Any way to expand Roman Empire de jure borders into Arabian Empire in 1.08?

[kingsword]

"Kingdoms no longer assimilate out of de jure empires that have no holder"

This line in patch notes seems to explain why Kingdom of Egypt reversed back to Arabian Empire when I was assimilating it in 1.07b. Is there no way to assimilate Italian, African and Mid-East kingdoms into the Roman Empire now? If so, it's a game-breaker for me as I don't want to deal with dozens of duchies and their separate levies and I don't want these kings to invade everywhere which isn't Orthodox but I cannot prevent them with my crown authority if they don't come into Roman Empire's de jure borders.

I was well into a campaign and now it's totally ruined, any way to salvage this situation?

 

[Frozen_Predator]

they should integrate into other empires just fine.

Its kingdoms going fully free from empires that was modified (no longer de jure part of any empire)

 

[anonymouswolfm]

Edit: Thanks for the clarification!

 

[unmerged(494787)]

I'm not sure about that. Jerusalem, Africa, and Syria don't seem to be assimilating into my Roman Empire in my 1.07b -> 1.08 game, and I do control 100% of them (well, Africa anyway. I gave away b_jerusalem to the pope and the crusader forts to the Templars/Hospitallars due to being catholic after I made the RE.)

 

[NewbieOne]

I'm leaning to the view that K. of Jerusalem in de iure BYZ when the game came out was a good idea.

 

[Ols]

I'm not sure if it's fixed now, but when you form the Roman Empire titles will tick down from Byzantine assimilation and then tick back up to Roman Empire assimilation if they weren't absorbed already. That may be the problem.

 

[banopoly]

I have the same issue as the empire of Britannia and kingdoms in spain. I fully control the kingdom of portugal but it has started to reverse assimilation because the empire of hispania has no holder. Is this only a bug with 1.07 games being played in 1.08 or is this the case with new 1.08 games?

 

[A_Dane]

I have the same issue as the empire of Britannia and kingdoms in spain. I fully control the kingdom of portugal but it has started to reverse assimilation because the empire of hispania has no holder. Is this only a bug with 1.07 games being played in 1.08 or is this the case with new 1.08 games?

Exactly what do you mean, has it started to reverse back from being integrated into Britannia?

 

[Mods]

I have the same issue as the empire of Britannia and kingdoms in spain. I fully control the kingdom of portugal but it has started to reverse assimilation because the empire of hispania has no holder. Is this only a bug with 1.07 games being played in 1.08 or is this the case with new 1.08 games?

does that mean that the drift would take 200 years instead of 100?

 

[kingsword]

Well, I'm not sure what's the problem here then. I have whole of Kingdom of Egypt and it was drifting into my control on the 1.07b savegame but whenever I load it now, it immediately begins drifting back. I got disillusioned with my Roman campaign and stopped till I figure out how to bring those areas under my control. Do I have to retain the kingdom level titles or something instead of giving away?

 

[bilbo2810]

in my game, there seems to be a problem with drifting as well... I'm the Imperator Augustus, controlling almost everything (some almoravids in western Africa are still to be sorted out...), but kingdoms which are de jure part of other empires (none of which has a holder, of course) stopped drifting towards the RE with the newest patch. Annoying, and I'm quite sure not WAD...

 

[Carmilla]

Well, I'm not sure what's the problem here then. I have whole of Kingdom of Egypt and it was drifting into my control on the 1.07b savegame but whenever I load it now, it immediately begins drifting back. I got disillusioned with my Roman campaign and stopped till I figure out how to bring those areas under my control. Do I have to retain the kingdom level titles or something instead of giving away?

You're using a 1.07b savefile in 1.08? If so that might be why as I heard the savefiles from those patches won't work properly at all with the new ones.

 

[Lord Finnish]

I'm leaning to the view that K. of Jerusalem in de iure BYZ when the game came out was a good idea.

It would make some sense since the First Crusade was officially a Byzantine military mission and the Crusaders were de-jure loyal to Alexios I, and the plan was to cede the Holy Land back to the Byzantines once they are done.

However, though, the Holy Land was lost 400 years ago so I can see why people objected it being de-jure in ERE.

 

[bilbo2810]

I quote Doomdark:

Old save games should be completely compatible.

 

[kingsword]

You're using a 1.07b savefile in 1.08? If so that might be why as I heard the savefiles from those patches won't work properly at all with the new ones.

They said it was compatible and to be honest, it was too much work to get to this point to start over again. In any case, I don't want to restart the whole campaign without making sure I can make kingdoms drift, especially now that Imperial Reconquest CB iss removed, fabricating claims for half of Italy is too bothersome.

I need to find a way to enforce absolute crown authority on those greedy kings. :/