u/beiyang_general

We know that in east asia, a military strongman puppeting the emperor is not a strange concept at all. China had dong zhuo and cao cao. But they usually died out once things become stable.

But in japan, they become a permanent system for nearly seven hundred years from the rise of kamakura shogunate to meiji restoration. How did this happened?

I mean sure, it would be awesome to play as the pope. But what else you can do with it?

For me, im looking forward to play as taifa of qurtubah, one of the few republics in medieval islamic world that formed after the last umayyad caliph abdicate in andalusia. Imagine that, an island of democracy in the sea of tyrants and kings.