piss did an Ironman of Lithuania.
i like the start but do get tired of it, so i decided one more time.
knowing how the game is with health traits i usually play a soft version of self enforced ironman...
well pk1 was a theologian of epic 29 rating. with his 20 intrigue and 15 fightman skills he went from count to king easy. at 63 he died of a weird combination of stress and depression and lunacy, literally in the nightmare event of coming out of a coma. the game has no description for this death.
pk2 died of an arrow in the knee. and the resultant infection.
pk3 just died of herpes, after a 50+ year streak of being one of the best comeback kings I've ever had. with less than 10 for any stat, he managed to subdue the various counts and non- state religious counts, reform the faith, elimate the council power, and even pop fuedal.
pk4, the son of the second son of pk1, just saw the Charlemagne events fail to produce the empire. the 5 kingdoms fell apart. bavaria ate east germany, and ive suzerained the rest. Saxony is, or was, rampaging into a france who was nomed by a 16k event stack from Brittany. Hispania is strong but stagnanted, and arabian empire has blobed out to africa actually realizing their destiny.
to the east khazaria is omghuge and Estonia is a major finish power oddly enough eating half of rus
but, but but but.
the real story is how after pk1 died i played nice, married into my vassals, and didnt incite rebellions to nom money and revoke titles. it was ... surprisingly easy to do, and like i said, in 50 years i hate destroyed the council powers. who knew being a not-ass to your underlings was so easy?