One of the first problems with the current Amazon mod is that your husband cannot be in your court or he will be exiled or killed. As such, I married a priest who has his own temple. In this second play through of the mod, my amazon ruler did have 2 daughters. The second daughter had the quick trait so I switched to elective and elected her my heir.
As my ruler was getting old and I wanted my daughter to have daughters of her own, I had her marry a landed tengri priest with the strong trait. The hope was that the union would produce strong and quick daughters. That did not exactly pan out. While there was nothing wrong with my grand daughter, she was neither quick or strong. She was also in another court, but that should not present too much of a problem.
What really became an issue was that, unbeknownst to me; shortly after my grand daughter was born, my daughter decided to change religion.
And yes, that's my daughter who was educated by her grey eminence mother.
Problems with the fertility event:
The Aphrodite event was available for me once in a 30 year time frame. Otherwise it never showed up in my intrigue tab again. Unfortunately, I wasn't chosen by Aphrodite and I didn't become pregnant through the event which apparently only involved 2 Amazon women and cost around 19g. The baroness did become pregnant and the resulting daughter did gain the goddess' favor, however.....
Accidents can happen, but an accident like this in an event that only ever happens once every 9 years (The event was meant to be available every 9 years) is pretty discouraging.
Problems with CBs:
Amazons have no holy war CBs. They have conquest CBs for their nearest neighbors. The Amazons can also use the subjugation CB for pagans. The problem with this is that no matter which Amazon kingdom you start as, your nearest neighbors are all huge. As Cyrene, I cannot challenge the Sultanate of Africa or Egypt. I tried to take a county off Africa during a civil war but wasn't able to do so before their civil war ended. I had subjugation CBs on the Pagans in the Baltic Sea and Scandinavia. The problem was that only rulers I could take were lone counts. Even a double count would be too big for me to take. So I plotted to take the lone county of Gotland. First I need boats. So while I shored up my finances, I researched and put points into Shipbuilding. I even moved my capital so that I could have 2 counties that could produce ships. Next I need to have more than 15 ships. I figure I would need at least that much in case I need to bring mercenaries. You might think that you can get away with hiring mercenary ships, but the upkeep would probably bankrupt you before your fleet could get to gotland. So once I had 14 ships I declared war on Gotland and sent my fleet and army there. I had just finished building another shipyard and I figure the 15th ship would be built before my ships arrived to Gotland. I was lucky because Gotland was involved in another war. In fact, I didn't even need mercenaries to take Gotland. After I subjugated Gotland, there were no other targets available for me to subjugate. All the small realms had been gobbled up by the Kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Pomerania, Lithuania. The land locked areas in Rus just seem too vulnerable to me. I wouldn't be able to keep them. And of course, Gotland declared independence shortly after. I crushed the revolt and revoked the county from him. After my Tengri daughter took over the kingdom, I took a look around.
Scythia was gone. I had expected as much. I figure if the Magyars didn't get it then Cumania would (which it did).
Pontus was still around, but the Queen was heirless and pass child bearing age just as the Queen of Scythia was. She had taken a county and lost 2. So she now has 3 counties.
My prospects weren't good. It looks like my best bet was to to take Pontus and hope that all the huge realms around me ignore me.
