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I haven't played this game in a couple of months and decided I wanted to get back in. Only DLC I'm missing at the moment is Charlemagne and the Way of Life (?) DLC. I'm trying to find a good starting spot. Something other than Ireland. I started as Leon, but I have trouble with the Muslims. Especially since I was fighting my brother for his kingdoms while he was defending against a Muslim invasion. By the time I had won the war, I only ended up with a few counties because he lost everything else already... And it took a long long time. So, do any of you have suggestions?
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Larry Parrish posted:1066 Catholics or Muslims are the best way to learn the game. I really should try a Muslim game. Started one a while ago, but I got hosed over by crusades and everyhting. The decadence mechanic also wasn't that clear at the time.
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Jun 8, 2015 08:33
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Walton Simons posted:Also if I have a strong claim on a county in a country undergoing rebellion, is now a good time to press or am I likely to get derailed by ruler changes and the like? I am not a smart man, so take everything I say with a pinch of salt, but, I think there are pro's and cons. Pro is obviously that the defender has to defend against both the rebels and your invading army. Con is that it's possible the rebels win the war before you do, and then your CB is no longer valid. So I'd say it depends on how big a revlot we're speaking of and how quickly you think it'll end.
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Jun 8, 2015 14:28
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Knuc U Kinte posted:My suggestion for a newbie start is 1066 Richard Guiscard in apuila, southern Italy. Did this. It's going pretty good at the moment. My ruler died pretty early, dividing his duchies between me and my brother. Both under 16, so I had to wait some years in regency. As soon as I turned 16, I stabbed my 14 year old brother and inherited his duchy. Unfortunately, I got caught and got the kinslayer trait. Fortunately, I was under attack by Muslims, so that +75 'Defending against infidels' really helped. Took some counties, formed the kingdom of Sicily. Then I decided to swear fealty to the HRE, because there's no way I'm gonna take them on on my own. Now I'm marshal and the HRE dude loves me. At the moment I'm taking large chunks of Northern Africa, while the HRE is taking over France. I started a faction to become the leader of the HRE, so far 62% back me. I'll probably fire the event once the HRE conquered France  After that, my ruler will probably die and everything will go to poo poo, but that's Also, on an unrelated note, this playthrough made me realise that sometimes it's best to just lose a war. Under attack by 6-8k infidels and some idiot decides he wants some stupid little county? Rather than deplete my treasory and hire mercenaries, I went: gently caress it, let him have it. For now. We can always  later.
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Jun 9, 2015 07:29
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Knuc U Kinte posted:That 62% is the strength of your faction relative to his strength. You're gonna get your rear end whooped unless you have cash for mercs and use the Alps defensively. Ah, ok. I totally misinterpreted this number then. Thanks for clearing that up before I went on a suicide mission. By the way, a bunch of pikemen + the Alps = ultimate defense?
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Jun 9, 2015 08:04
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By the way, are there any sales on the DLC at the moment? Specially on Charlemagne and the Way of Life DLC.
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Jun 9, 2015 12:08
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beedeebee posted:Did this. It's going pretty good at the moment. My ruler died pretty early, dividing his duchies between me and my brother. Both under 16, so I had to wait some years in regency. As soon as I turned 16, I stabbed my 14 year old brother and inherited his duchy. Unfortunately, I got caught and got the kinslayer trait. Well then. I took some huge chunks of Northern Africa, but the emperor of the HRE couldn't defend against a Jihad so I lost it all. Couple of years later the emperor is waging like 8 wars at once, and losing. So I figure, now is my chance to become emperor of the HRE! Of course, he won't go down with a fight. I manage to gain a bit of warscore at first, but he calls in a ton of allies and I start losing. Badly. Luckily my king gets maimed and he dies a couple of months later. My son inherits, war ends Now I'm back at the start I guess. Gonna try to marry my way in some new territory. The unpredictability of this game is so awesome.
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Jun 9, 2015 21:21
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Knuc U Kinte posted:Good stuff playing along when things don't go your way. Well yeah, that's like the core of the game for me. You can plan all you want and then suddenly everything crumbles around you. Then you panick and try to limit your losses or take advantage of a new opportunity. Although I sometimes reload a save when super super bullshit things happen.
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Jun 10, 2015 13:19
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This may sound weird, but do you guys also have periods where you do...nothing? Right now I'm waiting for some kids to grow up so I can marry them and get some new claims etc. Everyone around me is too strong to try and take over, I don't like shipping my armies over the world to take some small piece of land. So at the moment I'm just waiting/keeping vassals happy. But, I get the feeling (from all the LPs I've watched) that I should be plotting/stabbing people/expanding/planning stuff 24/7. Declaring a war on the last day of a war I win etc. I just don't do that.
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Jun 11, 2015 07:12
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I just travelled through Croatia and Bosnia and it owned. Now I want to play a CK game in that area. Any cool or interesting starts over there?
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Jul 5, 2015 07:25
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Wow, I was dicking around in the religion tab and turns out I accidentally funded some guy's campaign to become pope. I only realised this when I found it strange that the new pope had a 100 opinion of me. Turns out that the 'funded campaign' modifier is a +200 one.  Request money all day everyday!
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Jul 6, 2015 14:40
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Married my character to some duchess so my sons would inherit her lands and mine and thus double the size of my realm. However, the duchess died pretty early, meaning my son left my court and is now duke. Meaning I can't control him  Everyday I pray for the sweet release of death, so I can play as my heir. Oh, and another thing. I changed succession laws, which pissed him off, because his brother suddenly was first in line. Said brother got later murdered by someone, but the other brother (who will now inherit everything) still has that huge 'changed succession laws' negative modifier. What's up with that.
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Jul 8, 2015 07:45
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My 1 year old son had to take over because I got sick and died. I chose some pretty qualified guy to educate me, but when I turned 16, I had 0 traits. What the gently caress dude.
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Jul 14, 2015 11:03
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Uhm, since when is the number of troops shown on the character screen? That's neat. No longer having to check realm levies or w/e
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Jul 14, 2015 17:42
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I started a game somewhere as the high chief of Volhynia. After a couple of years of kicking rear end and taking lands, I've formed the kingdom of Ruthenia. Playing as pagan is fun Anyway, I should probably switch my culture to Russian and try to form the empire of Russia I guess? Don't really know which direction to go at the moment (I don't own the Horse Lords DLC btw). By the way, I totally screwed up those event stacks you can get for 500 prestige. I forgot like 3-4 times that they'll disappear when you're at peace. Yeah...
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Jul 15, 2015 20:52
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Chexoid posted:I kind of feel like I'm not "getting" retinues. They seem super expensive and time consuming to make, and after like, one major battle the upkeep to replenish them gets so high that it almost seems like I have to disband it all and start over again. Are they mainly for when you are ridiculously wealthy? They also don't count as a raised army. So you can just march them wherever, declare war and boom. Before your opponent can organise his armies, you already have a ton of dudes in his capital.
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Oct 23, 2015 13:25
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I'm thinking about hopping back in this game and pick up some DLC while I'm at it. Did I already miss the daily sale (-75% or whatever) for the Conclave and Reaper's Due?
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Dec 27, 2016 15:44
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Trogdos! posted:Steam doesn't do daily sales / quick sales anymore (during big sales), it's just highlights now. Ah OK. Didn't know that. Might as well buy them now then. Thanks for the info everyone!
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Dec 27, 2016 16:25
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Wow, this game has changed a lot since I last played it 6 months ago. Way more menus and stuff. Characters owe me favors and I have no idea how to use that. Also, I can't ask the pope for money anymore? What's up with that? And educationg children just got a lot harder? Is there an overview of recent changes somewhere (without reading 8000 pages of text preferably). EDIT: there's a guy named Arumba who has tons of videos on YouTube. Are his videos goon recommended? EDIT 2: I stopped playing before the Horse Lords DLC was released. shut up blegum fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Dec 28, 2016 20:19
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I'm trying to get back in the game but I have trouble finding a cool somewhat easy start place and date. I'm tired of the Ireland start but
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Dec 29, 2016 20:18
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My court physician just castrated me and the I died. Hmmm
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Dec 30, 2016 19:20
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I just found out that if you accidentally make your son a Doge he won't be your heir anymore for some reason. I also found out that winning wars against trade republics gives you lots of money.
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Dec 31, 2016 14:29
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Torrannor posted:The reason is pretty clear, republicans (of normal republics or merchant republics) can never inherit feudal titles. Yeah, didn't really think about that until I gave my son a duchy while he was already mayor or something? Don't really know. But it's not that bad. We'll see how it goes with my other heirs. EDIT: wait. Apparently my new heir is my grandson, son of the doge. So he'll inherit the kingdom of Sicily later, but what will happen when his dad dies? Will I lose the trade Republic of Venice? shut up blegum fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Dec 31, 2016 |
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Dec 31, 2016 14:57
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Elman posted:Do you need a DLC for that? I can't seem to ask the Pope for much. Just a divorce and stuff like that. Do I just need him to like me more? Meh, before shattered retreat, if you defeated an army they would flee to the next county and you could kill the rest of them there. That made your warscore go up really fast. With shattered retreat, they flee really far away (and maybe split up?) so you can't easily go after them. Thus waging war is slower. Personally I turn it off, because I'm used to the previous system. Another question: what happens if I have a claim on Rome and successfully press it? Will the pope become my vassal? And if so, will he pay me a shitload of taxes, since a ton of bishops pay taxes to him? And will other Christian rulers come to his defence if I attack him? I'm a Christian myself by the.
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Jan 1, 2017 20:09
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Ugh, I hate the ship mechanism in this game. It's so much work to load up your troops on ships and attack some stupid county on the other side of the sea.
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Jan 2, 2017 22:09
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I accidentally ended up as a vassal of the HRE. My husband died, leaving my grandson a county in the HRE. Then when I died, my grandson inherited my kingdom of Sicily. So suddenly I was a vassal to the kaiser. Unexpected, but it's probably easier to try and destroy it/take over from the inside anyway 
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Jan 3, 2017 09:21
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As a non-doge ruler, immortality seems like it would suck no? I mean, what's the point of marriages where your heir will inherit titles if you never get to play as your heir? Or am I missing something obvious?
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Jan 4, 2017 10:43
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Ugh. My game seems to have reached a dead end. I'm a vassal of the HRE, can't get o his council, due to laws I can't wage internal wars and I don't have any claims on my neighbors so far. I'm just upgrading my holdings and trying to fabricate claims, but everyone around me is either really strong or really far away.
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Jan 5, 2017 21:53
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While hunting my king met an intriguing woman. So he gave her a good tumble, because why not. Then I invited her to my court, because again why not. Turns out she's quick and attractive. So I betrothed her to my 14 year old son and heir. She's still my lover though. A few years pass, my son turns 16 and they get married. Then she has my child, but fortunately my son doesn't know the kid isn't his. Oh, she also gets lovers pox  My wife isn't too thrilled with my constant cheating. So I decide to press her claim on the kingdom of Norway. Now everyone is happy and life is good!
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Jan 8, 2017 17:32
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The ones I got have always been quick, attractive, and infected with syphilis. Haha, that's great. I've had my court physician check her out, but it didn't do much. But whatever, as long as I get a quick/attractive heir, who cares about the mother's health. CK2 makes you type out the worst things.
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Jan 8, 2017 22:41
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Eric the Mauve posted:gently caress-all, unless they're fellow counts and you're both members of your liege's council. Oh yeah, this reminds me. Someone who I owed a favor forced me to accept a matrilineal betrothal between his daughter and my son. Still have to figure a way to get out of that one, since I'm the king and that dude was my duke. I'm guessing if he's dead I won't owe him a favor anymore and can just break the betrothal?
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Jan 10, 2017 08:20
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verbal enema posted:Just stab the wife Oh right. Cut out the middle
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Jan 10, 2017 08:41
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My attractive brilliant strategist son died at the age of 17 due to camp fever. Of course. Thank god I didn't gently caress around too much with the education of his brother (who has a lisp by the way). Although it's always funny when your kids manage to insult entire generations of your vassals in the groom an heir event chain. By the way, I also fought a war against my mom. I'm king of Sicily, she's queen of Norway, we're both vassals of the HRE. Suddenly she starts an independent revolt. I couldn't join her side of the war and I wanted the war to be over so I just fought her She lost but somehow kept the entire kingdom (I think it was a white peace or something?) and doesn't seem to mind that I fought against her.Dallan Invictus posted:I'm pretty sure you can hold shift while right-clicking a destination to add it to the waypoint queue. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
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Jan 12, 2017 08:42
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The Cheshire Cat posted:If you didn't know about this in CK2 then it's really going to blow your mind when you find out you can do this in every Paradox game. CK2 is the only Paradox game I play 
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Jan 12, 2017 10:02
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Sometimes I give duchy titles where someone else (not my vassal) owns counties in to an ambitious vassal so he can press the de jure claims. That way I don't have to wage a war and my kingdom expands. They might get too strong, but we'll deal with that when it happens ().
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Jan 24, 2017 10:25
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I inherited the kingdom of Norway as the king of Sicily. I hold 2 duchies in Sicily with pretty upgraded buildings and a hospital etc. I don't want to give up one of those to get a crappy duchy in Norway. However, I fear that if I give that Norse duchy to a vassal, he'll want the kingdom of Norway (even more). What are the downsides of keeping a kingdom title without having a single duchy in that kingdom?Shbobdb posted:1) How do I find Crusaders? For better or for worse (mostly for worse) mercenaries always show up at my capital. Crusaders show up ???? Can't help you with the colorblind mod, I have no idea. Maybe check the steam workshop?
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Jan 25, 2017 08:25
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Oh yeah, I forgot to add, but I seem to have a problem with my retinues. I had an army of around 5k, but suddenly my max retinue dropped to 4,5k or whatever. And ever since I seem to have lost my standing army? Has this happened to someone else?
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Jan 25, 2017 09:01
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Gobblecoque posted:Ugh, it's quite annoying to realize that you declared war to press your vassal'ss ducal de jure claim on a county rather than your own kingdom de jure claim. Enjoy the free land I guess you jerk. Meh, that's not too bad. Accidentally pressing the claim for someone who has no relation to your dynasty or isn't your vassal is worse.
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Jan 25, 2017 15:17
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Various Meat Products posted:CRI is a crown law and only applies to the de jure area of the kingdom/empire. Is your capital not part of your primary title? Oh, this explains so much. Thanks for clearing this up, I've been wondering the same thing.
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Alright councillor, I get that you're malcontent. But if I try to grant you the duchy that you desire, you should probably just agree with me instead of being stubborn and say no.
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Jan 27, 2017 23:07
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