The Far-Reaching Authority of the Church In crowning Charlemagne as the Roman Emperor in 800, the Church.
Dramatic power struggles unfolded in the Holy Roman Empire, the scene of mounting tensions between popes and emperors.
This means that you are actually incentivized to play with and use opposing party characters to keep them happy, because leaving them to rot while your family reaps all of the benefits of power will greatly anger them and incite secession.Severe loyalty penalties are applied at the extreme ends of power. The big change is that now you are rewarded with loyalty by maintaning a balance in the Senate rather than spamming influence like you do in vanilla. This simple mod ports over the political power values from Total War: Attila, as I find them much better than Rome 2's.
