Took out CK2 for yet another playthrough. This time as an Indian faction. Managed to unify India after 500+ years..
Played as Ayudha, progressed pretty quick at the start with the Subjugation CB on other Indian nations. But once I unified the entire north, Rasktrakuta unified the south and I can't Subjugate it, no idea why. And had to use the slow process of fabricating claims and attacking counties one by one or a handful of them with one war. India has a lot of provinces so it's a lot to go through. I should've played the marriage game but I suck at it. The empire before the marriage game
http://oi67.tinypic.com/29mkbqh.jpg Until one day, the enemy king asked for me to marry off my daughter to his son who is the heir to his empire. I took awhile to think if there will be any complications since it meant I won't be able to attack them anymore until either my daughter or his son dies. I agreed eventually. The old enemy king died and the son took over the southern empire. To test my luck, I made a plot to kill of his son. To my surprise, I actually managed to get 80% plot power for some reason. Plot succeeded and the young king got assassinated. They had a daughter (who is my niece) in that few years before he died. And that daughter took over the empire. I went back to check the CBs, and this time I could declare war on the entire Rasktrakuta empire for my wife. I immediately declared war on my 2 year old niece, won and my wife took over as Empress over the rival empire. Now, of course, me and my wife shared the same heir, who is my son. I formed an alliance with her and waited till the pair died. Son took over naturally and unified India through succession.
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