This is the second episode of my Ostrogothic campaign, the one where we were defeated by the Western Roman Emperor Flavius Stilicho and forced to retreat from the settlement of Salona. However, we managed to hold out the Emperor and his army for a bit longer, and now we are back in the region of Dardania, Dalmatia, Pannonia, and the surrounding areas.
00:00:00.000Greetings you proud sons of the old father and welcome back to the Balkans and the year of 396 AD.
00:00:18.520We're here with our gothic hordes and this is the second episode of my Ostrogothic campaign0.79
00:00:25.800which I am very excited to commence. Now last episode we raised this settlement
00:00:33.040because we were trapped by it basically and then we saw here Legio Ex Gemina led
00:00:42.900by the Western Roman Emperor Flavius Stilicho and he is not a guy I want to
00:00:49.340tangle with at the moment so we're actually gonna withdraw a bit up here and
00:00:55.040if we look at our objectives and now you can't see me but you can hear me and I'm
00:01:01.580gonna utilize a glorious sip of Linval's coffee now. Coffee and gaming is an
00:01:09.620excellent combination. Since we're gonna go with a minor victory
00:01:14.680Dardania, Dalmatia, Pannonia are the regions which we are going to try to
00:01:24.220control so we're actually gonna move in this area and then I want Ravenna as1.00
00:01:30.400well but I'm gonna wait until the Western Roman Empire are a bit weaker to do that
00:01:36.240so what I'm looking to do now is acquire these settlements perhaps stay in horde
00:01:47.180mode for a bit longer because I would want settle perhaps in these territories
00:01:58.520because I don't want to settle down in one of these little poverty settlements so
00:02:02.880we're gonna see what the crack is up here and continue to expand a bit or
00:02:09.000alternatively we could try to fight off these Romans because these two armies1.00
00:02:15.780should be able to take this one and then take Salona but no we're gonna go up here0.96
00:02:26.100so this army and big shout out to Styrker who pointed out that if the two
00:02:33.000hordes are in the same region they will see each other as rivals so it's better to
00:02:39.300have them in different regions so this obviously is a different region to this
00:02:45.420place so there's the border so I'm gonna take these guys and I'm gonna measure up
00:02:52.420there should be a quarter of the distance left I suppose I'm gonna go into stance and
00:03:03.240campment now these guys with our beloved King try to and we're gonna see how far
00:03:16.380they can reach up to there so we're just gonna camp dare them do like that now let's
00:03:30.060build something fun shall we can't really really build anything can we build
00:03:38.460anything here warriors all insufficient funds can I build it anything and we need
00:03:51.820surplus so okay we can't do anything at all how silly oh well let's recruit a
00:04:07.000conspirator or a hunter perhaps ah that was like a fun thing to do can you
00:04:17.980actually join him directly no you can't and I'm gonna see if we can can you
00:04:25.520perhaps recruit anything no obviously it's a world worldwide effect on that and we
00:04:33.820can't recruit any why okay okay cool we can raise new horde armies and yes still
00:04:47.860let's still learning I suppose how can I see if we can recruit some units though
00:04:57.180Germanic band and then we'll see what these guys decide to do gonna create some more units there as
00:05:12.660as well and let's also look at diplomacy as well they are our true friends
00:05:21.120actually all right cool let's take the turn and see what crack is in all
00:05:28.680actuality it is time to talk like men of many things we can provide salt or the
00:05:40.420time it takes to speak a word or two they offer us drunkard it makes me happier than0.98
00:05:50.280you ever could you bastard okay but we'll I'm sure my Ostrogothic betrothed to her1.00
00:05:57.180we land we land talk her out of that blasphemous behavior to drink alcohol and1.00
00:06:08.460yes our brothers the Visigoths let's and they're actually offering us thank you for
00:06:14.100that that that was a mighty fine gift of a young fair maiden in need of a husband and
00:06:22.620obviously to bring our two great hordes together and obviously back in the day marriages were
00:06:34.860primarily political with little regard for love and I mean that's it's not all too
00:06:44.360unreasonable that the two a man and a woman has to sacrifice themselves for the0.80
00:06:50.100better of the other people and and besides all these high-born nobles would
00:06:56.700have a quite happy life either way and in contrast to perhaps the lower classes of0.98
00:07:03.840society where women were perhaps subject to more gruesome fates especially in0.94
00:07:14.580times of war you have recruited so many units the Treasury is buckling under the
00:07:20.220weight of their upkeep capturing new territory would spread the cost as well as
00:07:25.620putting your troops to good use indeed indeed okay you are still there
00:07:33.020emperor emperor bra I love that time the knife in the dark hmm is there nothing else well I mean we could settle it was stupid of me to lay waste that but if we do like this
00:08:02.020take these two settlements and then we have these guys are still there