If emperor, have only one empire (though by then you should be reformed). That means if you're a duke, have only one duchy. Never have more than one title of your highest rank. Ignore the christian nations, you can't take their land because they're too strong and you can't convert them, and they (usually) won't attack you because of the attrition.īe very careful about your titles, as well. The only way to survive as a pagan is to simply be stronger than everyone else around you, since they have CBs on you as well.

As a Pagan (of any kind), you have some good, free CBs for attacking your neighbors, so use them early and often. For those who have the Old Gods DLC, what is it like playing a Defensive Pagan? When I get Old Gods I plan to try a Suomenusko Pagan and see how well I can do at reforming. Someone also formed Serbia, but I managed to take hold of France, so it's a net wash power-wise (I intend to make it Elective and then destroy it as soon as I have 10 years of reign). I managed to scrounge up a random guy from Abyssinia before my ruler died and a thousand civil wars for independence erupted in my face, the leaders dying just to spite me so that they did not have to surrender and have everyone to to jail. Update: Oh god oh god where are all of my male heirs. It's really funny how quickly things turned around from me auto-surrendering whenever the Byzantines and Magyars so much as breathed in my direction.

I've started making inroads into Anatolia and I think I finally have a pet Republic rolling - a bunch of popups announced that Genoa is back in business.

Of the other kingdoms that still hold out, Lotharingia stubbornly refuses to have useful claimants, Spain has been entirely Muslim for some time, and what's left of Poland and Lithuania are all pagans. Meanwhile my wife only gave me girls (so I can't pass the empire on to them and now will have yet another king I have to deal with). No luck - princesses are not a popular thing to have these days, it seems.

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