Historic Invasions

Achievement compatible.

NOT save game compatible.

If you have any suggestions or encounter bugs, please let me know.

With special thanks to the CK3 Mod Co-op Discord and Darknight36!

---

Invaders demand subjugation from every ruler who holds land within a chosen title under threat of war. The invader then receives bonus levies to make them as strong as all defenders in all invasion wars combined. Those bonus levies are disbanded step by step as the wars end to keep the remaining wars balanced.

• Harald Fairhair: unification of Norway (870)
• Oleg Rurikid (Rus’, 879)
• Sa’id Jannabid: Qarmatian revolt (899)
• Rise of the Shia: Abdullah Fatimid (Africa, 909) and later migration to Egypt
• Norse settlers in Normandy (910) (disabled if RICE is active)
• Otto Ludolfinger’s restoration of the Holy Roman Empire (911+)
• Simeon Balgarsko: first Bulgarian Empire (912)
• Great Liao (916)
• Parântaka Chola (Deccan, 920)
• Mardavij Ziyarid: Zoroastrian uprising (Daylam, 931)
• Cuman-Kipchak Confederation (10th century)
• Mieszko Piast: unification of Poland (960)
• Qarghuyah (Aleppo, 968)
• Sabuktigin Ghaznavid (977)
• Knud Knytling: North Sea Empire (1016)
• Tughril Seljuk (Persia, 1037)
• William de Hauteville (Sicily, 1038)
• Yahya Almoravid (Morocco, 1050)
• William de Normandie (1066)
• Suleiman Seljuk of Rûm (1077)
• periodic Turkic migrations into Asia Minor & Persia (1080 – 1220)
• Jin (1115)
• Amghar Almohad (Morocco, 1121); replaces base game invasion
• Dezong Yelü: Qara Khitai (1124)
• Eldiguz, Atabeg of Azerbeijan (1136)
• Husayn Ghurid (Kabulistan, 1152)
• Saladin Ayyubid’s coup (Egypt, 1171)
• Tekish Anushtiginid: Khwarezmian Empire (1172)
• Mongol Empire & Successor States (1206)
• Mamluks of India (1206)
• Tai migration (1228)
• Sundiata Keita (Mali, 1230)
• Teutonic & Livonian Orders (1230)
• Mamluks of Egypt (1250)
• Majapahit Empire (1293)
• Osman Ghazi: Ottoman Empire (1299)
• Gediminas (Lithuania, 1316)
• Sangama: Vijayanagara Empire (1336)
• Timur ‘the Lame’ (1370)
• Qara Qoyunlu (1405)
• Aq Qoyunlu (1467)

(disabled by default)

• Attila the Hun (434)
• Alexander ‘the Great’ Argead (336 BC)
• Chandragupta Maurya (322 BC)

(disabled by default)

• Zunist uprising (893)
• Byzantine Renaissance (1091)
• Bing Song (India, 1279)

• Ayyubid, Ghurid: recruit Mamluk commanders
• Mamluk elective government
• Play as the invaders once they appear (can be disabled)
• Split Arabia into three smaller kingdoms
• Enable / disable each invasion individually via game rules
• A plethora of game rules to customize your experience
• The choosen game start date determines which invasion stories can take place, thus it’s theoretically compatible with bookmark mods
• Debug mode decisions to manually trigger each invsaion
• Debug mode character interaction to instantly end an invasion

---

• Conqueror mechanic
• Zanj rebellion (Basra, 869)
• Tughril Seljuk (Persia, 1037)
• Sigeweard Bearn (New England, 1087)
• Nizari Assassin Orders in Persia (1090) and Syria (1162)
• Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ‘El Cid’ (Valencia, 1094)
• Fourth Crusade (1204)
• Nomad migrations

---

Rise of the Shia (909)
The Schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims boils to a new height when Abdullah Fatimid declares himself true Caliph of Islam in the turn of the 9th century and begins to carve out a realm of his own in northern Africa. His decentants would expand it further until it stretched from Morocco over Sicily to Yemen.

Mardavij Ziyarid (931)
Before the Rashidun Caliphate conquered the region in 654, Persia was ruled by the Sassanids – a rival of the Roman Empire. After the occupation, Islam was slowly replacing Zoroastrianism as the dominant faith there.
Mardavij Ziyarid staged the last large scale Zoroastrian uprising against Muslim occupation and managed to spread his influence from Gilan to the Persian Gulf.
In 935, he was killed by a slave, stopping the uprising in its tracks.

Tughril Seljuk (1037)
Decendant from Seljuk, an Oghuz tribesman who fought alongside the Khazars, Tughril and his fellow clan members act as swords for hire in enchange for grazing rights in Persia. They gained some land of their own and eventually became vassals under the Ghaznavids. Fearing their strengh, their liege would try to shatter the Seljuk tribe – a move that would ultimately backfire and lay the groundwork for the Seljuk Empire.

Saladin Ayyubid (1171)
Originally tasked to aid in succession matters in the Fatimid court, Saladin would soon gain massive influence and use it to put loyalists in strategic government positions. Due to this, he was eventually able to seize power establish a realm that would last until 1260.
He played a major role in ending the third crusade led by King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.

Boudewijn Vlaanderen (1204)
In 1202, a band of crusaders sailed off towards the Holy Land to support the Third Crusade using transport ships sponsored by the Venetian doge Enrico Dandolo. Since fewer knights than expected turned up, the doge instructed them to raid rivaling trading posts along the Adriatic Sea as an alternative form of payment.
In a complicated turn of events, the 4th Crusade never headed for the Holy Land but instead ransacked Constantinople and splintered the Byzantine Empire into the Latin Empire and Nicene Empire.

Timur "the Lame" (1370)
In the late 14th century, Timur subjugated large swaths of land, stretching from Crimera and Anatolia to Delhi in India. The neighboring and conquered areas were devastated by the invading armies – around 5% of the world’s population died as a result of his ruthless conquests.

and many more…

---

The following base game scripts were altered:

• casus belli: mongol_realm_invasion_war

Compatibility patches:

• Hiraeth: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2912717592

in-built compatibility:

• More German Kingdoms
• Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment (RICE)
• Gamerule Gadget

Greater Events: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3153959703

---

• Random Invasions

---

• Chinese: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2846867517
• German, French, Spanish: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2927762192
• Russian: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947736533
• Japanese 1: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2974721170
• Japanese 2: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2864465571
• Korean: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3389977646
• Polish: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2871675817

If you would like to upload your own translation, please do not reupload my entire mod in addition to the translated text. You only need to include the new localization files in your mod.