[quote=So Boerd]
I haven't availed myself of the save converter all that much, as it's too easy to create a megastate that can't be challenged since AE and Overex don't exist in CK2. That, and what always happens is that Spain gets balkanized by gavelkind, Portugal never forms, and France gets gobbled by HRE, so when the game is converted there is only one colonial power, England.It boggles my mind that 11th century Byzantium is better able to incorporate an Indian conquest than 19th century Britain.
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Easy to create a megastate? Maybe if you play on pussy-mode [being a king on less than very hard difficulty].

And most of those things are untrue in my game. Portugal existed briefly, but was wiped out by the Knights of Santiago. They inherited most of Spain in the First crusade, called because 98% percent of Spain was held by the Ummayads. After the crusade, the Ummayads were completely annihilated, and save for a few other one or two-province kingdoms, the peninsula was held by myself [owning fealty to the duke that owned 5 provinces and Flanders], and the Knights of Santiago.

In EU4, they've quickly become a regional power, but have existed in more-or-less a constant state of war, initially as Italy's ally, then as her most bitter enemy, fighting for control of northern Africa and southern France.

England never formed, because I was Scotland, and wiped the floor with the petty kingdoms of England. The HRE never gobbled France, because Italy held Aquitaine, while I held the actual Kingdom of France, a title I destroyed. The HRE floundered against the Golden Horde and Timurids. And Vestlandet is well on its way to owning the Carribean.

And the Byzantines don't even have the conveniences of telephones or toilet paper to offer them.