Slowly taking over the map.

[Skylet]

Is this realistic? I started in a small place. Aragon. Until I was able to create the empire of Hispania. Slowly began to take over Francia, but my heir inherited England, so when I died with having it set to single heir, I now have England too. He then also had a claim to scotland so we took that. Hispania is now all of England, Scotland, Ireland, Francia and Portugal area.

It is getting harder to keep everyone happy, and control goes out the window sometimes. How realistic is it to continue to grow out? I have 2 empires, a few kingdoms and probably 8-10 of my own counties that i build up.

[pauloandrade224]

Very reasonable you can take the entire map if u play well after all

[shiggies713]

you can probably do it provided you keep mostly king vassals and convert religion and culture or have some cultural tenants that removes penalties for that.

I'm trying it as Heistening. Conquered the Byzantine Empire in my first lifetime, made all of Byzantium Greco-Norse, now integrating bulgaria and others. At one point after a bunch of rebellions i held 10 king titles, now all my cousins have most of them but its holding together pretty well.

Biggest thing is keep the army strong. the army is the empire.

[RawCode]

you can take over entire map, but this is not point of the game.

you may chill all 600 years as random duke in single country in the middle of nowhere and be completely fine.

[pauloandrade224]

Originally posted by RawCode:

you can take over entire map, but this is not point of the game.

you may chill all 600 years as random duke in single country in the middle of nowhere and be completely fine.

sounds so boring tho afk in a single place for a campaign

[RawCode]

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

Originally posted by RawCode:

you can take over entire map, but this is not point of the game.

you may chill all 600 years as random duke in single country in the middle of nowhere and be completely fine.

sounds so boring tho afk in a single place for a campaign

some people play incest simulator
some people breed perfect rulers
some people paint map

if things boring for you, this does not means that it's boring for everyone.

[shiggies713]

Originally posted by RawCode:

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

sounds so boring tho afk in a single place for a campaign

some people play incest simulator
some people breed perfect rulers
some people paint map

if things boring for you, this does not means that it's boring for everyone.

I try all 3 at the same time :D I think you can actually have seriously genius heirs even with inbreeding if you pick the right legacies with your renown. Plus who else could possibly be a match with my born in the purple viking emperor and his offsprings?

[ChopSuey™]

Originally posted by RawCode:

you can take over entire map, but this is not point of the game.

you may chill all 600 years as random duke in single country in the middle of nowhere and be completely fine.

This is true. I've done it. No real reason other than 'just because.'

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

Originally posted by RawCode:

you can take over entire map, but this is not point of the game.

you may chill all 600 years as random duke in single country in the middle of nowhere and be completely fine.

sounds so boring tho afk in a single place for a campaign

Depends on what you're doing. There's a lot of stuff in the game that doesn't require expanding. I spent my first game just chilling in Island and only took the Northern Isles. I spent the entirety just spreading my house out through marriage and maintaining my little Island kingdom. A lot of wild things happened just with my family and vassals.

[Kimlin]

I started as Navara on my restoring The Roman Empire run. It’s very feasible to continue your growth.

[Skylet]

Originally posted by RawCode:

you can take over entire map, but this is not point of the game.

you may chill all 600 years as random duke in single country in the middle of nowhere and be completely fine.

I think the point of the game is whatever anyone wants it to be. My last play through, I built up. This time, im growing out. The point is, whatever goals you make for yourself. My game has no end date, so I would love to claim as much as I can, this time.

[MkWailord]

At one point, once you have an empire, the empire grows by itself, by inheritance, wars of your vassals vs outsiders and diplomatic options.

At that point you just need to keep your vassals happy and sometimes declare wars on kingdoms or other empires (anything less of that is not worth it).

Also look on pretenders of other kingdoms that are errants, marry one of your childrens with them (matriarchal marriage if necessary) so they came to your court and later on declare war to reclaim the titles. They children will be of your dinasty and with certains traits, they will have a bonus in relation with you, and if they are not part of your empire, you can call them in war even without alliance.

And thats it in end game, just look on pretenders of kingdoms and make them go to your cort, and then you can declare war for an entire kingdom.

Finally, look on the traits of your heir, if they gave him bad relations with other people, think of inherit him to make easier when you die.