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verbal enema posted:15 martial to 6 reaalllly makes a difference then goddamn It's been awhile since I've played, but I think it's a 5% increase for every point of martial. So a 9 point difference is a 45% smaller bonus to your levy size.
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SeaTard posted:It's been awhile since I've played, but I think it's a 5% increase for every point of martial. So a 9 point difference is a 45% smaller bonus to your levy size. Wowie P sure this run is gonna have some hard times for the last 200 years until time end. Or I'll just keep save scumming until a faction doesn't rise up during my defense against England
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Back To 99 posted:You're weird. Hey man, don't diss Poland LP man.
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verbal enema posted:Wowie Also, if your new ruler has lovely stewardship and this pushes your max holdings under your current holdings, you're going to start seeing some big penalties.
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Goddamn, I haven't played this game in more than a year and I forgot how intense it could be. I spent twenty years hiding money away, sending my liege gifts and chancellor's, getting a marriage to his oldest daughter, spending my fortune to bribe his courtiers into a murder plot that failed because he dropped dead of a heart attack at 40 (died of stress), then assassinating my brother in law, heh, and assassinating my 2 year old nephew by getting his nurse to smother him with a pillow; then using a lucky subterfuge focus event to kidnap the last surviving son and forcing him to accept my wife as the new Duke. Just picked up five ironman achievements from doing it too. This game is amazing. Ghetto Prince fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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I had a 1,000 gold buffer saved up in case something bad happened, to hire mercenaries or whatever. Then my guy gets a life event to build a loving enormous tower. I've never seen this event chain before, so sure, build a tower, why not. Then the first event comes up and it's a -750 gold event with no option to back out. Okay. Then the second event comes up and it's also a -750 gold event with no option to back out. Um. Then the third event comes up and here I at least have a choice. It's a choice between -750 gold or -2,250 gold. I pick the cheaper option but I'm still 1,000 gold in the hole. Now that my finances have finally recovered (partly thanks to murdering a 76-year-old man and then raiding my re-election fund for near 800 gold), every single one of my provinces has like five thieves guilds.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:So does anyone know o any CK2 mods that bring back the old CK1 music? I've been bumming around Paradox forums but no one seems to have put this together. There's a big problem with this: Incompatible music formats. CK I uses .mp3, CK II uses .ogg, which means the music files have to be converted before use. However, if I did the conversion for you and then uploaded the CK I music as .ogg files, that would be copyright infringement. If you're willing to do the work yourself: Get the CK I music files, then go here to convert them. Once you've done that, go to your CK II\music folder, put the converted CK I files in there, and replace the contents of songs.txt with this pastebin. Hope that helps.
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vyelkin posted:I had a 1,000 gold buffer saved up in case something bad happened, to hire mercenaries or whatever. Then my guy gets a life event to build a loving enormous tower. I've never seen this event chain before, so sure, build a tower, why not. I very rarely play as republics, how many events are there that are crazy -750 gold disasters?
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vyelkin posted:I had a 1,000 gold buffer saved up in case something bad happened, to hire mercenaries or whatever. Then my guy gets a life event to build a loving enormous tower. I've never seen this event chain before, so sure, build a tower, why not. Odobenidae posted:I very rarely play as republics, how many events are there that are crazy -750 gold disasters?
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Is it just me or would the Iberian portraits look better in the middle east than the standard muslim portraits (face-wise?)
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I've basically re-created the W-Roman Empire with my Lombardy -> HRE, though I doubt that the Romans grabbed half of Mali and Abyssinia for laughs. Question: What are the penalties for going over the vassal limit? After killing my successful Emperor to play as boy incompetent king of W-Francia (and every Karling kingdom but France, hah) I was at 59/28 and am down to 30/41. As far as I can tell all it does is sap my income and completely remove my vassal levies. Oh, and why was making the pope a vassal a good thing? As far as I can tell dude is now just way broker and I can't switch to Papal whatever until the year 1000. A goddamn pain considering what a piggybank he was before.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:I've basically re-created the W-Roman Empire with my Lombardy -> HRE, though I doubt that the Romans grabbed half of Mali and Abyssinia for laughs. If you're over your vassal limit and your king dies, there's a chance some of your vassals will instantly become independent and have to be re-conquered. If you vassalize the pope he can't turn down any of your requests/demands, so you can ask him for claims on any duchy you want or ask him for money or whatever and he will always say yes. It basically means you can declare duchy-level wars on whoever you want, because if they're your own religion you just get the pope to sanction it and if they're someone else's religion you just holy war them.
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vyelkin posted:If you vassalize the pope he can't turn down any of your requests/demands, so you can ask him for claims on any duchy you want or ask him for money or whatever and he will always say yes. It basically means you can declare duchy-level wars on whoever you want, because if they're your own religion you just get the pope to sanction it and if they're someone else's religion you just holy war them.
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Grouchio posted:Is it just me or would the Iberian portraits look better in the middle east than the standard muslim portraits (face-wise?) The regular muslim portraits are from when the game was just released, so they suffer from a pretty bad case case of inherited potatoface.
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Jaramin posted:The regular muslim portraits are from when the game was just released, so they suffer from a pretty bad case case of inherited potatoface. When I got Rajas of India the Indian faces turned into crazy-eyed people with rashes.
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Strudel Man posted:Does that apply to duchies held by e.g. orthodox characters? I've never tried. It does not. Orthodox and its flavors appear to be the one exception; you can't take duchy titles from them at will via holy wars or pope claims (Catholics and Orthodox can't Holy War each other, though they can Holy War their own heresies. This was probably necessary to prevent the Byzantines from quickly swallowing Hungary and Poland and then being strong enough to inexorably swallow the rest of the Catholic world.) In my current game the Golden Horde appeared in 1224 and conquered Hungary (and everything along the way, of course) by 1233. The Pope instantly declared a Crusade for Hungary; the Golden Horde, still having a 115K attrition-free fuckyoustack, effortlessly handed Christendom its rear end on a plate (the HRE and Brittanic Empire both sat the Crusade out) in under three years and still had 102K left in its fuckyoustack when it was done. So that was fun. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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I read a story by one guy who claimed to have married his way into the Byzantines as a Catholic, and managed to get the 6 year old heir to the throne in his court through murdering and inviting the kids mother to court. From there, he personally tutored the kid, giving him every trait possible that the pope hated. When the kid inherited, since he was Catholic, he was able to get papal claims on a ton of it and press them all at once. Empire didn't last much longer after that.
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The thing about the Byzantines is that they're usually Elective, though, so it will take some insane scheming and stabbing and working the Born in the Purple system to get a teenage Catholic Lustful Gluttonous Greedy Cynical kid onto the throne. I've gotten the Byzantine heir into my court a few times, too, and when I force him to embrace Catholicism he ceases to be the Byzantine heir within a week.
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In my latest game the Pope ended up taking most of Italy while the Byzantines went Catholic, leaving Bulgaria and Trebizond (located in Crimea) as the only Orthodox kingdoms. Oh and Sunni Ireland was a thing.
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What are some good ways to kill yourself as quickly as possible? My emperor died before he could assassinate his dumb son so his Genius daughter could inherit. Also, now that I've established the Empire of Britannia, should I hang on to the titles for Kingdoms of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, or should I give them away? A lot of my vassals hate me because they want them.
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FourLeaf posted:What are some good ways to kill yourself as quickly as possible? My emperor died before he could assassinate his dumb son so his Genius daughter could inherit. If I were you I would destroy them. Wait until your ruler is old and you think he'll die soon, and then destroy the kingdoms. Your vassals will get upset but they'll forget all about it when the new king comes along, and vassal kings are a huge pain because they really want to be independent. Once you start hitting your vassal limit, consider recreating kingdoms starting with the smallest you can (so probably Wales, then Ireland, then Scotland, then England). There are a few advantages to vassal kings, like having a big levy that you can gather all in one go instead of having to combine together a bunch of smaller ones, and only having one vassal to keep happy instead of ten, but it's balanced out by the fact that they're harder to keep happy and are very likely to join annoying factions. To kill yourself, try and get stressed and then depressed. Stewardship focus is a good way to get stressed, I don't know the best way to depress yourself.
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vyelkin posted:To kill yourself, try and get stressed and then depressed. Stewardship focus is a good way to get stressed, I don't know the best way to depress yourself. Watch your Genius heir with 20+ Diplo and Martial die a natural death aged 21 then die the same way yourself the next year at 46 before all your elective titles have consolidated, putting a child on the throne and losing half the HRE while engaged in a war with Byzantium. Oh, you meant characters. Sorry, can't help there.
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Are there any mods that let you plot against your kids? I know it was apparently patched out for being overpowered but sometimes I just really, really need to shank a motherfucker.
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In my experience by the time you actually need to create some vassal kings to stay under the vassal limit, you've pretty much already won the game. Meaning by then you're so powerful that to have your empire meaningfully crumble would require active mismanagement on your part. There are always going to be vassals that hate you, but there's definitely a tipping point in this game beyond which no faction revolt has a prayer of succeeding and no foreign power dares gently caress with you. That point is right around when you control your entire de jure empire plus another kingdom--which conveniently is also right around the point where your vassal cap starts becoming a problem that has to be dealt with.
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Eric the Mauve posted:In my experience by the time you actually need to create some vassal kings to stay under the vassal limit, you've pretty much already won the game. Meaning by then you're so powerful that to have your empire meaningfully crumble would require active mismanagement on your part. That's pretty much it. I also usually give up on playing after that point, or will switch to another nation. This time Im trying to actually play to the end, which I never did, even though Ive put hundreds and hundreds of hours in this game. Its kinda hard, because it starts to feel like work: its not challenging, is not interesting anymore, its just doing the same thing over an over again. Im actually mismaneging on purpose a bit (creating huge and dangeours vassal kingdoms, killing people just for the heck of it etc) and messing with foreign affairs I have nothing to do with just to keep things interesting while I wait for the hordes to come (I hope they can still put a good fight against me).
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Eric the Mauve posted:In my experience by the time you actually need to create some vassal kings to stay under the vassal limit, you've pretty much already won the game. Meaning by then you're so powerful that to have your empire meaningfully crumble would require active mismanagement on your part. Hungary in Ironman with a 1066 start was pretty easy when I was going for the Survivor achievement. I did spend the first 300 years or so nailing other achievements, like three emperesses in a row and most of the Way of Life achievements, but in the last 40 years there wasn't much for me to do when I realized I couldn't make the Kingdom of Rus in time and I just ran down the clock.
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vyelkin posted:I had a 1,000 gold buffer saved up in case something bad happened, to hire mercenaries or whatever. Then my guy gets a life event to build a loving enormous tower. I've never seen this event chain before, so sure, build a tower, why not. * wondering if this is part of the problem since they're all 1-2 cities over their demense and making me an obscene amount of money, but it's only been this 1 character where the finance sheet has been largely theoretical, and I've had mayors with too many cities for far longer vyelkin posted:If you vassalize the pope he can't turn down any of your requests/demands, so you can ask him for claims on any duchy you want or ask him for money or whatever and he will always say yes. It basically means you can declare duchy-level wars on whoever you want, because if they're your own religion you just get the pope to sanction it and if they're someone else's religion you just holy war them. future ghost fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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cisco privilege posted:For as much as the loving thing cost though it should really be permanent for the province instead of just for a pathetic 10 years or whatever.
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Jedit posted:Watch your Genius heir with 20+ Diplo and Martial die a natural death aged 21 then die the same way yourself the next year at 46 before all your elective titles have consolidated, putting a child on the throne and losing half the HRE while engaged in a war with Byzantium. I had to excommunicate, imprison, and monasticize my heir to get my genius first in line. Then came the syphilis. Then came the lunacy.
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As I formed my republic, I lost the first election because I'd lost a lot of gold fixing up my economy, and hadn't thought to pour money into the election process. I'm sadled with some crappy counties, since I'd not yet had a chance to upgrade completely from tribalism. Fine, I thought, as the empire I'd built was slowly being picked away at by outsiders. I'll just win the next election and turn things around. At which point my main rival gains tons of money and prestige really swiftly and I can't keep up, as I've had to switch heirs when one dies suddenly. The rival wins, and keeps the empire in costly wars it cannot win and never tries to expand or reclaim lost territory. I finally get to the top of the list with my martial-centric heir, who's at a decent age and with lots of money... when I'm called to a duel and won't refuse. And I lose. And suddenly all my rivals are building their second and more tradeposts, while I'm stuck with just the one. Meaning I'll probably play second fiddle forever. Or until the empire is gobbled up by the Rus.
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FFFUUUCCCKKKKKK Goddamn foreign culture loving heirs! I guess going for the whole of goddamn Francia at once was a bad idea but goddamn it! There's like, 300 years of loving playtime down the drain, ugghhhhhhhhh. Also gently caress you muslim motherfuckers and your goddamn invasion CB. Who thought that them having that and Jihads was a good idea??? Edit: It's especially galling, because If I'd just been arsed enough to notice, I wouldn't have married him to that barons daughter and he coulda converted to Lombard before the event hit, like it did before. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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What are the best succession systems? I just went with ultimogeniture and everyone hated my heir when he took the throne.
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Hadaka Apron posted:What are the best succession systems? I just went with ultimogeniture and everyone hated my heir when he took the throne. Tanistry is the most hilarious though. Wish it was open to errybody.
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Really having trouble with Vikings. You need to get money with raiding, but it costs money to raid. I've gotten a little better at splitting up my troops into 500-person bunches and setting them out to plunder, but it's super time-consuming on the microlevel, and then they come back with some gold and I break even. I start small and I stay small. I'm sure I'm missing what's fun about this.
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Question, if I have one duchy under gavelkind inheritance and I give my heir a county outside of the de jure duchy, will he still inherit the all the duchy lands ahead of his brothers? I'm running an ironman game to pick up some achievements , so I can't exactly gently caress around. I've got the Duke of Brandenberg in the Holy Roman Empire, if that makes a difference.
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dj_clawson posted:Really having trouble with Vikings. You need to get money with raiding, but it costs money to raid. I've gotten a little better at splitting up my troops into 500-person bunches and setting them out to plunder, but it's super time-consuming on the microlevel, and then they come back with some gold and I break even. I start small and I stay small. I'm sure I'm missing what's fun about this. Use your vassal levies and retinues only. No maintenance costs.
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Volkerball posted:Use your vassal levies and retinues only. No maintenance costs. Do vassal levies who are vikings dislike you for raising levies to raid? Because I'm used to feudal rulers, and they're always mad when I raise vassal levies.
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Hadaka Apron posted:What are the best succession systems? I just went with ultimogeniture and everyone hated my heir when he took the throne. Tanistry is really good for clean successions, but usually you get kind of blah rulers. Where are you located?
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dj_clawson posted:Do vassal levies who are vikings dislike you for raising levies to raid? Because I'm used to feudal rulers, and they're always mad when I raise vassal levies. They won't hate you for raising levies until you reform the faith, iirc.
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dj_clawson posted:Do vassal levies who are vikings dislike you for raising levies to raid? Because I'm used to feudal rulers, and they're always mad when I raise vassal levies. Yes when you are feudal, no when you are tribal. But while you're in the process of raiding, it seems like the opinion penalty drops. It rises while you're floating around though. No big deal. It's totally worth opinion penalties for no maintenance raids.
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