u/EffectiveBonus779

I'm trying to play as Egypt, and no matter how much I set myself up for the start, the war drags on for ages in a bunch of different locations.

It's not so much the fact that it's difficult to do well but that there's way too many things to watch at once. I'm trying to manage 3 different fronts and ensure that some random tiny army doesn't sail behind my lines and start annexing provinces half the map away from my armies.

And the aggressive expansion gained just makes the above scenario even more tedious. If I could just take the land I want and then peace out somehow that would also be great, but I'm permanently stuck at like 5 war score and can never do this.

Am I doing something wrong? I just wanted to play as Egypt, and I have tried doing this war in the least detrimental way possible like 4 times and just can't do it.

Interesting that there appears to be large parts of the map here that fall into these ecclesiastical regions without having Christianity as their dominant religion - the most obvious example of this being the Archdiocese of Africa. I wonder if we'll get something resembling a religious minority system? Although that's wishful thinking for sure.

I am also intrigued to see how these evolve over the course of a playthrough. Will they be dynamical or mostly static? If an archdiocese region has been out of Christian control for 500 years, it seems strange that its ecclesiastical title would remain, so I'm sure there must be some kind of system for that. Conversely, if a new region is brought into Christian control, what is the system which decides how they fit into these boundaries?

The Diadochi war is incredibly tedious