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^^^Thanks. (to the guy who answered my question about levies) I'm about to form the Wendish Empire, assuming nothing goes hilariously wrong. How should I divide up my kingdom titles? Up until now I've been very careful about making sure no one has more than one duchy so they can't get too powerful and making as many dukes as possible dynasty members so even if I'm defeated in a vote, odds are my dynasty will still be in power. But throwing in King titles means that I'll end up with a handful of subordinates that have decent chunks of power by themselves. e: Mailer posted:
Dishonorable generally means they declared war on you, so in a confused scrum of rebellions she might have accidentally sided against you at some point? StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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The "-10 Dishonorable" with someone comes from getting caught trying to plot-murder someone of their same dynasty (it may come from other plots too, I'm unsure of that). At least, that's how I get "Dishonorable" in my games; it's just the side-effect of plot-murder sprees, particularly when plot-murdering members of a large dynasty. I've never noticed it having anything to do with war declarations.
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My ruler and all three of my children just survived the plague. My lover, the duchess of Epirus, just contracted gonorrhea 
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http://www.mediafire.com/download/rtlcql0rb1j54vk/landed_titles.txt Right! Updated landed_titles.txt, still goes in your mod\CK2Plus_FTT\common\landed_titles folder. What I changed this time was: 1) Made Roslavl actually exist (it was a black, unclickable mark on my map) 2) Fixed some messed up... uh... lines? I dunno, I closed some brackets properly. I'm not a modder/programmer/tech-savvy person by any stretch of the imagination
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Just had the most stable succession I've ever seen- worst opinion of the new guy is +42. Good thing too, my last king decided to die young in the middle of a war.
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Sep 2, 2013 03:01
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StashAugustine posted:^^^Thanks. (to the guy who answered my question about levies) There's no real penalty for having multiple King titles, other than the sheer hassle of dealing with that many dukes in general and maybe gavelkind-related fuckery. As a result, handing out kingdom titles is mostly a matter of convenience - you can keep a couple of kingdoms (or even all of them) for yourself if you want, just to make sure you stay bigger and badder than your vassal kings. Can Catholics not declare Holy War on Muslim heretics? I have no CB against the Iberian Muslims, and the only reason I can think of is that every Muslim province west of Rome is Ibadi (a Sunni heresy). It's pretty annoying, since I'm running low on expansion possibilities that don't involve picking fights with the HRE, the Byzantines, the Ilkhanate, or the Androusids. Edit: And while I'm asking questions, what the hell governs vassals joining factions? I've had vassals with 100 relations toward me joining factions to support someone they barely even like. Main Paineframe fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Sep 2, 2013 03:18
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Do levies in CKII++ still take 30 years to regenerate?
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Sep 2, 2013 03:34
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Managed to fight the Seljuks to a standstill and finally capture their leader himself, despite having about a quarter of their total forces.  I think I've more or less figured out how to fight a war. Bring on the Mongols!
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Sep 2, 2013 03:56
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StashAugustine posted:^^^Thanks. (to the guy who answered my question about levies) You should hold onto large kingdom titles but kingdoms comprised of a few duchies are safe enough to hand out. Kings are sort of dangerous but they also streamline your administration because you no longer have to care about what the dukes think of you. The only penalty for not giving them out is a -10 from everyone in the kingdom because they all want the title, which sucks but being an emperor has enough benefits that it doesn't really matter. The real danger is kings who expand beyond their de jure borders, whether into foreign land or by inheritance/conquest within your realm, but as long as you use every excuse you get to take that land away you'll be fine.
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Sep 2, 2013 04:35
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StashAugustine posted:Dishonorable generally means they declared war on you, so in a confused scrum of rebellions she might have accidentally sided against you at some point? I think it can be more than that. I had something like this on a guy who, to my knowledge, only knocked up my wife. Unless I missed something, that counted as Dishonorable. ...well, not that I don't think it isn't particularly honorable, but I mean in game terms.
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What's a good balance for retinue composition? I've just about gotten enough income to pay for it and I need the troops.
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Sep 2, 2013 05:46
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StashAugustine posted:What's a good balance for retinue composition? I've just about gotten enough income to pay for it and I need the troops. I'm pretty sure the absolute best remains horse archers and heavy cavalry. That said, early on when I'm just getting my first retinues I go with skirmishers, because they have a smaller cap hit. Being able to get that second batch of 500 troops is just too nice, especially when you're surrounded by other small countries. Once I have a large enough cap that I can have a few thousand at any given time I'll get rid of the crappy ones and replace them with the better retinues, but for the first generation or two I use the ones that give me the most guys.
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For retinues its usually a good idea to go with your culture specific retinue (housecarls for Scandinavia, knights for France etc) the best cultural and by extension the best retinues are considered to be Greek Cataphracts (heavy Cav+Horse archer) French/German knights (Heavy cav and light Cav, dont confuse with the normal cavalry retinue) and Horse archer retinues but I dont remember all the cultures that have those, Turks and Mongols for sure. Cultural Retinues get a bonus equivalent to you highest cultural building (this does not have to be built yet so for example housecarl heavy infantry start with +60% offense) Archers are great for sieging, as damage during assaults is based on skirmish attack values (so heavy cav and heavy infantry do poorly here) Horse archers are also good at it. Heavy Cavalry and Heavy infantry are solid choices for armies and Horse Archers are just good all round units. Light Cav is kinda meh as it only does well in the pursue phase of combat, so they are good for killing dudes after you have won a combat but not for winning a combat. So in short get your cultural retinue, especially if you are Greek or have access to horse archers. For regular retinues get archers (skirmish retinue) and Heavy Infantry (shock) I find the cavalry Retinues too expensive both in terms of size and money to be worth it, though in the early game if you dont have Heavy Cav as a cultural unit its probably the only way to get significant numbers of heavy cavalry. SpRahl fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Sep 2, 2013 06:25
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I accidentally gave control of my newly built castle to a mayor. He is one of my direct vassals with two holdings (including the castle) How do I change this without incurring the tyranny that revoking a title will give me?
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Sep 2, 2013 06:47
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I accidentally gave control of my newly built castle to a mayor. He is one of my direct vassals with two holdings (including the castle) How do I change this without incurring the tyranny that revoking a title will give me? Take a look at the inheritance, odds are you'll inherit the castle. Plot to kill him, and you should get it back.
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Sep 2, 2013 06:52
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kingturnip posted:Arrange a marriage with the Emperor of Francia's daughter that grants an alliance. The next thing that happens? A dozen or so Counts and Dukes declare war to get someone else on the throne and persuade a couple of Karling Kings to join the party. Defenitely not useless. Her children will inherit her claims to the Empire won't they?
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Sep 2, 2013 07:24
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Main Paineframe posted:There's no real penalty for having multiple King titles, other than the sheer hassle of dealing with that many dukes in general and maybe gavelkind-related fuckery. As a result, handing out kingdom titles is mostly a matter of convenience - you can keep a couple of kingdoms (or even all of them) for yourself if you want, just to make sure you stay bigger and badder than your vassal kings. If your highest title is King than there's no penalty to multiple crowns, but if you're Emperor there definitely is.
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Sep 2, 2013 07:30
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Charlz Guybon posted:If your highest title is King than there's no penalty to multiple crowns, but if you're Emperor there definitely is. It's not like the penalty for multiple duchies, though. Just a flat -10 with most vassals.
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Sep 2, 2013 07:40
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Walliard posted:It's not like the penalty for multiple duchies, though. Just a flat -10 with most vassals. Only the vassals for the Kingdoms you have crowns for.
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I would like to request some medieval legal council: What are the rules regarding random? Previously I have paid to release my vassals or my courtiers from prison from the diplomacy screen of their jailers, no problem. This time is a little different. I'm just a 3x count of Burbon under the duke of Aquitaine(who is a vassal of the king of France). The duke of Normandy has been locked up by the king of France for a while now(wrong side of a rebellion) and I would like to bail him out if possible. I'm married to the duke of Normandy's sister and the guy did me a solid by helping me stomp some other counts a few years ago, so I feel I owe him. But if I go to the king of France in the diplomacy window I can't get him out, nor can I do it from the duke of Normandy page. Is this dude destined to rot in prison forever?
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Sep 2, 2013 08:02
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Captain Beans posted:I would like to request some medieval legal council: Since he's landed, he has to pay his own ransom. Try giving him gifts of money until he has the 135 needed.
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Captain Beans posted:I would like to request some medieval legal council: There's no way to get him out with diplomacy between you and the king, but if you give a landed prisoner enough gold to get out they generally will if their jailer is interested in ransom and not just holding them forever. Or their regent might spend it on construction, but them's the breaks.
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Jazerus posted:There's no way to get him out with diplomacy between you and the king, but if you give a landed prisoner enough gold to get out they generally will if their jailer is interested in ransom and not just holding them forever. Or their regent might spend it on construction, but them's the breaks. Walliard posted:Since he's landed, he has to pay his own ransom. Try giving him gifts of money until he has the 135 needed. Good advice, thanks guys. I gave him a bunch of cash to make bail but the king of France must have not been keen on letting a major player in a rebellion out of jail. I feel like I did what I could, too bad he ended up getting killed in prison. However I scooped up some claims through his sister(my wife) when he died so it all ends well. RIP dude, with stats of mainly 0. You may have been stupid as dirt but you helped me when I needed it. Captain Beans fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Captain Beans posted:Good advice, thanks guys. I gave him a bunch of cash to make bail but the king of France must have not been keen on letting a major player in a rebellion out of jail. I feel like I did what I could, too bad he ended up getting killed in prison. However I scooped up some claims through his sister(my wife) when he died so it all ends well. RIP dude, with stats of mainly 0. You may have been stupid as dirt but you helped me when I needed it. For what it's worth, I don't think I've ever seen the AI allow their own imprisoned AI vassal to ransom their way out of prison so don't feel too bad about it. The option is there for both a player liege and a player prisoner but the AI holds serious grudges over rebellion.
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I'm taking a break from my Frankish Anti-Viking Crusade game because I'm tired of looking at blue. Where's a good, challenging Muslim start for Old Gods?
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Edit: Reign as not-king does not count for reign as king when determining changing succession laws. I guess it's important to make all your massively unpopular laws right before you die so that everyone forgets about them. I got caught out on Matrilineal Betrothal/Regular Marriage fuckery. Where do you click to figure out when the game is trying to pull that over on you? Also, all the AI stupidity makes opinion feel meaningless. A bunch of pathetic vassals got drunk and wanted a new king for no reason. You know, the same prince I was grooming for the throne. The prince they could have just voted for. If it comes up again I might as well just surrender command because if their rebellion failed then some schmuck from Connacht will gain the throne. Apparently my kid is so awesome that they're willing to bone his realm expansion and wipe his future levies to get him on the throne a few years early. Mailer fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Sep 2, 2013 15:01
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Tom Smykowski posted:I'm taking a break from my Frankish Anti-Viking Crusade game because I'm tired of looking at blue. Idrisid is challenging, being right under the Umayyads.
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SpRahl posted:For retinues its usually a good idea to go with your culture specific retinue (housecarls for Scandinavia, knights for France etc) the best cultural and by extension the best retinues are considered to be Greek Cataphracts (heavy Cav+Horse archer) French/German knights (Heavy cav and light Cav, dont confuse with the normal cavalry retinue) and Horse archer retinues but I dont remember all the cultures that have those, Turks and Mongols for sure. Persians get a Horse Archer + Light Cavalry retinue that is fairly cost-efficient and composed in such a way that it only takes up 1000 retinue points. Are there any purely Light Infantry or mostly Light Infantry + Archer cultural retinues? The only one I can think of is the Mandé Free Warrior retinue, but it seems like overall there are barely any cultural retinues that have light infantry.
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In my current game, I'm playing as the Kaiser of the HRE. The problem is that it's an elective monarchy, and I was an idiot and let my only son be taught by a Byzantine. Now he has Greek culture, causing everyone to hate him and making it impossible for him to get elected. My empire is so large there is never a time when vassals aren't fighting each other, so I can't change succession laws. Am I screwed here?
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WhenInRome posted:In my current game, I'm playing as the Kaiser of the HRE. The problem is that it's an elective monarchy, and I was an idiot and let my only son be taught by a Byzantine. Now he has Greek culture, causing everyone to hate him and making it impossible for him to get elected. My empire is so large there is never a time when vassals aren't fighting each other, so I can't change succession laws. Nominate your brother/nephew/daughter.
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Sep 2, 2013 20:27
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WhenInRome posted:In my current game, I'm playing as the Kaiser of the HRE. The problem is that it's an elective monarchy, and I was an idiot and let my only son be taught by a Byzantine. Now he has Greek culture, causing everyone to hate him and making it impossible for him to get elected. My empire is so large there is never a time when vassals aren't fighting each other, so I can't change succession laws. No. Not getting elected emperor isn't the end of the world. You will just drop down to being a duke or a king for a generation. Or maybe just have your son murdered.
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I'm still playing as the Republic of Venice as a vassal to the Byzantine Empire. I've conquered every holding for the emperor to mend the schism and I need one city to create the Roman Empire. My dynasty member and vassal gets the empire when this empress dies. How can I create the Republic of Rome? Is this even possible?
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I'm the Queen of England. My unlanded courtier son-in-law was heir to a duchy in Skotland, so I gave him an English county thinking it would cause the duchy to fall into my realm when he inherited; it didn't, and when he inherited, the county I gave him became part of Skotland. Why did it work out that way? Because the duchy wasn't de jure English? Because the county wasn't a de jure part of his duchy? Because he was the King of Skotland's kinsman? Because the duchy gave a higher title than the county? It can't be because of crown authority because the King of Skotland is still unreformed Norse. Is there a console cheat for stealing vassals?
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Happy Fun Bollocks posted:I'm the Queen of England. My unlanded courtier son-in-law was heir to a duchy in Skotland, so I gave him an English county thinking it would cause the duchy to fall into my realm when he inherited; it didn't, and when he inherited, the county I gave him became part of Skotland. I'm pretty sure this is the reason, for what that's worth.
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Well I'm nearly at the end of my first run through from old gods to end, as Ireland. It's been a blast, even though England has remained so stable whenever I've been able to crackdown on rebellious vassals long enough to do anything I'll not be making Britannia any time soon. Still, it's been a blast. Highlights: Having my third in line educated by a Bedouin eunuch because he had great stats, then suddenly becoming king, leading to 200 years of Bedouin culture in Ireland. Everyone suddenly becoming orthodox in Scotland? Taking over Spain then releasing it as independent, making it a vast and powerful merchant republic. Winning the 9th crusade to Jerusalem, only to have it squashed flat in ten years. Losing the tenth crusade. Getting a claim on Norway, inheriting it and then losing it to super-Sweden Mega HRE finally fracturing into France, Hungary, Byzantium and Poland after a 5% assassination chance went horribly right. What next?
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Non Sequitur posted:Nominate your brother/nephew/daughter. I do have other relatives, but they don't appear on the nomination list. Also, cool unrelated fact: When you click on provinces on the starting screen to pick who you want to play as, the chimes that play are the first few notes of the main theme.
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Just got this game through the Humble Bundle. Playing for the first time, should I start as a King or someone much more lowly? Do I need to go through all the tutorials or am I fine with just the basic ones?
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Jefferoo posted:Just got this game through the Humble Bundle. Playing for the first time, should I start as a King or someone much more lowly? Do I need to go through all the tutorials or am I fine with just the basic ones? Check out the tutorial LPs going on; they're a decent introduction. The 'standard' beginner's start is one of the Irish dukes, and try to form Ireland.
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fool_of_sound posted:The 'standard' beginner's start is one of the Irish dukes, and try to form Ireland. Unless (this is key) you have the Old Gods DLC and are starting in 867, in which case avoid Ireland at all costs and start as a Norseman or something.
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Jefferoo posted:Just got this game through the Humble Bundle. Playing for the first time, should I start as a King or someone much more lowly? Do I need to go through all the tutorials or am I fine with just the basic ones? It depends- the difficulty meter says that being a king is easier for some reason, but it's more a question of complexity than difficulty (if that makes any sense.) When you're King you have a lot of resources but a lot more potential threats within the realm- the larger your realm is the more there is to manage. When you're lower on the scale you don't have that many troops to work with and not as much money and not as much diplomatic pull, BUT you can be a little more focused and deal with a few things at a time, like conquering your immediate neighbor or getting a claim on a duchy or something on that scale as you work your way up.
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