Crusader Kings II

[Arjos]

A game as the russian principalities seems nice.

I got bored of my Hauteville game (controlled everything from the Atlantic to Arabia and from the Alps to Africa) and started a Novgorod game days ago :)

Thanks to the alliances it's going smoothly, but Hungary claimed most of Turov, Kiev and Galich, backed by the HRE: pretty scary combo :P
Good thing Poland started a war with them ^^

had a lot of trouble keeping territories under it's banner

Give duchies to your kinsmen and you'll see assassinations daily XD
I think they are pretty stable at the start date, because that's how it was in history, iirc by 1070ish they gained most of the Middle East...