100 years later, I'm a Viking Emperor of a Norse Scandinavia.īooyah. Started in 867 as Harald Fairhair, Jarl of Ostlandet. It seems like assembling a duke-free kingdom is a headache-free way to govern, I'm wondering if I am missing a downside? They won't gain me land since I have all the territory in them already, primarily gained through crusades.
I have two duchies of my own, and I think there are two other dukes out there which is an easy number to manage so I'm in no hurry to create more. I even eliminated the Kingdoms of Leon and Navarra, simply because I didn't want to manage their succession (and have their vassals well enough in hand). My question is, what benefit is there to creating duchies, aside from using it as casus belli for missing pieces of land? I have something like 4-5 now that I can create, but it's an elective monarchy and I recall from past games that it can be a headache managing too many dukes for their votes, so I have held off. I've already found Spain can't be united as Spain, and will have to be Castille.
I'm trying to unite Spain as Castille and have about 3/4 of the peninsula, just the civil war-torn chaos of Portugal and Aragon to subjugate, and a couple random Muslim remnant counties.
