His heir (King Dude II The Smart) immediately lost out on the claim of the holy land when his brother got the backing of pretty much every single vassal in the region right when King Dude Sr. This will be the last Irish army to fight in the open field in the holy land. King Dude (aka King Art I 'the Cruel') died (gloriously) whilst fighting rebels in the holy land. Just to give you an idea of how fucked up my kingdom is: I threw a huge tournament (because why not?) and as soon as it ended and people started to leave, bandits swooped down and raided every single entourage because there's more thieves guilds than toilets in the holy land at the moment. There's a bishop that holds 20 separate titles and he's pretty stoked. That's like 50 titles/lands/whatevers over limit and my court consists of 11 people and I have like 3 sons. He defeats him and imprisons him and this helps end the war immediately and my idiot king, the guy I wanted dead, instead ends up with all of Jerusalem even though he only sent 321 men. Somehow my fucking 'king' (he's not a king yet but it sounds better than 'my dude') manages to corner the leader of the caliphate in battle.

The fight is happening right outside Jerusalem and the Muslim stack is somewhere close to 12k and the Christians have 9k plus 321 brave souls from Cornwall. I look for the papal stack and I think 'hey, maybe if he dies fighting with the pope I'll get some sort of bonus'. They will join their lord in heaven and they will die in the mud outside of Jerusalem for the cause of a united Ireland. I send him down there alone with all the men he could muster from Cornwall. I don't speak medieval.ĪNYWAYS, HERE'S THE FUCKING CRAZY PART JESUS CHRIST so, I can't get my guy killed but a golden opportunity presents itself. Succession/doling out titles is the most confusing system so far. For some reason I also have Cornwall, I don't really know how or why. I spend the next three small wars trying to get him killed so my son can take over and unite Ireland with the help of his dad's war chest. My guy, meanwhile, is a bit of an asshole, known as cruel and not very intelligent. Land which I can't grant him because he's independent. Three generations later, I'm in a position where my son and heir has an independent kingdom in the middle of Ireland while I got the rest, he happens to be a genius though and for some reasons he went from 100+ to negative 60 because he wants more land. Fine I thought, and picked some guy with one region and one vassal. The most common piece of advice seemed to be 'start as someone in Ireland and learn the ropes!'.

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