>when you have a genius second son and your garbage firstborn offers to become a monkpic.twitter.com/AbXTIzSn6i
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need to set up an antipope in ten years to own the romans, turns out you cant just capture rome and vassalize the real pope also need to wreck Al-Jazeera and parts of persia to form outremer may not be able to SPQR or do hellenism as a non-greek/italian, v sad about this :(
ok I figured it out (i) reconquer byzantine lands (currently at 30%) (ii) make something else my main title (iii) destroy latin empire title (iv) recreate byzantine empire (v) greek tutor my kid (vi) bada bing
bada bing sorry catholics all my major viceroys followed me in conversion to orthodoxypic.twitter.com/pdOAy3WCw4
I think at this point I can finish coloring the map it's only 1271 and I am basically unstoppable, plus I have a 1/ruler invasion casus belli from Alexander's Bloodline that lets me absorb entire empires in a single war if im careful this would be a very dumb but fun EU4 exportpic.twitter.com/ACPJeT37P5
well I thought I had everything figured out but nope New Problem every important title is agnatic-cognatic primogeniture, including the Roman Imperial title HOWEVER the roman title is the only one that carries preference for porphyrogene children for some idiot reason
guess what idiot Basilissa just had a (third) female child at the ripe old age of 38?????????????????????? the first after ascending the throne?
so currently queued up to lose literally everything except the Imperial title and my capital in Palermo really not sure what to do I could murder my infant and just deal with the kinslayer + murderer + tyrant penalties but that only staves off the problem for one generation
ok FORTUNATELY you can assign the honorary title of Despot which has the nice side effect of counting as porphyrogensis disaster averted serves me right for not ever playing straight ERE before
motherfucker mother fucker so I just conquered most of Mongolia, it was an incrediible fight, the steppe nomads put up a hell of a struggle and fought me to a stalemate halfway across the steppe blue is mongols, shaded area is what I wrested from thempic.twitter.com/CzZM0mIDSp
i put down huge quantities of gold to build about 70 castles to consolidate the territory and sorting out the new holdings between blood relatives and cultural romans has taken me hours super fun though so why are you swearing robot why are you angry
well turns out while I was dividing things up I apparently fucking fat-fingered away the entire Arabian Empire NO BACKSIES ITS IRONMANpic.twitter.com/ixx11B15XJ
ugh I'm so angry about this I think I have a claim to the title still so I should be able to just steam roll my former proconsul even so what an absolute waste and after so much damn careful work just P O O F I'm supposed to be cracking India open right now
it is some Real Bullshit that Chinese armies in CK2 don't suffer from attrition penalties they've got a 170k stack I can raise ~600k but I try to concentrate enough to kill that fucker they all just die and this is a major problem when they're winning just by steppe seiges
well I took the entirety of India in a single Invasion CB was surprisingly tough--it took long enough to siege everything that the AI just started spawning and teleporting 10k stacks all over(!!!!) guess I have a few holdings to distribute to hellenic romans nowpic.twitter.com/6dipYjWySU
and then I break free from fucking China next summer I moved all ~170k of my retinue up to the Jiquan passage to handle the 172k Western Protectorate doomstack that spawns sadly spread out because attrition in Mongolia is murder supply limit rules errything around mepic.twitter.com/U8P5CqzziO
almost there mongols are still around incidentally see em? ok look closerpic.twitter.com/uq8uaLOsUM
was setting up for my china battle when all of the sudden this is happening current ruler is a Godlike general and um guess hes gonna be superhuman in other ways toopic.twitter.com/KkfNE8rsLZ
oh well i killed a werewolf which is somehow substantially less cool than Becoming a werewolfpic.twitter.com/r8U97Vzs0r
initial disposition of troops note that I had slightly more troops than china (plus another 100k or so that I could raise on the spot from vassals once the territory cleared up) but of course the supply penalty was cripplingpic.twitter.com/fOhnTTPOAJ
I had a bit of good luck at the beginning with my augur initial troop movements here, along with the peak fighting in dunhuang provincepic.twitter.com/hHz5LEC8wf
I have to say I wasn't sure I'd make it but GOD DAMN time to tidy up the hellenization of the known world before I finish this game by putting a Roman on the throne of the Middle Kingdompic.twitter.com/SjjX68kUFy
Really fond of this ruler. I usually go Hermetic for tech early game but he's currently running the Hellenic warrior lodge and my god it shows when he's leading a retinue he can usually smash armies 2x the size of his no problem fortunately that's not an issue because 1M men!pic.twitter.com/vlJqCODlLH
in my heir, I've also assembled the collected bloodlines of Charlemagne, Ragnarr Lodbrok, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and a number of my dynasty members who destroyed Byzantium and restored Rome so, basically,pic.twitter.com/GctzhlRtih
time to give a new meaning to the term Eastern Roman Empirepic.twitter.com/lJB72kJmry
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