We're still pre-crusade, though idk how since I thought Kent in southern England was a trigger for it and that's in pagan saxon hands... has been for years.
Sicily, A salerno count start, was going to be a 'make a new empire of the islands'. It's been a fight the whole way. I had the origianl duke and his family smothered to death and then got the pope to give me a claim on the sole daughter-heir. In the 769 starts benevento is a tribuitary of the lombards. They forced me to make peace, but I truce broke when they walked away and won.
The the byzantines were the main problem. We fought for sicily, then I cut into the westernholdings. They started on Africa so I felt I was obligated to cut them off. The aztecs are enabled, set for 1000ad, thatll be a crapshoot. Byzantine was having a rough time between me and bulgaria and armenia, and armenia/georgia fell to a bunch of mercs who own the land.
To the west, Uyyamads exploded and a new dynasty reformed after several failed attempts to take malrocca from a tributary who I married to a pretender son. They were not my vassal, so I kept them safe until it passed into my bloodline, then used a claim of one of their pretenders to integrate it. Holy Freakin Rome formed, Ruining everyone's fun, but at its weakest is only as strong as I am at my strongest, ~28k troops. Recently bohemia and pannonia converted, but before that the only notable conversion was serbia. You might notice that you cannot find the name 'serbia' on the map - that is because the shia pimp slapped them into wallachia. The saxon bloodline currently holds austrusia, saxony, croatia, pannonia, and pannonia. I dont know how those freaks are even still alive, between all the petty wars and their zero levies. According to the game rules that dynasty is thriving and winning! As mentioned before, saxony has fingers in England, and have control of Kent.
idk what the shia is doing, I dont recall how their event troops work but I killed like 10k of them in a war they declared on me. They seem to have respawned/regenned. The shia, in a war for cyprus, tore out most of antolia from byzantine. They then went after my greek holdings. From there they went up into the balkans. Im afraid of how that ends if they keep getting event troops.
Finally, idk what the mongols are doing, nor am I sure why the Abbassids are under the power of the western protectorate. That last bit is very, very new. Must be to protect their 50k troops from the 65k shia caliphate in syria, and smeared all over asia minor.
My own dynasty is doing fine. 100 living members from 3 gen1 children. Many of them have good genes, or at least a bloodline from a matrilinial marriage to some khan or karling. This ones a eunuch now because of a case of sever gout, but I have sons already. A shame to lose the beanbags though. As it sits, I have to figure out what to do about the shia, but long-term I hope to still form my new empire of greece/sicily/sardinia. Holy Rome completely screwed the european empires up, so I want to gobble up what remains of italy too. That means taking from the pope and dealing with his revenges.
If montazuma and his boys come knocking at my door, I might convert and just run with that, helping the aztec empire conquer the world. This whole game has become a shark tank: everyone around me is strong enough to stab me in the back, and Im utterly surrounded. My campaign is being threatened.
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