The Emirate of Bulgar is huge in my current game having already swallowed Novgorod and taken Kiev down to a single province to say nothing of what they've done to the Cumans, Mordvins, and other assorted minor powers on the steppe. I don't know why they haven't created King of Rus yet. I'm kind of excited to see how they'll fare against the Mongols. I was fairly impressed but that got me thinking about which nations are typically successful when controlled by the A.I. Pereslavl (sp?) was always the dominant Russian power in my previous games. I realize this is an overly broad question but I'm curious what other people's impressions are since I'll never really be able to get a representative sample from my own games. Conversely, which A.I. nations tend to crumble? The Iberian Christian kingdoms rarely make it into the 1100's in my games. Croatia usually falls to Berber Muslims fairly early on in my games as well. It seems the HRE generally implodes early but it then reconstitutes itself after awhile if I don't interfere.
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Pereslavl Russians always seem to do well. As does the Kingdom of Egypt and the Seljuk Sultanate. Sicily usually fares all right also.
Aside from that the AI can't manage it's armies or vassals worth a damn. XD
Aside from that the AI can't manage it's armies or vassals worth a damn. XD
The isles (Scotland, England) and Scandinavia is very stable in my games.
Also Byzantium is usually a survivor, keeps much more territory then it did historically.
Also Byzantium is usually a survivor, keeps much more territory then it did historically.
Venice, but then again they don't have vassals and thus don't have realm disruptions.
Poland usually do pretty well in my games, as do Hungary. I have often seen croatian holdings in Iberia after about a hundred years, so I guess they are still around at those times.
Poland usually do pretty well in my games, as do Hungary. I have often seen croatian holdings in Iberia after about a hundred years, so I guess they are still around at those times.
The AI can do well and conquer a lot, but holding it all together is another matter. The game I am currently playing has hardly any "solid" AI kingdoms remaining, save for Poland, Scotland and Hungary, and perhaps England, but it's currently under realm duress. Henry IV became heretical and was excomm'd in 1084 (it's 1304 now) so Germany fell apart. France was conquered by England, but that fell apart within 30 years. Castille and Aragon managed to almost completely remove the Moors from Iberia and have sizable kingdoms, but they fractured not soon after. As of now, Provence, the Papal State, Brandenburg and Aswan (! - after losing their homeland, they managed to conquer a sizable chunk of former Germany) are the most powerful duchies in Europe. Christians have conquered and held on to large portions of N Africa and penetrated deep into the Middle East, but that was done mostly by various duchies! Europe looks like a patchwork quilt now.
EDIT: Woo! I'm a Colonel now
EDIT: Woo! I'm a Colonel now
To be honest, I think the vast majority of the AI muslims seem infinitely superiour to their Christian counterparts. It's quite annoying and results in them going all over the place while Christians continue to break up ever 30 odd years.
One of the great things in CK is that every game goes differently. For example, Germany always used to break up early on in my games. In the game I'm playing now Germany managed to hold it together well into the 1100's until France, who were struggling, inherited the throne and now the maps turned blue from Spain to Poland!
The only consistant faliures seem to be the Spanish Kings, they always get taken out by the muslim kingdoms. England tends to stay pretty much static except in my current game Scotland owns most of the North and even Wales has taken some provinces.
The only consistant faliures seem to be the Spanish Kings, they always get taken out by the muslim kingdoms. England tends to stay pretty much static except in my current game Scotland owns most of the North and even Wales has taken some provinces.
I know. I'm just wondering what the trends are. In the above referenced game with the super powered Emirate of Bulgar, there is also an indepenent Prince of Dioclea that has conquered a rather large empire in North Africa. I really like when my games have those sorts of unlikely successes.
I've noticed that France usually manages to stay together, though I have no idea why, but I've never seen them completely collapse like Germany tends to. (One time they were inherited by Navarre though :rofl
Sicily almost always forms and does well in southern Italy and North Africa.
Sweden, Norway, and Scotland usually keep together, but I've never seen them really expand either.
Sicily almost always forms and does well in southern Italy and North Africa.
Sweden, Norway, and Scotland usually keep together, but I've never seen them really expand either.
I'm not far into the game at all yet, but the Spanish kingdoms are doing quite well, and the Muslims are generally failing in my campaign. Garcia Jimenez's son just declared himself King of Portugal, and Andregoto Jimenez is Queen of Castille and Leon, and owns around a 3rd of Spain. Elsewhere, the independant Duchy of Croatia seem to have gotten really into that murdering innocent muslim's thing, and now own land scattered throughout Africa. The Seljuk's failed, after the king of Beni Halal inherited Damascus, and now are a power in Syria. Though they're still getting their asses kicked by the Duchy of Croatia...