Last fully completed game, using HIP w/ SWMH (And by fully completed, I mean I got bored in like 1,250). **TOTES NOT BRAGGING ABOUT THE MAP, SLANDER AND LIES, LIES AND SLANDER!!!!!!** .... *shiftyeyes*
I took some liberties making the map, mostly expanding Siberia and the Sahara to gobble up a bunch of random duchy-level lands (I forgot their names, was too lazy to reopen CK2, they were pointless in terms of affecting the game, and they made my map ugly).
Tried to keep water bodies named by the closest super power (Also listed the Mediterranean in Latin, Serbian, and Arabic [the latter two being the main powers in the sea]). Because the Normans never came, and the English got kicked out of England, the English Channel became the Mainland Channel, and the Strait of Dover became the Dutch Strait. Ditto with the Terra Incognito spots. And my translations are probably the worst ever. ^_^
Norway finally made a kingdom right before this, but they'd spent two centuries fractured into a bunch of jarldoms so their name remained "Norge Jarldoms". Took some liberties with names in German Europe, I couldn't remember the names of the two northern duchies so they became Gelderland and Rhineland (Ruled by a Dutchman and a German respectively). Saschen is actually Saxony, but I like the name better; I have no idea how Swabia ended up in Lotharingia. When the Byzantines got kicked out of Constantinople, they then lost an independence revolt in Greece and so we have a mess of Dux's in these "Greek City States". The Idrisids are actually Badshahs of Africa and Mauretania, but I renamed it to Caliphate because it made more historical sense (Competing Caliphates happened, an Arab ruler ever using the title 'Badshah/Padshah' didn't); both they and the Abbasids are Sunni.
A lot of weird crap happened, the Byzantines lost Constantinople to the Seljuks (The Serbs retook it less than a decade after), but no one ever declared a Jihad for their Jerusalem. The Rus have held Poland, Kiev, Vladimir, and Galich for at least five generations, but have never created an Empire. Their current ruler's heir daughter is married to the heir to the empire of Serbia (Actually Carpathia, but I renamed it because it's completely owned by the Serbs). An adventurer won Tripolitania, there's a German Merchant Republic in Sicily (my doing), I have no idea how Alexandria is Catholic but it is.
And generally the Serbs have just been facerolling in the Balkans, consistently gobbling up Bulgaria and Hungary, marrying into the crown of Bohemia (Czechy with Serb localisation) (and now the Rus), and apparently saving Orthodoxy from the Turks and Arabs [For the record, SWMH's localisation changes Constantinople to Tsargrad when it's own by a Serb and I love that name so much more].
France, Spain, and Italy have been a disaster most of the game (Italy's just yuck); the French have fractured since the Fylkirate crossed the channel, and Spain's been the focalpoint of the Crusades (Though there was a hilariously failed one on Netherlands when the Fylkirate came to their aid). The Rus', the Serbs, and the Greko-Georgian Byzantines are Orthodox, while Britain (Welsh Britain, obviously), Scandinavia, Netherlands (renamed Kingdom of Frisia to Republic of Netherlands for my northern merchant republic), Lithuania, Novgorod, Karelia, and Estonia have all converted to Asratu. Oddly enough, Turkish Khiva went Zikri, and the Mongols appear to have gotten curbstomped (Or not shown up at all, I forget what years they spawn).
