From the meager province of Alto Aragon it had grown to encompass much of the northern eastern counties. After twenty bloody years of unification the kingdom of Aragon was taking shape at long last. That was before I was locked in a bitter struggle for freedom against a numerically superior Almoravid Sultanate, launching an invasion of my kingdom.ġ086. I've never actually hated this game before. It always proves to be one of the more challenging things to do and I don't always succeed, but I usually have fun. It's probably my favorite start and the best way I've found to measure the balance of that region, and it lets me test some of my more wild ideas like female commanders in a real way.
#Ck2 controlled realm inheritance mod
In the last few rounds of testing for my mod I played a lot as Aragon to see if I could turn the single county kingdom into a power. His vanguards should put a serious dent into any remaining doomstacks the Il-Khanate may have and may give you a powerful opening to begin your bloody work.Īnd remember. Time your initial strikes to coincide with his advance. Timur will be striking the Il-Khanate through Khiva. The Timurids will be coming sometime after 1360 and represent the "final boss" of the campaign. You've got a monumental task ahead of you but I gotta admit, I'm a little envious. A fragmented west facing off against a unified East. Your world is divided between east and west with nigh perfect religion borders. And since the Il-Khanate has some of the most prosperous lands in the game (those persian provinces are incredible troop producers) I wouldn't be surprised if more than a large part of that troop count came from levies. Not only because it's passed 1300 but also because they converted. I love it! The hordes won't be getting any more reinforcement stacks, that's for sure. Muslim religions are almost gone and the hordes picked Nestorian of all things to convert to? Talk about random. I've never seen such an even split between religions so late in the game. However, somewhat miraculously both the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate converted nigh-simultaneously to Nestorianism about 30 years ago, and since then their borders have been frozen pretty much in their current locations.Ĭurrent plans are to finish up with unifying Britain, then I'll swap over to Greece, take out the Byzantine Empire and defeat the Ilkhanate somehow. The Pope launched a crusade to retake Poland, but as the HRE did not deign to take part it failed miserably. Unfortunately they were struck by their first major civil war just as their allies the Cumans (who had united all of Russia and fielded about 80000 levies) were attacked by the Golden Horde, which ended poorly for them. The HRE has stood strong throughout, expanding into Norway and Finland. France had been a powerhouse for about one hundred years (being a very helpful ally of Castille when it was first growing), but now is a patchwork of independent states. Nothing particularly exciting had been happening in the rest of the world. Islam is now practically extinct in Europe.
I don't think they've ever been allied to the Byzantine Empire, but together they managed to break the backs of the Muslim powers before the Hordes arrived (which contributed greatly to the success of the Ilkhanate). Greece went surprisingly well considering that their founding ruler was an imbecile, but with only a little support from Spain they managed to carve out a fair chunk of territory. Sicily started out strong, taking most of the land in North Africa that Greece currently owns, but lost the majority of it's territory to Greece through inter-realm inheritance and a few wars. In the process, I managed to put a ruler of my dynasty on the throne of Sicily and Greece, both of which were won in crusades. I started as Castille, and managed to unite Spain (except for a chunk on the east coast owned by Pisa). This is my first game that's lasted until the hordes arrived, and it's proved to be pretty interesting: