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A random comment on Steam says that War Elephants have siege value, but I can't find this backed up anywhere. Is it true? If so, where is it described in-game?
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Mister Olympus posted:A random comment on Steam says that War Elephants have siege value, but I can't find this backed up anywhere. Is it true? If so, where is it described in-game? Trial and error via taking an elephant to a siege?
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Apr 1, 2021 09:03
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Mister Olympus posted:A random comment on Steam says that War Elephants have siege value, but I can't find this backed up anywhere. Is it true? If so, where is it described in-game? It's true, they have 0.1 siege_value. You can check in man_at_arms_types/00_regional_maa_types.txt
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Apr 1, 2021 15:42
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  Finally put it together with this fella here:  Inherited Norway at 14, two Sinful traits meant basically every Vassal hated him from the get-go. I discovered that while you can't throw Feasts underage you can indeed still hold a Grand Blot, so spending a 1,000g to pump all the +opinion modifiers is well worth it if you have the resources. After re-taking Denmark from his brother he spent most of the 30 year wait for the form High Kingdom condition fighting in a few little wars but mainly putting down rebellions and finding Hooks on strong Vassals to keep them out of Factions. Then, in his late 40s, the fuckin Pope called a Crusade for the Kingdom of England and this was the first time I've actually ever participated in a Crusade so it was kind of scary. Shouldn't have been scared, though, as the loving Asatruans slaughtered Catholics for a year and half and the Crusade fell flat on its face. By the end the 30 years had accrued on the 3 Kingdom Titles, I smashed Sweden to grab the wayward North Sea Heartland province, and boom. Very satisfying. I don't know if there's any achievements left to strive for on this playthrough? e: I guess I could focus on landing my Dynasty far and wide and hope for the 'Dynasty raises 100 runestones' achievement by 1453? Oh, I can also perhaps try and Invade the Kingdom of Sicily and take it from the Byzantines, getting the 'Faster than the Fox' achievement because I still have about 25 years to do it. I wonder tho, if I reform Asatru would that lock me out? The requirement for that one is "starting and staying as a north german asatruan of any kind" How are u fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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Apr 1, 2021 20:33
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FOLK YEAH, SEA-KING! I'm surprised you don't have a stress-mitigating trait after the Blots you mentioned as a compassionate coward. You'd think at least one of those two traits would make Blots stressful. I also, personally, love that the guy who managed the feat was a compassionate coward who looks kind of like Santa Claus and has no positive genetic traits whatsoever. Doing the big stuff with less-gifted (though those are still fairly baller stats) is much more satisfying.
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Apr 1, 2021 22:18
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I hate when I either forget or don't understand how succession works and gave away my kingdom and the other heir got it. But also glad to remember why switching religions can be important because it enables holy wars on other Catholics!
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Apr 1, 2021 23:06
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The Succession tab is your friend
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Apr 2, 2021 02:53
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Veryslightlymad posted:FOLK YEAH, SEA-KING!  I agree with your point about Blots and negative traits, you would indeed think that there could be some more interaction there. I wonder if that'll slip in in an future patch. I was definitely trying hard to breed some congenital traits into the family, just so happens that the succeeding son was a dud while his brothers and uncles and poo poo were all at least Intelligent. The heir is a 3-candle kid, though. Does anybody have any suggestions for nice or helpful ways of reforming Asatru? I was kind of thinking of reforming for a Temporal head of faith, and taking the doctrine that allows you to sell Indulgences...
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Apr 2, 2021 03:01
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Now all I need to do is fight a bunch of religious rebellions and wait a couple decades while my vassals convert their lands.  Featuring absolutely hideous borders. I'm considering blowing my subjugation on taking Bohemia for laughs.
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Apr 2, 2021 03:09
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Are you in range of France? France looks soft and the tech boost from going Norman can't be beat, if you can manage to swap back to Norse, though a similar thing with Bohemia/Czech would fix some inheritance issues.
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Apr 2, 2021 03:21
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How are u posted:
Whatever you do make sure you get Temporal revocation of your priest or whatever, it's among the best things you can get
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Apr 2, 2021 03:46
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My capital is at 25 development, one of the most developed places in the world. However I don't think that will actually matter until I go feudal/clan.
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Apr 2, 2021 03:50
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Until you do literally the only thing it matters for is Supply Limit. Started a new game as Vsevolod of Pereyaslav, and it's weird how hollow the game feels. Your brothers are all landed rulers in the area, but even though you're all rivals there's nothing to really fight over because there's no city politics to worry about. There's also no reason for you to cooperate as happened historically because the steppe nomads don't really do anything.  No reason to quarrel with people lower down the Volga either, since trade isn't a thing and you don't have longships for some reason. PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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Apr 2, 2021 07:46
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well it took all night but i finally made myself the witch tsar of the rus 
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Apr 2, 2021 07:49
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"... 'till we have built Jerusalem, In England's green and pleasant land."
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Apr 2, 2021 08:53
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FreudianSlippers posted:Now all I need to do is fight a bunch of religious rebellions and wait a couple decades while my vassals convert their lands. Tsar Ali, fabulous he, Ali Rurikid
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Apr 2, 2021 11:17
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I was incredibly sad to realize that the elevate kingdom of mann decision reforms you so I couldnt get the "Form North Sea Empire As A Tribal" achievement
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Apr 2, 2021 13:00
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FreudianSlippers posted:Now all I need to do is fight a bunch of religious rebellions and wait a couple decades while my vassals convert their lands. Ha, I'm doing this achievement now, too, but I haven't converted my culture to Rus because I want those longboats and raids.
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Apr 2, 2021 19:52
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Quorum posted:Tsar Ali, fabulous he, Ali Rurikid Funnily enough Áli is a Norse name and is just very fittingly similar to an Arabic name.
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Apr 2, 2021 22:39
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I'm hoping there's gonna be another hotfix patch at some point, because there are some bugs that are a bit annoying. Like my Holy Order still costing me piety to hire for some reason even though the tooltip says it's free, or sometimes my domain's temples going inactive while being leased to my realm priest and despite the tooltip saying they'll reactivate next month, they never do. Otherwise though I'm having a lot of fun doing the whole Norse -> Russia thing starting as a custom ruler in Novgorod.
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Apr 3, 2021 06:12
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How are u posted:
Anyone know if you can auto-accept indulgence requests yet? Because goddamn did manually approving every single request when I did this get annoying.
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Apr 3, 2021 09:03
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Sorry but raiding is a dogshit mechanic and should be offmap. I don't want to flyswat pissant stacks every two months thanks
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Apr 3, 2021 16:54
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Sorry but raiding is a dogshit mechanic and should be offmap. I don't want to flyswat pissant stacks every two months thanks "alright i'll just dismiss my levies and make them uncallable for months so that they can reinforce without costing me.... and i'm being raided"
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Apr 3, 2021 17:53
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How come the AI can raise insane amounts of dudes compared to me? My Russia is loving massive but can only raise 21k with a good and long ruling tsar yet, not even a fully unified england can raise 15k alone, Aquitaine can raise 38(!) and half of Hungry can raise 9k. Is it tied heavily with your martial or something? I have all my contracts on default.
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Apr 3, 2021 18:05
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BillBear posted:How come the AI can raise insane amounts of dudes compared to me? My Russia is loving massive but can only raise 21k with a good and long ruling tsar yet, not even a fully unified england can raise 15k alone, Aquitaine can raise 38(!) and half of Hungry can raise 9k. Is it tied heavily with your martial or something? I have all my contracts on default. dunno, try switching to them to see where the levies come from or post some screenshots
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Apr 3, 2021 18:11
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BillBear posted:How come the AI can raise insane amounts of dudes compared to me? My Russia is loving massive but can only raise 21k with a good and long ruling tsar yet, not even a fully unified england can raise 15k alone, Aquitaine can raise 38(!) and half of Hungry can raise 9k. Is it tied heavily with your martial or something? I have all my contracts on default. Martial skill does have a big impact on levies but there could be several other things. Do your vassals have low levy obligations? Are your lands underdeveloped and not posessing a lot of military buildings? Do you not have a lot of personal holdings?
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Apr 3, 2021 18:15
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scaterry posted:dunno, try switching to them to see where the levies come from   I've just died and now a little girl, plus I have just seen that not rightful liege bit, which means I need to forge some empire titles. But, even so, surely I should be getting more men?
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Apr 3, 2021 18:18
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BillBear posted:How come the AI can raise insane amounts of dudes compared to me? My Russia is loving massive but can only raise 21k with a good and long ruling tsar yet, not even a fully unified england can raise 15k alone, Aquitaine can raise 38(!) and half of Hungry can raise 9k. Is it tied heavily with your martial or something? I have all my contracts on default. How many allies do they have? If you just look at the number on their character page it includes the armies of their allies, Mousing over it should give the breakdown.
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Apr 3, 2021 19:18
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[Whoops I'm bad at posting]
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Apr 3, 2021 20:21
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Those screenshots provide approximately zero information. You'll want to look at the tooltips of their army strength, and also your realm screen with your vassals which tooltip what you're getting from your subordinates.
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Apr 3, 2021 20:23
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BillBear posted:How come the AI can raise insane amounts of dudes compared to me? My Russia is loving massive but can only raise 21k with a good and long ruling tsar yet, not even a fully unified england can raise 15k alone, Aquitaine can raise 38(!) and half of Hungry can raise 9k. Is it tied heavily with your martial or something? I have all my contracts on default.
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Apr 3, 2021 20:27
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BillBear posted:
Tribal levies are tied to prestige level. Yours looks to be very low (just child ruler things), so your vassals barely contribute anything.
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Apr 3, 2021 20:32
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The AI tends to max out their men at arms with light infantry or archers to pump numbers too, which does well early game but falls behind once you get at least your home county built up reasonably.
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Apr 3, 2021 20:33
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BillBear posted:How come the AI can raise insane amounts of dudes compared to me? My Russia is loving massive but can only raise 21k with a good and long ruling tsar yet, not even a fully unified england can raise 15k alone, Aquitaine can raise 38(!) and half of Hungry can raise 9k. Is it tied heavily with your martial or something? I have all my contracts on default. If your vassals don't like you, they'll provide fewer soldiers. There's lots of other factors, but that's probably the easiest one to do something about.
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Apr 3, 2021 20:36
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Also, my AI ally started a war and got attacked after. Combined, both were easily winnable. But is there not a "attach to my stack dumbass" button like in EU4? I cannot attach to his dumbass stack because he will suicidally try failed bace-racing and I need his stack to beat the enemy stacks. He literally died and tanked me in the process by refusing to fight. GG on making the combat ai even worse than in EU4? I am really frustrated at this game atm, I want it to be good. Like, I was attached to him, we heavily outnumbered the enemy stack that was about to 100% him, and he chose to beeline a fort rather than battle to save his last castle.
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Apr 3, 2021 21:48
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Also, my AI ally started a war and got attacked after. Combined, both were easily winnable. But is there not a "attach to my stack dumbass" button like in EU4? There was in 2, not 3 unfortunately. People handwave it away as 'communication and logistics were more difficult then' but I think it should still be an option, even if it turns off cheevos or something.
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Apr 3, 2021 21:56
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A really nice QoL feature would be for idle armies with commanders and not surrounded by enemies to be able to automatically split up to get to the supply limit and rejoin if an enemy is near. The micro on multiple big stacks as seasons change is really annoying otherwise.
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Apr 3, 2021 23:02
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Vizuyos posted:If your vassals don't like you, they'll provide fewer soldiers. I think this only applies to clan governments. Otherwise it's tied to fame level (for tribes) or feudal contracts (for feudal) and crown authority. Another thing to consider, especially for very large realms, is the endorsement of your realm priest. A realm priest that likes you can give you up to 100% of their levies at +50 opinion. If there are a lot of temples in your realm, that could be a lot of levies. Magil Zeal fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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Apr 4, 2021 00:34
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I'm not sure what clicked with the game today after about 18 hours but I started a Bohemian 1066 start, then did really well as my first ruler with some well placed marriages and ended up 2nd in line for the Holy Roman Empire by the time he died of old age at 69, and a much bigger rule than I started with along with a fantastic heir. After taking over Wallachia with my heir, I got a ton of notifications and got the Holy Roman Empire. Turns out the first in line and king had been killed in a battle of a small war they had gotten into at the same time my war ended, and I now have my first empire. I'm also first in line to Jerusalem, and have a great relationship with my faith head, so I'll maybe try and unite the West Slavs as my next goal. This is way further and more successful than I've ever been, so I'm pretty happy even though this is a fairly easy start.
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I'm not usually a Nords player but I really dig the new pack. Graphics, music, events, it's all great. They even reigned in the rampant edgelordism of CK2, a few hours in and I've yet to read a lurid description of me torturing a priest to death. 10/10, get pack, play nords
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