So, in 978, byzantine is not on the table when they are unfied. 35k to my 25k or so.
I just finished sieging Rome to end their petty little crusade whille raiding italy to support my vassal germany in their effort to take land.
Hispania actually lost most of spain for a while, but are creeping back in. For a while castille was the dominant iberian power. As it is, they are now the de jure holders of brittany. What a joke.
Egypt is the most powerful mussie, excepting maybe syria. Khazaria has finally stopped reeling long enough to retake Rus, and Ruthenia is now mine. I had a string of bad emperors, and cheating wives who needing murdering. their sons also required murdering. We almost lost the empire due to the thinning of the male lineage until a daughter with a non-pisskop was the heir. But we fixed that.
Gonna keep going for a while to see what happens. The catholic world is dead; shattered into heresies and a mixture of norse and my own conquests. Speaking of, sweden and danmark are my religion now, as are several smaller counties around me. those arseholes.
For my own, I just finished dowing every single small state next to me at once, in an attempt to game the stupid 'defensive alliance' system. nom nom nom