What are Barons Veeky Forums? Were they, Lord of the Manor, living in their fortified keep in villages...

Stannis is super OP isn't he? idk Florents. Try playing as the Arbour? Super high dev province.

Also The Ironborn can be a lot of fun. Abuse the salt wife mechanics so badly it overloads the UI

>Stannis is super OP isn't he?
Pretty sure they nerfed him somewhat

>idk Florents.
Florents are shafted in the mod. The red apple fossoways are stronger than them and they are just lords. The Florents are the weakest Highlords in the Reach which makes no sense

>Try playing as the Arbour? Super high dev province.
I tend not to play in High Dev Provinces for the fun. Although I did manage to make the Boltons as king in their own kingdoms

>Also The Ironborn can be a lot of fun.
That is true, but I fucking hate it when you raid a province you sometimes are forced to payback everything

>Abuse the salt wife mechanics so badly it overloads the UI
I try to limit how many Children I have

Steam says I haven't played CK2 since Jan 2015 hey. So yeah the mod would be super different.

That Dayne game was the one man. Conquered all of westeros and most of Essos (until there stopped being flags basically) from a OPM (might have been a 2PM) Caught a dragon with that fucker and got the Lightsaber with him

Was fun

Peel towers, motte and bailey castles and small fortifications were built to resist raids after the Norman invasions and in unstable regions like Wales, Ireland and the border with Scotland. In England in the 13th century many castles that were not enlarged and converted to stone were destroyed or fell into disuse and increasingly a baron could just be a landowner or an official granted that title.

An example of a castle owned by an English baron might be Helmsley Castle which was only besieged once in its lifetime and after the medieval era. Though maybe it deterred a Scottish army pushing south or a rival from attacking.

Okehampton castle was an old motte and bailey castle later converted into a leisurely retreat for hunting trips.

note: motte and bailey castles were built in the 11th and 12th centuries, peel towers were commonly from the 15th century onwards and along the Scottish border

I mean that's basically how the Normans got down isn't it? Won a battle then took all the castles and just fortified themselves against the natives.

Is there much about the tensions in the North outside of the Domesday book? Kind of an interesting dynamic actually with the North being Danelaw a few years earlier and then a bunch of other Nordics showing up and saying they were boss

Got any information on Tower castle? I heard they overlapped enough to be called Castle

Got any evidence-based historical facts?

Looks comfy.

Baron is a French word that mean "brave man, mighty man, wealthy man"

Baron are originally freemen that went to war, it later became a title of nobility

Fuck, I'd like to live there.

Baron is among the oldest Noble title. It was originally purely military in nature. Most barons were from "immémoriale" nobility. That is their family was always considered Noble as far as archives go. The French King had not made them Noble, they reputedly always were. Due to those factors the title held a special place among French titles and the oldest Baron title holder has special rights.

lords of Coucy

I thought they were rhe lowest title

In thekingdom of England, themedieval Latinwordbaro, baroniswas used originally to denote atenant-in-chiefof the earlyNorman kingswho held his lands by thefeudal tenureof "barony" (in Latinper baroniam), and who was entitled to attend the Great Council (Magnum Concilium) which by the 13th century had developed into theParliament of England.[4]Feudal baronies (or "baronies bytenure") are now obsolete in England and without any legal force but any such historical titles are heldin gross, that is to say are deemed to be enveloped within a more modern extant peerage title also held by the holder, sometimes along with vestigialmanorial rightsand tenures bygrand serjeanty.

William Iintroduced the rank ofbaroninEnglandto distinguish those men who had pledged their loyalty to him under thefeudal system. Previously, in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England, the king's companions held the title ofearland inScotland, the title ofthane. All who held their feudal barony "in-chief of the king", that is with the king as his immediate overlord, became alikebarones regis("barons of the king"), bound to perform a stipulated annual military service, and obliged to attend his council. Eventually the greatest of the nobles, especially those in themarches, such as theEarls of Chesteror theBishops of Durham, whose territories were often deemedpalatine, that is to say "worthy of a prince", might refer to their own tenants as "barons", where lesser magnates spoke simply of their "men" (homines).

Barons are the chiefs of a Barony, that is to say a castle, always found under the authority of a Count. He shares his rank with the Bishop, chief of the Bishopric (a church or abbey) and the Mayor, chief of a city.

It is comfy user. Baron loved it

Pretty tight. Stave him out pretty quick though. Or kill the like 10 people he had in there if can get through the door

You underestimate the peel tower's power

Yeah I mean probably. But at the same time the only Citadel in Europe was starved out pretty handily. You only need enough men to cut off supplies to siege a castle

It would have been so sick to live in these. Even as a guard or a servant.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North
William did to them what he did to the saxons, killed em all and put new norman lords at the top of the tree
surprisingly barely talked about

Goes unnoticed because it goes against the paradigm that England was a united country for a long time before the Normans come through.

Every time you hear about it as a child or in most other circumstances it Starts at 1066 with England being a happy united Whole

Its like the start of the movie braveheart ffs

Indeed

Sorry what is the point of this? Sure its super hard to take. But its a nightmare to get food into. Castles are only really useful to mount raids from or to hide until the enemy fucks off. Doesn't block and routes. Just sits there on his mountain

Turn it off in the settings. You can choose setting prior to starting a game.

Eh on the EU4 train. Well actually the NoGame train atm. But if I'm to play a GSG it will be a knight run in EU4

Given Stellaris a go?

>Not enjoying the scenery

>Castles
Castellans lived in Castles.

Good. Anglos needed to suffer

This thread has introduced me to peel towers. Cheers anons for adding another option to any potential future home builds.

No problem.

This thread is nice

It is not far from the valley floor. Transporting food for miles would be a greater ordeal than the brief climb.
youtube.com/watch?v=GOFVL5XGtWY

Not an argument

Anymore

How do you explain this?