Ok, So Im playing As Ottoman Sultanate With An Army Of 35k And I Wanna Take Some Land From Genoa (Which Has 21k Troops). Im Not One Of Those Who Need A Claim, But I'm Afraid That I Would Lose To Them As They Can Hire 30k Troops Or More. Any Tips On How To Fight Them?...

i'm new to this game and confused. Is the main focus to marry, have an heir, and expand your rule?

I've been trying to get to unify sardinia and corsica, in 936, as the single 2-province ruler there: Giudice Torchitoriu. But it looks like the chancellor with 15+ stats (and while picking the ambition to become king of the 2 islands, nonetheless) cannot forge a cassus belli for a single province in over 30 years and 3 attempts (statistically very unlikely, given I usually have between 5,6% and 8% chance / year). The game quickly turns into a x5 speed fiesta, while I just pause retract redeploy chancellor ...

I'm going for the endurance achievement of starting in 792 or whatever the earliest start date is and going until the end of the world. I was on a different ironman save file last night going for a different set of achievements, fortunately, but I noticed this newer save file for some reason despite having achievements enabled and having worked earlier, just decided to stop awarding achievements. Now i'm paranoid my long haul save file might just decide to break half way through and i'll have no idea bec...

I've devoured 5 prisoners and have yet to get any traits. Is it not guaranteed?