Quote Originally Posted by DensterNY
I hate civil wars as much as the next player but say what you will it has a hell of a way of keeping the game interesting. Well into my English campaign I had my economy well tuned to feed my unending wars as I fought on three different fronts then !!!WHAM!!! my king dies and the succession is not smooth.

I guess the strain of war and my slightly green new king were not enough to hold the empire together so several generals broke off. I had to surrender many of my borders and draw back to regroup... now I'm forced to sit back and plan a way to take back lands occupied by 1200+ men armies of grizzled high quality veteran troops.
Dang! that really stinks, especially the grizzled high quality veteran
troop part. Do you know anything you could have done to prevent that ?