. Over the next year, we turned the entire tide of the war.

Once the HRE lost more than half their army, opportunists within started cropping up and the whole empire started splintering. Before long, they

and your empire will fragment. You can also change your laws; however, it takes a long time to do so... let us assume you can not change your laws. How do you prevent this from happening? You could

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Learning - Cover your empire with temples and enjoy your realm priest bringing in loads of gold and levies without relations penalties you'd get from feudal vassals. Pope loves you so you can milk him for

if they are attacking or defending. There's actually mod for CK2 that allows that. It's very basic, but at least there's something! Or like in Oriental Empire, select a tactic for every regiment you

letting some territory go and focus on a more contained and stable empire. You might lose some income and army size, but if you stay a heavy hitter despite that, it doesn't matter much, and by allowing your

start letting some territory go and focus on a more contained and stable empire. You might lose some income and army size, but if you stay a heavy hitter despite that, it doesn't matter much, and by

. If I only had noticed the warning about the siege.

I'm currently ruling over Europe-wide Italian empire, one of the few catholic ones left. The game alternates between liberty / independence wars and

a King of Scotland election. They were my bloodline but a different house that eventually became hostile. That new king pretty much took all the land from the king of England under my empire.

This

they ignore the stand alone chiefdom next door. That would start to grind my gears after a while, if just for the whole empire dragged into a war.

...Thinking, is there a way, a law or something that

dozens or hundreds of fights a turn can slow things down considerably.

Games like Shadow Empires probably take a long time due to semi-tactical battles. And the same, potentially, for something like AoW4