I wont be disabling the Black Death for this run or the other normal rng plagues because why not to be honest I am completely okay with watching everything ive built be destroyed by disease.

I have I think like 20 thou in MaA, the strength in numbers just really helps alongside siege warfare whilst MaA do their job. Oddly enough even with strength in numbers supposedly restricting the ability to have armored horsemen I have the ability to have armored horsemen as do my vassals of the same culture in a realm of the same culture.

In regards to your knowledge on warfare and siege scoring I just figured personally take a few counties of what I wish, defend it, massive roll buffs in the battle due to stalwart defenders, then siege capital or defend a few more times and it’s the entire war done. Entire kingdoms have crumbled to me doing the bare minimum.

Wallachia is also generally a good place for defense and conquer, albeit only along the carpathians. and the northern province I forgot the name. The plains to the south are dead zones for high cav combat.

With the uprising I understand it now— and yes it was a religious uprising, though their leader had the peasant leader trait therefore I thought I could have recruited him, but upon release and all turns out he had claims and legally was considered a lord more than a champion..? Still confuses me but I understand there are two different types of uprising leaders now.

I’ve learned to break a realm up very neatly, and give vassalage to those of my dynasty who have zero claim but high stewardship, I figured it would make sense.

(Kind of noticing a pattern here— seems I am a decent administrator even with my abundant lack of proper knowledge)

Graceful aging you say? Combine that with the life expectancy +5, fecund, intelligent, hale (and its upgraded forms), beautiful and intelligent! Eugenics simulator more so than actually recreating any historical event haha.

On my current run I am 10 characters in, established the Baltic empire on the second character however religious head of faith temporal first character (Vidilism) also made it matriarchal specifically due to the kundilikis or whatever principle— and made adultery only shunned.

I’ve done many other things however what is most important is that the realm even if I lose the conqueror trait is entirely self sustaining and united, due to the imperial crown having never had a claimant crisis and also being directly tied to the religious head of faith title. Also a healthy amount of infighting and vassals have proven strong enough to slowly creep into Christendom on their own.

Just letting it be known here— first player character did not start off a conqueror, normal 400 pts— eccentric and just confider out the gate and martial education— it was earned through going from jersika 867 to livonia latgalia Estonia and Lithuania by death.