That looks like a very interesting tale - and a very bad time for Persia...
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Relight the Flames - a Zoroastrian Persian AAR
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Indeed. Made me remember a huge rebellion in the brewing back in Lithuania... if I could find the time to update...
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so, from before the great file wipeout.
He is incorrigible.
That won’t end well.
Fair cop.
And it descended, even though it looks like we shall never see it in detail.
A great pity. There were no save files of the game left in the cloud, either? Anyway, thanks for another great story and for the summary of events.
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Thank you @Tommy4ever for the wonderful story. Shame on the computer (reminder do not buy Persian) for interfering with brilliance! I eagerly await your next endeavour.
General Q's: How hard is it to play Zoroastrian? (Mongols, divine marriage) If known, what is lasest eligible Zorastrian ruler?
Thank you for entertaining me.
General Q's: How hard is it to play Zoroastrian? (Mongols, divine marriage) If known, what is lasest eligible Zorastrian ruler?
Thank you for entertaining me.
Thanks for all the kind words and commiserations everyone!
I really loved bringing this story together, and was gutted that it ended up getting cut short - especially as we were moving into a period I was really looking forward to writing about.
As a few of you predicted - I couldn't keep myself away for long and have already embarked on a new AAR: In the Shadow of the Ancients - An Assyrian AAR. I hope you have a chance to come along on the latest story! For this one, it will be CK2 again rather than an upgrade to CK3 (which I still haven't gotten round to actually buying yet).
On the other question about playing Zoroastrians: I used the CK2 Wiki when I was looking for ideas of who to start out as, and it looks like 936 may be the latest you can start as an independent Zoroastrian ruler (with Vushmgir able to religion switch by event). However in any start date there are options for religion changing as there are always a good chunk of Zoroastrian provinces. Playing them, is good fun - you will be surrounded by religious enemies and lack possible foreign allies. All that means is you need to reach a medium sized status fairly early on afterwhich you will be able to mostly fend for yourself. Another option is to have a hidden faith and remain a vassal to a larger Muslim empire for a time until you are strong enough to go alone. Divine marriage was a bigger player than I initially realised, even if you aren't marrying your sister with your primary character - the AI-led other members of your dynasty will be. So the rise of inbreding is unavoidable. You could see form my game how that tended to lead towards generally low stat rulers and eventual fertility issues as it went on longer - even with me choosing more non-divine brides than not when I had the choice. The Mongols and Timurids meanwhile are all a game of chance - I got particularly strong steppe invaders in this playthrough, but sometimes they barely reach Transoxiania.
I really loved bringing this story together, and was gutted that it ended up getting cut short - especially as we were moving into a period I was really looking forward to writing about.
As a few of you predicted - I couldn't keep myself away for long and have already embarked on a new AAR: In the Shadow of the Ancients - An Assyrian AAR. I hope you have a chance to come along on the latest story! For this one, it will be CK2 again rather than an upgrade to CK3 (which I still haven't gotten round to actually buying yet).
On the other question about playing Zoroastrians: I used the CK2 Wiki when I was looking for ideas of who to start out as, and it looks like 936 may be the latest you can start as an independent Zoroastrian ruler (with Vushmgir able to religion switch by event). However in any start date there are options for religion changing as there are always a good chunk of Zoroastrian provinces. Playing them, is good fun - you will be surrounded by religious enemies and lack possible foreign allies. All that means is you need to reach a medium sized status fairly early on afterwhich you will be able to mostly fend for yourself. Another option is to have a hidden faith and remain a vassal to a larger Muslim empire for a time until you are strong enough to go alone. Divine marriage was a bigger player than I initially realised, even if you aren't marrying your sister with your primary character - the AI-led other members of your dynasty will be. So the rise of inbreding is unavoidable. You could see form my game how that tended to lead towards generally low stat rulers and eventual fertility issues as it went on longer - even with me choosing more non-divine brides than not when I had the choice. The Mongols and Timurids meanwhile are all a game of chance - I got particularly strong steppe invaders in this playthrough, but sometimes they barely reach Transoxiania.
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I can see the "dynastic deference to player" being quite a bonus here.
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