Groogy posted:

Aw I was too late to the name suggestion party. My suggestion would have been:

Crusader Kings II: Beware of the Kira-Kithan, they are without honor!

verbal enema posted:

I'm tribal Sunni Ghana in the 1066 start is there a reason I'm not seeing as to why it says the mosque in my personal demense is of wrong holder type?

LolitaSama posted:

Has anyone here tried out the lord of the rings mod here : http://www.moddb.com/mods/ck2-middle-earth-project

How different is it from the regular game? Can you play like one or two hobbits, or an 8 man fellowship?

RonJeremysBalzac posted:

"Fixed a bug that made Hellenic Pagan religion available in the Ruler Designer."

But, why?

Sindai posted:

It's not supported for actual play and they don't want people using it and then complaining about bugs with it.

This way if people want it they have to use a mod and they'll complain to the modders instead.

DStecks posted:

Isn't the whole conceit of Sunset Invasion that for some reason the Aztecs are as or more technologically advanced than Europe, which is why they show up in Europe at all? So it would only make sense for them to be feudal, because otherwise they'd still be in Mexico.

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Also also, tributaries are OP as poo poo, and awesome for gaining tons of prestige and gold.

SeaTard posted:

Groogy will probably change it, but this is what you get right now:

• 200 prestige and 40% of income from the target
  
• They join in on all your wars
  
• All your tribal/nomadic vassals get 5 years of +20 opinion (stacking) This is what really makes it go from nice to holy gently caress OP.
  
• This lasts until you or they die
  

Once you get a couple of them going, you can just sit back and watch the swarm conquer everything. When you're playing a tribe, the extra money helps immensely for creating titles. You can stay relatively small but punch way above your weight. Obviously works best if you start with a young ruler, but all you really need are the first couple to then keep everyone around you perma-tributaries. Oh, and they are more likely to accept diplo-vassalization if they are a tributary, so you can then add them to the fold if you want.

Larry Parrish posted:

First off by not using the console like a bitch.

SlothfulCobra posted:

Trying to save Sicily and southern Italy is just giving me so much trouble. I lost everything to a Jihad. The Seljuks took it all, and I got shunted out into the half of Sardinia that I fought so hard for, and my ruler died, leaving nothing but a regency for his daughter, I figured that was pretty much game over, and I married the princess off to the prince of Castille, figuring that I could just ride out the regency and then jump into his head, that would work for roleplay purposes. The game wouldn't even let me have that, some loser from an obscure branch of the lineage pulled some weird takeover, kicking my last heir off the throne before she even had the chance to properly sit on it.



So I loaded up the next save after that, and I jumped into Castille, and that was okay, I guess, I managed to make some decent headway on conquering muslims here and there, even though Galicia kept poaching my vassals somehow. I figured I could reconquer that pointless northern half of Sardinia to reclaim some kind of contiguity with my last royal line, when I notice that the jerk who deposed my heir died, and he left his daughter in a regency, and since she wasn't old enough to have kids, her heir was...my wife, the one true heir to the de Hauteville family. That's a straightforward assassination opportunity if I've ever seen one. So I start a plot to kill her, and of course it took forever for it to finally land, and in that time the Pope launched a reconquista of Sicily, which gave the usurper all the land that I lost to the jihad, making it an even more attractive target for inheritance.

But of course, the plot took forever to take affect, even with over 200% power, and during that time I had to watch from afar as my old kingdom of Sicily steadily lost land to the HRE. When my wife finally did inherit the kingdom back, the Byzantines declared holy war upon her (somehow they had flopped over into Islam when I wasn't looking), and there was nothing I could do to help her fend off their attack, especially with the holy orders busy somewhere else. Now half the Kingdom of Sicily has been taken by the HRE and the Byzantines, and when eventually Sicily and Castille are united in their single heir, there'll still be nothing I can do to stand up against the two empires. Even if I go back to plan B and bugger off to Spain, the HRE's going to come get me eventually. It's a monster, it's gobbled up half of Europe now, and France is too falling apart to provide any real buffer.

Basically, tl;dr how do you stand up to either of the empires?

Jedit posted:

Would you mind explaining how to nomad? Because I have no idea. I can't hold territory, I can't raise levies, I can't make money and I can't win wars.

FutonForensic posted:

Getting a little bored of Europe. I hope a game like this comes out with a Civ-style map randomizer. That's a pretty rational feature, I think.

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ETA: Well this is unusual. My horde was just inherited by my son the doge, so now there's a merchant republic stretching from the Aral Sea to the Mediterranean. Is there some way to undo this, turn my character back into a nomad, or am I just going to have to learn to love building trade posts?

Deceitful Penguin posted:

That's some sort of amazing that is.

I'm trying to think of an adequately dumb analogy for this and it's not working. Cripes.

oh my loving god they want to lock down the wiki to "illegal users of our mods"

i dont even

FreudianSlippers posted:

Playing as Mali and I'm disappointed that Mansa Musa, who may have been one of the richest men of all time, is only sort of rich in the game when he should obviously start with at least 4000 gold. Managed to take over Mauritania but I need to get an entire other kingdom before I can become an empire which sort of sucks.

Elias_Maluco posted:

Pretty much this. Besides, there is also the 10% limit, so if you make a huge kingdom merchant republic vassal, you wont be able to make even a regular republic after that.

IMHO the 10% limit is enough to prevent those kind of exploits, no need to spoil my fun of making Frisia a merchant republic.

Trogdos! posted:

Hey Groogy, wanna tell us what the CK2 DLC codenamed "Zeus" is about? :bigtran:

skipThings posted:

that's fine

someone tell me how to enjoy CK2 despite that lovely "well your dad died, no more war", poo poo

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

Yeah, they're amateurs. Evrerybody knows that you're supposed to just add it non-chalantly into your massive total conversion mod, like with Game of Thrones and Birthright.

Funky Valentine posted:

DrSunshine posted:

Why would a council ever vote to abolish its own power?

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but for instance Republics are completely hard coded all over the place to rely on men.

Maximum Tomfoolery posted:

What the gently caress are you doing, France?

Rodyle posted:

playable landed republics and theocracies god drat it

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Look at all these non-Island living scrubs that don't realize Island supremacy