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Then I mismanaged something and could throw the whole campaign away ;(.
Shame really because it was just passed the 1000's
My dream had come true. I made cannibal vikings. Cannibalism was now a virtue. Asatru also has the Blot tenet in their faith that give piety when executing prisoners, so if I cannibalize them I get piety and lose stress. Cannibalism is actually quite handy and stress becomes a non-issue. Unfortunately there are practically no fluff events relating to cannibalism. You don't really see the horror that your enemies experience when vikings assault their lands and see them devour the fallen. It's basically just a game mechanic.
So anyway, I still had another dream; to conquer India as a viking. It was too far to declare was on, so I first took over half of Italy, including Rome. Eventually they declared a crusade on me, but I whooped their asses. Then I conquered Egypt, and after that one duchy at the heel of the Arabian peninsula. Finally I could reach India.
It wasn't too difficult to gradually take over most of the Indian peninsula or subcontinent, however then I encountered a succession bug. As my character died with full court grandeur, the next one had too low grandeur supposedly and my vassals were mad. Now I don't feel like playing anymore, but I accomplished most of what I set out to do even if India isn't 100% conquered.
My current playthrough, i'm now in 1356 i started with the premade Duke of Gascony and am currently playing my 15th ruler, The last one is ruling over 8 empires, 146 vassals in total with 20 kings mostly of my family and the others vassals being mostly dukes.
I also did the Mediterranean decision, resolved the schism.
I finally just managed to do the trait decision having my first ruler with 3 simultaneous traits beautiful/genius/robust. Hallelujah.
My direct goal is now to take Tunis and recreate the Roman Empire, and i'm working on mariages/assassinations to get the last norvegians fins and estonians.
My dynasty has 2100+ people.
No cheat, most of the land was gained through mariages then dynasty wars over emperor and king titles.
It's a blast.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3013894839
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3013901158
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3007428641
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3008067262
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3010504094
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3010503831
Had 146 vassals, all kings except for my nine holdings' various city mayors. Every single one of my dynasty. My dynasty controlled every kingdom and duchy title on the map.
Strongest vassal was the King of Germany with ~ 100k troops. Not too shabby considering at one point I wasn't paying attention and had peasants overthrow my capital, kill my emperor and his heir, destroy our dynasty banner and leaving me stuck in a regency as a seven year old. First time I've had an emperor for 0 days!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3010503920
Nice i spend way more time at peace than you i suppose :)
Also vanilla.
How much people did you get in your dynasty at the end?
I never really invested in cultural traditions or maximizing men-at-arms but then I watched a few vids on youtube and realized how much I was missing out on so I decided to come back, adopt the infinite kingdom holy war tradition (by the sword is it?) and see if I could take the world.
I also never realized exactly how powerful the buy claims feature was as most of Christendom adopted my faith after mending the schism, something I normally don't do so I can continue conquering. But destroying artifacts and buying claims is even more powerful than kingdom holy wars. It's just a lot of clicking!
Huge. I was not min maxing at all and i get how much better you can go.
Kinda had the same experience, I killed one of my emperors in 20 days from stress, That was fun, i made like a RP suicide of it. He didn't have the spine to be an emperor.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3013931047
I've probably had between three or five gigachad playthroughs
and a nonzero amount of failed or abandoned playthroughs.
I have yet gone all the way to 1453, or High Midieval for that period, because I either A.) get bored with the current playthrough, B.) Finish what I wanted to accomplish before end date, or C.) Get distracted by life and other things that makes me leave for long periods of time, and instead of continue on, I restart!
My most recent gigachad was a pirate kingdom in Hispania and North Africa, where I pretty much split the Christian World into thirds, introducing Adoptionism as a major threat to Catholics and Orthodoxies. It was my first successful attempt at Fate of Iberia. It started as my "mercenary king" helping around Iberia from the southern islands by Barcelona. What originated as a map painting conquistador, turned into a heavily religion influenced arms race. I sadly abadonned it because I got too big for my breeches, nothing could contest me and the rest of the game was 'unfun' because it was just me steamrolling and painting the map. This was before T&T.
Another gigachad i had, and my all time favorite, was as count of Augsburg. Augsburg is my ancestral home to my German Blood, so thought I would tackle Bavaria. Through a lot of luck during "The Karling Wars" I managed to snag all of Bavaria, and create a few unique kingdoms and culture, ultimately creating a psuedo-confederate, Holy Roman-styled Empire. That game I had my oldest living king ever 116, and phenomenal but bloody wars and incidents that put my future plans into turmoil. I ended this when I tried to introduce witchcraft to my family while not having a high intrigue character, and that didn't end well.
I use it a lot also. With 2000+, 3000+ monthly income, giving money to reduce stress is kinda free
Depends my initial goals and well other games and life going in the way too. Like i'm about to stop cause Baldurs Gates III is going out tomorrow.
I did a previous restoration of the Holy Empire before as well, as a karling holding franconian territories as the centre of my land creating kingdom of Bavaria then the empires then i restored the roman empire and stopped there, since then new patches and tours and tournaments just screwed my save :)
Its been two months (or more ? :D) i'm on this gascony run when i've time for it but i have enough fun to keep going and this time i won't stop before 1453!
Tours and Tournaments recreated fun for me. I like to go on tours visiting half the empire like Emperor Hadrian.
I will probly try some Game of Thrones run in the future, seems like fun.
It just seems like a bit of a hidden mechanic with which you can't interact too well.
I must confess that intrigue is my least used tree and I don't have a really great handle on the intrigue play style.
About this i guess we all have lived this kind of situation. The issue with very old rulers is their planned heirs are dying before their fathers.
I'm playing my emperor Ladron who will later die age 94 in 1169
He had 4 sons.
One died aged 28 in 1130
Second one died aged 60 in 1155
Third one died age 64 in 1164
The last one died age 68 in 1180 but wasn't fit to rule and i disinherited him before
So i'm aged 89, i just lost my third and last son able to inherit and all my planned succession plans are ruined.
But its not the best part.
The line goes now to the three sons of my first born (dead in 1130)
His first son died age 51 in 1167!!
His second son the second one i had chosen to rule is suddenly incapable unfit to rule and about to die age 46 early year 1169!!
All his sons were awful and a setback I would not see myself having a guy for 4 months to get one of them, i had to disinherit him in a hurry not knowing when'll go myself as i'm 94 years old.
I pass away in July 1169!! He dies himself in november 1169 only 4 months after me.
The third son inherit.
This third son will turn to be oldest emperor i had. He was 104 and probly being in the best three of all my emperors considering.
He was initially 7th in line and it was pure damn luck he had any throne.
That was awesome :)