ok I'm caught up on everything I need to do RIGHT NOW and it's time . . . time for HOLY FURYpic.twitter.com/88veLh3YbI
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scrolling through settings . . . looks like there are a ton of new crusading events and options
Success! Took almost all of Sicily in the prepared invasion, and a nice chunk of Tunisia too, in spite of the meddling of Egypt. Looks like Byzantium is holding on to the duchy title in Syracuse, though . . . damn And de jure Kingdom of Sicily requires a lot of Apulia . . . hmmpic.twitter.com/t3yGNZnqcD
Here's de jure Kingdom of Sicily. Looks like most of the peninsular counties are unaffiliated with Italy, so I think the next step is to pick them off and take the crown.pic.twitter.com/Pzue0wzz8B
OK, so far so good--I've got 10/21 counties in the Kingdom. Most of the non-Italian and non-Byzantine counties were easy pickings, even with defensive alliances--they broke up quickly. Problem: Foggia, the last province, was part of a 2-county duchy. 10 year truce . . . damn.pic.twitter.com/kQn2LW23bV
AH! Only a five-year truce! I'm 52, I *think* I can survive until it clears. Fingers crossed . . .
But wait! My damn wife killed herself having another son and now I have to deal with a massive split in my holdings in the event of succession before I'm ready. And I brilliantly just converted to Christianity so I can't arbitrarily just whack off Syracuse. Damn me!
Think I just have to risk a border war against Byzantium for Syracuse. Fortunately Byzantium's in the middle of what looks like a substantial civil war, which ups my odds of success.
Well, I won . . . kind of Except I'm nearly broke now And I can't usurp the ducal title because I forgot about fucking Malta And somewhere along the way I got another son aaaarghghghle
Okay, with a bit of luck I did it, and it looks like succession should work out fine as well. One kid gets Retz in Brittany, another Benevento, each gets a meh duchy and the main heir remains overlord in Sicily proper. Next: consolidate until I get to primogeniture.pic.twitter.com/ydkLKLeNZJ
Got to Late Feudal Administration, still with OG Haesteinn! Thank you for your wisdom, Necronomicon. Heir is married to a genius wife, hopefully they get to reproducing pronto. Meanwhile, I've just been sitting peacefully in Sicily plowing cash into new holding construction.
Good King Haesteinn died at the age of 73. Great! King Ragnarr is only 29, with a daughter set to enjoy Agnatic-Cognatic inheritance if no son shows up. Let's review the state of the world! First: Italy is getting huge. We've got a non-aggression pact, but they need to go down.pic.twitter.com/J1H57vAX2E
Vile Mohametan dynasts rule across Andalusia and North Africa. They'll be ripe targets for my sanctified spears and might be a solid power base for when I take on the Italian Karlings. Byzantine endures, but it's already fragmenting. I'm going to take back South Italy soon.pic.twitter.com/dYkZqAs3E5
West Frankia seems to have eaten the East, but I don't think they're past gavelkind and Lotharingia still splits them in two. No signs of consolidation in Scandinavia or the British Isles. Very good. This is a target-rich environment for the most part.pic.twitter.com/WhyhyfD0AD
Well . . . shit. I just took Malta from the Byzantines to complete my little dukedom when the Africans attacked, and then some motherfucker poisoned me. Hm Lost a province to my sister (two female heirs, still gavelkind . . . god dammit) 6 years old, ten to go (but good regent)
First Crusade has broken out and it's absolutely nuts. Not sure whether it's the diffusion of Christian power or what, but Multiple giant Christian stacks in the Levant and 11k Moors in Rome (!!!) This must be an AI improvement? Anyway I love it!
Well . . . that's insane. Female heir made it, white peace on my first Holy War in Africa, Jerusalem crusade failed . . . anyway now suddenly there are 50k in Children's Crusade armies that just spawned in Antioch
WELL that also didn't play out quite as I expected! A Crusade was about to be launched for Finn-occupied Lotharignia when the goddamn Venicians took it over and turned it to Constantinople. OH SHIT! And then I got the most participation points so I guess I'm an Empress.pic.twitter.com/L3Tj1GWKuk
This is just nuts Everything in the Byzantine Empire fractured down to dutchies Also helpfully I reverted to Empire-scale gavelkind so it's gonna be a generation fixing that messpic.twitter.com/wmqMfu3SPO
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