Trying putting it in
Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\save games
Worst case, start up a game, then save it (not to the cloud) with some funky-unique name. Then search your harddrive for that name. That’ll be the folder.
Band name!
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
That worked, thanks. The young Matilda will see what she can do about uniting all of Italy this evening.
What year is it? Do we have time to restore Rome?
1180 when Candida died.
Holy crap! You are not kidding, every single vassal but my heir HATES me, quite a few at -100. The faction military power to lower the crown authority is at 1437%. Is there a compelling reason we’re on High Crown Authority? I don’t think I’ll have a choice of lowering it if I want to avoid a civil war.
I’m flush with cash and have the title of Empress though, she’s also a bit crafty, so, I have options. If I can keep that boy alive the next player will play a guy at least. I wonder how common the -10 male dominance penalty is for female lieges, is it because of our religion, culture, tech level?
ETA: Looks like it’s because we’re Catholic. Damn, that’s harsh.
Harsh but accurate, not many catholic female rulers back then 
Please, when your son comes of age, go to the knights area and forbid him, unless his prowess is 20 or better. Knights die regularly, especially when their army loses. The “heir and spare” should be more like an heir and two or three spares.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that. There are some perks on the martial tree that mitigate that kind of thing but losing battles is super dangerous now.
In fact, best practices is probably to forbid your entire council since knights drop like flies. Though it also occurs to me that forcing more hated vassals into battle might be a great idea.
You made him a count, doesn’t that take him from my court and prevent me from molding him? Not that Matilda is all that, but at least I can keep him safe and steer him to better attributes and a better marriage.
I think he inherited that from his father? But good point. Let’s hope he inherited some smarts as well.
It never occurred to me. 
Whoa there, king David!
Move to Thread Games. Seems like a better fit.
Moved Back at request of the Op.
How go the wars, @Sitnam?
Bloody, the first was a near run thing. The upcoming war might not go well for us. I have never been so stressed playing CK3 before. 
Holding all those Kingdoms might not be viable, but I don’t have enough experience with CK3 or partition consequences yet to make tough choices so I’d rather hold on to everything for a better player to make moves.
I’m on it guys, Matilda’s life looks about up and I’ll pass the sceptre of power down the road.
*sorry, you cant imbed media items in a post
What’s that about I can’t load pictures?
Whoa! What a ride Mathilda had! The above does her no service whatsoever. She inherited The Empire of Italia at age 24 in 1180 AD. At such a young age she happened to be greedy, and deceitful, both apparently which just were not done in 12th century Italy (buckle up chumps for the Medici a bit later). She was also a woman (-10 for male dominance for Catholicism) and had no politeness or manners (dip 1). In her entire court and all her vassals, only her oldest boy Giorgio, her oldest daughter and her husband even liked her. Many powerful people were at -100. Because she was greedy she got stressed every time she gave gifts, which swayed no one any how. She spent plenty of time in the brothel releasing stress and would later become Rakish and contract Lovers Pox which she would give to both her first husband and second husband as well as a few side lovers.
On the second year of her reign 4 or her 5 Dukes rebelled with a force score of 350%. Lucky for her she happened to have a war chest for mercs and patience. She also had married Giorgio to a Burgundian princess for an alliance that would prove crucial. With all this she outlasted them, despite being Excomunicated , a dick move considering she was fighting a Waldensian insurrection as well. All this resulted in the closest successful war I have ever seen in this game, ending two weeks shy of losing her mercs and going bankrupt. Once they were in prison she had hoped to punish those responsible by stripping titles, apparently something you are not allowed to do to primary titles in CK3, so she instead hobbled them taking what she could and setting about making right with the lord while letting them rot like ghosts.
In her young 30’s she went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and read up on the bible to sway the Clergy, and sway them she finally did, making good with the Pope, her head bishop and the clergy in general. In her 40’s and 50’s she sharpened her Diplomatic skills and eventually became a Diplomat along the way convincing many in her realm she was a good leader.
He foreign adventures were limited. She took a Duchy and county in Southern Italy. She lost a strange enclave in the middle of Germany, but it was a wise sacrifice for they went Insular and the HRE holy wars that resulted was something she couldn’t defend against. Burgundy as a ally happened to be a double edged sword, as willing as King Ricard was to aid Mathilda he was equally willing to charge again and again against the French king and wage Holy War after Holy War in Spain, many times with Mathilda along for the ride. In her later 60’s a Liberty revolt in Italy struck again, this time with significant help from Norway. Again, a very near run thing. Italy it seems would refuse to unite, perhaps forever she had thought.
Perhaps she was wrong though. She was able to invent and pass Cognatic Primogeniture a few years before her death so her son Giorgio, Duke of Lombardy, gets the entire kingdom on her death. Perhaps he can finally unite Italy in a way his mother could only hope to dream
So the year is 1229 and Giorgio, at age 55, doesn’t have a ton of life left in him. He does however currently possess 3 dukedoms, and a prison chocked full of high nobility just aching to be made an example of or let free as he chooses. Perhaps now our family can risk foreign adventures without the specter of insurrection. Oh, because of her examples of faith and diligence against the Waldensians her entire life I changed the di Canossa moto to, ‘Fighting Ignorance, One Skull At A Time’.
If the next player PMs me an email address I can send the file, or perhaps my wife can walk me through dropbox and send it out that way.
It was a lot of fun. Thanks for the patience guys, I had to take it slow. I am not used to CK3 yet, and have never played it on Normal difficulty.
Holy shit, the HRE took over half of North Africa.
New TURNORDER is:
@Teuton
Johnny Bravo
Whack-a-Mole
Babale
Pleonast
Sitnam