Yegorlyk to Georgia - a CK Dynasty!

[Abe Sargent]

July 4- I order a Dye Works in Khwarizm

Sept 21 – Three of the provinces in the Byzantine circle have declared for three of my princes – Itil, Mazanadar and the Uber-Prince. Three more provinces without fighting or firing a gun.

Oct 27 – I give in to demands in Azerbaijan and the rebellion there ceases

I order a church in Azerbaijan while I;m here. Templar House in Kurdistan

Jan 20, 1193 – I send a fosterling to the Prince of Samos

Feb 1 – I order a Templar House in Dailem

Feb 27 – My steward dies, and I appoint my wife as the new one

June 4- Wonder of wonders, my wife is expecting!!!!!

Remember, this heir may be the one fighting the Mongols, so Georgia needs a good one.

June 9 – Kasogs discovers dismounted knights

Sept 27 – Troubadoors spread to Kasogs

Oct 9 _+ The church wants some extra gold, since my lands are doing well. I choose to give them some, with a 50% chance for a stability drop, and a Piety raise. The other options are a 100% drop and much higher raise, and then refuse, and gain skeptical. I get a piety boost, and luckily, we dodge the -1 stability

Oct 12 – I order a church built in Khawarizm

Nov 18 – I order a church in Bilyar as well

Dec 19 – I order – Church in Nishapur, Khorasan, Bukhara, Maverannahr

Jan 11, 1194 – Luckily, the Count of Ryn Desert died. Yay!

Mar 1 – Meet our heir, Suarn of Yegorlyk.

Mar 25 0 I order a church built in Pereysaslavl

June 6 – I order a large church in Azerbaijan.

For a while my ally was a small county in Southern Italy, and they went to war with a one province muslim nation on Sicily. I went with them. Then they lost, and now they are allies with that nation, and went to peac,e but I am still at war, so I have ordered our Napoli army assembled and moving to that province..

June 30 – We drove away the muslims from Siracusa, and are besieging them now.

Sept 9 – A pretty wench catches my eye. I indulge my sense, hoping to get lustful. I failed, but I do have a basted son named Aton.

Sept 15 – I capture and take Siracusa in peace:

Siracusa – 12 ducats are made by the prosperous Greek Muslims. On the rest of Sicily you have the Turks, Croatia, the county of Reggio, and the Sultanate of Zenata. I order a Medium Castle built here.


What am I doing in Sicily? Well, we have Napoli, it’s not that far away, I have tons of Greece, it’s not that far away, it’s in the hands of Muslims, it meets my criteria for taking. I didn’t think I would take it any time soon, but a door opened, and I drove through it.

[Abe Sargent]

Sept 25 – My bastard son gained honest after I chose not to kill him when my Spy Master told me there was a way to off him. I want him. This is a good thing.

Oct 3 – Poland is having Realm Duress

Nov 18 – Mangyshyk has gone rogue from Zenata. I DOW them and order in the Khwarizm army

Jan 30, 1195 –

Mangyshlak – This Muslim Turkish province was the last one on the Caspian. I order a Tile Factory here. It’s Struggling, with thieve,s and making just 3 ducats I hand it off to a cousin.

Mar 28 – Epiros switched from Byzantium to my perfect prince.

Let’s look at all of the provinces that the Prince of Trebizond has brought for me:

Initially, it was just his province in Trapezous.

He brought in the Principality of Coloneia. Chaldea and Koloneia. He had Meletine for a while, but it went back to Byzantium, and thence to the Turks until I recaptured it for him.

I captured Theodosiopolis for him.
He gained the prince of Athens Title, with the three provinces that go along with that. Other provinces he got:

Napoli
Epieros
Thasselenike
Philippolis
Dorostotum
Herakleia
Khopyor
Mesopotamia
Taron
Torzhok
Livs
Velaliyi Luki
Veliky Ustag
Corfu


That’s NINETEEN provinces him and his predecessors have brought in for me. That’s crazy awesome.

Oh, it appears we lost Rhodos, Byzantium inherited back. Boo

[Abe Sargent]

May 17 – I send my heir to the monks. He gains modest.

June 1 – I order the construction of training grounds in Dailam

June 13 – And a large church in Khwarizm

July 2- Large Churches in Khorasan and Nishapur

Aug 21 – Large Church in Bukhara

Aug 24 – After rebels in Emba defeated the local army, I ordered in Khwarizm troops and busted them up.


Oct 3 – I have become Crazed, -5 to my attributes

Nov 16 - Corfu DOWs Athens. I order my Siracusa army up and to move out.

Apr 30, 1196 – I send my bastard to nobles.

May 6 – We win in Corfu and begin a siege

Aug 1 – I order up a smithy in Tmutarakan

Sept 17 – I vassalize Corfu and took 500 of their gold.

Sept 22 – The Muslim nation of Tao declared independence from Byzantium after rebels controlled it. It’s in Armenia and right beside me.

Dec 1 – I DOW Tao and order an army I had arrive in Guria into it

Dec 29 - We vassalize the muslim Tao, and then I send 300 gold to the guy to help build his realm.

Of that large encircled area of Byzantium nations we had, they are down to just three provinces

Why do that?

I claim the King of Armenia title. My third one!

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 16, 1197 – My Diocese Bishop dies and I have no replacements

Apr 10 – Probably because of my low diplomacy and craziness – many of my vassals are becoming rebellious. I;m also only making 80 ducats a month, not enough to keep paying everyone down. I lost 1000 gold in the last year, despite bringing in an extra 500 from Corfu

June 1 – I order Waterwheels in Byzantion

June 5 – I have a lot of Yegorlyk’s in my court right now, and one just became an 18 Martial Brilliant Strategist! Nice! He’s my new Marshal

Sept 2 – I marry that awesome Marshal to a 16 year old Muslim from Persia that just finished her ecclesiastical education and is now orthodox, and really good. I like bringing new blood into the family when I can

Sept 25 – The Inquisition spreads to Kasogs


Apr 9, 1198 – Half Plate spreads to Kasogs

June 1 – I;m again having the occasional vassal get rebellious

Aug 15 – The one province Muslim of Teluch has formed right below my provinces in Meletine and Lykanos. Normally I’d DOW it and take it right this second, but now I have to play it close to the vest with my 0 diplomacy

Nov 16 – I order a Monastery in Siracusa

Jan 11, 1199 – I give away Dailam to a nice courtier

Mar 2 – Chortitza has DOWed and declared themself free from Crimea. I join Crimea’s war against them. I order the Pereyaslavl regiment in.

Mar 3 – After I crush tensions there, Maverannahr is now looted and Orthodox

Mar 30 – We win in Chortitza and I disband the boys and let Crimea finish it

July 22 – Chortitza is retaken by the prince of Crimea

Aug 15 – Maverannahr is now free from lootage

Aug 27 – After clothmaking spreads there, I order a spinning mill built in Bukhara

Sept 22 – My son will be given a court education

Dec 4 – My 55 year old mother died and I inherited her 1000 gold and county. I give it away after ordering the construction of a Medium Castle and it lowers my badboy a bit more.

It’s now -1.5

Dec 10 – I crush the nobles in Bukhara and its now rebelling, looted and Orthodox

[Abe Sargent]

July 16, 1200 – I order a smithy in Siracusa

Aug 3 – Bukhara is no longer looted

Aug 29 – I get a Bishop to my court, and we get a Diocese Bishop finally

Nov 28 – Dye Works ordered in Bukhara

May 8, 1201 – I give in to demands the rebellion ends in Bukhara

Aug 26 – Our stability drops to 2 due to poor management

Oct 17 – I order a large castle in Siracusa

Oct 23 – I order a smithy in Maverannahr

Nov 8- I’ve never actually had a crazy king before, and now I can say something else is new. My King has retired to a Monastery to live out the rest of his life there. I’ve never seen that with a monarch before. Courtiers, sure, leaders, no. It has got to be the crazy in him.

New King:

Suarn of Yegorlyk
Age 7

Court Training, Modest

3/5/5/4

Of course, he’s still young and developing

I claim the Prince of Khwarizm title, which gives him a total of105 prestige

I hand out gold, but the despite low scores, the people seem to really love me. It’s probably my low badboy (-1) and the fact that I am not crazy.

I anticipate going to war soon, and grabbing some territory. Probably a small war here or there to remind people that we exist.

[Abe Sargent]

Nov 23 - I DOW the one province rebelling Muslim nation of Aintab and order armies from Edessa and Meletine to move in

Nov 27 – Egypt does not like us trying to poach one of their wayward provinces and DOWs us back

Well, I wasn’t looking for war with Egypt, but I’ll take it – Egypt has been leaking provinces lately, and is much weaker than you may think. They only have about half the provinces in Egypt itself, let alone elsewhere. There’s no many provinces I even want.

Jan 11, 1203 – I send my bastard half-brother to court for education

Jan 12 – I take peace for 853 ducats from one of the Egypt minors. I need the gold

Feb 8 – After a 2 month long battle, we lose in Aintab

Mar 16 – We win in Aintab and win a siege

May 19 – The Count of Yegorlyk is now my rival

Oct 30 – Rebellion in Bilyar after a Firebrand preacher arrives

[Abe Sargent]

Dec 8 – Today is the biggest WTF??? Moment in Crusader Kings ever. I just inherited….Byzantium? How did that happen? I save the game, and reload, because I must not have been paying attention or something.

Okay, the Byzantine Emperor was 45, and died of old age. His only son is a bastard. They have semisalic primogeniture. How am I that? My mother doesn’t even have a dynastic name? The Emperor of Byzantium is Stepan II of Murom. Is that a a family name I married into? Let me take a look and see if I can find the intersection.

Okay, I found the connection between the three kids after me. They are the sons of a Yegorlyk female (sister of my grandfather, the one who was never king but whose generation missed being King)

I found the connection. Here it is. The reason I don’t recall the name is simple:

Buriberdi, the son of Uturku was married by his father for political reasons to Simonis of Murom.

They had three children:

Aspar II
Rusudan
Eiriene

Aspar II had one son, me, Suarn of Yegorlyk

Rusudan married Saris Rostilovich and had three male children

Eiriene married Andronikos of Alania, the Count of Manych and Kuma. They had no children.


Simeon of Murom was the Emperor of Byzantium. He had eight children, only two of which were males.

The oldest boy was Rurik of Murom, who died at age 19 without any children

His other boy was Stepan II of Byzantium, who became Emperor. His only child was a bastard boy.

The oldest of the daughters was Simonis of Murom. Her four heirs are me, and then the three boys of Rusudan. Thus, we are the four heirs of her brother, who died without any direct heir.


That means, we have in many ways, just won the game.

[Abe Sargent]

At this point, how hard is it to take on the Mongols? Map time!

[Abe Sargent]

And let me get you a more Russian one

[Abe Sargent]

I’m sure you can see how effective I’d be vs…well…anyone really.

It’s a bit big for a gift. And I can’t reload and keep going as just me. This guy was 45 and severely wounded with a 44 year old wife. He’s not spawning a man child before dying. This happened because of a marriage I did a long time ago, and I honestly didn’t even notice I was their heir.

King of Khazaria, Armenia, Georgia, Rus, and Byzantium.

I inherited about 20 Prince titles






I create the King of Bulgaria title.

Now I’m six Kings

Once my personal demesne provinces get back up, I’ll have about 500,000 in manpower, at least.

So, I have a question I need to figure out. Do I keep going on?

I was thinking about trouncing the Mongols, and then finishing the Black Sea area and Persia, Turkey, fighting for more provinces peacefully from Byzantium, etc. Then at the end of the dynasty, hopping to EU3 and trying it out there for a while.

But now? Do I want to play until 1400, another 200 years, when the game is a foregone conclusion?

Nah, I’m thinking I won, yay me!

[Abe Sargent]

On the other hand, part of me would like to take it to a few opponents. I have 23 provinces and roughly 20 prince titles. I can drop my BB several times, and I expect I could take a few from an enemy, then drop my b, and then take a few more – etc.

Dec 13 – 5 days later I finally take Aintab in peace


I want to finish out the pagans in the north. Finish Russia, and then blow through and finish taking the high Baltic area – Latvia, Estonia and so forth – basically Livonia. I want to blast through the rest of Turkey and Armenia Minor. I want to blast down from my Caspian holdings to the Persian Gulf and have land connections from the Mediterranean and Aegean through the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, to the Aral Sea and Persian Gulf and then up to the Baltic Sea. That's crazy.

[Tellistto]

Did they change it in the expansion so that the Mongols would still attack once you reached a certain manpower level? I know way back when they'd just sit there and do nothing if your manpower was over a certain limit.

[Abe Sargent]

No clue, I've never been this big this fast from a one province.