Am playing a Zeeland game. Swore fealty to HRE once I usurped all counties in Flanders. Through marriage, got Gelre and Brabant. Formed Frisia while fighting independence faction war so HRE doesn't have a claim on my kingdom and all counties/duchies. Took the rest of Holland when it revolted against HRE. Set up marriage to inherit Brunwsick-Holstein-Saxony. Next generation, set up marriage to inherit the Capetian kingdom of Denmark.
So far, game's going very well. Then in 1208, I win a crusade for Greece (minus Thrace and Athens which had by then become de jure Egypt. Counties of Arta, Thessalia, Eubonia, Chaldikide are Kingdom of Sicily). I'm doing well, I think. Since Egypt blobbed to eat up Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia and dissolved the ERE, I decide to take advantage of a brief Egyptian civil war and net the duchy of Thrace in 1218.
Then I formed the Latin Empire and gave the Kingdom of Greece to a genius kinsman with no claims on Frisia or Flanders. By 1236, the de jure assimilation countdowns become very strange.
1. Frisia gets incorporated slowly into Latin Empire (expected)
2. Holstein-Brunswick-Saxony stops getting incorporated into Frisia! In fact the clock goes to zero. Now they're solidly de jure HRE. They're not getting assimilated into Latin Empire either. Should they? When/How will they?
3. Thrace is not getting assimilated into Frisia (?!) and remains solid de jure Egypt.
At this point, I realise I'm quite clueless about de jure assimilation mechanics in titular empires. Could someone explain why 2 and 3 are happening?
I'm not sure if my game is borked now because
a. Bigger Frisia is always good.
b. If Thrace never gets assimilated into my kingdom, I feel quite unsafe knowing that the Egyptian superblob can always call a de jure war on me when they get a strong ruler.
Was it a mistake to form Latin Empire immediately after I took Thrace? Would it have been better to wait for Brunswick-Holstein to assimilate into Frisia? And Thrace as well?
So far, game's going very well. Then in 1208, I win a crusade for Greece (minus Thrace and Athens which had by then become de jure Egypt. Counties of Arta, Thessalia, Eubonia, Chaldikide are Kingdom of Sicily). I'm doing well, I think. Since Egypt blobbed to eat up Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia and dissolved the ERE, I decide to take advantage of a brief Egyptian civil war and net the duchy of Thrace in 1218.
Then I formed the Latin Empire and gave the Kingdom of Greece to a genius kinsman with no claims on Frisia or Flanders. By 1236, the de jure assimilation countdowns become very strange.
1. Frisia gets incorporated slowly into Latin Empire (expected)
2. Holstein-Brunswick-Saxony stops getting incorporated into Frisia! In fact the clock goes to zero. Now they're solidly de jure HRE. They're not getting assimilated into Latin Empire either. Should they? When/How will they?
3. Thrace is not getting assimilated into Frisia (?!) and remains solid de jure Egypt.
At this point, I realise I'm quite clueless about de jure assimilation mechanics in titular empires. Could someone explain why 2 and 3 are happening?
I'm not sure if my game is borked now because
a. Bigger Frisia is always good.
b. If Thrace never gets assimilated into my kingdom, I feel quite unsafe knowing that the Egyptian superblob can always call a de jure war on me when they get a strong ruler.
Was it a mistake to form Latin Empire immediately after I took Thrace? Would it have been better to wait for Brunswick-Holstein to assimilate into Frisia? And Thrace as well?
