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Tiler Kiwi posted:I almost got totally wrecked by a Crusade when I was busy trying to deal with the Ilkhanate, and the lesson learned was "either fight the nearby Catholic empires or get ready to fight the Catholics, because God apparently informed the Pope that this is very personal."
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Is there something up with levy calculations for tribes? I'm at full tribal organization so they're providing me levies instead of independent allies, and I'm at normal feudal levy law. The Chief of Novgorod-Seversky's personal levy is 493 troops. The military screen says he can provide me with at most 92 troops, of which he's willing to provide 14 due to opinion (+25%) and laws (-40%). Combined, my vassals will give me 79 troops while my personal levy maxes out at 4616 (since my ruler has 20 martial and I'm holding 7 county titles). 
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Oct 18, 2014 05:37
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I ursurped the kingdom of England...but the succession law is still Gavelkind. The kingdom's only at low crown authority so changing it to Primo is out. Since I've formed Britannia that means I can just hand out the title to somebody and they'll still be my vassal, and the succession law won't apply to me, right?
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Oct 18, 2014 05:40
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DiseasedTempest posted:I ursurped the kingdom of England...but the succession law is still Gavelkind. The kingdom's only at low crown authority so changing it to Primo is out. Since I've formed Britannia that means I can just hand out the title to somebody and they'll still be my vassal, and the succession law won't apply to me, right? yes
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Oct 18, 2014 05:42
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DiseasedTempest posted:I ursurped the kingdom of England...but the succession law is still Gavelkind. The kingdom's only at low crown authority so changing it to Primo is out. Since I've formed Britannia that means I can just hand out the title to somebody and they'll still be my vassal, and the succession law won't apply to me, right? You should give it to someone in your dynasty (maybe a son/nephew?) so that you can get it back at some point. England is the strongest Kingdom in Britannia, and you really want those dukes reporting directly to you instead of to a very powerful vassal.
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Oct 18, 2014 06:25
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 I wish Paradox would fix it so your character had more than a snowball's chance in hell of winning a tournament.I just want to feel like a badass one time... 
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Oct 18, 2014 07:18
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McGavin posted:
Every point of martial between 11 and 20 makes it more likely, every point from 0-9 makes it less likely. That's all you can do to influence it, so just make sure you have good (15+) martial, and you'll win all the time.
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Oct 18, 2014 07:36
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I'm not that worried about making an uber-vassal; most of the de jure duchies are under my direct vassalage and since he's content I can just bribe him every now and then to keep him from getting too upset. New question: Does marrying some dude with a claim on whatever to a landed vassal in my realm mean that if I press his claim he'll still be my vassal when we win?
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Oct 18, 2014 07:37
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Minenfeld! posted:That's part of the problem, though. The Paradox forum is a place filled with history buffs. History buffs are the worst kind of grognard; they're knowledgeable about history without understanding the underlying concepts of historiography and historical determinism. So, we end up with a lot of threads about how this one province should be this culture or how this duchy could never have formed without realizing that historical outcomes only seem predetermined in hindsight. A game like CKII or EUIV should be plausible, but allow the player to completely wreck history as we know it. As soon as you unpause the game at the start, history as we know it goes out the window. I'm sick of the historical railroading that Paradox has increasingly shoved into EUIV. CK2 seems to be doing this less, but it's still creeping in there as well. The game should be based around plausible mechanics that work on a macro scale and not working off triggered events. EUIV has been completely wrecked by this kind of poo poo. The new expansion with the specific Thirty Years War mechanics are a prime example. 
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Oct 18, 2014 07:43
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SeaTard posted:Every point of martial between 11 and 20 makes it more likely, every point from 0-9 makes it less likely. That's all you can do to influence it, so just make sure you have good (15+) martial, and you'll win all the time. Unless they finally fixed it, the MTTH for you to win is longer than the actual tournament.
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Minenfeld! posted:That's part of the problem, though. The Paradox forum is a place filled with history buffs. History buffs are the worst kind of grognard; they're knowledgeable about history without understanding the underlying concepts of historiography and historical determinism. So, we end up with a lot of threads about how this one province should be this culture or how this duchy could never have formed without realizing that historical outcomes only seem predetermined in hindsight. A game like CKII or EUIV should be plausible, but allow the player to completely wreck history as we know it. As soon as you unpause the game at the start, history as we know it goes out the window. I'm sick of the historical railroading that Paradox has increasingly shoved into EUIV. CK2 seems to be doing this less, but it's still creeping in there as well. The game should be based around plausible mechanics that work on a macro scale and not working off triggered events. EUIV has been completely wrecked by this kind of poo poo. The new expansion with the specific Thirty Years War mechanics are a prime example. Well that's just like... your opinion maaaaaan.
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Oct 18, 2014 07:52
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Unless they finally fixed it, the MTTH for you to win is longer than the actual tournament. It's more like everyone else has a MTTH to win while you have a fixed date when you need to pass a martial skill check to win. The MTTH for everyone else to win almost always happens well before the date you can win.
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Oct 18, 2014 08:20
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I..always assumed that you needed at least 2 people and 100% plot power for plots to actually work. Well poo poo, that changes my game dramatically.
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Oct 18, 2014 08:27
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Oct 18, 2014 09:32
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Hey Shadeoses et al, is there a particular website you've found useful for getting started with CK2 modding?
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Oct 18, 2014 10:08
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There's the CK2 Wiki, the modding forums in general, and a bunch of self-teaching.
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Oct 18, 2014 10:44
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Yeah, I'm assuming a lot of it picking through existing stuff and finding how it breaks. Thanks!
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Oct 18, 2014 10:52
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What are you trying to break?
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Oct 18, 2014 10:58
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Any tips for a good Duke or Count start that isn't too hard and where you have room for expansion? I'm trying to get back into CKII and finished a successful Ireland game about a week ago. After that, I attemped to play as the Duke (sic) of Flanders and the Duke of Barcelona since they start out with great counties, but I quickly got wrecked each time.
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Oct 18, 2014 11:15
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Larry Parrish posted:My favorite Charlemange bug so far is how if you convert to a merchant republic from a tribal government, you automatically get Seniority election. However, the Designated Heir title still works and overrides Seniority. It's pretty sweet. I just wish being a Cathar let you select female heirs Can't you though? I think the reason most republics don't get the tooltip for changing investiture laws is because investiture laws are realm laws, so you'd actually need to control the Kingdom in order to change those laws. The solution, obviously, is to form your Irish republic, then incorporate the rest of Ireland into your republic so you can create a Kingdom level Republic. e: Ray and Shirley posted:I almost always play the 1066 bookmarks. I enjoy it because of the bookmarks it's the one that results in the most historically plausible parallel situations on the map. With the latest update, however, there are a few problems I'm noticing that are making this bookmark far less balanced and fun to play. I haven't got Charlemagne yet and haven't tried playing the 1066 bookmark with the latest patch, but in all of my 1066 games I've seen King Philip create the Kingdom of Aquitane, which then stays with the Capet dynasty, with the Kingdom of France usually going to William (after he fails his invasion of England). So now you've got the De Normandies in charge of France and the Capets ruling Aquitane, and occasionally the two dynasties will change places (with a Capet adventurer with a claim on France winning a claim war while the Aquitanian vassals press a De Normandie claim on Aquitane) so it turns into some weird Frankish tango. The latter I've never seen though. Ratpick fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Oct 18, 2014 |
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Oct 18, 2014 11:32
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Shadeoses posted:What are you trying to break? Nothing in particular, just wanting to toy round with some ideas. Had thoughts of a dark sun inspired mod where the top level nobles were near-immortal sorceror kings and you're scrapping around beneath them trying to replace them or just survive. Gough Suppressant fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Oct 18, 2014 |
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Oct 18, 2014 11:36
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Phlegmish posted:Any tips for a good Duke or Count start that isn't too hard and where you have room for expansion? I'm trying to get back into CKII and finished a successful Ireland game about a week ago. After that, I attemped to play as the Duke (sic) of Flanders and the Duke of Barcelona since they start out with great counties, but I quickly got wrecked each time. Count of Transylvania 1066 start. It's how I learned the game and it's a ton of fun. Plus the guy historically became the king of Hungary and you can pretend you're a vampire 
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MegaGatts posted:Count of Transylvania 1066 start. It's how I learned the game and it's a ton of fun. Plus the guy historically became the king of Hungary and you can pretend you're a vampire Um, I think you will find that Vlad Tepes, the historical person on whom Dracula was based on, was neither Hungarian nor the Duke of Transylvania, and furthermore Speaking of, I actually wish there were more Vlach (Romanian) counts in this game so I could try to become Vlad Tepes way before he actually existed (through getting the Impaler trait). In the Old Gods start Wallachia and Moldau are part of Bulgaria and there's all but one Vlach count there, and because the game starts with the Magyar invasion there's a small chance that they'll take your highest level holding, resulting in game over when they inevitably win the invasion. In later bookmarks all the counties in Wallachia and Moldau have Vlach culture but they're ruled by the Pecheneg khanate and there's not a single Vlach count among them. Later on you actually have an independent Duchy of Wallachia, but you've got the Golden Horde and Rum right in your neighborhood.  Incidentally, those of you who have Charlemagne, are there any Vlach counts under the Avars or the Bulgarians in the Charlemagne bookmark?
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Oct 18, 2014 12:01
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The pechenegs basically ended up getting assimilated by the vlach so feel free to play them then just click "convert culture" because you're basically not even cheating.
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Oct 18, 2014 12:19
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I've just seen an invasion of 25k troops take Barcelona off of West Francia. And a 15k adventurer stack popped up in my realms but I used the console to kill the leader because gently caress that, I'm Asturias and have about 4k troops in total. So now the count of Barcelona is a Viking named Ale.
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Oct 18, 2014 12:27
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Phlegmish posted:Any tips for a good Duke or Count start that isn't too hard and where you have room for expansion? I'm trying to get back into CKII and finished a successful Ireland game about a week ago. After that, I attemped to play as the Duke (sic) of Flanders and the Duke of Barcelona since they start out with great counties, but I quickly got wrecked each time. The Grand Prince of Novgorod, 1066.
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Oct 18, 2014 12:41
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reignonyourparade posted:The pechenegs basically ended up getting assimilated by the vlach so feel free to play them then just click "convert culture" because you're basically not even cheating. Yeah, I was just reading about that. Interesting stuff. I could just fire up the game as the Pechenegs, convert to Vlach culture and change my dynasty name to Draculesti. I could even stick to the Tengri faith for a time, because apparently the Paleo-Balkan Dacians (who were eventually Romanized and are the predecessors of modern-day Romanians) had a cult dedicated to a horse-riding sky god. While this faith was probably completely unrelated to Tengriism I think the ideas and mechanics of the Tengri faith would do a good job of emulating a bunch of neo-Dacians who want to get back at the Bulgarians and Romans (Byzantines) who subjugated them at various times. Oh, and also getting the Cruel and Impaler traits at some point so I have a chance of getting "Impaler" as a nickname.
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Oct 18, 2014 12:48
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Phlegmish posted:Any tips for a good Duke or Count start that isn't too hard and where you have room for expansion? I'm trying to get back into CKII and finished a successful Ireland game about a week ago. After that, I attemped to play as the Duke (sic) of Flanders and the Duke of Barcelona since they start out with great counties, but I quickly got wrecked each time. I believe the Duke of Brandenburg in the 1066 start has some expansion options to the north in Mecklenburg/Pomerania (pagans), and I've had fun with that a few times. I also seemed to effortlessly get elected Emperor all those times too, so that might not be what you're looking for. I've also had a decent amount of success as the Duke of Tuscany in the 867 start. Your goal should be to successfully get the Karling king to institute elective monarchy.
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Oct 18, 2014 12:52
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You can send your heirs to be educated by the Nestorian Patriarch in Antioch from places like Finland and Brittany. 
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So, I started a game as everyone's favourite Frank and Karl has an event to create the HRE, which however requires him to own the kingdom of Italy/Lombardia. How is one meant to claim this? Are you supposed to stay married to the Lombard princess? I think historically his divorcing of her set the stage for the war between Lombardia and the Frankish empire, are you meant to get an event and/or claim on the crown of Lombardia like you do for the crown of Asturias? I've also not seen the event fire one way or the other for the Umayyad revolter. The starting event does happen, I choose to support him and kick rear end up and down the Iberian peninsula, I win the war, his puny holdings are freed, but I have yet to get the event that has him swear fealty to me (or tells me to gently caress off). What gives?
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Hambilderberglar posted:So, I started a game as everyone's favourite Frank and Karl has an event to create the HRE, which however requires him to own the kingdom of Italy/Lombardia. How is one meant to claim this? Are you supposed to stay married to the Lombard princess? I think historically his divorcing of her set the stage for the war between Lombardia and the Frankish empire, are you meant to get an event and/or claim on the crown of Lombardia like you do for the crown of Asturias? Antipope -> Take Rome -> get Pope claims on Lombardy -> SUCCESS
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Oct 18, 2014 13:37
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Funky Valentine posted:Antipope -> Take Rome -> get Pope claims on Lombardy -> SUCCESS
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Oct 18, 2014 14:01
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I am starting to think there's some kind of hidden mechanic where if you name your kid James II or some poo poo after your ruler, he's gonna end up with horrible dogpiss stats.
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Oct 18, 2014 14:01
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 Does this mean I need a third Kingdom to create the Empire of Italia? If so  Guess I need to finish stomping the Zirids in North Africa. Also, this is what the map looks like right now, at 1243:  Lithuania is my cousin, the family won it in a crusade and I gave it the then-ruler's uncle because I was sick of dealing with a split realm and the pagan adventurers. I guess I should have kept it to get that Emperor rank. Note the Amrid Sultanate in Spain and Morocco. They're Berber Catholics. Is that normal?
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Oct 18, 2014 14:02
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Martello posted:
Yep. Easy pickings would be Tunisia for the King of Africa title, or in my Italia game, I went for Croatia.
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Oct 18, 2014 14:12
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What the hell is England doing? 
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Oct 18, 2014 14:17
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Drone posted:Yep. Easy pickings would be Tunisia for the King of Africa title, or in my Italia game, I went for Croatia. Can you create the titular king level republic titles? I know they counted for the purposes of forming Italia in my republic game, but I can't remember if you can create them or not.
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Oct 18, 2014 14:19
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Knuc U Kinte posted:Can you create the titular king level republic titles? I know they counted for the purposes of forming Italia in my republic game, but I can't remember if you can create them or not.
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Oct 18, 2014 14:20
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Is it possible to start as a normal feudal lord and convert your dynasty to a merchant republic in an ironman game?
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Hambilderberglar posted:I've never played a Catholic game until today. How do I antipope? Pick a Bishop I like? Go to the religion tab, there'll be a list of your direct vassal bishops. If he likes you more than he likes the Pope, you can appoint him as Anitpope and use his claim on the Papacy to install him as your own vassal Pope.
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