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It looks like it has too many French people in it.That England is a thing of beauty
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This is what happened when I buffed Tengri up a bit in my game. This is their Reformed Tengri empire:
I started as Wessex, and here is my lands after the First Crusade....
Aragon managed to be more troublesome than the Abbassids, the Byzantines, the Germans and the French.
This is insane blobbing.
Really nice work with the Karens ^^ How did you manage to survive the initial situation? How to overcome those nasty Emirs?
Can't speak for ciek, but what I did was swear fealty to Khiva. You have about 241 per cent relative strength, so you can just force a switch to elective, then make yourself the king. Now, of course, you have lots of angry Sunni vassals, but you should be able to beat down the revolt that inevitably follows. By this time, the realms to your south should be embroiled in civil war, so you can probably jump in and holy war a duchy from the middle one. Myself I also had a lot of help from my Zoroastrian vassals, who eagerly waged holy wars to expand my borders on their own. Just remember to usurp the duchy yourself and grant it to one of the counts they create to cut down on their size
This is my Russian Slavic Kingdom of Lithuania, home of the Slavic Church. I'm not one for landing claimants, and since I can't subjugate anymore because of the reformation (unless I misunderstand how reformation works) my expansion will be slowing down quite a lot. I figured I would post it now, a year after the reformation, and just give an update when the game ends.
I have only 20k army at the moment, so there's quite a few external threats, definitely not the least of which is that East Francia hugging my borders. Great Moravia is allied with Bavaria, and together they have too many men for a win to be sure so I'm avoiding them for the time being. Hungary keeps splitting every time its King dies since there's always an independence war at the same time as the succession crises, so I might be attacking them soon to finally put those uppity Carpathians in their place. Turov is my ally and reformed Slavic, so finding an opportunity to clean up the borders is pretty difficult. Rus to my east has 3/4ths of my soldiers and is old Slav. I'm not sure if I get the attrition penalties myself or not, but if I do that would mean attacking them is going to be exceptionally difficult.
Also, I really didn't like Jarilo feast going in, and I still don't like the complete lack of content for slavs, but I have to admit that the feast is pretty strong. 100 prestige, 100 piety, and +15 relations with all same-religion vassals? Pretty helpful for a new ruler, even with the gavelkind I've found most of my successions to only have problem the first year or so. Is the Jarilo feast the same effect as the Suomenusko and Romuva ones? If it is that's pretty lame, but otherwise I guess it's a neat bit of flavor.
Can't speak for ciek, but what I did was swear fealty to Khiva. You have about 241 per cent relative strength, so you can just force a switch to elective, then make yourself the king. Now, of course, you have lots of angry Sunni vassals, but you should be able to beat down the revolt that inevitably follows. By this time, the realms to your south should be embroiled in civil war, so you can probably jump in and holy war a duchy from the middle one. Myself I also had a lot of help from my Zoroastrian vassals, who eagerly waged holy wars to expand my borders on their own. Just remember to usurp the duchy yourself and grant it to one of the counts they create to cut down on their size
...isn't this a bug? Muslims are designed have only one Succession law
Apparently it still works because it is you who start the faction. Though once I became King of Khiva myself, the succession law switched back to my demesne law of A-C gavelkind.
I see your Cumania and raise you this
What madness is this? This. Is. A complete AI achievement, cuman empire of Tartaria.
With cumans like these, who needs the mongols?
Actually, I got most of France, Italy and Austria without firing a shot. I helped the Frank Empire rise to power by destroying Lotharingia and East Francia, then pulled out a plan worthy of Game of Thrones.
Decades earlier, I had wed my (current) son to the Frank Duchess of Orléans, an very scheming and ambitious princess. Later, my current ruler engineered a succession of crisis in the French empire by purely and simply bribing every single spymaster (by giving them lands into newly conquered pagans provinces). Not only the Franks lost 20+ intrigue spymasters, but I gained them. As my own monarch had for mother a very very scheming gal, the results were impressive : two Frank emperors dead in 5 years, as well as the two dukes with higher intrigue than my mom.
As a result, the Duchess of Orléans pulled up a coup against the Emperor-a coup that succeeded thanks to my intervention.
I'm pretty proud of this plan, that put to the throne a backstabbing, treacherous, with insane intrigue gal....that was still my mother, and thus 100 % loyal to me.
(as in real history, your mother is probably the only individual into the whole realm who won't betray you if giving the opportunity)
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That's a pretty awesome story. Interestingly, in 1.08 I had a North Sea Empire (CK2+) inherit basically the same stuff you did with the most ridiculously lucky sequence of events I've ever seen. First time I've ever had an "endgame boss". They had like twice my army, and I was dealing with the Mongols at the time as well.
I'm truly impressed with your huge empires! However, I still can't figure out how to maintain my simple small kingdom because it always falls apart in some of many civil wars for independance/lower crown authority or such...
This forum is the way to the answars! 99% of all the questions you have/ problems you have have all been asked once before and 99% of them has some how been answared on this forum
Been trying to reform the Persian Empire under a proper (read: Zoroastrian) dynasty, and here's what I've managed so far...
Yeah, it's not really that impressive, but I haven't played CK2 in months, so I had to relearn... stuff. It certainly didn't help that the Abbasids blobbed out over the entirety of Arabia and Persia, necessitating me sending the Caliph a crapload of money every so often so that he'd leave me alone. They've been super-stable for the past century, too, despite high decadence. Well, stable other than the recent dynastic struggle that distracted them enough for me to acquire Birjand from them.
Turkmenistan used to be part of--and, in fact, was the primary title of--the country, but I gave the title up to one of my vassals so that I wouldn't have to deal with the Seljuks immediately. There's actually a 48k strong stack of Seljuks up there... just... sitting there. Perhaps enjoying watching the Nawids get eaten by Khazaria I dunno.
I'm not entirely sure what to do at this point, since I'm sure the Abbasids will go right for my throat once their current dynastic troubles sort themselves out. Given that I can't take them in a straight fight, I'm... probably boned.
Yeah, it's not really that impressive, but I haven't played CK2 in months, so I had to relearn... stuff. It certainly didn't help that the Abbasids blobbed out over the entirety of Arabia and Persia, necessitating me sending the Caliph a crapload of money every so often so that he'd leave me alone. They've been super-stable for the past century, too, despite high decadence. Well, stable other than the recent dynastic struggle that distracted them enough for me to acquire Birjand from them.
Turkmenistan used to be part of--and, in fact, was the primary title of--the country, but I gave the title up to one of my vassals so that I wouldn't have to deal with the Seljuks immediately. There's actually a 48k strong stack of Seljuks up there... just... sitting there. Perhaps enjoying watching the Nawids get eaten by Khazaria I dunno.
I'm not entirely sure what to do at this point, since I'm sure the Abbasids will go right for my throat once their current dynastic troubles sort themselves out. Given that I can't take them in a straight fight, I'm... probably boned.
Pretty much got Kiev Rus (Gardariki) recreated.
Started as Rurik and had a chance to become Slavic but decided to stay Norse religion as I thought it was more realistic (Norse elite upper class).
Of course, that worked out strangely as Sweden and I have worked together perfectly crushing everyone, but we really needed to reform yesterday so heavy fighting over holy places between Sweden and Gardariki seems imminent. Interesting times.
I tried to take on Francia and Lotharingen but i was like a snowball in hell
In retrospect, should have gone with Slavic probably.
Also, can't form Russian empire as pretty much everyone is Norse culture. Or perhaps I am wrong an still not enough de jure.
Rurik switched to Russian but his children didn't and I just lost all my culture buildings with no refund *facepalm*
Only thing I could think of is to swear fealty and try to convert to Sunni, as long as you have a Zorastrian courtier you'll be able to groom your heir to go back to the old ways.
Not that i really care about the e-peen... but here is my Persian Empire (formed on 21 september 920, started as Karen (Merv) Satrapy (Zoroastrian all the way). I was married to my mother, my sister and am now married to my daughter, with 3 of them being my concubines as well (will try marrying my grand-daughters but it keeps saying they are my daughters, sadly). Man, i LOVE being zoroastrian (beats being muslim in that aspect)!
No Mods, No Ruler Designer used, No Exploits.
Could had done this probably 20 years earlier but i was slacking for a lot of time.
The Byzantines look like the worst of my problems right now. Both Abassids and Saffavids were piss easy to beat once they had crumbled.
No Mods, No Ruler Designer used, No Exploits.
Could had done this probably 20 years earlier but i was slacking for a lot of time.
The Byzantines look like the worst of my problems right now. Both Abassids and Saffavids were piss easy to beat once they had crumbled.
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