Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make the Crusader States that were formed in the ashes of the Eastern Roman Empire successful!
Criteria:
The challenge is set up, let us see if anyone has the ability to tackle it!
Criteria:
- The Latin Empire must survive into the 19th century, and it must control at least Constantinople and the Bosporus. It must be ruled by a "Frankish" dynasty and the Emperors must be Catholic.
- The areas compromising the Duchies of Achaea, Athens and Naxos must be ruled by a Catholic ruler until the 19th century! Bonus points if they are ruled by "themselves", i.e. The Duchy of Achaea controls the land compromising the historic Duchy of Achaea et cetera.
- Bonus points if the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John control Rhodes till the 19th century.
- Bonus points if the Latin Empire matches or surpasses the gains of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos in Asia.
- Bonus points if the Kingdom of Thessalonica remains alive until the 19th century, under a Catholic ruler.
The challenge is set up, let us see if anyone has the ability to tackle it!