Fairly straightforward question, I am playing as Seljuks and have eaten all of their OTL expansion, how do I form the Persian Empire?
Have one of your sons or grandsons raised by a Persian or Kurdish guardian -- if he changes to their culture then he can form the Persian empire.
Thats cheating. The whole point of the persian empire is that its persian, and a smelly steppe nomad probably can't even speak the language. Far better to do an Alexander and adopt Persian culture, and with it, the Persian Empire.Open up savegame, find your guy, change him to Persian.
Boom! Done!
You're a wise man.Thats cheating. The whole point of the persian empire is that its persian, and a smelly steppe nomad probably can't even speak the language. Far better to do an Alexander and adopt Persian culture, and with it, the Persian Empire.
Thats cheating. The whole point of the persian empire is that its persian, and a smelly steppe nomad probably can't even speak the language. Far better to do an Alexander and adopt Persian culture, and with it, the Persian Empire.
They were Persianized Turks, yes, but you have to choose one or the other in CK II and Turkish is probably a better fit.I was under the impression that historically the Seljuks actually integrated Persian language and culture into their empire while still maintaining their own Turkishness. Was that not the case?
Haha, I had a game just today as Emir of Birjand, and after Alp Arslan died his son who had become Persian inherited and then formed the Persian Empire. Not even a year after he did this he died and his Turkish brother inherited as "Padishah" of Persia. FML
I could do that. Also how do you change the name of your independent realm. I'm playing a multiplayer game and my friend is Andalusia, but it says the name of his dynasty instead on the map.
Actually, I believe it's the 'dynasty_title_names = yes' line in 00_cultures.txt that specifies that, so you could in fact have a Plantagenet Empire if you had your heirs tutored by an Arab, Turk, Persian or Kurd.Dynastic naming instead of country naming is a feature inherent to Muslims. Your country should have a giant 'SELJUK' plastered over it.
I do understand the logic behinf the cultural restrictions to form certain titles, but I don't agree with them. Once upon a time (was still CKI) I played as a Frankish Duke of Oultrejourdain and conquered Persia, I even fought the Mongols three times to hold onto it and I eventually crowned my ruler King of Persia. So if a culture group conquers another, why would that prevent the former from forming a Kingdom or an Empire. Besides, that's not very logical, or in that case, William the Bastard should remain just a bastard prohibited from being King of England (yes I know he conquers it, but that's actually the whole point...)