Just played The Old Gods for the first time after a while, and it's damn fun even if you're not a pagan; just played an awesome Raska ---> Kingdom of Slavia (what I named my combined realms of Croatia and Serbia; renaming's fun!) game. I finally gathered enough men to press my claim on the Kingdom of Italy, so I DoW'd them. In the span of a month, the King of Italy died, his realms inherited by the ****ing Karling King of France. And when my men crossed the Alps, my two brothers rebelled for the throne; one propped up by my vassals (one of which is his wife, so its understandable), and the other who gathered a 15k host of his own. My rebelling levies decimated my own troops, and in the end I lost both King titles. But I still have my built-up duchies of Raska and Duklja.
I WILL RISE AGAIN.