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Odobenidae posted:I'm playing as The Kingdom of León and a low turnout for the first crusade has ended me up with the Kingdom of Jerusalem. I can predict that it will cause more problems than it will solve and I'm not too sure what to do with it. I've heard that giving it to one of the Catholic holy orders (Knights Hospitallier etc.) would give you tons of piety but none of them have been created yet. Should I just give it to some random dynasty member? That happened to me as King of Bohemia, and I up and moved there. It worked out great. Turn Ascalon into a republic, wait for the Muslims to fracture, and grab stuff.
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I've been playing Rurik a lot lately, and managed to form Rus fairly often, but I always get roadblocked by loving gavelkind succession. I wish there was a way to make it less lovely, like being able to actually designate which titles my heirs will receive, rather than having them assigned at random.
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Jun 27, 2013 15:56
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Is there anything that would cause a murder plot to not fire? I had the Prince of Sweden at 350% plot power with 15 backers for something like a decade before his father died and he inherited and it was too late for me to benefit. He didn't have super high intrigue or anything and it's not that attempts failed, it's that there were no attempts at all. I think that's the first time I've had something like that with such a high plot power
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Jun 27, 2013 16:03
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Fister Roboto posted:I've been playing Rurik a lot lately, and managed to form Rus fairly often, but I always get roadblocked by loving gavelkind succession. I wish there was a way to make it less lovely, like being able to actually designate which titles my heirs will receive, rather than having them assigned at random. Just keep your capital, and delegate everything else out to counts. Ideally priests, but I also will put family in as counts. Stay at one province until you can reform out of Gavelkind.
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Jun 27, 2013 16:05
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 I think my empress might be going a wee bit mad... Also, is this one of the new, user submitted events? The quality of the writing seems a bit off...
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Jun 27, 2013 16:16
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Broken Cog posted:
I'm visualizing her sitting there, driven mad by grief, and obliviously reading from a book of stories to her dead kid and it's really 
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Jun 27, 2013 16:29
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Guildencrantz posted:I'm visualizing her sitting there, driven mad by grief, and obliviously reading from a book of stories to her dead kid and it's really It gets better when you realize that kid died almost ten years ago.
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Jun 27, 2013 16:34
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Frijolero posted:I have another question related to Wrong Holding Demesne. I conquered Mallorca and the primary holding is a city. Could I build a castle and make that the primary holding somehow? Or am I forced to give it away to someone? Just revoke whatever baron has the castle. It's not like they can do poo poo about it.
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Jun 27, 2013 16:35
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SeaTard posted:Just keep your capital, and delegate everything else out to counts. Ideally priests, but I also will put family in as counts. Stay at one province until you can reform out of Gavelkind. I've never tried, so I assume baronies get gavelkinded away and divided up on death? You can't just grab all the baronies of your capital province as demense and have them all handed to your heir?
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Jun 27, 2013 17:01
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Anyone try This portrait mod? It's looks pretty good.
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Fintilgin posted:I've never tried, so I assume baronies get gavelkinded away and divided up on death? You can't just grab all the baronies of your capital province as demense and have them all handed to your heir? Baronies do get handed out, which is why I don't build any more until I'm ready to get out of Gavelkind.
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Jun 27, 2013 17:37
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James The 1st posted:Anyone try This portrait mod? It's looks pretty good. It's the one I am using in lieu of BLC being dead; the mod's pretty good.
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Jun 27, 2013 17:57
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forkis posted:To answer question 1: invite a new courtier to your court. give_title e_brittania [his character ID]. kill [his ID] if i grant him the emperor title, won't he go off and be his own liege?
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Jun 27, 2013 18:09
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crm posted:if i grant him the emperor title, won't he go off and be his own liege? He shouldn't if he has no counties.
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Jun 27, 2013 18:19
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Just a quick question! I love the Total War games, but I don't like the combat :s I simply love playing diplomat and taking over all of a continent and a country and making my kingdom superior. If I like that type of diplomacy game, is this game worth playing? I recieved the game as a gift some time ago, and I tried to play it as well but holy hell it is way too much to take care of. Should I just push myself through that?
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Jun 27, 2013 18:52
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Stalins Moustache posted:Just a quick question! This is *the* game for that.
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Jun 27, 2013 18:53
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Stalins Moustache posted:Just a quick question! Oh boy are you in for a treat son. Stick with the game until it clicks, this is the game you've been dreaming of.
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Jun 27, 2013 19:01
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I registered my games on the paradox forums a week-ish ago but can't see the modding subforum, is there some trick to it?
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Jun 27, 2013 19:17
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Stalins Moustache posted:Just a quick question! YES. I play exactly like that in Total War. I haven't played Total War since I discovered CK2.
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Jun 27, 2013 19:20
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Stalins Moustache posted:Just a quick question! Oh sweet summer child. You are in for the treat of your loving life. Try watching some Let's Plays. Does anyone have a link for the badass Let's Play by a goon playing as Ireland?
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Jun 27, 2013 19:21
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James The 1st posted:Anyone try This portrait mod? It's looks pretty good. The first response to the mod is... Something. quote:for your info ... Almoraves not black skine !!! this must around afarica.. close to egypt and somewhere in north afarica !! not all !!! Frijolero posted:Oh sweet summer child. You are in for the treat of your loving life. Try watching some Let's Plays. Does anyone have a link for the badass Let's Play by a goon playing as Ireland? Capt. Andy is working on a reboot of Kersch's Ireland tutorial LP, with tutorials for other playstyles to follow. The Kersch one is a good read, but outdated so your mileage may vary. You can read it here.
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Jun 27, 2013 19:41
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Even though outdated that LP provides a very good road map on what to do as it guides you from action to action. Knowing what to actually *do* in your first game, because if you naturally just explore menus it is easy to get overwhelmed in feudal terminology gobbledygook and stats.
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Jun 27, 2013 19:55
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I still vaguely recall the first time I played CK2; I just sort of sat there in stunned silence, my eyes glazing over as the game sort of played itself, all the while trying to figure out what all the status/alert messages meant and what/how I was supposed to do anything about it. It is now, of course, my favorite grand strategy game of all time. Keep pushing.
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Jun 27, 2013 20:09
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Broken Cog posted:
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Jun 27, 2013 20:10
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Does anyone have any tips on dealing with the Seljuks as Russia? I'm emperor of reformed Suomenusko Russia early 11th century, have most of the de jure counties of Russia, and they really want to fight me and subjugate Ruthenia. I've been save scumming but pretty much every time I try to expand a little more they declare holy war on me. I'm not very good at combat, I guess I should just get better and declare holy war on their rear end first. e: I killed the sultan and his heir isn't zealous and actually likes me a little bit, will that help? e2: Whew, all of their vassals are rebelling now, that should keep them off my back for awhile. Still any tips for fighting giant doomstack enemies would be appreciated chunkles fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jun 27, 2013 |
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Jun 27, 2013 20:51
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beefart posted:The first response to the mod is... Something. Yeah, my LP doesn't really stand the test of time considering how much all of the expansions and patches have added. It'll be really valuable to have a fresh one done. I'm looking forward to seeing it myself. I haven't really played Old Gods much, since I've been on a huge Victoria 2 binge. I'm actually halfway considering doing a Victoria 2 LP.
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Kersch posted:I haven't really played Old Gods much, since I've been on a huge Victoria 2 binge. I'm actually halfway considering doing a Victoria 2 LP. Please do this! I really want to like this game, but lack of proper documentation concerning expansion stuff is killing me!
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Jun 27, 2013 20:56
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chunkles posted:Does anyone have any tips on dealing with the Seljuks as Russia? I'm emperor of reformed Suomenusko Russia early 11th century, have most of the de jure counties of Russia, and they really want to fight me and subjugate Ruthenia. I've been save scumming but pretty much every time I try to expand a little more they declare holy war on me. I'm not very good at combat, I guess I should just get better and declare holy war on their rear end first. Just keep stabbing and stabbing to destabilize their realm, maybe send your diplomat out to try and incite his more powerful vassals into rebellion. Since you are Suomenusko and probably don't have anyone who wants to marry your heathen offspring and ally up, intrigue is pretty much all you've got.
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Jun 27, 2013 21:17
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Kersch posted:Yeah, my LP doesn't really stand the test of time considering how much all of the expansions and patches have added. It'll be really valuable to have a fresh one done. I'm looking forward to seeing it myself. I haven't really played Old Gods much, since I've been on a huge Victoria 2 binge. I'm actually halfway considering doing a Victoria 2 LP. I have played Victoria 2 since release and I'm still loving clueless so I will definitely be following this if it happens. The CK2 and EU3 ones got me back into both of those games and taught me the basic principles that I still apply to all of my games today.
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Noreaus posted:Pagans still aren't forming kingdoms no matter how much land they own in CK2+, even with the hotfixes. Back to vanilla. This bug only applies to pagans, right? I've been playing a Shattered World game of CK2+, and I'm the only kingdom that's formed so far-- but I also formed it fairly recently, and was blobbing more systematically than the AI would be for the express purpose of doing so, so they might just not have been able to yet.
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Stalins Moustache posted:Just a quick question! This is the game you've been praying for. Here's the thing about it being 'too much to take care of' - the way you get points in this game is not to conquer the world or anything like that, it's just to have a huge family of prestigious, pious badasses. You can basically just let the game run itself on an easy nation and you'll probably 'win' the game in the sense that you'll have a lot of points at the end. All you really need to worry about is your family, all that other stuff is just bonuses.
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How do you all play, as far as speed? Lately I've been waiting for my King to die so I sped time to the fullest. But usually I keep it at 3x. On what speed do you usually play?
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Jun 27, 2013 22:51
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8 daughters I had, 1 son. To expand my tiny dynasty I married them all matrilineally and handed out counties and duchies to their husbands. A decade later I have no daughters, no grandkids due to various illnesses and mishaps. Of course every husband now has a dozen kids by their new wives. They come out like clockwork every 9 months. I want my lands back 
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Frijolero posted:How do you all play, as far as speed? Lately I've been waiting for my King to die so I sped time to the fullest. But usually I keep it at 3x. On what speed do you usually play? 3x or 4x, pausing when something happens that I need to actually do orders.
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Frijolero posted:How do you all play, as far as speed? Lately I've been waiting for my King to die so I sped time to the fullest. But usually I keep it at 3x. On what speed do you usually play? Either full speed, or one notch below full speed if I'm fighting a war.
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Frijolero posted:How do you all play, as far as speed? Lately I've been waiting for my King to die so I sped time to the fullest. But usually I keep it at 3x. On what speed do you usually play? Always max speed in every Paradox game. Maybe it depends on your machine, but I've never had any trouble with it, even in complicated wars. I just double tap the pause button to advance one day at a time if necessary.
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Full speed is waaaay too fast, at least until you have set up the right pause events and such. I like 4x most of the time, with 3x when doing war stuff, and 5x if I'm literally just waiting around with nothing to do. Once you get a big enough family and realm I always find tons to do week to week, especially in CK2+
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I play fullspeed with my message settings set to pause at the conclusion of every battle or siege.
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So uh, anyone ever had a zoroastrian game where they have expanded into Russia instead of Persia? Zoroastrian Russia has been so much easier than Zoro Persia gotta say.
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New version of Umbra Spherae (Eurasia mod) is out for 1.02: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?588964-Mod-Umbra-Spherae&p=15704407&viewfull=1#post15704407 It'll take a few tries to get the download link working due to a mediafire bug.
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