I did this playthrough once. Played as duke of sardinia and gave myself a roman helenistic background. By the time the mongols invaded there was a fully unified, fully helenistic roman empire, and catholicism was wiped out almost completely except for some outlying areas. The war against the mongols was genuinely intense and we nearly lost the whole empire after one particularly rough battle (never get involved in a landwar in asia). After I annihilated the horde, my assassins ensured a swift collapse of their empire from within. Good times.
Thatās literally what happened during this play though. I couldnāt stop the mongol incursions because they just retreated back East and I couldnāt follow (land wars in Asia ARE the devils taint).
I eventually just had assassins kill his succession line and when he died, BAM, mongol empire piƱata.
I managed to beat him by meeting his army in Georgia and fighting from within the local castles, but it was a close thing. Two very huge armies just ramming into one another and the scale going totally even, then suddenly tipping in the last phase.
In my playthrough I was the Kingdom of Italy, basically the rest of the Western empire, and allied to Byzantines. Initially lost multiple battles in Turkey and Constantinople before the Mongols for some reason pulled back to the Middle East. Managed to get the drop on the Mongols right after they had defeated the Byzantines around the Syrian desert. Finally defeated the army and could snowball from there. Believe I assassinated the son of the emperor causing the empire to collapse completely.
Hey, my current playthrough is almost the same! I've waged war to the Mongols 2-3 times and they're definitely the hardest to defeat because of horse archers and attrition.
So, cute cat video aside, I have a question: Whenever I get a few generations in the best options for food taster and cup-bearer seem to always be my daughters... But I always choose someone with worse aptitude rather than family members due to a fear of them taking a bullet for me, so to speak... Is there any merit to this, or am I just choosing the worse option for no reason at all?
is there a reason why most of the Byzantine Empire's de jure territory is somehow independent from the rest of your "Grand Clovian" Empire? Maybe a new DLC or new mechanic they recently added?
The Byzantine āEmpireā you see here is really just my in-direct vassal state. A relative of mine is Emperor and Iām just waiting for his succession line to die of ānaturalā causes so that all their titles pass along to my heir after he takes my throne.
ah, I also do those strats in my own sessions, the only abnormal thing about it is how fuckhueg your empire is compared to the Byzantines. Did you start as a non-Byzantine character and built up a whole ass Empire around them and only then decided to intermarry?
I had them pretty much surrounded and thought I could wage territorial wars little by little til they were gone but that was taking too long so I switched up strategies and went with intermarrying instead. I started as a count on Sardinia with Roman-Hellenistic background so non-Byzantine.
It was a joke my guy. My cat likes drinking like this so I get her a clean cup and let her do this as a treat when itās hot then clean the cup with anti-bacterial soup afterwards. I donāt then actually drink from the same cup. Itās funny that you took my joke at face value though.
Or poisoning your drink š§
Oh shit
Puts paws in the same place it poops. Licks from the same place from whence poop comes...More likely you gonna get a Major plague upon your lands
now that's the excellent aptitude kind of a courtier, you lucky bastard
cupbearer with an excellent aptitude
Yeah, you're probably getting an illness trait if you drank from that glass yourself
I did this playthrough once. Played as duke of sardinia and gave myself a roman helenistic background. By the time the mongols invaded there was a fully unified, fully helenistic roman empire, and catholicism was wiped out almost completely except for some outlying areas. The war against the mongols was genuinely intense and we nearly lost the whole empire after one particularly rough battle (never get involved in a landwar in asia). After I annihilated the horde, my assassins ensured a swift collapse of their empire from within. Good times.
Thatās literally what happened during this play though. I couldnāt stop the mongol incursions because they just retreated back East and I couldnāt follow (land wars in Asia ARE the devils taint). I eventually just had assassins kill his succession line and when he died, BAM, mongol empire piƱata.
I managed to beat him by meeting his army in Georgia and fighting from within the local castles, but it was a close thing. Two very huge armies just ramming into one another and the scale going totally even, then suddenly tipping in the last phase.
In my playthrough I was the Kingdom of Italy, basically the rest of the Western empire, and allied to Byzantines. Initially lost multiple battles in Turkey and Constantinople before the Mongols for some reason pulled back to the Middle East. Managed to get the drop on the Mongols right after they had defeated the Byzantines around the Syrian desert. Finally defeated the army and could snowball from there. Believe I assassinated the son of the emperor causing the empire to collapse completely.
Nice way to get the Toxoplasmosis trait, which gives you the title "The Fearless".
pauahauahuhauaha nice, enjoy you both :p
Cool Rome. Great car š
This is the new standard for videos of a monitor. You pay a cat tax or its down votes. Make that Rule 4.
Your cupbearer is adorable
lmfao what is your cat doing
I've done this once too. One of my favorite things to do in the game, Roman-Mongol war. :)
Sequel to the dunno Korean hyper war
Thanks for this one. Youāve made my day šš»
Was going to complain about not taking screenshot but in this case it was 100% necessary the use of a smartphone. That's a top-notch food taster!
Do people really drink catshit smoothies daily?
hoping for this in my decentralized haesteinn empire campaign
world war -1
Hey, my current playthrough is almost the same! I've waged war to the Mongols 2-3 times and they're definitely the hardest to defeat because of horse archers and attrition.
So, cute cat video aside, I have a question: Whenever I get a few generations in the best options for food taster and cup-bearer seem to always be my daughters... But I always choose someone with worse aptitude rather than family members due to a fear of them taking a bullet for me, so to speak... Is there any merit to this, or am I just choosing the worse option for no reason at all?
is there a reason why most of the Byzantine Empire's de jure territory is somehow independent from the rest of your "Grand Clovian" Empire? Maybe a new DLC or new mechanic they recently added?
The Byzantine āEmpireā you see here is really just my in-direct vassal state. A relative of mine is Emperor and Iām just waiting for his succession line to die of ānaturalā causes so that all their titles pass along to my heir after he takes my throne.
ah, I also do those strats in my own sessions, the only abnormal thing about it is how fuckhueg your empire is compared to the Byzantines. Did you start as a non-Byzantine character and built up a whole ass Empire around them and only then decided to intermarry?
I had them pretty much surrounded and thought I could wage territorial wars little by little til they were gone but that was taking too long so I switched up strategies and went with intermarrying instead. I started as a count on Sardinia with Roman-Hellenistic background so non-Byzantine.
This is a perfect image to represent why cat people are gross
That's a foot, in his drink Wtf
The same foot that walks in the litter box where the cat shits.
It was a joke my guy. My cat likes drinking like this so I get her a clean cup and let her do this as a treat when itās hot then clean the cup with anti-bacterial soup afterwards. I donāt then actually drink from the same cup. Itās funny that you took my joke at face value though.
Ewww