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There actually is a way to do that, although I'm not computer savvy enough to have ever tried.

Current situation: The Komnenoi family have been Emperors for the whole game. However, by chance the game had made Methodios Tagaris, one of the Empire most prominent generals, Caesar (heir). Methodios didn't get along with the last Basileus and the latter declared war on him (nothing really happened as everyone was too afraid to come out and fight eachother).

More recently Caesar Methodios seceded from the Empire, but both his player and the Basileus's had their characters killed off for various reasons. The game made Methodios' son Tagaris the new Basileus and Adronikos Komnenos the Caesar.

While this is going on Ioannis Erotikos killed a member of the Order of Saint John (House controlling the Levant) and stole his army. However, the other characters don't know what happened for sure and he has been claiming to be looking for the real killer (sounds very O.J. Simpsonish... ). Joining him is Kousinos Sophianos, who also managed to trick an army from the Order (or the Order is in on it. Truthfully we likely won't know everything until long from now). They marched all the way to Const "Looking for the real killer". Once arriving close to the capital, they announced that the old and now deceased Basileus was the killer and that Kousinos was really the illegitimate child of Anna Komnenos and Makedonios Ksanth...something or other, who had an affair and secret child in a story from months ago. Through this claim of Komnenoi blood Sophianos declared himself the rightful Emperor and declared war on the old emperor's nephew that was in the capital, Ioannis Komnenos III, Caesar Andronikos Komnenos, and Basileus Ioannis Tagaris.

Right after this happened Andronikos declared he was the rightful Basileus, Ioannis Tagaris being the son of a rebel with no great deeds to his name. Meanwhile Ioannis III declared that the old Basileus (note, the old Basileus and this new Ioannis Komnenos had the same player) had named him Emperor of the western half of the Empire.

Thus the succession wars started.

Did I mention we are deep in debt, assailed on both sides of the Empire by foreign enemies, and have at least one more civil conflict in which Ammonathas Kalameteros of House Asteri declared war on Senator Appionas (inactive character holding two settlements) and faced a counter declaration from my character?

Erotikos and Kousinos then fled from the area of Constantinople, possibly because they seemed at risk of being badly outnumbered, although I do not presume to know for sure the cause of any of their actions. Now they're coming back around the same road, though whether to Const or to grab Sinope or something I have no idea.

Basileus Tagaris is going after the Turks and hoping to stay out of the wars. Caesar Andronikos challenged Erotikos and Sophianos to a battle and is marching in their general direction but has little chance of reaching them now that they're running in the opposite direction again. That, plus a number of mountains in their way make for a long march in the best of times.

These movements, plus the agonizingly long march Erotikos and Sophianos had made to Constantinople to begin with, gave rise to the coined by longtime player flyd name for the war as The War of Marching Around a Lot.