I remember a while ago people were complaining against uber-stable Muslim blobs and the Muslims were supposedly nerfed but it doesn't seem to have taken in my game. I've found that almost always, the Muslims conquer and hold an obscene amount of territory while the Christians just fight amongst each other completely oblivious to the rising threat. Even the Christians in Iberia would prefer to deplete each other's levies in pointless claim wars than deal with the Umayyads.
Current game is somewhere in the year 930 or so. Already I'm worried that I'll see a Muslim Hispania. Last time I attempted this my title management made my Reformed Norse Scandinavia incredibly weak and it fractured into several hideously bordered kingdoms because I didn't know how to handle titles acquired in GHWs. So I started over, now I've formed Scandinavia again and my plan is to reform the Norse faith and then jump into a new kingdom. I won't be blobbing like I did last time, I'll just stay within de jure Scandinavia (Of course, I have no control over the AI).
I took a look to the south to find that the Abbasids are already blobbed out massively, and beating the snot out of the Byzantine Empire like usual (seriously, I don't get all the complaints about Byzantium being OP, they get the shit kicked out of them by the Muslims in every single one of my games.) They're already starting to pick up steam and soon I'll be seeing Holy Wars, Jihads and Muslim Invasions everywhere. Nothing can stop them! Right now I think Cumania is my best hope, I'll try to jump to them and either reform Tengri or adopt a religion other than Islam (Judaism or Zoroastianism if possible).
TL;DR: What's the deal with Muslims? The Muslim realms in most of my recent games have been unstoppable. The rulers are always absolutely adored by their vassals, which means they have massive levies. They're constantly blobbing which keeps decadence down and they always get their MA up to 100% and start Jihading all over the map. I'm sick of seeing Muslim Arabia and Hispania painting the map puke yellow and green. It's way too early for the Mongols to come save me too.
Current game is somewhere in the year 930 or so. Already I'm worried that I'll see a Muslim Hispania. Last time I attempted this my title management made my Reformed Norse Scandinavia incredibly weak and it fractured into several hideously bordered kingdoms because I didn't know how to handle titles acquired in GHWs. So I started over, now I've formed Scandinavia again and my plan is to reform the Norse faith and then jump into a new kingdom. I won't be blobbing like I did last time, I'll just stay within de jure Scandinavia (Of course, I have no control over the AI).
I took a look to the south to find that the Abbasids are already blobbed out massively, and beating the snot out of the Byzantine Empire like usual (seriously, I don't get all the complaints about Byzantium being OP, they get the shit kicked out of them by the Muslims in every single one of my games.) They're already starting to pick up steam and soon I'll be seeing Holy Wars, Jihads and Muslim Invasions everywhere. Nothing can stop them! Right now I think Cumania is my best hope, I'll try to jump to them and either reform Tengri or adopt a religion other than Islam (Judaism or Zoroastianism if possible).
TL;DR: What's the deal with Muslims? The Muslim realms in most of my recent games have been unstoppable. The rulers are always absolutely adored by their vassals, which means they have massive levies. They're constantly blobbing which keeps decadence down and they always get their MA up to 100% and start Jihading all over the map. I'm sick of seeing Muslim Arabia and Hispania painting the map puke yellow and green. It's way too early for the Mongols to come save me too.
