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'Incidental Costs'

Year is like 1023 or something now.  Aztecs landed, and while I still hate my own gripes with the dlc, they do add a 'horde' from the west.

I consolidated lithuania into an empire, and purposely tried not to snowball further.  Went as far as rugen, but only begrudgingly took anything inland that far west.  I did reform the religion since the norse were converting, and orthodoxy was spreading as far as oman down south, and the character who did it was into religion.

The Shia revolt took over the byzantines and became a proto-ottoman emnpire.  the Sunnis of Arabi were splintered into Persia + a million pieces that slowly reformed.  The Khazarian state swooped in and claimed the Throne, but lost the provinces in the succession.  The surviving members of Byzantia are in greece and sardinia - they had sicily and almafi became a power for a while, but then a norse revolt snowballed, spawned adventurers who took all of sicily and then gobbled up Greece and Eventually Denmark.  Some courtiers of Byzantia fled to Nubidia and successfully took mecca from the muslims, forming a large egyptian state.

The mongols Never got past Tibet - they conquered the region briefly before converting to Hindu and settling down on the Asian Steppes.  They continue to exist over there, chilling with about 30k event troops - in what I can only hope is an enlightened despotism.

Francia the empire gobbled up half of Spain, and half of pannonia.  With 70k troops and holding bohemia from me, we went to war.  I had been donating any land outside my empire dejure lands to various benefactors, including Denmark, Finland, Vladimir, and Ruthenia.  This was a slow process that I didnt strive for, and I actively sought to revoke any realm holdings and grant them independence.  As various religions rose and fell, free tribes around me sought to convert.

So, with a huge swath of allies, tribal vassals, tributary states that I subdued so as to protect them from the nomads, and marriage ties to said nomads, We invaded a 70k troop yr970ish HolyRomebutnotreally France and we won.  That was neat.  Then the plague comes and kills all the hardened warriors.

The aztecs landed on Aquitaine and Ireland.  They swept into Denmark taking it from Sicily who took it from my allies.  They even took Paris from Francia at the end, but I used the situation and the pagan ability to raid to kill 65k of their event troops as a non-belligerent by picking good fights.

The real winner of the Aztec invasion of France of me for taking them down from 150k to 70kish in a war I wasnt even a part of while dodging both hostile parties.  I camped a small army offshore and selectively landed to raid both france and aztecs to maintain supply and control hostilities.

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The world is currently split into Francia, a 25kish Sicily, The Shia-ottomans, Hindu Mongols, A (large) free Welsh state competing with the Aztecs in England, Uyymads of most of west africa, an orthodox mecca, me and my collection of tribals, and whatever the hell is going on in india.  The Chinese empire came out once to threaten me about paying tribute, but nothing ever happened as a result of my refusal.

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