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Moon Slayer posted:Everyone starts at least one game thinking they're going to be the good guy, but then you find yourself in a situation where the only thing standing between you and your goal is one easily murderable baby. That's when you learn who you really are. Sometimes it’s your brother, your infant nephew, and your child half-brother. And also you’re Just but this is faster than two wars and you need to maintain enough land to get an empire title. (I am a little sad that the Kingdom of the High Seas is harder to form than a standard empire title. It’s really hard to hold onto the titles of King of England, King of Denmark, and King of Norway for 30 years with one character. I had the titles in my family for three generations but no one lived long enough to form it before I finally got a character to generate enough Renown for a standard empire title instead.)
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Look, if babies don't want to be assassinated, they should stop being small and squishy and in a position of potential power or importance. 
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Mar 20, 2021 16:41
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Tippis posted:Look, if babies don't want to be assassinated, they should stop being small and squishy and in a position of potential power or importance. Seriously, a smart baby would abdicate in that situation.
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Mar 20, 2021 17:37
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0 year-olds in this game don’t look like babies
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Mar 20, 2021 18:34
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The, frankly, evil smug look all children in this game possess does go a long way to ease the burdens of murdering them. And, hey, even that paragon of virtue, Arthur Pendragon, was a sister loving child murderer.* *(Granted, like all later stories regarding Arthur, both of these were just bitter slander from the insecure French in their concerted attempts to undermine the legend.  )
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Mar 20, 2021 19:02
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Fucken hearty lol at tribe of Rounala. Nobody throughout the entire history seiged them. This is so far north nobody will go there. They are honestly happy that anyone even remembers they exist
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Mar 20, 2021 23:08
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Moon Slayer posted:Everyone starts at least one game thinking they're going to be the good guy, but then you find yourself in a situation where the only thing standing between you and your goal is one easily murderable baby. That's when you learn who you really are. My attempt at Alexios Komninus game started with murdering a brother than is just went horribly wrong or horribly right I don't know.
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Mar 20, 2021 23:11
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It's horribly wrong there's no Alexiad start
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Mar 21, 2021 00:06
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Nordick posted:I was kinda considering rolling back to a save before the feudalisation and see what happens if I just keep my newly created Finnish pagan empire tribal indefinitely. Goddamn, I'm still mulling over this. I'm still very tempted to keep the Empire title tribal just to see what will happen. And also because I love the idea of just raiding everyone forever. AND because for some reason I get irrationally annoyed by the AI creating their own little pissant cadet branches of the dynasty all the time. Also I'm just amused by the idea of this long line of cantankerous luddite holy emperors stubbornly holding on to the old ways (stubbornness is a virtue in Ukonusko, afterall) while their long-since-feudal vassals get increasingly exasperated. But then on the other hand, I'm aware that tribal realms are seriously gimped in certain very key aspects. Lol @ capturing any remotely advanced holdings with just onagers.
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Mar 21, 2021 00:36
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's horribly wrong there's no Alexiad start Truth.
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Mar 21, 2021 01:50
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's horribly wrong there's no Alexiad start Iron century was the best ck2 start
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Mar 21, 2021 02:12
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's horribly wrong there's no Alexiad start I like playing baby Alexios and making a run for the throne, it’s a nice consolation.
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Mar 21, 2021 02:27
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All of you are right about Alexiad. Whats with the Byzantium crew on Pdox forums who should demand and whine incessantly until it happens?
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Mar 21, 2021 03:34
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binge crotching posted:Iron century was the best ck2 start 100% True.
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Mar 21, 2021 03:49
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Sekenr posted:All of you are right about Alexiad. Whats with the Byzantium crew on Pdox forums who should demand and whine incessantly until it happens? They will whine and complain that Byzantium is too weak for them in that start.
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Mar 21, 2021 04:14
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:They will whine and complain that Byzantium is too weak for them in that start. Of course. What I meant was that byzantophiles were a powerfult faction on the forums back when I was there. They were almost comparable to the Balcan Wars people except posted within the rules and didn't get themselves banned
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Mar 21, 2021 04:51
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Nevermind. Click on new game, and it has recommendations right there next to the ruler. Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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Mar 21, 2021 09:37
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binge crotching posted:Iron century was the best ck2 start Is it because it's the earliest you can go when applying Feudal rules still feels fine? Charlemagne always felt like a mod to me, they even have a lot of events to simulate historical events cause mechanics don't support those events. CK3 Great Heathen Horde start is fine but with most of Europe still being heathen and having a good chance to stay that way it feels slightly wrong.
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Mar 21, 2021 12:11
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's horribly wrong there's no Alexiad start same but 1066 after william won
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Mar 21, 2021 13:24
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Zeta Acosta posted:Im playing the tutorial with the irish dude Immediately ally whoever is the current king of England because otherwise it will be a slow and boring campaign of make claim-->use claim until you hit the point where you can actually declare as the King of the Irish crown. And the other petty kings sure as poo poo will ally with someone completely outside your league. With the king as an ally you can at least take on against anyone you have usable claim on and you need several to reach the tip over point.
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Mar 21, 2021 19:21
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Unlucky7 posted:
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Mar 21, 2021 19:41
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Zane posted:to follow this up: many of the 'starter' historical characters are often stupidly buffed. you typically can't go wrong with any of them. the viking dude in brittany for example has 1000 custom troops and 40 martial and can easily stomp around britain for the next 30 years. I suddenly feel a lot less guilty about starting my Finland game with a custom high chieftess with 21 martial and Hale.
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Mar 21, 2021 20:08
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Gonna try to create Sicily as Haesteinn.
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Mar 21, 2021 20:45
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I actually just started playing with Haesteinn and decided to go to India. I noticed he's not that young when the game starts, so I travelled east a lot quicker than was necessary, thinking he might die too early otherwise. Conquer Malta, Sinai, some random spots on the coast of Araby and India until I was in range to Varangian Adventure into Sri Lanka, then shortly trucebroke to conquer the rest of the kingdom of Lanka. He was in his sixties at this point and I thought he might die soon. How wrong I was. Here is a hundred year old Haesteinn still leading raids and making babies, despite being infirm for almost half a century.  He finally kicked the bucket at the age of 111. He had almost 20 kids, of which only four were male. The oldest died in battle and their genius grandson was murdered by Haesteinn's oldest daughter, the next two died as sickly babies and the fourth one was just bad at everything so I bullied all my vassals not to vote for him.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Gonna try to create Sicily as Haesteinn. Just did this a few days ago. Day 1 do a Varangian adventure against the Aghlabid sultanate, and then if you're feeling up to it, also a standard conquest of the little 1 province guys (Napoli, Salerno). Make sure you don't peace out with Napoli and Salerno before you finish the war against the Aghlabids, since otherwise you'll lose them. Once those wars are done, Benevento is your next target, which will also give you the required land to form Sicily. If things go weird in Sicily (one of my early attempts had Italy and the Pope combine to gobble up Benevento while I was still fighting the first war), you can always form the kingdom of Sardinia to get a kingdom while you're building up strength for taking on the Catholics. With the new patch Cagliari is now a really nice province anyway, since it has a gold mine.
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What’s a good territory to start a custom ruler in? With the knowledge that I’m going to do an inverted gender world run so none of the vanilla guys are going to be there. I’m kinda done with Vikings for now and would like a feudal start, but if there’s a really cool Viking place to start I’m not completely opposed. Also is there a mod to get rid of the Matrilineal penalty when both sides are from female dominated cultures because man is that annoying when trying to find a good match for heirs.
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binge crotching posted:Just did this a few days ago. Day 1 do a Varangian adventure against the Aghlabid sultanate, and then if you're feeling up to it, also a standard conquest of the little 1 province guys (Napoli, Salerno). Make sure you don't peace out with Napoli and Salerno before you finish the war against the Aghlabids, since otherwise you'll lose them. Once those wars are done, Benevento is your next target, which will also give you the required land to form Sicily. I just jumped straight into Napoli and started conquering all my neighbors, I'm now King of Sicily, stole Rome from the Pope and got most of Sardinia. A thin strip of land belonging to the Byzantine Emperor stops me from getting the cheevo though.
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Mar 21, 2021 22:44
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's horribly wrong there's no Alexiad start Yep
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hopeandjoy posted:What’s a good territory to start a custom ruler in? With the knowledge that I’m going to do an inverted gender world run so none of the vanilla guys are going to be there. Tuscany in 1066 is a good start, it's easy to get a kingdom with your starting ruler and you can build the University in Bologna to build up renown (or prestige?) quickly
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How exactly does Varangian Adventure work with respect to who gets your old lands? If I have unlanded family members will my old lands get passed to them? Like if I want to put independent Rurikid everywhere, can I just progressively Adventure my way up and down the rivers? PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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Mar 21, 2021 23:34
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hopeandjoy posted:What’s a good territory to start a custom ruler in? With the knowledge that I’m going to do an inverted gender world run so none of the vanilla guys are going to be there.
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SlothBear posted:If you want the exact opposite of a viking experience, try Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka in 1066 actually has an absolute unit of a count that can go and wipe the floor with the chola and cross the straits to invade India. It's a pretty fun start
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hopeandjoy posted:What’s a good territory to start a custom ruler in? With the knowledge that I’m going to do an inverted gender world run so none of the vanilla guys are going to be there. I really enjoyed playing as a custom ruler in eastern India, the start that has Viraja in it's demesne.
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My Tuscan Haesteinn is still going strong at 99 years old. I’ve been fighting wars almost constantly - mostly defending East Francia where my daughter/best friend is Queen - and one of my veteran MAA event troops is down to just 3 guys. It’s been that way for a solid 5 years of war against Bavaria and Lotharingia, and I anxiously check they KDA after every battle. It’ll be a sad day when the last of them give out.
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Mar 22, 2021 03:57
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wikipedia posted:The Norman monk Dudo of Saint-Quentin was very critical of Hastein:
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not to mention pestilent
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He just get a copy of a Thesaurus or what
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Mar 22, 2021 07:13
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This sounds like something this deep learning text generator might write, in fact: Dudo posted:This was a man accursed: fierce, mightily cruel, and savage, pestilent, hostile, sombre, truculent, given to outrage, pestilent and untrustworthy, fickle and lawless. Death-dealing, uncouth, fertile in ruses, warmonger general, traitor, fomenter of evil, and double-dyeded dissimulator, murderer, thief, drunkard of justice, and a middling and scoundrel, who despised his master, who, a moment ago, had sworn a vow of poverty, was seized on his wickedness, and committed the most awful of crimes, a wicked deed, and a traitor, and was made a slave of the emperor, and he was a filthy slave of the emperor. E: looks like deep AI wants the Alexiad start as well
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Sekenr posted:This sounds like something this deep learning text generator might write, in fact: I guess the deep AI read Blood in the Bosphorus 
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Made myself King of Ireland and seeded my kids all over the island. Now what? There's no way to expand militarily to Scotland or England. Do I just keep marrying people into royal families until I get lucky somewhere down the line?
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