Found a steam workshop mod to get rid of the clouds (they are actually some weird moving representation of fog of war.)
So, played as the top guy of Mumu in Ireland, 1066, and just didn’t worry about knowing how everything works. Just looking and doing what makes sense to me, or what looks fun. Still in the lifetime of my original leader, though he’s about to hit 60. So, without knowing anything at all, I’ve:
Started a war with the county below me and lost. But still survived and somehow that leader and I hit it off pretty well.
Married and had kids and had my wife thrown in prison for being behind a plot against me. Eventually banished her, didn’t divorce her or kill her due to the penalties. She even had a kid while banished to Hungary, that is “mine” even though I obviously wasn’t the father. Named him “Doubtful.”
Had some weird war declared against me by someone on the continent to my south. I forget what the war was declared/called. I won, though. I need to figure out how to use fleets of mine at some point. When I won, somehow the leader I beat ended up in my prison and members of his court ended up in my court.
My banished wife died so I married some woman who is the daughter of a king, and she has been popping out babies left and right even though I’m old. And each time the box says “It can’t be mine, can it?”
Oh, I did take on a mistress, and she has had two of my kids. One I legitimized. The other I acknoweldged as mine.
My daughter by my banished wife appears to be some kind of satanic child.
I had a spy that figured out a guy in the southern county, a member of his court, is gay, and blackmailed him. Not sure what will come of that. I felt bad doing it, but hey, I want to start another war and win it this time.
The leader I had in prison from his invasion of my lands just happened to be killed in a “prison escape attempt.” Heh heh.
and lots more. I’m just responding to events, trying to figure out how to build up a bigger army so I can start and win a war in the county below me - I’d like to have that when my son takes over. Even though I have no idea what I’m doing, its fun. I’ll probably play until I lose big, then go look at some tutorials.