the largest contributor. I beat down five revolts, granted my children and smarter grandchildren holdings, and gave the Duchy of Ascalon to a republic as a money engine. My last conquest was Dublin, in 1121. By the end of my reign, the lowest opinion anyone in my realm had of me was +5, as the people I hurt to get to power were long dead, and I had all of the positive traits.
So, everything's looking good, right? Wrong. I could handle a mediocre heir, and it's impossible to top my current one, but my grandson-heir Lulach is slow, somehow, has a shitload of other negative traits, and, with an intrigue focus (he inherited Teviotdale from his father, the brilliant diplomat but-mediocre-everything-else Beathan), his ability scores are :0,2,0,12, and 0. And has has the Gates of Hell. Fuck. Me. So I created Oultrejordain just to give his younger brother Malsnectan a fighting chance. Ditto with the Duchy of Ulster (actually, all my Irish holdings) and my younger son Gilliecomgain.
Boy, the one thing Scotland has going for it at the beginning is Primogeniture, and it bit me in the ass. I'm going to have to cheat so hard to get Malsnectan II on the throne that I'm going to fully switch away from a standard playthrough, to an RP one. My goal is to get Tanistry after a War of the Thistles (because they're Scottish.)
My question is, what would be the level of attention given to an incredibly successful and good ruler like Malsnectan, who trebled his realm's size and is probably the best individual ruler Scotland will have for centuries, but didn't really introduce any huge revolutions. Assuming Scotland's continued existence as a vibrant cultural nation, how would Malsnectan "The Gentle" be remembered in 2016?
My first character, Malsnectan I "The Gentle", King of Scotland and Jerusalem (you know him in 1066 as the Duke of Moray), has just died naturally on the 11th of March, 1122, at 74. Using my soft-cheat method outlined earlier, I had a 20.9k score in one generation. I trait cheated to get all the positive traits from 1510 to 1720 (temperate, charitable, diligent, kind, patient, humble zealous, brave, gregarious, ambitious, just, and honest) along with chaste, and also cheated to restore them in case I lost them randomly. Several other good ones, such as besieger, just happened, and I gained a few others through event. This resulted in attribute scores of 21, 18, 16, 10, and seven, on a Business focus. Needless to say, I have had True Christian Knight for the last five decades.
Let's see what I've done, in roughly chronological order. I: married a Danish princess, overthrew the Dunkelds while Gospatric of Lothian rebelled, with my reign beginning in 1068, (with the nice consequence that I imprisoned him afterwards; I kept him in there for 10 years, so I could wait to revoke his duchy), supported the Scottish-culture vassals in Gudrod of Soreyar in their independence revolt, and them vassalized them. The father of the Earl of Carrick is the Earl of Man, who stayed loyal to Gudrod, so I eventually got that peacefully. I then conquered Gudrod's domain holding of Argyll, and then, after a full truce Inse Gall, and, a few years later, with the help of my Danish allies and a Jewish loan, I defeated Harald Hardrade (he had peaced out of England) and took Caithness, restoring Scotland to its de jure borders.
I spent the 25 years from then to 1110 holding off William the Conqueror, siring nine children, building a shit-ton of internal improvements (Moray went from, I believe, 29 gold in tax at the beginning of my reign to 93 at the end), and just accumulating prestige and piety, interspersed with slowly fabricating and using claims on just under half of Ireland. Then, I spent all my money on joining a crusade for Jerusalem. nice I got there,, I realized that Fatimid armes were simply 4,00 men to large to have a chance, so I literally switched to them (I do individual saves) and dismissed 3,000 levies while disbanding and releasing their vassal mercenary company. We won, and I, albeit barely, was the largest contributor. I beat down five revolts, granted my children and smarter grandchildren holdings, and gave the Duchy of Ascalon to a republic as a money engine. My last conquest was Dublin, in 1121. By the end of my reign, the lowest opinion anyone in my realm had of me was +5, as the people I hurt to get to power were long dead, and I had all of the positive traits.
So, everything's looking good, right? Wrong. I could handle a mediocre heir, and it's impossible to top my current one, but my grandson-heir Lulach is slow, somehow, has a shitload of other negative traits, and, with an intrigue focus (he inherited Teviotdale from his father, the brilliant diplomat but-mediocre-everything-else Beathan), his ability scores are :0,2,0,12, and 0. And has has the Gates of Hell. Fuck. Me. So I created Oultrejordain just to give his younger brother Malsnectan a fighting chance. Ditto with the Duchy of Ulster (actually, all my Irish holdings) and my younger son Gilliecomgain.
Boy, the one thing Scotland has going for it at the beginning is Primogeniture, and it bit me in the ass. I'm going to have to cheat so hard to get Malsnectan II on the throne that I'm going to fully switch away from a standard playthrough, to an RP one. My goal is to get Tanistry after a War of the Thistles (because they're Scottish.)
My question is, what would be the level of attention given to an incredibly successful and good ruler like Malsnectan, who trebled his realm's size and is probably the best individual ruler Scotland will have for centuries, but didn't really introduce any huge revolutions. Assuming Scotland's continued existence as a vibrant cultural nation, how would Malsnectan "The Gentle" be remembered in 2016?
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