The Fatimids have never really been hampered by Decadence. Even back in the early patches when you started from 1081, the Fatimids were the real challenge in the Near East while the Seljuqs usually collapsed the very second that Malik Shah died.
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The Fatimids have never really been hampered by Decadence. Even back in the early patches when you started from 1081, the Fatimids were the real challenge in the Near East while the Seljuqs usually collapsed the very second that Malik Shah died.
Sorry, was trying to remember the names from memory:
The Suomenusko religion, the Romuva religion and the Tengri religion all reformed.
The Romuva religion reformed first when the Wendish empire conquered Scandinavia, Rus and ofc the Wendish lands.
Once that empire shattered the Fins took all of Finland and Perm, allowing them to reform.
The Tengri reformed just before the Ilkhanate spawned.
I have a new empire, which I thought would be super-awesome to show you guys, but it looks as though westamastaflash has me beat by 66 realm size. Well, he has 71 years on me... Anyway, here it is:
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Bizzarro game so far, Not one but Three Formed AI empires (technically Four, Russia formed but Elective Gavelkind killed it). Illkhanate got an inconclusive war so apparently the Hundreds of thousands angry mongol warriors are going home no questions asked.
I wanted to form the HRE for EU but that means i'll have to kill Hispania so I think i'll just partition my empire instead.
Count in southern Britain, took England, then Wales and Britanny and sat on my laurels for a bit and nibbled on france and Frisia. Formed a custom empire after securing France and Frisia, Ate Middle Francia then Germany and Bavaria over time. Pressed a dynasty claim on Italy and Aquitaine, Pressed a personal claim on Byzantium and right after winning is when the screenshot was taken (The Byzantines held all of Dejure Byzantium at the time)
Ive ensured to keep my King vassals foreign culture so Breton isn't infesting all of Europe like some sort of plague, instead its mainly spread over southern England and the Northern coast of Europe (The dutch were already dead so Its all breton now).
Also Custom Empire formation shifted Wales and England into 'Avalon' so Britannia is now only Ireland and Scotland. The Irish pressed a claim on Scotland at one point and formed the Empire. Scotland then broke away again.
Ive ensured to keep my King vassals foreign culture so Breton isn't infesting all of Europe like some sort of plague, instead its mainly spread over southern England and the Northern coast of Europe (The dutch were already dead so Its all breton now).
Also Custom Empire formation shifted Wales and England into 'Avalon' so Britannia is now only Ireland and Scotland. The Irish pressed a claim on Scotland at one point and formed the Empire. Scotland then broke away again.
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What's your plan now, eat Spain? Wipe out all muslims? I'm thinking along those lines in my own game... 
I'm bringing this one into Eu so probably going to be partitioning my Empire. I'm definitely going to be cleaning up the Borders in Scandinavia maybe i'll give the Teutonic order the rest of it. Probably going to be kicking the Spanish back over the Pyrenees as well.
Don't remind me of the olden days where the Fatimids would take over the Byzantine Empire and France every game,
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Empire of Germania:
Started in 769 as king of Bavaria, promptly holy warred my way east ideally jumping on 1 province nations as you can 100% them by easily even if others join. Transitioned to retinues, only bothered raising levies for big wars.
The infidels took all of France and so I outgrew them by taking more pagan land, when i felt big enough started chiping into France with holy wars, then pushed them even further into iberia. I bred a strong dynasty with lots of geniuses and strong children and one ruler who was both and gay. I like all my titles going to my youngest because it gives me multiple chances to make a decent heir, one of my heirs was terrible so i went on a seducing streak and legitimised a genius bastard which more than paid off for the -1 from being a bastard.
One thing i wish i had realised earlier in the game is how much you can milk the pope for. i mean i know its based on my own income but every new pope i make him like me and get 3k gold off him easily, im now using it to build cities all over the pagan lands, my dynasty also control the teutonic knights (who are also my vassal). Im running absolute crown authority so have just shy of 100k levy troops on top of the 50k troops i have from skirmisher retinues. I've capped out on my realm size until i pass imperialism for the extra vassals, I've transferred all the vassals i can and given out all the kingdom titles i control to reduce my vassal count but unfortunately a couple of kingdoms drifted into mine and for whatever reason the game wont let me give it to one of the original de jure vassals because it is now a titular title.
I created 6 vassal republics on different coastlines to fill the seas with trade posts and as a result they used to be my highest paying vassals untill I had to transfer them onto their local de jure kings to reduce my vassal limit. I mean I guess I can keep expanding but I would have to make my existing vassal kings more powerful, I havnt had any faction trouble all game because i have always ensured I was stronger than my vassals and Im ery reluctant to give any of them more power.
Started in 769 as king of Bavaria, promptly holy warred my way east ideally jumping on 1 province nations as you can 100% them by easily even if others join. Transitioned to retinues, only bothered raising levies for big wars.
The infidels took all of France and so I outgrew them by taking more pagan land, when i felt big enough started chiping into France with holy wars, then pushed them even further into iberia. I bred a strong dynasty with lots of geniuses and strong children and one ruler who was both and gay. I like all my titles going to my youngest because it gives me multiple chances to make a decent heir, one of my heirs was terrible so i went on a seducing streak and legitimised a genius bastard which more than paid off for the -1 from being a bastard.
One thing i wish i had realised earlier in the game is how much you can milk the pope for. i mean i know its based on my own income but every new pope i make him like me and get 3k gold off him easily, im now using it to build cities all over the pagan lands, my dynasty also control the teutonic knights (who are also my vassal). Im running absolute crown authority so have just shy of 100k levy troops on top of the 50k troops i have from skirmisher retinues. I've capped out on my realm size until i pass imperialism for the extra vassals, I've transferred all the vassals i can and given out all the kingdom titles i control to reduce my vassal count but unfortunately a couple of kingdoms drifted into mine and for whatever reason the game wont let me give it to one of the original de jure vassals because it is now a titular title.
I created 6 vassal republics on different coastlines to fill the seas with trade posts and as a result they used to be my highest paying vassals untill I had to transfer them onto their local de jure kings to reduce my vassal limit. I mean I guess I can keep expanding but I would have to make my existing vassal kings more powerful, I havnt had any faction trouble all game because i have always ensured I was stronger than my vassals and Im ery reluctant to give any of them more power.
Can't appoint my own antipope atm due to crown laws, its my intention to do so once this guy dies but this fabulous strong genius has lived to 60 so far. Besides I am absolutely capped on my vassal limit. i have 40 king level vassals, 4 dukes that im having trouble consolidating into 1 king, and until i pass imperialism that's my limit. Ive done a bit of expanding with my currect vassals but as I've said i dont like the idea of any of my vassals as being as strong as me, im running max tax, absolute crown authority, low centralization, min levies, so atm my kings are quite loyal underlings. But from experience I know the more you give them the less loyal they become. I only had a faction form once this game and it was independence-before I had so many retinue troops. The entire map is german and catholic as well btw (ie my empire, though the byzantines became catholic around the same time the muslims took france), though the number of uprisings Ive had is stupidly large, the good thing being that revolts out of dirt poor provinces only ever amount to less than 1k troops which i can walk over easily.
All i need is majesty 5 for imperialism and ill get back to conquering.
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Pfft, obviously he needs to exploit the vassal revolt mechanics to make HIMSELF a Pope!
I don't understand... If he is Emperor of Germania and pope, and has an heir, wouldn't the game continue with his heir as normal? Why would him also being a pope end the game? Is it bugged? I think there should be an achievement for this...
Being the Pope is automatic gameover. Just like Ecumenical Patriarch.I don't understand... If he is Emperor of Germania and pope, and has an heir, wouldn't the game continue with his heir as normal? Why would him also being a pope end the game? Is it bugged? I think there should be an achievement for this...
Empire of Germania:
Started in 769 as king of Bavaria, promptly holy warred my way east ideally jumping on 1 province nations as you can 100% them by easily even if others join. Transitioned to retinues, only bothered raising levies for big wars.
The infidels took all of France and so I outgrew them by taking more pagan land, when i felt big enough started chiping into France with holy wars, then pushed them even further into iberia. I bred a strong dynasty with lots of geniuses and strong children and one ruler who was both and gay. I like all my titles going to my youngest because it gives me multiple chances to make a decent heir, one of my heirs was terrible so i went on a seducing streak and legitimised a genius bastard which more than paid off for the -1 from being a bastard.
One thing i wish i had realised earlier in the game is how much you can milk the pope for. i mean i know its based on my own income but every new pope i make him like me and get 3k gold off him easily, im now using it to build cities all over the pagan lands, my dynasty also control the teutonic knights (who are also my vassal). Im running absolute crown authority so have just shy of 100k levy troops on top of the 50k troops i have from skirmisher retinues. I've capped out on my realm size until i pass imperialism for the extra vassals, I've transferred all the vassals i can and given out all the kingdom titles i control to reduce my vassal count but unfortunately a couple of kingdoms drifted into mine and for whatever reason the game wont let me give it to one of the original de jure vassals because it is now a titular title.
I created 6 vassal republics on different coastlines to fill the seas with trade posts and as a result they used to be my highest paying vassals untill I had to transfer them onto their local de jure kings to reduce my vassal limit. I mean I guess I can keep expanding but I would have to make my existing vassal kings more powerful, I havnt had any faction trouble all game because i have always ensured I was stronger than my vassals and Im ery reluctant to give any of them more power.
What manner of trickery and shenanigans gives you the strategist lifestyle?