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Orcs and Ostriches posted:I'm watching The Last Kingdom, which takes place in Wessex in the 860's during the invasion of the great heathen armies. It's based off a book series I hear is good, but I can't confirm as I haven't read them. The series is good at least. The books are pretty good, though imo the show does a much better job of showing you how much of a complete rear end the main character is than the books mainly because you lack his internal thoughts self justifying everything. They definitely did the TV thing of consolidating and cutting a few plots and characters but it was mainly to the show's benefit.
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Jul 21, 2016 14:11
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That's a lame name and I almost wrote it as Raper's Due on Google. Looking forward to it as always!
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Jul 21, 2016 14:16
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So when's the Reaper's Due due? Aside from what's already been said in dev diaries, is there's anything else in the Reaper's Due to do? If this DLC becomes the most successful content expansion, will they make a Reaper's Due: Deux?
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Jul 21, 2016 14:21
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Now we know why all those Reap mods were pulled by Paradox.
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Jul 21, 2016 14:39
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Dareon posted:I'm having a bit of trouble finding good historical fiction set in this time period. I have a good series from Arthurian times (Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles) and I just finished a great novel set at the very beginning of the Reformation (The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley), but I haven't found a decently engaging novel about the time periods this game covers. You'd think there'd be some about vikings, at least. The Accursed Kings books are pretty good.
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Seconding the Accursed Kings, though it's really the tail end of the CK2 period (leading into the Hundred Years War, etc.) I'd consider Kay far more than "passable" but his books are a bit more historical fantasy (or to use his phrase, "a quarter turn to the fantastic") than historical fiction so YMMV. Dallan Invictus fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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Ofaloaf posted:So when's the Reaper's Due due? i'm not sure if you were actually asking or if your whole post was just an excuse to make lame puns, but they mentioned late August.
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It certainly is late 
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Jul 21, 2016 16:13
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Skellybones posted:It certainly is late  Check out Marco Polo on Netflix. Has court intrigue, horse lords obviously, Hashashins, syncretic religions, Prester John, the intricacies of ultimogeniture succession and child murder. Its honestly CK2 China: the show. Plus the writing is sometimes really goofy and vulgar for no reason.
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Games > Crusader Kings II: #BlackDeathMatters
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Jul 21, 2016 22:31
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That is a hella weak trailer. No plague jokes, not event text and some awful coughing. not even a "I'M NOT DEAD" for some ancient referential humour
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Deceitful Penguin posted:That is a hella weak trailer. No plague jokes, not event text and some awful coughing. The coughing was the joke? I'm not really sure what you expected, Pdox games don't lend themselves to video very well (at least the map games). The best marketing they do is the dev diaries: you can explore gameplay possibilities with that a lot better than sweeping pans over
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Frogfingers posted:The coughing was the joke? And conclave was actually a really good one. And this one was legendary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y53_GV2aAg8
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Except their seven sins videos were some of the best trailers made and barely even featured the games themselves? Oh wow I had never seen those actual acted trailers before. This one and the beard one are about the same, maybe not in energy, but in context at least.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:And this one was legendary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y53_GV2aAg8 Haha amazing, best map game trailer ever. Really got me in the mood for some ck2, but I guess I should wait until the DLC drops.
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I thought I'd play some CK2 for the first time in a while and none of my DLC is available. Steam shows all the DLC that I have purchased and says that it's installed but when I launch the game it's only the base game with no DLC. There's a content button that I've never seen before (it's been a while since I played, like I said) and that's grayed out. I tried completely deleting and reinstalling and that didn't help at all and Googling for help with this issue isn't turning up anything. Anyone know what could cause this?
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Zombiepop posted:Haha amazing, best map game trailer ever. Really got me in the mood for some ck2, but I guess I should wait until the DLC drops. So yeah, basically, you coulda done better guys. Tsk tsk.
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Random Stranger posted:I thought I'd play some CK2 for the first time in a while and none of my DLC is available. Steam shows all the DLC that I have purchased and says that it's installed but when I launch the game it's only the base game with no DLC. There's a content button that I've never seen before (it's been a while since I played, like I said) and that's grayed out. I tried completely deleting and reinstalling and that didn't help at all and Googling for help with this issue isn't turning up anything. Anyone know what could cause this? Did you enable the dlc in the launcher?
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Except their seven sins videos were some of the best trailers made and barely even featured the games themselves? I actually bought the game based on that trailer alone iirc.
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What happens when I retract vassalage? I'm king of Finland and have a weak claim on high chiefdom of Bjarmia. The high chief of Bjarmia recently revolted and after stopping the revolt, I imprisoned him. If I retract vassalage, would that effectively make the high chiefdom part of my demesne? Or would his heir put in charge instead? The king is past 64 years, has high prestige and is generally loved all around, so I wouldn't mind negative effects on vassal opinions that much at this point.
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negationix posted:What happens when I retract vassalage? I'm king of Finland and have a weak claim on high chiefdom of Bjarmia. The high chief of Bjarmia recently revolted and after stopping the revolt, I imprisoned him. If I retract vassalage, would that effectively make the high chiefdom part of my demesne? Or would his heir put in charge instead? The king is past 64 years, has high prestige and is generally loved all around, so I wouldn't mind negative effects on vassal opinions that much at this point. Retract vassalage means making one of his vassals your direct vassal. It won't give you his high chiefdom.
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Baron Corbyn posted:Retract vassalage means making one of his vassals your direct vassal. It won't give you his high chiefdom. Right, thanks. That's just one of those many options I have never tried or really read about. It's fun to be a king when you don't know how things work.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:That is a hella weak trailer. No plague jokes, not event text and some awful coughing. No one except the trailer guy liked that trailer 
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Darkrenown posted:No one except the trailer guy liked that trailer I'm pretty such that is still the case.
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bonds0097 posted:Did you enable the dlc in the launcher? There wasn't an option for it there, but it turned out to be Steam itself making GBS threads the bed. Once I fixed Steam then everything turned out okay.
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Darkrenown posted:No one except the trailer guy liked that trailer It was trying too hard for the horror jump scares.
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I just started playing again after a long break. Haven't played Conclave until now. Overall I think I like how unstable it makes realms, but I'm kind of getting frustrated fighting an elective-succession revolt every 15 years, even when I have an objectively "good" leader. It also seems like nearly every European feudal realm has fallen to elective revolts in my game so far. That can't be intended, right?
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I dunno some times it seems appropriate and other times its just constant nonsense. I think it depends a certain amount on whether you get stuck with some dipshit vassal who bribes everyone to join his faction with oodles of money he gets from somewhere while continuing to build up his holdings somehow. Its manageable with a high intrigue spymaster moving around a lot but it can be absurd when people who really like you are in factions against you
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In my recent conclave game, the frequent elective revolts were very helpful when I was a vassal: The Kingdom of England went elective leaving Ireland a separate realm after succession. Later Ireland and Aquitaine broke apart similarly. Once the realm was fully splintered it was finally an option for me to revolt against my liege and win the throne. After I became a ruler factions were mostly a non-issue since I chose to put my most powerful dukes on my council.
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I've executed 4 successive heirs of the duchy of lower lorraine for starting elective monarchy revolts. Maybe one day they'll learn. My heir is a lunatic, so maybe he'll be the one to exterminate them for good.
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Also I just granted a title to a dude against the will of the council and got a -50 tyranny modifier? What the heck.
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Darkrenown posted:No one except the trailer guy liked that trailer
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DrPop posted:Also I just granted a title to a dude against the will of the council and got a -50 tyranny modifier? What the heck. Did you fire someone
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DrPop posted:Also I just granted a title to a dude against the will of the council and got a -50 tyranny modifier? What the heck. For some decisions, you'll see a red x or green check next to the confirmation that tells you how the council voted. Any time you go against a council vote, you're going to incur tyranny. That's why you need favors to call in.
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Has anyone noticed getting tyranny in Conclave for executing prisoners despite not needing council approval for it?
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Well there was always tyranny for loving with people too much like if you have a dude in prison and you revoke his county because traitor its fine but if you then execute him afterwards its tyranny.
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Goofballs posted:Well there was always tyranny for loving with people too much like if you have a dude in prison and you revoke his county because traitor its fine but if you then execute him afterwards its tyranny. You're allowed one freebie on traitors. You can revoke one of their titles - usually the highest - or you can execute them and have everything go to his heir, but not take all their titles or strip and execute. Rulers did do this in history, but attainting people was not popular.
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bonds0097 posted:For some decisions, you'll see a red x or green check next to the confirmation that tells you how the council voted. Any time you go against a council vote, you're going to incur tyranny. That's why you need favors to call in. Word. I realize this now. Guess I should've been more mindful of changes coming back after so long. I think it would be nice to have an additional prompt come up if you're about to go against the will of the council and you're going to get, say, more than 20 tyranny from it. Getting -50 for life because I awarded some backwater principality won in a holy war to a courtier is pretty rough.
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Jedit posted:You're allowed one freebie on traitors. You can revoke one of their titles - usually the highest - or you can execute them and have everything go to his heir, but not take all their titles or strip and execute. Rulers did do this in history, but attainting people was not popular. I wish there was a better way to deal with leaders of revolts. Right now if you execute them their heir ends up hating you and will probably rebel in a year or two just like dear old dad did. If you take their highest title, you usually can't hand it out to someone else because you don't have any counties in the duchy and the rest of your dukes get pissed for having too many ducal titles. I usually just let them sit in jail until they die, but it seems really game-y and a-historical. You should at least be able to take a single county if you also take a duchy. Maybe make it so you can take only one title at each level (baron/count/duke/king)? I'd also stipulate that this should probably only be the punishment for a leader of a revolt. Just joining should have lesser punishment than leading it.
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