Civil War!?! :furious3:

[dgfred]

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 ?

[DensterNY]

Dang! that really stinks, especially the grizzled high quality veteran
troop part. Do you know anything you could have done to prevent that ?

Well dgfred I should have paid attention to the Princes that I had in line for succession because the new king was not a particularly good one especially since his father ruled during the golden age of my empire. Second, I had no alliances, zero, zip, zilch since I'm playing for total domination it doesn't make sense to break alliances as you lose influence. Third, I was fighting too many wars and spending too much time, energy and resources churning out troops for my war engine.

However, its not all bad though because its certainly made things interesting