@Rocky You would need to make the byzantine empire, your primary title. The Varangian Guard is part of the Palace Politics culture tradition, and that one requires either Byzantine Empire or Roman Empire title.

Hi, just wanna know if I merge empire with byzantine, will I still be able to keep the Varangian guard that's from the byzantine empire title decision that allows you to recruit them as the emperor and the Varagian captain court position, or any of the decisions related to the empire title?

@IriKy, I considered these factors when making the decisions. Some aspects are true, but there are vanilla decisions, like 'Form the Swiss Confederation', that don’t even require independence. Also, these decisions aren’t used by the AI, so it’s just a matter of self-limiting to using them once or twice. Plus, for the Empire decision, you can simply ignore it if you don’t want to use it.

Good idea for this mod !
However, as other commentators said, it is in my opinion too easy to obtain the conditions to do it :
It would require much higher costs in money, prestige and faith points to do it (1000 for duchies, 2500 for kingdoms and 5000 for empire), be independent, have good relations with our head of faith (if exists) and with the emperor (Kaiser if Catholic [look like poland] or Basileus if Orthodox) for duchies and kingdoms.

Oh and an option to disable in the game rules the possibility of unifying empires (it's ahistorical) would be cool :D

Haven't tested the mod yet but i really like the idea. However i feel like the cost of Kingdom and especially Unification seems way too lose. i would at least triple the cost of the Empire Unification, and double the cost of the Kingdom Unification. (i just think it would be more balanced and realistic in that sense)

not sure if this was addressed already but ran into an issue after uniting several empires that Kings underneath my banner were saying I wasn't their rightful liege lord. Specifically I was Norway and my son was the King of France.

@the ball sleeper that should not be a issue though. I tested it, you can recreate the Head of Faith titles.

currently, this mod has an issue in that it will merge head of faith titles (since they are duchies) and delete it with the unite duchies decision, which can be solved with a limit for "is_head_of_faith = no" in the effect that shifts de-jure counties (and also one in the decision is_valid block)

nice

Hello there! I made a rus localization, can u add link in desc? I`d appreciate

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3402716464

Thanks

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Does this take into consideration decisions like creating empire of Hispania? If I remember correctly, there has been a similar issue with a vanilla decision of uniting the 3 kingdoms Galicia, Asturia (or Leon if you took that decision), and Navarra to create one kingdom. However this screws with the decision to make the empire of Hispania as you're always 1 (dejure) kingdom short.

Losing the second duchy building slot seems more like getting a free 2-for-1 duchy building if you ask me.

@Locke it should.

does this work in total conversion mods such as AGOT and LoTR Realms in Exile?

@Darkwing Phoenix in a sense yes. I made them costly enough, that they don't replace the already existing consolidation decisions from legitimacy legends. They are there just to give you more options to form custom duchies/kingdoms/empires. Even enabling the option of forming custom duchies, since there are vanilla options to do so.

Also, once I get multiple Empire Titles, I'mma form a mega empire

@flardarmar What I'm reading here is that the Merge Kingdom and Duchy decisions are essentially easily accessible Consolidate Kingdom decisions and one for duchies, is this an accurate summary?

@Anchovy There's decisions for creating custom kingdoms and empires in the game already, just a bitch to form (Loads of land needed)

could you perhaps create a mod to create custom duchies, kingdoms, empires etc?

Isn't title in name only the definition of a titular title? That would mean it could still exist, it just has no de jure counties.

Part of why I'm asking is as it relates to playing as duke title when you're stuck for a time with the partition system.

@KayinDreemurr no. The title is destroyed, because it becomes a Title in name only, there are no DeJure Counties etc. left within that title. You can't restore it in the current game you are playing.

For all three tiers, does it make the title being destroyed a titular one that can be recreated? And is there a way for the destroyed title to 'return' if the proper conditions are met?

greeting ! I am fan of your mods ,I want more Chinese player to use your mod.so I've translated your mod, and could u add in description?

here's my Chinese translation:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2903983628

How do you exactly use this mod?

@JimmyG1970 It should work.

@Milsugione no.

will it work with AGOT?

does ai use this?

Might I suggest instead of using the word "Unite" you use "Consolidate"?

I checked. It does, in fact, work.

I will test it and get back to you. if it dose not, can you make it? I perfer playing on an older version of the game, so some other mods work

@Game star I’m not sure. It could work, but you might get some errors or it won’t show up. You need to test it.

yes, does it work with older versions

@Zaire82 they are quite similiar, just pick your favorite.

What is the advantage of this over Expand The Realm? From a brief overview, they seem the same.

@Game star it does work for the current version, im not sure if you are asking about older versions

does it work for 1.3?

@lucocarvalho no.

Will AI use it?

@gene190282 tell me what you would like to see changed.

god this mod feel liek its made to be unbalanced

@SeiberSebi You need custom kingdoms enabled in Game Rules

@Malinois Mors it should be safe, to add it mid playthrough

@Malinois Mors I am in a Savegame and I cant find it

btw is it safe to add mid playthrough?

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