Crusader Kings II Challenge - An Empire Divided

**Arjos** · 04-22-2012, 23:22

Originally Posted by The Stranger

you have to start over tho, im much faster :P

I respect peace treaties! XD

**The Stranger** · 04-22-2012, 23:31

you do? :O

(I only do that against ppl of the same religion XD not only for this challenge)

**rickinator9** · 04-22-2012, 23:38

Disrespecting truces with the infidel has no drawbacks. You can't interact with them anyway.

**The Stranger** · 04-23-2012, 01:24

First

The rest of the shots turned into the Chronicles of the Empire of Rum will follow later.

Also I edited out the year, so the challenge will remain for other players!

**Monk** · 04-23-2012, 01:50

@The Stranger

If you want you can decline the prize, but I would still like to acknowledge your victory.

Please send me your save game either by email or upload it to http://www.mediafire.com/ , you can create a free account and get 200mb of storage for nothing. More than enough for this.

My email is monk643[at]gmail.com

**The Stranger** · 04-23-2012, 01:52

i havent won yet have i? other ppl might be faster still.

I will send it soon. I might want to try again, i think i can be faster than i have been now.

**Monk** · 04-23-2012, 02:01

Originally Posted by The Stranger

i havent won yet have i? other ppl might be faster still.

I will send it soon. I might want to try again, i think i can be faster than i have been now.

Thus far you are the first to report a complete de jure victory. The standings won't be updated until confirm it your victory, however. Upload it at your own pace.

As per the rules you are permitted to try as many times as you like and submit your best time for prize consideration. Or, as i have said, you may decline the prize as well. That is your option

If you don't mind me asking, how does usurping Emperor titles work? I've never done that before. Is it just like usurping any other title? You hold half the de jure and then boom you get the option?

**Monk** · 04-23-2012, 02:04

@scottishranger

Welcome to the fray! Another Byzantine player, very good. I bet rickinator9 was feeling a bit lonely.

You're off to a great start, having already recaptured Constantinople. Very good!

**scottishranger** · 04-23-2012, 01:58

Dangg stranger very nice

Well to start off my own adventure, I am playing as The true Byzantine Empire!

To begin Basileus Theodoros I declared war on the traitors of the Despote of Trebizond, and claimed the provinces of Sinope and Amisos as de jure parts of the Byzantine Empire. Trebizond put up a good fight, but in the end the Byzantine Army, aided by the Varagian Guard and the Rus Band, triumphed, with help from Genoa who declared war to seize Cherson.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/59...2F7746C5865BE/

During this time my brother Manuel revolted against my rightful rule, taking his province of Heraklia into rebellion. Since he revolted during wartime, I crushed him and banished him to the farthest reaches of Christendom, seizing all his titles and money.

I also had 1 daughter and 2 sons born.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/59...18113C054EF07/

Next I claimed the Eastern half of Krete to retake, and successfully usurped the title of Duchy of Krete after its conquest

The greatest success so far though has been drumroll..... THE RETAKING OF CONSTANTINOPLE

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/59...129CE02C1D277/

Theodoros noticed that the vile usurpers were engaged in both the Crusade for Jerusalem and in a ducal war against Epirus. Taking advantage of this, his eminence raised his armies and set forth to reconquer the ancestral capital. After Constantinople, Thrakia, the islands of Naxos and Gallipoli were taken, the cowardly Latins sued for peace and The Duchy's of both Thrakia and Adrianople were retaken

and thats my progress so far...