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  1. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part XIX The winds of change are in the air in the New Roman Empire... conquest is the matter at hand, and for the young Basileus Alexander III Hikesphoros, there is much to retake into the hands of the Romans. With the Great Roman War over and the true Romans victorious, it was now a matter...
  2. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part XVIII Realms and Provinces of the New Roman Empire 1353 C.E. Anatolia ( Central Turkey) Antioch (Northern Syria) Armenia Assyria (Northern Iraq) Bulgaria Cyprus Egypt Epirus (Albania) Georgia Greece Philistia (Israel) Rum (Eastern Turkey) Serbia Sicily (Southern Italy) Syria Thrace...
  3. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part XVII We return to the New Roman Empire at the dawn of the new year of 1349 C.E. Much is happening here, Basileus Justinian III Hikesphoros, emperor of the New Roman Empire has survived a grievous battle with the Black Death, but was stuck bedridden for months after the fact, and remained...
  4. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part XVI We return to the New Roman Empire with the reign of the young Basileus Justinian III "The Just" Hikesphoros. At the dawning of the new year in 1345 C.E., he wrested control for himself and finally unshackled himself from the weights of his father's legacy. Interestingly enough, it was...
  5. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part XV Kallinikos Hikesphoros, emperor of the New Roman Empire, had died, leaving it to his youngest son and true heir, Justinian Hikesphoros. Justinian was but a 7-year old, as such, was forced into a regency. Luckily for the young man, his mother was a capable protector. The new year of...
  6. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part XIV Returning to the Eastern Mediterranean, we find the tyrannical Basileus Kallinikos of the New Roman Empire. After having conquered Bulgaria and Sicily from his enemies, the Basileus became content in his holdings, seeking new opportunities to consolidate his already massive holdings...
  7. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part XIII: The Greco-Roman Empire is under new management, and this man's name is Kallinikos "The Handsome" Hikesphoros, son of Alexandros "The Benevolent". Unlike his father, Kallinikos was a soldier at heart and was not very interested in diplomacy or court intrigue. He saw his realm as a...
  8. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part XII: We come back to 1305 C.E. with the ever-expanding Greco-Roman Empire; ruled by the great Alexandros "The Benevolent" Hikesphoros. The 66-year old appeared to be looking to make some peace for his realm, at least as much as he could. He was growing old; it was up to his successors to...
  9. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    (Living Members of the Hikesphoros Dynasty, circa 1290 C.E.) Part XI: We return to the Eastern Mediterranean with the Hikesphoros Dynasty, and the elderly Basileus Alexandros Hikesphoros "The Monk" of the Greco-Roman Empire. With years of war behind him, it appeared that Alexandros had been...
  10. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part X: We return to Europe, and specifically, the Eastern Mediterranean in the year 1276 C.E. Basileus Alexandros of the newly christened Greco-Roman Empire had finished up a war with Bulgaria merely the year before, and by October of 1276 C.E., the realm had become relatively peaceful... and...
  11. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part 9: We come back to our story in July of 1259, where the Romans have once again waged war with those blasted and corrupted Catholic French holders of Greece. Basileus Alexandros Hikesphoros had received word that his vassal Strategos Manuel Laskaris "The Ill-Ruller" of the Aegean Isles had...
  12. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part 8: Our story begins in April of 1255, with the Basileus of the Nicene Empire, Alexandros Hikesphoros, grandson of Augusthenes, coming of age and now in control of his glorious Roman realm. Much has changed since the days of Augusthenes, 8 years before. Internal divisions tug at the thread...
  13. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part 7: We return to the past in the year 1247 C.E., as Augusthenes Hikesphoros "The Wise", Basileus of the Nicene Empire, Savior of the Roman Culture, and the Liberator of Constantinople, died at the age of 76. The title of Basileus, and the Nicene Empire, passed down to that of his eldest...
  14. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part 6: 11th of January, 1245 C.E., the sun rises in the East as war returns to the Eastern Mediterranean. Augusthenes Hikesphoros, 74 years old, looked upon his Roman Empire and saw the good that he had done for over thirty years. Constantinople was back in the hands of the Romans, and an...
  15. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    (Dark Red Serbia is actually Croatia, historian Scott Anderson apologizes profusely for this massive blunder) Part 6: We return to the scene of the Eastern Meditteranean in the year 1242 C.E., and in the region became gripped in the clutches of yet another major war, as the Principality of...
  16. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part 5: Augusthenes Hikesphoros, Basileus of the Nicene Empire, had spent his entire career desperately hoping that a war against the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum could be avoided. It was simply not to be. The last 20 years for the Nicenes and Augusthenes had seen so many young men dying on the...
  17. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part 4: The Eastern Mediterranean had changed over the last 20 years. A major war between the Christian nations lasted over six years; the aftermath saw the Nicene Empire as the dominant Christian nation in the Balkans and Anatolia. However, there remained many threats. To the North, Bulgaria...
  18. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part 3: War had arrived between the two major political factions in the Aegean: The Nicene Empire and The Latin Empire. Two mortal enemies, moved by their hatred of one another, finally moved to combat. March of 1218 C.E. served as the beginning, both men assembling their armies. Emperor...
  19. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part 2: Following the conquest of Trebizond, news came to Basilleus Augusthenes. It was terrible news, a worst-case scenario for him... That boorish bastard Baudouin had begun his expansion into Greece, forcing upon the Doux of Hellas, Alexios II, a vassalization via bended knee. This left...
  20. Bobby Barrows

    Return From the Ashes: A Greek Story (CK2 - Stellaris)

    Part 1: From what we understand about Augusthenes Hikesphoros and his ambitions, a few years following the fall of Constantinople, his mission felt clear. The reconstitution of formerly Byzantine lands into the fold of the Nicene Empire was in his mind, a necessity. According to a letter to his...
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