I began a game a few days ago from the Alexiad start date as Alexios Komnenos, with a self-imposed plan to mend the schism and become Roman Emperor (as anyway who plays any Byzantine Emperor ever since LoR sets as their plan). I started the game by looking around my immediate position to determine what the best course of action was - obviously the immediate threat of the Sultanate of Rum had to be addressed, whereupon I decided, I would start picking away at the Seljuk Sultanate to net Antioch and Jerusalem for the Orthodox Church. Great plan, I thought, now I just had to build up to take on the Sultanate of Rum (only learned from the notes on The Alexiad start date that the name actually means "Sultanate of Rome." That's really cool 
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Anyway, fast forward to jump off time, I had the armies I felt necessary to win back Anatolia, so I went to declare war...and flicking through the list of available CB's I realised that taking on the Sultanate of Rum as the Byzantine Empire was going to take a long, long, long time. I could choose, through Holy Wars, to pick at the Sultanate one county at a time or, through De Jure claims, pick at it one duchy at a time. Either way it meant that in order to capture the entire territory of Anatolia I would have to defeat the same nation over and over again in about a dozen full-scale wars. I understand that this is WAD, it's to put the breaks on warmongers and prevent blobbing but, realistically, if a full-scale war over Anatolia had broken out between both these nations it would have simply kept going until one or the other was destroyed or sued for peace; outright winning a war to only claim a tiny fraction of the enemy's land makes no sense and means you have to continuously fight the same war over and over and over and over. I've been playing this game for almost a year now and this issue has only struck me as a problem now, so, I guess it's a very specific one - there's already a "Press All Claims" option if you personally have several claims on titles within an enemy realm, but as for de Jure claims, if you have enough of them to make up over half of a kingdom title (or several kingdom titles) there should be a mechanic to press those claims in Kingdom form as opposed to measly duchy-at-a-time. This would make situations, albeit rare, like the ERE - Rum scenario much less boring to play through.
).Anyway, fast forward to jump off time, I had the armies I felt necessary to win back Anatolia, so I went to declare war...and flicking through the list of available CB's I realised that taking on the Sultanate of Rum as the Byzantine Empire was going to take a long, long, long time. I could choose, through Holy Wars, to pick at the Sultanate one county at a time or, through De Jure claims, pick at it one duchy at a time. Either way it meant that in order to capture the entire territory of Anatolia I would have to defeat the same nation over and over again in about a dozen full-scale wars. I understand that this is WAD, it's to put the breaks on warmongers and prevent blobbing but, realistically, if a full-scale war over Anatolia had broken out between both these nations it would have simply kept going until one or the other was destroyed or sued for peace; outright winning a war to only claim a tiny fraction of the enemy's land makes no sense and means you have to continuously fight the same war over and over and over and over. I've been playing this game for almost a year now and this issue has only struck me as a problem now, so, I guess it's a very specific one - there's already a "Press All Claims" option if you personally have several claims on titles within an enemy realm, but as for de Jure claims, if you have enough of them to make up over half of a kingdom title (or several kingdom titles) there should be a mechanic to press those claims in Kingdom form as opposed to measly duchy-at-a-time. This would make situations, albeit rare, like the ERE - Rum scenario much less boring to play through.
