Under Alfred the Great, Wessex is the last bastion of Anglo-Saxon hope, positioned in the south with high development but immense military pressure. Western Europe: The Carolingian Collapse
The Abbasid blob looks scary, but it explodes within 20 years. If you play as a duke in Persia, you can become the "Sword of Islam" and usurp the Caliphate easily. ck3 map 867
Under Alfred the Great, Wessex is the last bastion of Anglo-Saxon hope, positioned in the south with high development but immense military pressure. Western Europe: The Carolingian Collapse
The Abbasid blob looks scary, but it explodes within 20 years. If you play as a duke in Persia, you can become the "Sword of Islam" and usurp the Caliphate easily.