Yea when your playing this start date Always assasinate mongols if they become too close to you and when they shatter into pieces its kinda Satisfying ngl
That is THE DUDE responsible for the Crusade against Constantinople and one of if not the greatest Venetian Doge. Enrico Dandolo got blinded before the 4th Crusade, a few years later a Crusade was called to take Egypt, the Venetians(Dandolo) used this opportunity to offer the Crusaders passage by boat if they got paid or got some services, the Crusaders accepted, there was a quick stop at Zara where they sacked the city (Catholic one held by rivals of Venice if I recall) and got threatened by excommunication from the Pope for their sacking, then they met an Angelos ex-emperor who was deposed and promised to lah the Crusaders if they put him back in the throne, the Crusaders saw this as an opportunity to repay their debt, the city was taken and when the Emperor refused to pay them they killed him and sacked the city, a lot of shenanigans happen with Constantinople being sacked again and Dandolo being offered the crown but he refuses and ,it ends up with the creation of the Latin Empire led by the Vlandereen(Flanders) Dynasty with Baldwin I and the rest is history...
@@ScreamingEagles. Ot is ok I just found it funny you were talking about him like he was some miserable old coot when he was the most powerful men on the Mediterranean for a time.
If I remember correctly the kingdom you started as was the most cocky one attacking Bulgaria and having all their court see the battle they lost and all their court get captured I think.
I'm pretty sure when you account for you not having hired the body guards for the assassinations the second one can't count as you getting unlucky and getting a second 5%: you succeeded in the assassination attempt, but the bodyguard event only shows up if they succeed in the check to prevent it.
True! After I uploaded the video I realized that I did the math wrong after the third time it happened anyways lol, so it would've been wrong regardless
I was getting mega triggered because he kept saying empire when they were kingdoms, and calling empires kingdoms... like why, oh and my guy the mongol empire never splits because of wars it splits because of deaths
@@ScreamingEagles. u could try to reclaim all the French borders from England and the HRE, or maybe take Jerusalem idk, but I’d love even more Byzantine stuff personally lol
It wasn't actually 1/400 or 1/8000, the murder scheme percentage chance just doesn't take into account Dynasty Legacies and traits, like the one that prevents murders against dynasty members, or the Seduction tree trait that causes lovers to prevent murder schemes, or the effects of your target having bodyguards.
@@ScreamingEagles. There is a similiar situation in the Elder Kings mod where you get a "mandate" of sorts. Once you have conquered the Empire you will have to pay back the people who lent you the money for your restoration campaign. Mongols aside, this could be a great way to make it more reasonable. You get cash up front and once you are the Emperor the nobles who funded you want to pay dividents. Or .. you could try to swindle them out of the money and get a rebellion event line. Just food for thought for the mod maker really.
If only the Mongols were Christian, you could ally them and see the world burn. I loved to ally them and helped them thrive. One time I played as an Iranian Christian King, I became their vassal and helped them with every freaking war. Even knocking on the romans door. And on other ocasion I became a King of India, with my immense whealth I supported their economy (the mongols usually goes bankrupt after a few big wars) to make their troops better. The managed to reached western Europe before Temujin died and ruled as a united Empire for more than 50 years. The World map looks weird lmao because the Empires got replaced by their Mongol counter parts (I didnt know you could do that). I also place my family in a lot of their thrones, especially the Ilkhanate and Golden Horde are my homies, my family rules there and I always allied them, and yes the world is basically Christian, I know that the Mongols usually converted to their most subjects, but they became Christian on Temujin time just because there is some Orthodox and Nestorian in Mongolia (they might have stayed christian because I supported them, making the muslims, jews and manicheans unable to force the Khans to convert)
Your best bet for facing the Ilkhanate will be to switch to Intrigue. Repeated assassinations will keep them from being stable enough to expand, or even have enough Alliances to defend against you if you attack. Additionally, it may disrupt them enough for their vassals to form a Dissolution Faction, which without Alliances will make them shatter easily, leaving you free to gobble up the pieces. (The repeated failures were probably due to things such as a Dynastic Legacy giving one free assassination block to each member of the Dynasty, given by the devs because the usual strat is to assassinate Temujin's inheritors until the empire shatters.) Another strat is to dip into Kidnapping. The moment that the event to kidnap fires off, declare war before selecting "Do it." The max score is 85%, but the declaration of war will plummet it down to 5%. Do not worry about this. It is still happening simultaneously and will proc off of 85%. Having the leader already in your cell makes you instantly have 100% War Score without even raising your armies or gaining the Offensive War malus to Opinion.
idk how to do the math for these chances but i got 95% on murderrer scheme that didnt work five times in a row and chat gpt said its a 1 in unlimited chance💀
You could've taken the Bulgarian Kingdom and the you would've automatically gotten those provinces or been able to conquer them later because they became independent.
I remember my first play through when the Mogul empire formed. “On, that’s pretty cool” “Man, the are wrecking everyone around them. Did they just go to war with the Byzantines and win??!!” “Marriage, Marriage, marriage!!!!”
For the first time ever, in some many strategy games, i see someone reunite the Byzantine Empire with the royal family branch of Epirus, it feels so alien lol Most do with Nicaea, the one that historically got it, i usually do with Trebizond since in my eyes is the rightful royal family, but Epirus...
