/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

I'm starting a Kiev gameplay from the earliest start date with personal castle and CK2+ mod.

I hope I get a good story from that.

>>4053

it seems personal castle are fucking useless if you start a barbarian.

>Be Kiev on the 769 start with CK2+ and personal castle mod

>Have slavic religion and russian culture

>reformed slavic religion

>Some faggot asked help in usurping the Byzantine Empire throne from a pretender

>Give him gold and soldiers

>agree and asked him for matrilineal bethrotal

>he agrees since he's on my court

>years later his band of mercenaries came out from my capital and besieged constantinople like one of the raiders

>Byzantine was at war with abassids/muslim shit on the east and with Carolingan Empire with Italian peninsula on the west

>Shit usurper actually did it and took constantinople

>Daughted turned old and eligible for marry

>They bore russian daughters and son with reformed slavic religion

>Byzantine Emperor dies

>Russian pagan inherits emperor title

>days later, byzantine empire gets disbanded

it turns out pagan religion can't have byzantine emperor title unless it's hellenic.

>be duke of Franconia and Thürigia

>Karloman declares wa for West Francia on Karl

>my oh-so-mighty liege gets his shit kicked in while I nibble pieces off of Bavaria and Saxony

>since he has next to no holdings in EF he tries to revoke Thüringia

>I'm broke as hell but refuse to just roll over

>borrow from Shlomo, hire some Irishmen

>war is actually going good for me, but my shekels start running out

>suddenly, trade route event

>also capture and ransom his deformed bastard

>win the war

>made enough bank in ransoms, trade proceeds and spoils of war to pay back the jews and still have more left than before

>also marry my ill-bred second daughter to the new boy-king

Couldn't have gone better

>>4222

>paying the jews

really? just expel them

>Charlemagne, 769 start

>That fucking faggot duke of Aquitaine rebels against me after Carloman's death

>Cut him down to size

>Able to increase crown authority in Middle and West Francia in order to revoke vassals

>Make enough money to consolidate power in the realm

>Turn my 33 vassals into 9

>Crowned emperor of Francia

>Prevent the breakup of the Carolingian empire

>Unite all of Europe under the Karlings by 1066

>Cancel the fucking Viking age

Now I'M the fucking big blue Karling blob motherfuckers.

>be single count duke in Abyssinia

>be Memphisiate

>start to expand to my demesne limit of 4

>somehow people like me, so I end up as the heir of the kingdom

>thekingisdeathlonglifeking.mp4

>start holy wars against the Jew because fuck them

>start holy war against ibbasid because their ally are in farfuckistan so can't help them

>I'm top in diplo and secrets with a well done marshal. Get the study focus

>stars are….weird

>get paranoid, start triggering the event for the book of horror necronomicon

>went to Saudi Arabia and got it, sweet

>expand my land so much that I can form the Abyssinian empire

>a shadow figure seems to follow me, and I keep feeling a cold breath around me, at night the king is death

>wut.jpg

>im a woman, got kicked down to duke again and a random fine African-American gentleman is king

>the book is gone

>my demesne is still 7 and top level

> if I join a faction I've already 180% of my lige

>get to the faction to make my uncle King

>"I accept for the better of the kingdom"

>my liege start expand invade all over because de jure CB

>I invade under him

>get to the point in the de facto King

I've saved it at the end by luck, but what kind of bullshit is the theologian focus? One get you upset with the church and the other is death upon you in a decade