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    Crusader Kings I married my rival and things are getting weird.

    January 30, 2021

    Crusader Kings I married my rival and things are getting weird.

    I married my rival and things are getting weird.

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 01:37 AM PST

    It’s not easy being ByZ

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 07:42 AM PST

    When you forget to check your prisoners tab after a while...

    Posted: 29 Jan 2021 04:41 PM PST

    I just found shrek while hunting, he's in Westmorland

    Posted: 29 Jan 2021 10:06 PM PST

    Rate my Scotland run

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 10:08 AM PST

    wtf?

    Posted: 29 Jan 2021 01:00 PM PST

    I Observed the Invasion of Byzantium by The Seljuks 50 times| Here Is What I Found Out

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 07:51 AM PST

    I had three predictions going into this test:

    1. Seljuks will Win 80%
    2. The war will last on average about 5 years
    3. That the Byzantines will take allies less than 10% of the time

    What I focused on when doing the simulations was:

    How did the conflict end?

    • Seljuks won 39 out of the 50 invasions, about 78% of the time
    • Whereas the Byzantines were able to hold on to their land about 22% of the time with one of them being an outright victory.

    How long did the conflict last?

    6.9 years was the average with the shortest being 3 and the longest being 20

    I made a video with more of my findings.

    Other Observations:

    • If the conflict lasted more than 7 years it had a 58% chance of ending in a white peace.
    • The Byzantines only took allies once but always took multiple mercenary companies

    Here is a video on the strategies for both belligerents

    submitted by /u/fanchofeast
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    When your Dynasty's genetics are so "exclusive", that the son looks exactly like the father

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 03:03 AM PST

    Two seas, two cities, two Romes

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 01:07 AM PST

    93 years of age, +20 in all skills, 168 battles won, dismantler of the Catholicism... Best char ever!

    Posted: 29 Jan 2021 07:55 PM PST

    My wife single-handedly secured my bloodline!

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 08:35 AM PST

    My wife single-handedly secured my bloodline!

    As the title says, my wife just gave birth to ten kids. I thought it was twins, since that's what popped up when I was supposed to name them, but alas, I guess not. xD

    https://preview.redd.it/uwfppqgazhe61.png?width=596&format=png&auto=webp&s=a9461b13a2dd77aadedbe1d80342910825d6a24b

    Pretty sure she bugged out but I guess my bloodline is somewhat secured now. xD

    submitted by /u/TargaryenDragonQueen
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    The Monk

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 04:23 AM PST

    "We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune!"

    Posted: 29 Jan 2021 07:54 PM PST

    Well...fuck

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 10:46 AM PST

    The Greatest of Holy Wars. Both the pope and the entire orthodox religion at the same time

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 09:42 AM PST

    Congratulations to Crusader Kings III for winning our Game of the Year Tournament!

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 11:39 AM PST

    Relentless Push East

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 10:24 AM PST

    My glorious Roman Empire run

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 01:40 AM PST

    You filthy kids visited pastebin almost 6000 times and grabbed the DNA of my first characters. Here you go, you hungry bastards.

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 09:55 AM PST

    [Teaser] Catholic conclave for "Ecumene Divided" mod

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 02:10 AM PST

    The Wars of the Rus

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 08:25 AM PST

    R5: Story about my Rurikid ironman campaign, where I fought what is probably the most brutal civil wars I've fought in this game so far. I named these wars "The Wars of the Rus" because of the parallels with the Wars of the Roses.

    The Tsardom of Russia was founded by Tsar Magnus I, son of Rurik, in the early 900s. Upon his death, the throne passed to his eldest son, Magnus II.

    Magnus II was the first christian Tsar of Russia. Although Magnus II's conversion lead to a more unified Russia, in the short term it caused a rift between the peasantry and the crown. Magnus II spent most of his reign dealing with pagan revolts. Magnus II died on January, 11, 955, leaving an indebted, weakened Tsardom to his eldest son, Ivan I.

    Ivan I, also known as Ivan the Sage, was 43 at the time of his ascension to the throne. However, Ivan had no sons - only three daughters, the eldest of which was Viacheslava. Additionally, Ivan had a brother, Magnus of Ruthenia (hereinafter "Ruthenia") who himself had three sons.

    Who would be Ivan's heir? This question ultimately sparked the first phase of the Wars of the Rus.

    Ivan intended the 24 year old Viacheslava to be his heir. Ruthenia, on the other hand, believed that the throne should pass to him and his heirs.

    Ruthenia rallied many disaffected lords and chieftains to his side in an attempt to have himself named as Tsar and his sons as heirs. Ivan saw this campaign as an act of treason, and in response had Ruthenia murdered on December 21, 955.

    The sons of Ruthenia would not stand for this. Ingvar, Ruthenia's eldest son, rose up in rebellion with his two brothers against Tsar Ivan I.

    The war was bloody and merciless, lasting almost 16 years. Both sides exchanged the upper hand countless times. The war ultimately claimed the lives of Ingvar's two younger brothers, leaving Ingvar as the sole Ruthenian claimant to the Tsardom.

    In 971, with a war nearing a stalemate, Ingvar was poisoned at a dinner feast. Many believe that Ivan I was responsible, but historians are unsure. Ingvar's death effectively ended the Ruthenian claim to the Tsardom of Russia, as Yngvar's sons were mere children at the time.

    Although peace had been restored to Russia, the nation was on the brink of collapse. Seizing on this near-collapse, the Byzantine Empire invaded, claiming territory that would not be regained until Tsar Magnus IV in the 1100's.

    Despite a disastrous civil war and a Byzantine invasion, it appeared that Ivan the Sage had won. He was still Tsar, and his daughter Viacheslava would succeed him.

    But then something unexpected happened. Ivan's wife died, and he remarried a peasant woman named Rogneda. On June 4, 979, Rogneda gave birth to a son, the future Tsar Magnus III.

    As Ivan's only son, Magnus III was named heir as an infant. On May 29, 982, Ivan the Sage died, and Magnus III became Tsar, not even three years old.

    Of course, the boy was far too young to actually rule himself. Instead, the Tsardom was mostly governed by it's councillors, the boy Tsar merely a figurehead.

    For 6 years this state of affairs persisted. Emboldened by the weakness of the Tsardom and its boy king, the Byzantines made further inroads into Russian territory.

    The boy Tsar Magnus III lived only to be 9 years old, for on August 9th, 988, the boy was found in his bed in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. The Tsardom thus passed to his elder half-sister, Viacheslava, Ivan I's original heir.

    Historians disagree on the culprit behind the boy's demise. Viacheslava and her two sons had the most to gain from the boy's murder, so any or all of them are often blamed. It is also entirely possible that a disaffected Ruthenian was responsible. The mystery remains to this day.

    And so Viacheslava ascended the throne in 988, the first female Tsar of Russia. Viacheslava was married to Meelis of Läänemaa, an Estonion nobleman. With him, Viacheslava had two sons: Ivan and Mikhail. Despite being descended from Rurik in the female line, both of her sons used the golden trident as their symbol, so as to symbolize their status as Rurik's true heir (matrilineal marriage).

    But one thing is certain: 23 years of bloodshed and horror would not end over night. And beneath the surface, fissures were arising within Viacheslava's own family.

    In order to secure a peace with the Byzantines. Viacheslava had Ivan betroth his own son Alexander to the Byzantine princess, ending nearly two decades of bloodshed.

    Many nobles viewed this as treasonous, especially those who fought against the Byzantines. Chief among those crying foul was Viacheslava's younger son, Mikhail. As an act of revenge for the treasonous betrothal, Mikhail had his own mother murdered in cold-blood on August 27, 990. Mikhail then fled, rallying disaffected nobles to his cause in an attempt to proclaim himself Tsar, beginning the final phase of the Wars of the Rus.

    But barely a year into the war, on October 1, 991, Mikhail was poisoned on the orders of his brother Ivan II, ending the Wars of the Rus for good. What began with fraticide ultimately ended with fratricide.

    Ivan II's later reign was largely peaceful, and he died naturally November 17, 1028. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Tsar Alexander I.

    submitted by /u/Beginning_Disk1539
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    And so it begins... Praise the Sun!

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 09:53 AM PST

    This is why I love Crusader Kings

    Posted: 30 Jan 2021 11:08 AM PST
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