
He quickly gained the majority of the vassals’ votes, putting the Duke out of his future dream job. Not only did we fire him as chancellor when someone better came along, we also installed our newborn son as our preferred heir under the empire’s agnatic-elective succession laws.

We royally pissed off, as kings by definition do, Duke Lothar-Udo II of Brandenburg, who was next in line to the throne. We first noticed when playing as Kaiser Heinrich IV of the Holy Roman Empire, around 1070. Being a king is very different than playing a count, but neither’s journey is less interesting. The game takes place between 10, and there are literally hundreds of characters throughout that span that you can play as.
