I just couldn't decide what to do for my next game. So I simply started a game with Haestein and thought of something fun to do. This is the result:
I decided to harass the Sunnis instead of the Catholics for once. Well, and the Miaphysites who had to suffer first because I needed a power base. The Empire is built upon a renamed Kingdom of Nubia who had all of Abyssinia, Crete, Venice and Sanaa drift into it. I had to go with no centralization whatsoever, because I wanted all those kingdoms to drift into the empire at once upon forming it. Therefore I had a huge amount of dukes. Still wouldn't have worked out, so I switched to Ultimogeniture (had Gavelkind for about 150 years) and waited for my old ruler to die. With my new one - 17yo at the time - I broke truces like a madman simply to get all those lands before he died. It worked out quite well. Now I have mostly vassal kings.
Also, 150 years of expansion and gavelkind weren't all for nothing.
Eat that, Karling scum!
Also, 150 years of expansion and gavelkind weren't all for nothing.
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