Civil wars for independence or claimants are just too easy to pull off, it would be nice if there were some other things factions could fight about that could act as a release valve for disgruntled AI vassals without always shattering the map into mosaic tiles or causing ridiculous forever-wars between claimants. As it stands, England is a more unified and powerful kingdom than France at the start of 1066, which feels completely backwards.īut ultimately the issue is larger than any one case. In the case of France specifically, which really suffers the most in my experience, it should either include Aquitaine and Toulouse as De Jure (with a decision to reassert their independence and remove De Jure status, similar to the "Unite the Burgundies" decision), or France should get the Francia empire title at the start of the game. It basically amounts to a permanent split from France. Is anyone else having this experience?Ĭlick to expand.While you're not wrong, the problem as I see it is that once say, Aquitaine, breaks away from France, there's virtually no way for the AI French King to reassert his control over it. It got to the point where I started playing with Higher Realm Stability turned on, just to maintain some semblance of historicity, but this also makes the game too easy for the player. I play 1066 for that increased stability, but these days it feels more and more like I'm playing 867. Obviously this is not necessarily a bad thing and should have a chance to happen, but it seems to happen every game. Byzantium and England are the only powers I've seen that consistently avoid this weirdness, for some reason, and actually expand enormously. The Seljuks also have this problem, hardly ever staying unified long enough to pose a threat to Byzantium. France seems to have the worst of it, I've even seen them shatter entirely and the kingdom title be destroyed several times. Similarly, the HRE is completely powerless to hang on to Italy and most of the alpine counties. Not even 50 years into 1066 France is basically guaranteed to be split from Aquitaine and Toulouse. Factions rise a lot as a player too and usually I can manage them well enough, but the AI of large realms seem completely incompetent. I don't know if this is some byproduct of Royal Court or if I'm just getting unlucky, but nearly every time I play in 1066, France and the HRE get torn apart by factions very easily.
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