Khazaria 1 Year WC - Ruthless, Abusive, and Shameless

[jwalche]

Meet my brave commanders;

They are all given a tribal holding and a titular kingdom title each. This way, they won't bother me when I transfer vassals around, and they won't take up vassal limit. I got two additional commanders who are not shown on Council screen due to some bug in subjugating Byzantine, which I don't complain. We are only seeing five because one is fighting a battle. I have intrigue invited hundreds of commanders to get enough high stat organizer commanders.

It will be a real blessing if one or two eventually get Way of Tiger training. No luck yet.

 

[jwalche]

And meet my wise council. They are given kingdom titles too, so that I won't accidentally transfer them to another vassal and loose their valuable service. I don't want to keep them as courtiers either, because then they get pruned when I abdicate between family members.

What about Court Chaplain and two Advisers? Who cares. They are just random green heart courtiers who I bought favors. Their sole duty is keeping the majority council vote, and I expect nothing more.

And why they are not tribals? Well. My mistake that is. See, I am not that good exploiter after all.

 

[jwalche]

World Map as of April 28, 769

Khazaria is doing good. Central Africa and Uyghur always present logistical challenge. But not this time. Ghana and Songhai's heirs are considering invitation to join wonderful empire. When they do, I will call some fast moving horde army from their counties to finish invasion to some key realms. After that, I will be able to create kingdoms and empires to vassalize the rest.

I called some fast-moving horde army from Bolshoy Yugan and Tui early on, and they have been marching from the northwest.

And two small horde armies, raised on Kara Khonja, have been marching from the south of Uyghur.

 

[jwalche]

I am not being too lazy with plot murdering. When Sultan Hisam meets his unfortunate event, his brother, who is already my vassal Khan, will inherit the kingdom.

But much bigger pie is Maharaja of Rashtrakuta. I can't show you, but I know that my son is still working on his plot against him even though he is not a ruler at this time. You see, you don't need to be a ruler to initiate or continue a plot. Although, a player controlled character must be a ruler to start a plot.

An indirect proof of my son's plot is still working on; Do you see that possible plot power is the same as initial plot power? That's because all his vassals and courtiers have already joined my son's plot and therefore can't join mine.

My father is working on Sultan of Africa of course. But that takes two murders so probably won't workout before I finish invading it.

 

[jwalche]

So, how did heir of Rashtrakuta ended up as my vassal khan, house arrested none the less?

On March 19, 769, then Raja Govinda's greed accepted my offer to buy a favor, for mere 200 ducats. Immediately, I took his daughter Rannadevi, a beautiful 17 years old girl as my concubine.

We celebrated little Rannadevi's arrival to our humble horde hut by making her a Khatun of her own little titular kingdom and a castle. What she didn't know was, that she would soon be led to sacrificial altar....

FOR ZUN!

And so Raja Govinda inherited little Rannadevi's little titular kingdom and became my vassal Khagan, given some gold and titles to forget his sadness, and was house arrested since then, until he become a true king by succeeding his father's legacy...

And look at him. All he wants yet is getting laid...
Shame on you Govinda.

 

[jwalche]

Things were going really well. It still is going well in game. But it's going to take some time in real because suddenly dozens of massive revolts hit my realm.
The minor clan will only help me for fast WC, because I will inherit most of the event troops. But I don't need it this time and it will slow me a bit for next couple of in game days, and perhaps 30 minutes or even an hour of real time.
My mistake. I should have maintained 8 vassal clans.

 

[jwalche]

Major Conquest Dates;

April 9, 769: Fall of Avaria

April 13, 769: Fall of Francia

April 15, 769: Fall of Byzantine

August 25, 769: Fall of Uyghur

October 5, 769: Fall of Lombardy

November 1, 769: The end is near

December 6, 769: Fall of Sindh

December 7, 769: Fall of Rashtrakuta

 

[Specialist290]

Impressive work!

 

[Tiny Turtle]

This is amazing! Very impressed.

 

[Ivashanko]

Dang. Respect.