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[Gandalfus]

Lol. Oh dear

[Hobbes]

actually it was the Duke of Norrland that built a massive powerblock. once it was given to a secondary son and by smart marriage and itrigue that part of the dynasty has acquired several additonal duchies, i allways has to give them council jobs, honorary titles and massive bribes to keep them semi-happy...
who would have thunk it, i gave the county of Lappland and ducy of Norrland to a drunkard and a sloth

after a successful crusader france gained Jerusalem, then jerusalem rebelled or something happened and Shia Caliphate gained Jerusalem with additional holdings in Holland and France. after the "glorious" second crusade for Jerusalem, which saw the title granted to Norway, the Shia caliphate kept its holdings in Europe.
i was planing to wage Hollky Wars for duchies of Køln and Brabant, after allowing a few controlled internal revolts to revoke and re-distribute titles, then my character becomme possesed and everything fell apart...

I hate it when stuff like that happens, but it's fun. One moment you are a powerful king, the next you start seeing colours

[Pat89]

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And also, please use spoilers for the big images...

[Largon]

My current Polish Kingdom. I started in 1124 as the King (can't remember name). I expanded east and after my current Kings death i will get the Duchy of Kiew because the hire is the Duke of Kiew.

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[absinthia]

This is my Holy roman Empire, started as salian emperor and kept adding titles an mass
my current Kaiser, Norbert Sallian "the Fowler":

Kaiser Norbert II Salian

My heir King Gebhart I is king of Naples, Sicily and some other places. i made a habit of giving the heir apparent the titles in Italy.

Composite image of my empire:

Das Heiliges Römisches Reich

at this point it is 1236 and i have declared holy war against the newly arrived Golden Horde, which took over the Kingdom of Rus. i declared war for Perm, which must have seemed like a good idea at the time but now i do not remember why...
as a preparation for this war i married a courtier to the Mongol Kaghan, she was an elsuive shadow and helped greatly in my later plot to kill said Kaghan. as a "thank" for this i invited her back to court and had her married to a nice Duke, even though that has no impact on the campaign.
by the timely death of the initial kaghan of Golden Horde several vassals started a massive revolt, as most of the Orthodox Rus characters has kept theire landed titles. Kaiser Norbert decided it was a good opportunity to declare his holy war for perm.
this is the situation 2 october 1236. Sieges is going well and i try to leave rebeling Horde vassals armies intact, i want them to succede. i know there is at least one massive stack in the FOW just east of Moskva.:

at war...

a couple decisive victories, just in time to face the stack comming in from north-east.:

attack...

supposedly i have shown great heroism, and all i got was a measly 50 prestiege points...:

victory

also my good friend Prohor I of Croatia is comming to aid in my rightous war and good is that, because i am just about to loose 10k+ in a surprise attack.
but now also reinforcements has disembarked down by Crimea. i realize now that Kaiser Norbert realizes might actually win this stupid war for Perm.:

attack, attack, curses...

a couple more glorious victories:

c`mon you pantsy...!

and ta-da:

Victorious after all...

so now our war has ended and the Khagan can turn all his resources towards squashing his rebelious vassals, that will not do. as said, i want them to succede. realizing that the great Khagan has a child as his heir Kaiser Norbert decides it is time for Khagan Husun to leave this world. again a bunch of disgruntled Rus nobles willingly advance my scheme.:

the plot...

now it would seem that the new Khagan has a Rus noble as his heir and the temptation is simply to great.:

the plot thickens...

so now the Golden Horde is ruled by an Orthodox Rus and mainly populated by Rus nobles, by cloack and daggery i basically re-created the kingdom of Rus with a new fancy title added.
what happens next i do not know, but certainly this must have put an end to the Horde`s advance towards the Atlantic...?!

[Hobbes]

How do you handle the death of your rulers?

[absinthia]

elective succession law helps way much when i have enough titles to prop up my intended heir, also money to bribe rebelious dukes. i make sure to have dukes as direct vassals, rather than a bunch of disgruntled counts.
for my intended heir i strive to educate him properly before giving any titles and also mariage to an able woman, i try to gain as much Stewardship as possible. with a large personal demesne the next character should be good suited to face any moderate rebelion, i also save him a few thousand money in inheritance to use for mercenaries and bribes.
by the time my character dies, the next heir has usually come well of age and can hold the most important secondary lands to support my new character. if my heir is underage and my character is very old i can nominate another old and prestigious dynasty member as (itermediate) ruler and use him to prepare for my intended one.
that is everything goes remotely as planed...
i have had to assasinate heirs that turned out to be imbecils, or otherwise would have had to give up too many titles, and quickly turn to another branches of the dynasty. that is the benefits of elective monarchy, you can change plans if your own son is an inbred bastard. and by electing an intermediate ruler, you get the chance to re-distribute his holdings as well and reduce risk of future rebelion...
at each ruler change i try to let one reasonably powerfull duke revolt, so that i can justly re-distribute some of his power. and i make an effort to acquire and keep most counties within a couple duchies of my primary kingdom.
i build full set of holdings in my primary counties and spend money upgrading them, give plenty benefits on taxes and levies.

[viron1997]

[viron1997]

This is my Roman Empire in EUIII DW (death and taxes mod).
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I started with Byzantium which is an easy selection on this mod coz the games starts from 1356 and the balkans are like this...
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coz of this begging of the compaing if you take byz and make some allies its easy to take the balkans and the asia minor.....after, if you the cities on italy like roma and venice etc. you can create the roman empire! if you create the empire, you take cores to lombardia, balkans, asia minor and south italy! after taking that cities, if you have good allies you can easy re-create the roman empire as it was!!!

[General Brittanicus]

My Italian empire on AHD around 1885 I believe. I've been wanting to take my cores from Austria for a while, but they have been allied with France for a long time, so i've not had a strong enough military to do it. I now have an alliance with the NGF though, so i'm thinking if I can get them to join me in a war I might be able to grab the rest of Italy. Its also one of the rare games i've played where the Netherlands and Portugal have actually done anything.

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[Lord Romanus III]

What is AHD?

[NONOPUST]

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[nhytgbvfeco2]

What is AHD?

A House Divided, the expansion pack for Victoria 2.

[Sigma]

Flashback to an older game time Here is my game as Iron Guard Romania for the Kaiserreich Mod on HOI II Arma. I did have to switch nations eventually in the late 40's and end wars that would have been eternal since there were no ending events for them. That and I released nations and sorted out Provence control issues to make the map look less messy.

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Iron Guard: I somehow managed to grow a little and survive without attracting the attention of the major powers (I think it was because they were busy getting owned). I allied with Greece and Serbia and we all defeated Bulgaria as the event chain went. Then I launched war on the Ottomans, defeated them, built up the middle east's infrastructure and industry a little bit and released a slew of puppet nations. It didn't turn out as well as I planned though since all but Iraq have dead economies that I have to constantly aid to keep running. If I continue this game I might attempt to take on Egypt.

The world: It is 1949, WW2 has been over since mid 48' the Syndies were victorious with all of Europe (except Switzerland), Russia, Africa, upper North America (Canada), Central and South America under Syndie or far-leftist governments. The U.S. is no more but is instead a three way alliance with Hawaii, American Union State, and the PSA. Delhi is still democratic, Australia is a right wing dictatorship. China reunified as an authoritarian republic and with Russia's help beat an ambitious Japan out of Asia proper. Russia then fell to socialists in an election in 45 I think?

All in all the majority of the world is a left or right wing dictatorship with maybe a handful of democratic governments holding out on their own. Since I'm one of those few right wing dictatorships It makes trade crappy for me when only at best, 10 to 15 nations in the whole world will to trade with you.

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[Latin Knight]

My two latest Christian campaigns:

Denmark - Kalmar Union

this was before the 1.06 patch, so there wasn't a Scandinavian Empire yet

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I've tried some Norway campaigns before, but hated it. As i hate Sweden outright, decided to try with Denmark. Now, THAT is a great campaign. Denmark has a lot of potential, if you manage it right.

First, expanded through the Baltic pagan territories, conquering Mecklenburg, Pomerania, etc., as far as Estonia and Finland (this was one of the few campaigns the HRE didn't declare a day-one holy war against the pagans). Sweden was a pathetic mess that failed to expand after Erik the heathen's rebellion, and i managed to conquer it mainly through "fabricating" claims (now, almost all of it is incorporated de jure in the kingdom of Denmark). I didn't create any new kingdoms such as Finland and Lithuania, i don't think its worth it, to have random vassals ploting to take it while i can wait a century for the "de jure drift".

I became king of Norway through inheritance and my current king (Magnus the Blessed... he's a very nice guy) is married to the Queen of Scotland, so my son will be crowned in the Stone of Scone as well . I retook Portugal from the infidels in a Crusade and gave it to a distant relative, but Cordoba easily conquered it again (i didn't honor my alliance ).

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And now, the global news: We're now in 1208 A.D., Rostov has become the Rus, HRE has the kingdom of Jerusalem, for the first time i've seen the Kingdom of Wales be formed, and it now controls half of Ireland . The great Orthodox powers, the Rus and the ERE have converted to Iconoclasm, and pure orthodoxy only survives in some regions of Ukraine and in the Caucasus, while Catholic heresies are almost non-existent. Norse and Romuva paganism have been entirely erradicated, mainly due to my efforts and of Poland. Right now, in fact, i covet Poland, it'll be an easy conquest.

Current "independent realms mapmode" - my capital is in southeastern Sweden.

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Empire of Britannia (duke of Gwynedd - king of Wales - king of Wales+England+Ireland+Scotland - Emperor of Britannia)

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In my first christian campaign of the new patch, i made my mind about creating the Empire of Britannia. Now, you might be thinking "Big deal, that's the easiest empire to form, just pick England or Scotland, and you're half way done!"

If you want a challenge, as i did, you'll pick a goddamn Welsh duke (the duke of Gwynedd), then become king of England, of Ireland and of Scotland, only then you form the empire . Also, no filthy Norman scum in my realm! (that means no one is becoming English... good, i prefer to be Saxon).

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(the dynasty is Welsh, but my family has long since become Saxon, involuntarily, my last Welsh character married a Saxon duchess, and his heir was educated in her court... it actually made my life easier when i became king of England, a generation later).

I got Sicily in a Crusade against the Shia Caliphate (i can't spell the dynasty name) in late 13th century, formed Trinacria and Sicily to be more easily manageable. Then i intervened in Iberia to reconquer what was left of Muslim rule (as France, returning to their pre-1.05 patch habits, blobed all the way to Cordoba), and recreated all those kingdoms, Portugal, Castille, Léon, and even Andalusia (i invited an Andalusian claimant, demanded convertion and pressed his claim, his sons were educated to become Saxons, and voilà). Sardinia became independent from the HRE, but it didn't last a decade before i annexed it.

My latest acquisition was Aragon. For centuries the (purely titular) title remained in existence with some Polish guy in the baltic (as one early king of Poland conquered Aragon in a Crusade, lost the territory to the Muslim, which was recovered by France. In 1360s the then Frankish duke of Barcelona gained independence and usurped the royal title from the poor Polish sod who still proclaimed himself "king of Aragon", in a rump state in Lithuania ). My imperialistic hunger couldn't stand this independent wedge of land inside the blue blob, and i invited a claimant, made him a vassal and made him a king-vassal. Being Emperor is SO MUCH FUN!

Somehow i managed to put my dynasty in the throne of France - the Capets having ruled non-stop from 1066 , thus making those two "empires" permanent allies.

This is a map from 1390 A.D.

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This has been a very interesting campaign, i created an Antipope in the early game, and by middle 1200s moral authority was in 22, that means one thing , this made the HRE expand even faster, as they could make easy holy wars (upon Denmark, which became Lollard, for example).

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[molonthegreat]

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The glorious domain of the Sultans of Swing, I had some trouble in the beginning with those damn almoravids since they kept expanding like crazy and almost conquered Aquataine from France, luckily their ruler died right when they were about to succed with it and rebellions popped up everywhere which allowed me to take Granada from the bastards. However those damn Frenchies recovered quickly and conquered some Muslim land, however they had a massive rebellions when a new ruler came to power and I thinking that I could capitalize on it tried to liberate Tunisia for but as soon as I attacked the French united and proceeded to send megastack after megastack until I was forced to sue for white peace.

[General Brittanicus]

Started a campaign as the Ottomans and finally played long enough to see a Great War on AHD even if it was somewhat one sided. Germany started with Italy on their side, but they were quickly knocked out of the war and Germany followed shortly after. Most of the great powers demanded parts of Germany and Russia also got some German land in a seperate war which had been going on at the same time.

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THis is what a communist Germany looks like in 1900 - still facing several wars and with several German minors becoming independent again - one of them is even at war with Germany demanding another province. Russia and Austria are also both insanely powerful in Europe now that Germany essentially no longer exists.

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And this is the state of my own empire in Africa, Asia and Europe. I imagine I would probably lose a war against one of the bigger great powers since they have hundreds of brigades whilst the most i can support is one hundred and something.

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[ivan_the_terrible]

Heh, USA war for Afghan submission

[John I Tzimisces]

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The glorious domain of the Sultans of Swing, I had some trouble in the beginning with those damn almoravids since they kept expanding like crazy and almost conquered Aquataine from France, luckily their ruler died right when they were about to succed with it and rebellions popped up everywhere which allowed me to take Granada from the bastards. However those damn Frenchies recovered quickly and conquered some Muslim land, however they had a massive rebellions when a new ruler came to power and I thinking that I could capitalize on it tried to liberate Tunisia for but as soon as I attacked the French united and proceeded to send megastack after megastack until I was forced to sue for white peace.

Sultans of Swing? Incredible.

[Bourneq]

My favorite empire so far. Not done with it yet tho. Its the roman empire, started as byzantium at 1399.

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With Hungary and Russia as long standing allies and Castille out of the picture im basicly unstoppable. France is a pain tho, have to raise my treasury income to field a larger army against them. That accumulates infaltion wihch atm is very low and I like to keep it like that. But its worked so far.

Swedish empire (now scandinavia)

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I can beat Lithuania and get back my old cores (the sea surrounding Sweden, which I once owned but Lithuania stole them, I will steal them back.) now and will do so soon. I have started conquering Japan and ming has fallen apart since I colonized them. Free provinces for me basically. Biggest rival is Spain, bordering them in america, but most of my soldiers are in asia and are needed there. And I cant bring soldiers from Sweden because all my ships are in asia. So I need to keep Spain happy and avoid warfare as best as I can. For now...