What was yours? For me it was when I finally usurped the Kingdom of Ireland after an odd 200 years of being Duke of Ulster. Not big I know but as I only have about 60+ hours it felt like a true win. What's yours?
Proudest moment in CK II?
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Conquer the whole of England and France with a single ruler, starting as a one province count in Wales
Almost forming Britannia after starting off as a count in Wales and then having a series of succession crisis that busted me down to a Duke in Wales. I was able to rise like a phoenix out of the ashes and form Britannia after a few generations.
Nothing is more fun than succeeding after almost losing it completely.
Nothing is more fun than succeeding after almost losing it completely.
Completed the invasion of England as Harald Hardrada then won an Invasion of France, then won an Invasion of the HRE to become Emperor, and once the realm was stabilized Harald joined the crusade for Jerusalem and not only turned the tide in the losing crusade but ended up winning the Kingdom :laugh:
Conquering Mecca and Medina and converting their populations to Monophysitism as the Kingdom of Abyssinia (and Arabia in personal union.) Oddly enough no Muslims seemed to care, but apparently they didn't mind too much because they were still able to go on the Hajj. Even though the Kaaba was a Monophysite cathedral.
When, as King of Wales I survived a holy war from England(Harold Godwinson's great grandson was cathar), then I proceeded kick their butts in a crusade and win England. Then rename EVERYTHING into it's Welsh name.
Surviving a Shia Jihad as Jerusalem, with no help from foreign powers. I had only about 6000 men against the Fatimid usual 2 x 14k army, but by hell I managed to win, even make them surrender.
Initially restoring RE as Byzantium was nice (before LoR). But then I've noticed that game offers no challenge at some point. Well- I think that my best and hardest game was playing as pagan Prussia, conquering Poland, Mecklenburg, Lithuania and Beating HRE. And converting most of my realm to paganism But again- no additional challenge at this point.
But again- no additional challenge at this point.
Slowly claiming Jerusalem as a two province Duke of Anjou (this is before the change to crusades where now winning a crusade gains you the entire kingdom)
I slowly chipped and chipped away waiting for the right moments to attack or waiting for that one count to rebel against the caliph. Was epic.
Another good one I had very early after the release of Sword of Islam was taking the Sunni Caliphate and becoming the Byzantine Emperor and then changing to Christianity.
I slowly chipped and chipped away waiting for the right moments to attack or waiting for that one count to rebel against the caliph. Was epic.
Another good one I had very early after the release of Sword of Islam was taking the Sunni Caliphate and becoming the Byzantine Emperor and then changing to Christianity.
When,as a little King of Aquitaine who had lost most of his de jure territories and was constantly threatened by the huge powers of France and HRE, I managed, in three generations, through cunning politics and marriages, to get the french crown and become the most powerful christian empire. I know some people here do that regularly, but it was really a big thing for me, given how complex it was to manage this.
Putting down a Fatimid doomstack of ~18k men with a 2k retinue of heavy infantry... in Sweden.
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I started once as count of those tiny Byzantine Islands in the Duchy of Epirus, plotted my brother's death, thus becoming the largest landholder in the duchy. Constantly weakened by duke by supporting rival claimants, then forged a claim on his title and took over. Then as duke, I invaded Southern Italy, dodged numerous Fatimid jihads, holy warring enough to become King of Sicily, and on of Byzantium's largest vassals. Then I forged a claim on the title of Emperor. I slowly began building the diplomacy skill of my heirs, eventually becoming the emperor's chancellor. Then as luck would have it, the emperor died and I began the regent of his poor beknighted young son. The "acquire the byzantium empire" lit up and as regent my plot power was through the roof (though I did get the Ecumenical Patriach's sanction for role-playing sake) and the boy emperor acquiesced without a murmur. Hadn't plotted my way up to emperor level before, was such a thrill.
I'm kinda torn between:
Culture converting Half of Spain and Italy to Basque culture (before the 1.07 change that made everything easier)
De Jure drifting France into Denmark (and Denmark after that into the ERE)
Having a perfect heir breeding program pay of in the form of a strong, quick genius daughter and raising her into having almost all the virtues. She came to power (all her brothers had suspicious accidents) with 100 relations with all vassals, despite her only children being daughters.
Culture converting Half of Spain and Italy to Basque culture (before the 1.07 change that made everything easier)
De Jure drifting France into Denmark (and Denmark after that into the ERE)
Having a perfect heir breeding program pay of in the form of a strong, quick genius daughter and raising her into having almost all the virtues. She came to power (all her brothers had suspicious accidents) with 100 relations with all vassals, despite her only children being daughters.
On my first serious (as in I sort-of knew what the hell I was doing) game as Count of Desmond, managing to crown myself Emperor of Britannia and think that things would work well from there onwards only to gasp and stare at the map horrified as I saw the ENTIRETY of France succumb to an Almoravid Invasion (which I might have helped by being at war with them at the same time for Normandy, but... yeah), making it the supreme muslin power by controlling both Francia, Hispania, Mauretania and half of Africa. Then, seeing as Christianity would probably be doomed (the HRE was too busy playing Whack-a-Pole while the Byzantines were having trouble with the arabs and Ilkhanate and the Golden Horde was inching closer and closer to the german borders and Sweden), I took Britannia on a massive blitzkrieging, truce-breaking, assassinating, maiming and bribing campaig while pushing the Moors back, from Flanders all the way back to Mali, duchy by duchy, growing into the most powerful nation on Europe by a wide margin, with the only other independent nation west of the HRE being Navarra (!) on a small patch of land in the middle of France (!!!) and, strangely enough, the King of France. Which ruled a single island off the coast of Flanders and NOTHING MORE.
And then I conquered Egypt.
And then I conquered Egypt.
When my Queen of Ireland, Astrid the Just (some Norwegians married into her family of one-county ancestors), conquered Cornwall... from an Islamic Emirate, in a Holy war, with 8.000 Irishmen, 1.500 Mercenaries and 10.000 Templars. Dont let them get a foothold on the British Isles!!!
