I might be playing the game “wrong” but I’m enjoying myself
Longtime (~520 hours since like 2014) Player here, I often think I play the game “wrong” because instead of going on world conquests I love roleplaying as my characters and building up my realm. Just a funny observation I finally decided to share.
My current game I started by picking a random leader in 769 and ended up with the Chief of Vychegda. Pretty early on swore fealty to Perm when I saw my neighbors getting invaded, watched one Dynasty assassinate the king and two sons to become king themselves and really kind of take over the place. Anyway, when I left last time, the Black Death had just finished ravaging my Court (haven’t taken a full tally but court went from ~30 at onset of the Plague to 9 when the epidemic ended). I left with my first Female Ruler, I’ve stuck with elective gavelkind and been swapping between branches of my dynasty to keep succession fair - although now that one branch should have their own County/Chiefdom now I can focus on one branch and any of their cadet branches. Hoping to adopt Feudalism if I can with my Chieftess, but at least want to get a hospital (again tech permitting). This world has been having an interesting time, while I just chill and hope to keep surviving and thriving out in the Siberian frontier.
Anyway, just kinda wanted to share my experience, this peaceful builder and roleplay is kinda my general playstyle in strategy games, to the point I have notably been slow to progress when playing PvAI with my friends in Age of Empires 2 lol.