Just played vanilla again since the old god and I think this is the funniest run I ever have.
Start from the old god, as a viking (since TOG come out I can't bring myself to play other religion anymore
)
200 years pass, I hold large chunk of Rus. I think about convert to christian and become feudal but one day I capture a strange egyptian girl from Crimia and she is Zoroastrian, well you should know what happen.
Now I am a Zoroastrian norse lord of russia empire
After that my family begin to orgy like nobody business, untill all my vessel are of my dynasty somehow (I have 175 living member now
)(still fewer than the Karling
)
I did enjoy a benefit of incest for some time, genius everywhere, all my child and relative have base martial at 20 at lease (I have like 5 member with 27 martial)
And the finest of all, my great grandson, a strong genius, who have 40 martian at age 21.
(He become king when he is 23 and got infirm and bedridden at 30, Damn it game!!!
)
Well after 2-3 generation pass, I think my honeymoon period is over, inbreed start to kick in.
Now I have the most incompetent empire in the world, inbreed mayors under crubfoot duke, inbreed king with inbreed hair
Genius trait has gone and no more vessel with any stat beyond 20
And seriously if you think your neigbor s**k , I have Romuvo and Slavic in the west, Tengli in the east, Islam and Orthodox in the south , Finnist norse in the north (stop raiding me goddamit!!!)
So yeah, what a good time