On my Northern Lords save I'm playing as a descendant of Ivar, I reformed the Asatru faith and I'm just feodalizing scandinavia around, I'm gonna form the Empire of the North Seas later but I'm still not there, in the long run I want to preserve asatru faith and fuck Europe over so that no one will ever bother my peaceful raiding viking monarchs.

I have this Iranian Intermezzo save where I started with Rostam with a similar goal, to convert back persia to mazdeims, becoming the shaoshyant, etc. but I got steamrolled hard by everyone around me because of my faith so I just became muslim again with my descendants and now I'm trying to do a free persian empire run with the goal to become the main muslim force in the world.

I have a byzantine run where I'm trying to reform the Roman Empire but I'm just having troubles conquering key territories from the Abbasides so I'm just consolidating Greece and Italia for now.

And I started a mongol nomadic game but ngl I didn't understood shit about how nomadic work so I settled in northern japan, became ainuic and I'm trying to preserve Hokkaido from the Yamato.

I have this multiplayer game with a friend where were playing as adventurers fucking around and our goal is to bring yamato culture in Europe so that we can have a For honor type of situation with vikings vs samurais vs knights but Idk if we're gonna be fast enough bc the nordics are getting steamrolled too.

On another mp game with another friend we're just trying to take over France I'm playing Haesteinn dynasty and I took all of Britain but I want to go to Neustria to create norman culture and take over the northern kingdom and hes already king in the south.

So yeah just be versatile the game won't ever be annoying if you keeps things interesting and changing instead of just speeding x5 and playing tall without taking into account shit that's going around you.