![]() ![]() Just manage your heirs and keep enough prestige back on to disinherit. I did switch to high partition at one point but it makes little difference. You will be stuck with confederate partition sadly. When you load back in you will have just enough time to sort any oversights before the death happens again. If this happens or you forget or your character dies unexpectedly (I had one die suddenly at 40) PAUSE the game and press home button and quit the game to the Home Screen. Be sure to disinherit other sons or your empire will be carved up after your death. Be sure to disinherit these until your own child is your heir and then you can push them as a candidate for succession by bribing/swaying other electors to vote for your son. Due to this sometimes it will select a different member of your house as an heir of your eldest child is not old enough. You will be burdened with the election process of the HRE title. Ideally you want a son to hand your titles down too. I had some problems with this with a couple of near catastrophes. With all this in mind, pay attention to your realm and make sure you make preparations for your heir. These are expensive but you do not have to maintain them and they are high quality troops to supplement your own. If I was heavily outnumber, I would hire a few regiments of mercenaries to bolster my own troops. I was still earning through war time for most of my playthrough. This not only keeps your army at a high quality but also makes them faster, less expensive and more likely to draw enemies in to smaller numbers instead of having to waste time chasing armies around the map. Every time I would raise my men at arms and stop gathering. I can honestly say I did not use them once during this playthrough. ![]() Levies are only useful in huge numbers in order to swarm smaller armies. If you select “stop gathering” then your force will not get watered down by rafts of levies. This way the game will allocate your men at arms only initially. ![]() When you raise your army, select a rally point as close to the target as possible, select the rally point and choose (raise all here) but keep the game paused. Towards the end you will be smashing them. Try to wait until the Byzantines are short of allies and transitioning between rulers in the early stages. After each war is a truce of usually 5 years so this takes a long time. There is no easy way around this, you just have to rely on your superior army and use good strategy to end wars quickly. Which is why this achievement is so hard because their empire will outsize and outman yours. The Byzantine empire will likely hold most of the areas you require. If you take it too early, you will infuriate the pope and he will excommunicate you making life very difficult. Leave the papacy until the very last (Latium). I suggest you make sure your economy is stable before starting this process as it will cost you a lot of money. If you get the option of fabricating a claim on the whole duchy then take it. Once you have a decent army at your disposal, start fabricating claims on the counties you require. Build structures that support your troop types, you can read the description to confirm before selecting. This way they will offer a range of advantages whilst also countering any form of army you come across. My recommendation is have a regiment of each troop type including siege weapons. I have tested them meticulously and can confirm that with a solid army of around 5000 men at arms you can slice through armies of up to 15000 if their quality is no more than decent. Strengthen your empire, build income generation buildings and increase your men at arms. It might take some geography checking to find the area but you can see the areas you need with this overlay activated and which holdings you will require. ![]() You can check these areas by holding the right trigger and choosing the duchies overlay. If you select this decision it will show you the territories required for this to be possible. Now you should have an option in your decisions to restore the Roman Empire. Once this is done you become the Holy Roman Emperor and have a vast empire at your disposal. I then had him murdered by upping my intrigue tree skills and bribing agents. Ok here goes nothing… I achieved this as Duke Vratislaus of Bohemia in 1066…I chose intrigue style to fabricate a hook on the holy Roman emperor and them forced him to elect me as next in line to the throne. ![]()
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