CK Post VI: Random Screens from a Mad King Game

WARNING: The net is dark and full of terrors. Read at your own risk.

School starts tomorrow, so expect a reduced post frequency. That said, Joffrey Part IV should be up by Tuesday.

In any case, I played Aerys Targaryen II (The Mad King) today in the Robert's Rebellion scenario. It's a nightmare trying to win against the Usurper's armies, but it's definitely doable. The basic strategy is to join up with the Reach, then beat down the Riverland and Stormland doomstacks. To add a bit of nuance to it, a related substrategy (that I used this game) is to Iron Bank/Merc and eliminate the Usurper's armies (that are just forming up) with your Crownland forces, and then meet up with the forces of the Reach and eliminate the Riverland doomstacks.

If Mace Tyrell goes full retard mode, the scenario probably won't be winnable. That's why I don't really enjoy these setpiece scenarios: allied military AI and the wars in general aren't the best parts of this game. In my opinion, it's better to build your own wars.

In any case, here are some screenshots. After Joffrey, I may post it, but it will involve sorting through hundreds of screenshots of the fighting haha.

Cause we got the fire, fire, fire, fire, yeah we got the fire, fire, fire.

And we gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn!

The Mad King goes all Roose Bolton on this chick lol.

If you win the war with Rhaegar (or win as Aerys II and use the console to switch to Rhaegar huehue), you are rewarded with the RLJ event chain. Of course, I chose what Rhaegar would have chosen: divorcing Elia and making Lyanna his queen.

You also get a different event chain if you win as Eddard Stark (the events that happened in the novels).