October 20th, 2024

I spent probably too much time just playing CK3 today. Had to abandon that run I started yesterday just because I was too slow on ending the struggle. I wasn't that close (I needed a lot of fame still) but it was still annoying. I tried an Iberian start but that just became a trainwreck mostly for reasons that were my fault (and then a plague happened and everything got even worse), so I just went back to trying Iranian starts. I managed to get a good run with the Saffarid start after banging my head against the initial war. The guy you're fighting technically has a weaker army, but it's a little bigger and he has a commander trait that gives advantaged in desert, which is basically advantage everywhere. His army is almost entirely heavy infantry though, so I could just make skirmishers (which counter heavy infantry) and let them reinforce (he will just go right to sieging but he has two armies he wants to merge first, and the siege itself takes a few months ofc) and just throw the army at him and hope it works. The run where I actually managed to win I also hired a mercenary company that was literally just skirmishers, so that helped a good bit too. I already have the most annoying requirement for the Iranian Resurgance struggle ending (at least 60% of involved rulers have Iranian heritage), and I'm very close to the other requirements. My character is healthy and fairly young, so I just gotta make sure nothing bad happens and I should be able to get it in the next few years.