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The Patriarch of the East is helping an Emir of the Abbasid in a Tyranny war. There are no diplomatic links what so ever between the patriarch and the Emir.
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So as usual, there was some serious rivalry between Pisa and Venice over the rights of whose cargo ships can dock where. Pisa gets too mad at Venice, and doesn't care how dishonorable it is. They went for the Pay to Win way, and hired a mercenary group called the Company of the Rose.

Years later, they found out that you can't assault Venice without boats. So their mercs were sitting around just smoking all the money that Pisa was pouring out...and eventually, it all went dry. Pisa couldn't pay the debt, and the mercs came calling for their pay.

Which naturally, Pisa couldn't give them a single gold coin. So they went on a repossession spree.

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Needless to say, I think repossession went fairly well! Remember kids, don't hire if you can't pay.
 
So as usual, there was some serious rivalry between Pisa and Venice over the rights of whose cargo ships can dock where. Pisa gets too mad at Venice, and doesn't care how dishonorable it is. They went for the Pay to Win way, and hired a mercenary group called the Company of the Rose.

Years later, they found out that you can't assault Venice without boats. So their mercs were sitting around just smoking all the money that Pisa was pouring out...and eventually, it all went dry. Pisa couldn't pay the debt, and the mercs came calling for their pay.

Which naturally, Pisa couldn't give them a single gold coin. So they went on a repossession spree.

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Needless to say, I think repossession went fairly well! Remember kids, don't hire if you can't pay.
AI ordering mercs and not using them because of lack of boats sounds like bug-report material if you have the saves.
 
-0.5 health and still kicking! To my recollection he lived for quite a few years after this, the first few rulers of this playthrough were very long lived.

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Imagine the NERVE of that guy sitting all day on his lazy *** doing nothing!
And in MY OWN dungeon!
Preposterous!

(bonus: great going Abyssinia!)
 
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Uh, Easterners? Who needs Vasco da Gama; talk about who needs Ferdinand Magellan!
 
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My characte took a moment to reminicise about the mother he sent as a concubine to China whilst travelling to the same place as if she had died. She could still be alive there.

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Imagine the NERVE of that guy sitting all day on his lazy *** doing nothing!
And in MY OWN dungeon!
Preposterous!

(bonus: great going Abyssinia!)

It looks more like the Fatimid Caliph usurped Abyssinia and made it his primary title there.
 
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My characte took a moment to reminicise about the mother he sent as a concubine to China whilst travelling to the same place as if she had died. She could still be alive there.

Actually, that makes sense to me. He's following in her footsteps and remembering her.
 
I've got a game where East Francia ended up inherited by West Francia, and Lotharingia ended up going to Burgundy and Ostlandet. Ostlandet then collapsed somehow and it's been taken up by Lotharingia again, so now Lotharingia is the Ruhr Valley and a huge chunk of Norway.

The Byzantine Empire expanding seems simple, in comparison.

I figured I should give evidence.
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