To add to waht Caldoni said , you had some nodes which were either totally unneeded dex at the start , going all the way up to Fingers of Frost when it doesn ' t benefit you a lot , poison damage when you don ' t have a reliable way of poisoning . Also since you mentioned what you like I should probably mention that going high pierce with chain don ' t really work well together projectiles that pierce can ' t chain if you don ' t have 100 % pierce chance then it ' s ok I guess . <| sep |> Portugal and I have boarders in Morocco so Portugal and France are coming down from there . They ' re also tech 22 to my 21 so their cannons melt me . You can see my 2 bad battle losses to Spain where I have 3 x their troops and only took a 1 penalty . I ' ll probably attempt the achievement another time at some point and hope for better luck , plus I think I ' ll flip to Sunni and try to ally the Ottos .