Eric the Mauve posted:

Custom titles are the only significant thing Charlemagne adds. (there's also viceroyalties, which some people like but I don't; an earlier start date that IMO sucks; and a bunch of scripted Charlemagne events )

You must have The Old Gods, Legacy of Rome and Way of Life. Everything else is "if this looks interesting to you." (You need The Republic to play republics, you need Sword of Islam to play Muslims, you need Sons of Abraham to play Jews. These DLCs add nothing significant to the game besides unlocking new playables.)

Rajas of India wouldn't be worthwhile if Paradox paid you to install it.

chippocrates posted:

I'm guessing it's because (from what I've seen of LPs) Indian rulers don't differ from Catholic feudal rulers as much as muslims/republics/pagans do. India doesn't interact with the original game world that much in my experience - the only thing I've seen is Hinduism spread into the Steppes/Persia in an Old Gods Byzantine start where I smashed the Caliphate with holy wars (and therefore tanking Sunni MA).

Groogy posted:

New dev diary: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/weekly-dev-diary-6-tributaries-and-more.863594/

The Cheshire Cat posted:

This is basically the most you can do 95% of the time. Battles in CKII generally boil down to "more mans = win", with maybe terrain factors giving one side an edge if they're closely matched. You have very little control over your levy composition, especially when you call up vassal levies (which will be the bulk of your army in any large realm), so you can't really do much in the way of fine-tuning your army aside from assigning commanders with high martial skill.

The battles themselves are kind of complex but you don't really have any control over how they actually play out - tactics can potentially make a huge difference but in practice tend to cancel themselves out unless you specifically stack an army with retinues and a commander to take advantage of a particular cultural tactic. If you're interested you can read the wiki page on tactics, but honestly that information is far from necessary to do well in the game. At most what you can take away from it is that you really want to avoid using commanders with martial below 7, and traits like lisp, stutter, and craven are also bad (all stuff you could probably have guessed yourself anyway).

Fuligin posted:

I assume it will be possible using the console, the same way you can turn yourself into a rebel or adventurer already, but I doubt very much it'll be possible to start landless normally.

Clanpot Shake posted:

I've gotten this event too and want to know the odds on your steward being wrong about the architect (going either way). I think I've gotten a castle from a guy my steward said was a conman, but I'm not 100% sure.

Groogy posted:

Actually we have a beta who can manage to conquer the entire world in like a couple of years. 3-8 years or something depending on the Rng.

Roland Jones posted:

Edit: Hm, I wonder what happens after someone is banished. If the leader who banished them is overthrown, could they possibly return? Will they be able to try to raise armies to reclaim the lost lands? It seems like it might be interesting.

Back To 99 posted:

HIP has a lot of problems, but it has so much more content than boring vanilla that you're the dumb one for not playing it.

Toplowtech posted:

You do realize that HIP literally have an install executable that allow you to create the mod of your choice from all the various submods, literally asking you "do you want this submod to be part of the mod YES/NO" for each part of the mod and you can choose not to have the lovely events or the map if you don't want to?

Roland Jones posted:

Three disagrees to one agree. Hoo boy. I take it that the responses are even worse?

Edit: Found the mod. "Underhanded Tactics - Torture and Adultery". Note that in the OP the full title is apparently "Underhanded Tactics V1.2 Torture, rape and adultery by vincentc". Charming.

At least he has the decency to say outright that you can't target children and will never put that in his mod. Still, ew. I take back any implications of decency I may have included here, the author of this is an awful person. This seems like the sort of thing that should be on some skeevy offsite mod repository, not the main forums for a game.

Edit again: The more I read of this OP the more I regret looking this up. This is abhorrent.

Tehan posted:

MoreLikeTen posted:

please add a random event that just flips catholicism to cathar and makes absolute cognatic the law of the continent

The Cheshire Cat posted:

I think it kind of makes sense that it's not available as a default option, but I like the ideas some mods have where ambitious female rulers can set it. You still kind of have to work for it, which still feels historically accurate because women COULD achieve power in that era, but cultural forces were generally aligned against them.

Actually I don't know if a mod for this exists already but another interesting thing could be to create a new "gender egalitarian" trait. Men with the trait wouldn't get the "female heir" or "female ruler" opinion penalty, and male rulers with the trait could set abs cog inheritance law. They could get the trait as an event if they're educated by a woman, or by a man who has the trait themselves. Plus maybe some other random events could grant it to people if their liege is female and is a generally good ruler (represented by high stats, traits like just or kind, etc.)

Hadaka Apron posted:

What's the highest ability score you've ever seen, both with and without the military advice modifier?

In my Latin Empire game, I saw a king of Hungary with 38 Diplomacy, and this was despite being shy. I also saw someone with 53 Martial with advice modifier.

TorakFade posted:

Oooh I like easy mode. What's a good horde start, and what pitfalls should I be on the lookout for?

lurksion posted:

Also, what counts as a non-nomad vassal? My single duke-tier chief isn't getting upset that I'm pillaging some of the extra holdings I started with. Is that because he's of Mongol culture?

Strudel Man posted:

The optimal way is to keep exactly two baronies in each province, and burn the rest - as long as there's two or more, it doesn't count as a nomadic county, and you don't have to share with the other clans.

Eric the Mauve posted:

I haven't either. It literally never ever happens. Makes me wonder if Slothful Cobra is running some kind of overhaul mod.

I haven't tried to excommunicate anyone myself, either, since usually if I would want a guy excommunicated and the pope doesn't like him, I'd rather get a claim on his land. Maybe the AI is now programmed to think the same way, I dunno.

Mister Adequate posted:

The big thing that has been missing throughout the game's life has been making promises. You should be able to say "Hey come to my court and I'll make you Steward" or "Support my claim on the throne and I'll grant you another duchy and make you a Grand Duke" or "Hey guys, make me Emperor and I'll reduce Crown Authority!" or whatever.

And then you can have all kinds of clusterfucks result when you make promises you can't keep, or offer contradictory promises, or find that your chancellor/regent/heir has made some bullshit promise you never agreed to and now you've got to figure out a way out of it.

alcaras posted:

For the min-maxer, what are the Way of Life paths to bother with?

Business for $?
Then hunting in old age/after business life trait for health (via dog)?

Seduction (for female rulers who need happy vassals) instead of business, then hunting in old age?

Any others?

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I havent played in a long rear end time. Is seduction still broken as poo poo?

Hitlers Gay Secret posted:

I think there's too many events that have a chance to fire in a month and it probably selects general events before unique events.

Strudel Man posted:

Strange. It looks like it's the same as it ever was - a new hunt is scheduled at the end of the old one, between 1 day and ~4 years later.

hidden_tooltip = { character_event = { id = WoL.5002 days = 365 random = 1000 } }

Can't happen if you're in command, though. Or if you have the do_not_disturb flag.

FutonForensic posted:

third option: seduce the stag

Eric the Mauve posted:

There will never be any. Muslim megablobs are still invincible.

Tendai posted:

I wish I'd realized that before I spent like, an hour figuring out the best genetic combinations in my court

Bloodly posted:

Money's a pain to raise, in truth. It's dependant on unused Pop/Manpower and the upgrades in your capital. Certainly, you want to pillage places for instant gold and tech and to get Pop and Manpower, but holding them also means you get max taxes out of them regardless of what they think of you.

Jedit posted:

Yeah, but I can't buy any forces, Prestige or otherwise, because I don't have the manpower, and I can't conquer any land because everyone around me is on equal terms and attacking anyone gets the rest to jump me. I'm sure it's a great snowball, but it's not possible to get it moving.

Jedit posted:

769. Is that non-viable?

Jedit posted:

Tried that. Half my "superior" troops got killed in a Pyrrhic victory against an equivalent sized force, then the Buddhists called in allies outnumbering me three to one.

CrazyLoon posted:

Oh no doubt...a long while back I basically doled out kingdom titles within my empire of the norse like candy, but had low imperial crown authority. Fun times!