Charlemagne and the Frankish Empire - Game 1

I played this through on the 8th/9th of November using the standard rules (including the optional rules for Schism, Magnates and Raiders).  The Byzantines where inactive.

I employed a couple of simple changes.
 1) Simultaneous Endeavours - Raiders, Magnates and Players conduct the activities in each year of a round simultaneously
2) Raiders - Do not raid areas of their own religion

The outcome of the game was a Frankish total of 139VP including bonuses for converting the West Slavs and Old Saxon areas to Christianity.  The rest of the empire was kept intact and Charlemange survived until the end of the scenario.

Saracens laid waste to all the areas in their range and the Vikings raided reserved their raids for England.  Magnates appeared in Volhinya and Mercia and were relatively successful but had little impact on the Franks.