As alluded to by Roland in the Helheim AAR, I did indeed get hit with a bad event on my capital, though not nearly as bad as his.
Ultimately it leads to a substantial decrease in my income for the turn and I am forced to reduce taxes to 50% to compensate. Oh well… at least I didn’t lose nearly as much as he did. And… I do have slight misfortune scales so this sort of stuff is bound to happen sometimes.
The battle against the barbarians goes much better. My ‘decoy’ scripting works nicely and I don’t lose a single unit. It doesn’t hurt that they fail their morale checks very early.
As a result, our capital has access to much more resources and I am able to expand the recruitment queue.
I also recruit a single barbarian commander from our new province. I’ll use him to help ferry chariots around very soon.
I also order an assault by our initial expansion party upon the province south of the one we just took.
There are many more barbarians here so I don’t believe we will do as well as we did with this turn’s battles. As it turns out, I will not be disappointed.