Quote Originally Posted by morsdraconis View Post
In the process of reading through the manual right now. Nothing too earth shattering to learn in there so far, but I'm only about halfway through it or so.

I'll probably be hitting you up once I get into it (probably later today or maybe tomorrow).
Sounds good, just let me know and I'll help out best I can. I'm about to actually start a new game myself. I'm currently in 1217 and things have gone to shit for me over the last 15 or 20 years. My ruler died of natural causes, his 8 year old son the heir. Made it four years (he was 12 years old at the time) with a regent before he got murdered by the fucking mayor of one of my vassals, bringing a Queen onto the throne as ruler for the first ever time in the Kingdom of Ireland's history. Then shit hit the fan, multiple Dukes and Counts revolting or rebelling. As soon as I'd put down one, another would revolt elsewhere. I was at war trying to squash rebellions and revolts for probably 10 years straight.

Ultimately got to the point I started assassinating people left and right and was forced to strip every single vassal of every single county and duchy I had ever granted them, putting every county and duchy under my direct control. I stopped after finally reaching that point, but for the most part, I'm fucked in the future. I can't trust any of my vassals, siblings or children outside of my heir, so I can't start granting out counties and duchies to try and put things back to normal. I'd have to assassinate probably 95% of my vassals and court members and start over from scratch in that aspect. I had a hell of a run, becoming King of Ireland through conquering and creating the Kingdom, and then taking over and creating the Kingdom of Wales through conquest. Never truly got a chance to try and take over the Kingdoms of England or Scotland through war and create the Empire of Britannia like I had as my goal, so disappointed there. Not really gonna have a chance even if I kept playing in my current save file. The Holy Roman Empire has completely ass raped continental Europe, and now the Muslim steamrollers are coming, turning Europe into an all out war between the Muslim kingdoms and the Holy Roman Empire for control of Europe, with whoever wins in the future probably coming for me, England and Scotland as they have nowhere else to go but north or south.