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  1. Basileus444

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

    I didn't respond to some comments because they'll be covered in the update below. I've been waiting for someone to notice that the Sideroi are effectively TTL's equivalent of Mughals in terms of relations to Timur. But I haven't been basing any characters off of OTL Mughals-no Greek Akbar for...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. Basileus444

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

    I don't know; I haven't given much thought to this. There are lots of different ways this could go over the next few centuries; we'll see what develops organically. Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 17.4-Sustaining the War, Part 5: These economic measures are not the only item on the agenda...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 17.0: Sustaining the War, Part 1

    Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 17.0-Sustaining the War, Part 1: The siege of Adrianople begins on September 27. The besieging army, although large enough to completely invest the Thracian city of fifty thousand inhabitants, is in poor shape. Strategos Nereas has done a thorough job of...
  14. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    I've wasted far too much time thinking of what to say, and frankly I really resent that loss of time. So, I'm going to act out-of-character and be short and blunt. I'm telling the story I want to tell. I think I've made it quite clear what kind of story that is. For those who want that sort of...
  15. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 16.3: The Other Fires, Part 4

    I admit I'm undecided as to the long-term fate of Rome and the Papacy. There are several options. The status quo could continue indefinitely or the Papacy could relocate but have no political power outside of a micro-state (OTL-like). Given that Italy uniting into a single state isn't going to...
  16. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 16.2: The Other Fires, Part 3

    Winter of 1662-63. I'm catching up all the various areas up to that point first before proceeding. * * * Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 16.2-The Other Fires, part 3: The rebellion in southern Italy was a parallel conflict with the War of Wrath. By themselves, there was little direct...
  17. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 16.1: The Other Fires, Part 2

    It did not. The political weakness of the OTL Orthodox isn't a thing ITTL, and also I'm pretty sure that most of the Orthodox were in the Lithuania part of the Commonwealth anyway, which is part of Russia ITTL. I admittedly didn't think of that, but Iskandar is trying to be somewhat diplomatic...
  18. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 16.0: The Other Fires, Part 1

    Rhomania’s General Crisis, Part 16.0-The Other Fires, part 1: The fighting near the Aegean tends to dominate narratives of the period but there were several other conflicts also occurring in the Roman world. These tend to be subsumed under the broader label of the War of Wrath, but in many...
  19. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    I've thought about as well and think that against a better trained opponent it wouldn't be as effective, especially against one who is expecting such a tactic and has plenty of visibility and sea room in which to maneuver. I don't know if I've ever said so explicitly in the TL but always...
  20. Basileus444

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure
    Threadmarks: Rhomania's General Crisis, Part 15.1: Holding the Circle

    It's something that's going to be developed a bit later, but I picture Sophia as being, while less intelligent, more people-savvy than either her mother Athena or grandfather Demetrios III. Did you think the blood of Timur is spent?! ;) Keep a pin in this thought as well. Can't think of more...
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