You might even recall that I had another coincident timeline which used Crusader Kings‘ features to focus on economics. To get started, I tried returning to an alternate timeline that I had created to explore the rise of the House of Habsburg (but also found useful with regard to the Tour de Nesle affair). The game obliged me by demonstrating a number of issues. However, I was already figuring that wasn’t going to work out in practice.
My next test was a revisiting of Crusader Kings which, on the face of it, should be a perfect match for this period. If you like Crusader Kings II, this seven-part series should be right up your street.My feeling that the Hundred Years War is under served by PC gaming needed further exploration.
They contain a foreword from George RR Martin explaining how the series "is the original Game of Thrones" and just how heavily A Song of Ice and Fire was inspired by The Accursed Kings.
The series was written decades ago in French I'd recommend the latest translations published by Harper.
Assassinations, power, politics and betrayal are the heaviest themes throughout, while heresy, sorcery and devil worship lurk in the background and come into their own later on. There are no over-detailed descriptions of battles or daring rescues or close-call escapes here just the bitterness and spontaneous violence of royal family rivalries, the chicanery of church vs state and the hell of trying to manage utterly uncontrollable vassals. Rather than a medieval epic about battles and love and FREEEDOOOOM it's an unforgiving chronicle of family dynastic politics, following the kings of France from the burning of the Templars to the downward spiral leading to the Hundred Years War. Have any of you read this book series? I ask because it's basically Crusader Kings II: The Book.
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