Recent content by Jodmangel

Well no, but why should I care? The next rebellion is as easily settled as the first one :D

Well my own strategy for dealing with rebels is quite a bit simpler: I don't care about rebellions and just assassinate the rebel leader anytime there is one, which I can since I don't spend any money otherwise (except on my retinue). Throwing money at the problem really works in this game ;)

While others have already mentioned fabricating claims, you, since you have an Emperor-level title, have a much better way to conquer territory (which isn't applicable to the pope but otherwise much more effective): invite claimants to kingdoms to your court, land them with single counties and...

And how do they get a child to inherit? :p

There is a province finder, you know.

I suggest attaining a title outside the de jure HRE, for example by taking a duchy from somewhere else with lower CA and making it your primary title, which allows you to still war against everyone else in the realm.

Agressive negotiations. If a bear walked up to you, you wouldn't want to screw it either. Also, can you marry him?

I hate the mongols :( Their army is small compared to mine but the lack of attrition makes it impossible to fight them at the start. In my new game I started as Poland 1066, quickly inherited the Kingdom of Ruthenia which also include Rus by that time, formed the Wendish Empire conquered my way...

Thanks, didn't know that. Still, even if I played them I would run into the same problem as them: All the good bits are taken by forces almost as powerful as they are.

I don't think they can be played as long as they are not landed. Their doomstacks are still full, one in Brittany and one in Cornwall.

Has it happened to anyone else that the Aztecs just sit there with their two doomstacks not doing anything at all? That happened to me in a game where Western and Central Europe was dominated by a three huge empires: Scandinavia + Wendish Empire + Scotland + Ireland (I wanted to create a...

Well, the reports might be very unreliable. Maybe the only ones with working communications where quite a ways away, saw a huge explosion and just assumed that most of them were dead.

Well, that is a wierd PoD. From what I can gather from the quotes it seems like the German Unification will be more peaceful than OTL. The consequences of that alone will be quite interesting to see. Good luck on frequent updates!

Congrats for the nice work. While there are of course some quite far-fetched elements, I don't see anything that is more out there than the book itself.

What happened in Central / Western Europe?