People weren't kings of nicely shaped realms and everyone did what the King said. The border gore does get crazy, but border gore was kind of the normal then. Or don't murder anyone and then notice that your cousin the Duke of Burgundy switched to Seniority succession.
Play as the Duke of Toulouse and murder your half-brother to make yourself heir to all your Farther's lands. Or have the Umayad sultan killed when you notice he has exactly 1 son who is 3 - enjoy your 12+ years of civil wars, Umayads! Breaking up the Karling realms because it suits you and then reuniting them because the Umayads are coming. Plus there seem to be lots of opportunities to make big changes in the world with some well-placed murders. Or Karl crushes everyone and forms a super-HRE. Oh look Karl died in battle in 770 and Karloman is now King of everything but now he's had 5 sons and then died himself. I quite like 769 because it seems to produce different results each time. I decided to stay put there as a merchant republic and wait for the 867-1453 achievement a little while ago, but ended up with a claim on the Bengal Empire 400 years in - so I decided to turn the Dyre's distant Norse descendant into the Samrat Chakravartin instead. Lanka can quickly be turned into a merchant republic if you give up Norse paganism, or into a tribal den of viking nastiness if you don't. My personal recommendation is taking Dyre's family (Dyre is unlikely to get there in his lifetime) to Lanka, since their isolation makes them reliably a 5-6 county kingdom for the first century, and an easy target for a prepared invasion. I've never taken Dyre to Mongolia but I presume he's your man if you want the Norse Mongolia achievement without blobbing the whole way there. Compared to Holmgardr (difficult to get through to the Black Sea) and Nantes (pretty distant from the Med and fewer easy stepping stones) you're in a pretty good position to go wherever you want. That can easily make you King of Nubia in Dyre's lifetime, which acts as a stepping stone to basically dominating any place of your choice on the Indian Ocean.īeing probably the most distant Viking King Dyre gets the chance to attack nations that tend to get destroyed in the first decade, meaning you can get through the Suez without having to fight off a Muslim Sultan or Caliph. If you immediately attack the Emirate of Crete you can get a foothold on the Med, which can then be used to get another county on the Red Sea. Not only do you have event troops, but you also have 500 gold (easily enough to hire the Finnish band for a few years or more) and event ships. King Dyre the Stranger of Konungardr is the best start in the entire game in my opinion.
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