Crusades Alt-His RP (Official)

1184 starts now. Since the deadlines clearly didn't do their job, I'm probably going to ignore or be lax with future deadlines. One of you asked for more time to finish 1183, so you still have it. Now, everyone, get to work. You have one more year until the Crusades start.

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Pope:

In other news, Kievan Rus has fallen into anarchy, and is free for anyone to conquer (probably only Poland, but still).···

What resources can we get from Kievian Rus?

Nowa Francja yuo want part of Kiev as well?
Anyway, to answer yours (and Antonio Santa Anna 's) question, I ventured into the internet (sources were mainly Russian, so biases may exist in my data towards the Russian principalities), and found the following:
Kievan Rus' exports: Furs (lots of them), leathers, lumber, beeswax, honey, slaves, some ore
Kievan Rus' imports: Spices, Manufactured goods (especially those of metal), silk, cloth, jewellery
So, in summary they import basically the same stuff as Polska, and export less agricultural products but more natural resources.

As long as you don't touch the principalities in my Sphere of Influence (Galicia, Volhynia, Polotsk), you can do whatever you want in the first round of divvying up the Kievan spoils.

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Some notes for all of you about the principalities:
Galicia-Volhynia: a larger principality, this state is historically, royal family-ily, and culturally tied to Poland and Hungary.
Polotsk: a declining principality that's usually in civil war around this time.
Smolensk: a rich, Europe-leaning principality that gets a lot of taxes from the trade route between Scandinavia and Byzantium.
Kiev: the political, religious, and ex-financial centre of the Rus' principalities that is starting to decline in power.
Pereyaslavl: not much to say about this principality, though its prince is always the son of the prince of Kiev.
Murom-Ryazan (aka Ryazan): the easternmost principality that suffers from raids from the Kipchaks and a war with Vladimir.
Vladimir-Suzdal (aka Vladimir): one of the stronger and richer principalities, it however is in war with both the Volga Bulgars and Ryazan.
Chernigov: a rich principality that used to be the strongest principality after Kiev.
Novgorod: a de facto independent principality that is the strongest economic and political power in the lands of the Rus'.

Excusez-moi?

Wait... you're critical of me being the king of my own people? Look at yourself, my dear friend.

You went through a civil war with your own brother, took over Pomerania which I recall to be peopled with non-Polish folks who wouldn't necessarily welcome the prospect of being ruled over by foreign kings who don't even share the same religion anyway. You should be under greater risk of being exiled than me, considering the facts.

How about your non-existent protests against Burgundy more than doubling his own size and expanding within the HRE borders? Hmm? Hmm? Or how about Egypt expanding all over Africa, Iraq, and then Turkey. Hmm? Hmm? You should have more cause to argue about them than me.

Stripping off the coat of sugar, I am going to say it as it is: You're just emotionally unhappy with my turns. That's the only reason why you bother to make a mention of it.

You're not actually whining about my turns being unrealistic, are you? Taking over Ile-de-France is a lot more realistic than taking over Pomerania in terms of scale, TBH.

It doesn't help your case that you were interfering in my civil war while I didn't get myself involved in your area. You refused to leave things alone when I asked you to back off. You just went ahead and poked your nose in anyway. It definitely didn't help your case even more so when your most recent ally was a quitter who made an *Auto corrected* out of himself in his exit, dumping a mess on my face in the process just because he felt like being emotional about it.

Seriously, is anyone wondering why I wouldn't be annoyed? Of course, I would be annoyed after being provoked repeatedly.

Look, I am not actively trying to hinder you. I would even sign an approval for your crusade against the Lithuanians if you wanted. You didn't't have to alienate me to make things better for yourself. Now... I'm considering excommunicating you just out of spite to deny you this. The pope would have a probable cause since you had voted against him, btw.

Since when did you become the Papal States?
And of course I'm unhappy with your turns. You've gone from doing your business in Western Europe to trying to meddle in Rus, Denmark and the Baltic, all of which I regard as closer to my sphere of influence than yours.