I tried to settle my nomadic tribe after conquering most of the Byzantines and Italy. I handed out eastern steppe provinces to my tribes, so I owned all of the counties and all of the duchies that I've taken, mostly from independence revolts.
And then when I settled, everyone hated me because I was 100~/8 on demense size when I tried to settle in Constantinople.
Not quite sure what to do, as Distribute title only got me down to 50/8.
Either gotta keep handing out titles or deal with the revolts that are going to happen... presumably, anyway, I think it's a -10 modifier for every county over your cap? Good luck with that...
I became the Saoshyant. It was very underwhelming, though it did take me 5 centuries to do it from an 869 start.
It is also not very nice when you think you've managed to deal with the Sunni Caliphate and it pops up a few years later that they're Jihading you. Ah well, easily dealt with I s'pose...
My Maobadan-Maobad likes to holy war the biggest, baddest bastards around me though. First it was Egypt for Arabia, which had Jerusalem and Abyssinia too, and then the Byzantines for Georgia, as it had a little bit of the Persian Empire that had drifted away 'cause of some Georgian bugger. Then back to Egypt for Egypt. They were simultaenously dealing with a Crusade, that ended about a week after I beat them, which was funny. Now they're an ugly brown colour.
Closing in on the end of the game, Byzantines slipped through Southern Germany a bit, and Italy is also Orthodox for some reason. Carpathia had England at one point, the Mongol's bothered me for all of 40 years before I was able to get under their yoke their final guy had too many vassals, so I got out without having to deal with their pitiful army. Aztecs hold Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, and a bit of Libya.
Not really sure what to do now. Will probably try to get rid of the Caliph again, maybe take Jerusalem and Rome so I can get the Holy Places achievement thing.
Tangentially, I discovered what Scaphism is. Unpleasant.