The Underdog

[Bitt3rSteel]

So, by the 1300 most of us will most likely either have quit or rule a vast empire. now my question is, do you find yourself rooting for one of the tiny nations stubornly resisting the missive blobs with all they can muster?
In my Byz > Roman Empire game i now rule most of the old empire, minus France and half of Iberia. about a 50 years ago i noticed a one province Denmark having lost most of its lands to independance wars and those silly dukes were soon eaten by HRE and GH forces. i took it upon me to fund that tiny nation and see what would happen.

Fast foreward 50 years and the new king has reclamed 3 provinces after a succesfull war against the HRE (so many mercenaries lost their lives) and is not sitting pretty on about 30k gold after banishing a lord mayor

long story short, do other find thse sort of things more interesting than actually managing your own behemoth of an empire?

 

[Mattobro]

I'm not good enough to get to the point of owning a huge empire, the most land I have ever conquered was playing as Castille and reconquering half of Iberia by 1250's many patches ago. I do enjoy watching other countries and checking out their rulers though.

In my latest game I did see the Ynglings of Norway get ousted off their throne by some other dynasty in a succession war, with the Yngling, 5 year old former king then inheriting England somehow. A few years after inheriting England Denmark Inherited Yngling England and a chunk of Norway the Yngling dynasty was dukes of.
The funny thing is after so many inheritances the Kingdom of England has been destroyed as a title and is now back to being a group of squabbling dukes. All this has happened by 1092 mind you, I'm playing as Erik the Heathen having took back the throne in CK2+, so i don't know how much this mod changes politics etc.