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  1. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Kalomeros can’t die. We haven’t gotten to the point of his original purpose for the TL, before I got majorly distracted. Big victories in civil wars are pretty much the definition of self-owns. There are 3 factors. There’s the direct addition of the Sicilian tourmai. Also, the...
  2. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 20.0: The Battle for Everything, Part 1

    I didn't do any reader-post responses because it pretty much would've boiled down to 'see next update'. So, see next update... Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 20.0: The Battle for Everything, Part 1: Both fleets facing each other at Lepanto, when they sight the other at mid-morning, are...
  3. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 19.1: Go Forward, Part 2

    ...After reloading his men, the detached guns, and the new supplies, he sallies out looking for the enemy, although he does not have to go far. * * * Off the west coast of Hellas, July 25, 1664: Leo Kalomeros quietly paced back and forth across the deck in the aft of the Salamis. Although he...
  4. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    As their forebears could've told them, hubris is always followed by nemesis. Behold, the actual reason for Leo Kalomeros's plot arc ITTL! Joao is a formidable opponent, but the Triple Monarchy as something approaching a 2.5 to 1 advantage in population to Spain by itself, hence the importance...
  5. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 19.0: Go Forward, Part 1

    ...by Vijayanagar, but it is undergoing its own General Crisis right now. I plan to go into more detail once Rhomania's General Crisis is done. * * * Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 19.0-Go Forward, Part 1: Rhomania’s relationship with Russia would change drastically over the course of the...
  6. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    I agree. Much of the pain isn’t coming from proximate political causes (although they are exacerbating the situation) but from broader and far-from-unique causes, such as the Little Ice Ages and the shift toward a more capitalist economy. These are issues that have to be dealt with somehow, and...
  7. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 18.2: Shall the Sword Devour Forever? Part 3

    Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 18.2-Shall the Sword Devour Forever? Part 3: The one area of the wider Roman world that sees significant shifts in the situation in 1663 is Italy. The anti-Latin pogrom in Constantinople made staying neutral in the Catholic rebellions in Naples and Rome much more...
  8. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Thanks. I've fixed that error. It would've worked better if the Tourmarches hadn't let the perfect be the literal enemy of the good and burn it down. Once more reasonable people get in charge, that will help. I touch on it a little in a near update, but thus far it's been running on autopilot...
  9. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 18.1: Shall the Sword Devour Forever? Part 2

    ...Greek Akbar for example. There are lingering effects (northern Thrakesia is a right mess now) but they aren't as significant this time around. * * * Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 18.1-Shall the Sword Devour Forever? Part 2: Grammatikos marches hard but it is a long way from Smyrna to...
  10. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 18.0: Shall the Sword Devour Forever? Part 1

    Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 18.0-Shall the Sword Devour Forever? Part 1: The 1663 campaigning season holds a frenzy of activity but the resulting violence is mostly void of decisiveness. In Roman Europe, skirmishes abound along the frontiers of Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Thrace but Domestikos...
  11. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Important things to note. In the last narrative update (part 15.0: A Compromised Position), they tried to sneak Irene out of Constantinople and got caught and as a result they’re much more closely watched. Also, here’s a quote from part 13.2: The Killing Fields, Part 2: Gyranos’s stomach...
  12. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 17.4: Sustaining the War, Part 5

    ...is better understood.) As one wit popularly puts it, a Sikh is what one does to your lover, while a Gurkha is what one does to her husband. * * * The War Room, White Palace, Constantinople, June 1, 1663: Andronikos Gyranos looked at the report in front of him, repressing a sigh. His desk...
  13. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Roman Economics: I do want to stress that this topic is very much a work in progress, on both a Watsonian AND Doylist level. With all of Sophia’s reforms, not just these, the historical importance rests not on the specifics, but in the precedents and mindsets they establish. With that in mind, I...
  14. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 17.3: Sustaining the War, Part 4

    Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 17.3-Sustaining the War, Part 4: The establishment of the Lower Council in late 1662, despite its quick revision from the initial plan, created several long-term implications for the future of Roman governance. The Lower Council was hardly proportionally...
  15. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: March Updates on Hiatus

    Thanks for the kind words of support. I appreciate them. March is going to be a hiatus month for this TL. For patrons, please note that means there will be no update to Not the End: The Empire Under the Laskarids for this month, but there will be no charges either. Thank you.
  16. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Will respond to posts later. No update today (March 5). Update schedule is going to be a little off the next couple of rounds, with the possibility of me just taking this month as a hiatus. I haven't decided on that yet.
  17. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 17.2: Sustaining the War, Part 3

    Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 17.2-Sustaining the War, Part 3: While the role of the market in Roman society was hardly a new thing in the mid-1600s, it had grown substantially in the last century. For some people, some of the time, this could be quite a good thing. For some people, some of...
  18. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Yeah, although given how much crap the Latin world has given Rhomania over the past centuries, I can understand their paranoia. In short, I think the Roman attitude has been bad and self-defeating and in need of correction (hence this whole mess), but I understand how they developed it. I get...
  19. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 17.1: Sustaining the War, Part 2

    Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 17.1-Sustaining the War, Part 2: When Sophia arrived in Thessaloniki, the first order of business was to establish a new court and administration, a copy, as close as possible, of what had been left behind in Constantinople. New Logthetes and Domestikoi were...
  20. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Yeah, given how fairly-evenly matched both sides are, unless one got in a lucky kill shot earlier, this turning into a more drawn-out fight was likely. I know we like to focus on the dramatic against-the-odds victories and comebacks, but the reason they're special and memorable is because, by...
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