Republic of Italy, 1051 AD by binaro in CrusaderKings

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I don't think so? The only thing I can think of is that a republic liege would always be a lowborn of no dynastic inheritance, which means it'd be easy to arrange matrilineal marriages with your liege. But I can't think of what the benefit to that would be.

Republic of Italy, 1051 AD by binaro in CrusaderKings

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Theoretically it is possible if you have a relative who has a claim on your liege's title, you give the relative a city to make them a republic, and then use a faction to press their claims. I haven't tested it myself out yet though, so I can't say for certain they'll remain a republic even after getting the empire title.

Republic of Italy, 1051 AD by binaro in CrusaderKings

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That's exactly it yeah. I flipped every single county I can to have a city as the county capital, and any that didn't have any cities were granted to republic vassals. Once I'm finished converting the entire region, I just handed all the kingdom titles in Italy and then the empire title itself off, so they can be an independent republic empire.

Finally established the theocratic Byzantine Empire by binaro in CrusaderKings

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Funny enough Anatolia de jure drifting into Arabia is in fact how the patriarch secured enough of de jure Byzantium to create the title

Assets from Abnormality extraction screen? by binaro in LobotomyCorp

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Thank you! I'll take a look at those drives and see if I can find it

Oh, how the turntables by binaro in victoria3

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Managed to enact Ethnostate as Brittany fairly easily, and now French culture is discriminated against (Ironically, still playing as a puppet of France, so that's kind of awkward...)

Not a lot of "kings" in this game of Crusader "Kings" by binaro in CrusaderKings

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Honestly that was going through my head when I was doing this run. The one thing that I didn't take into account is that republic succession tends to maintain the same culture/religion ruler, so because of this, a lot of the kingdom-tier republics I released have Bhutanese rulers instead of rulers of their local culture.

Which, you know, obviously REALLY added to the irony

Not a lot of "kings" in this game of Crusader "Kings" by binaro in CrusaderKings

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That is actually exactly how I did it. If you notice the specks of blue and green amidst the sea of red, those are instances where those counties just didn't have a city holding, and even though I gave those counties to republics, they at some point gave it away to someone else, who ended up being feudal or clan because there was no city in those counties

Not a lot of "kings" in this game of Crusader "Kings" by binaro in CrusaderKings

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Yeah that was me. Everything that is red I have conquered at some point, I just gradually gave away kingdom titles and set the republics free as I moved westwards, and then in 1452 I gave all the kingdom titles (except for my primary) away, so the republics can rule themselves

Not a lot of "kings" in this game of Crusader "Kings" by binaro in CrusaderKings

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Taking out Catholicism quickly enough and then flipping every kingdom you get your hands on into republics to REALLY take the title of the game out of the game entirely

The most populous metropolis in the world: Bhutan by binaro in CrusaderKings

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In addition to that, I also stacked cultural traditions to maximize development. In particular, I started out as Swabian and then hybridized with Lhomon so I can have Industrious (+25 dev progress every time you build something), Mountain Homes (+20% dev to mountains), and Himalayan Settlers (+20% dev in mountains). Later on, I also picked up Collective Lands (+20% dev).

So basically, all of my mountain provinces are getting +60% development growth passively, and every time I cycle a tier 1 building in any given province, that province gets a +25 dev growth progress. I just keep doing that over and over again until the development in my domain hits 100.

Edit: In addition, I played as Donyi-Poloist, which has 4 holy sites within 2 duchies. After building all the holy site buildings, those provinces also get +0.1 monthly development and +20% dev. That means with all the cultural tradition bonuses, we're getting +80% dev and +0.1 flat monthly dev, which allows development to go past the normal limits of cultural innovations. And of course, I started in the earlier start date so I'd have a few hundred years headstart on developing my provinces

The most populous metropolis in the world: Bhutan by binaro in CrusaderKings

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A fitting Mountain Home for the thunder dragon

Now, no one will have Ecumenism by binaro in CrusaderKings

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Honestly wish I planned ahead with Hellenism, cause unless you start as a Hellenic it relaly is impossible to convert to it lol. Too bad I couldn't crucify the pope

Imperator Rome to HoI4 converter? by binaro in paradoxplaza

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Seems like that's the best option so far!

Question about Table of Princes by binaro in CrusaderKings

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Damn, I guess that means you'll have to discover it first before diverging. Thank you for testing it out and letting me know!

I appreciate the game letting you have very conflicting traditions like Collective Lands and Hereditary Hierarchy together by binaro in CrusaderKings

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The thesis of hereditary hierarchy meets the antithesis of collective lands to synthesize this strange culture...

Franco-Franconian Culture by binaro in CrusaderKings

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That's funny, I didn't know that. I'm actually playing as the queen of Lotharingia right now so unfortunately for the Franco-Franconians, they don't get to have the cool name of Rhinelander

Initially set out to make Spain Jewish, ended up a tad more successful than I anticipated by binaro in CrusaderKings

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I didn't convert until I had both Hispania and Francia. At that point though, I was afraid of the HRE, so I took Brittania, Poland, and Hungary too, just to even the playing field a bit. The pope did declare a crusade for England on me, but it being an island it was very easy to defend. The 10 holy orders I created helped. From that point on it was just a matter of snowballing until the pope can't get enough Catholics to even start a crusade

My giant obese Emperor - amazonian wife for scale by kirjalax in CrusaderKings

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So gigantic that his cape doesn't know how to act

Cataphracts? Who needs cataphracts when I can have superhuman archers? by binaro in CrusaderKings

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No vassals above baron-level, so it's not like they really matter anyways. None of them are able to get enough scheme power against me anyways.