beedeebee posted:

By the way, a bunch of pikemen + the Alps = ultimate defense?

Volkerball posted:

Middlesex. De jure capital of the empire of Britannia. Essex is a great duchy, there's no republics who you have to compete with, Middlesex is a perfectly strong 6 holding county, and it's easily accessible from any tribal start. Not to mention that it's usually easy as hell to conquer since England is fractured. You can form an empire title prior to conquering Britannia without loving yourself over as well. This is by far the easiest, safest migration to attempt, and if you've never tried one before, this is where you start.

Rome. De jure capital of the empire of Italia. Rome is a bit tricky in that there's two really sketchy variables that no other soft capital has. The first is that until you conquer it, the pope will own it, and he will poo poo all over it with temples and make it a crappy capital. You can circumvent this by starting as the king of Lombardy, instantly pressing a de jure claim on Rome, using every penny you earn to build castles in its empty holding slots, and then moving to Ireland to form your republic, with the intention of one day returning to conquer your bad mother fucker rear end capital. The baddest mother fucker rear end capital in the game, if you'd like to get technical about it. The other issue is that if the AI forms the HRE, the de jure empire of Italia disappears. There's still a way to make Rome your capital by using the "create roman empire" decision as the ruler of the Byzantine Empire, and while this is fun and achievable, it is a goddamn mess and it's not your weekend game by any means.

Brugge. Brugge is an interesting case in that it's a great 7 holding county, but it's also not the de jure capital of any kingdom or empire. It is however, the capital of the duchy of Flanders. So if you want to take on the Karling clown car and conquer Flanders without having so much as a king title to your name, go for it. It'd probably be a cool capital if you could pull it off.

Spakstik posted:

Doesn't leading an army keep some of the Way of Life events from firing?

DrSunshine posted:

Elias_Maluco posted:

Well, I hope they do.

How cool it would be to be able to start as the chief of nomad landless band of warriors and work your way up to huge empire blob?

Volkerball posted:

eagerly awaiting the entire world is nomadic mod.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

I'm not sure how global flags work compared to character flags, but from the look of it you can only get the event once (if you accept), even if your character dies and you take over as the heir. If you reject it that specific character won't get the event again but their heir can.

Moridin920 posted:

There's no fuckin' way you were ever doing world conquest in 25 years even when game came out sorry. I've been playing since release and you're just talking nonsense.

sexy mouse posted:

Trying for the "Empire of the Sun" achievement by cheesing it as Abbasid's. I switched faiths and reformed and then got an immediate game over because I was controlling a theocracy. How do I not have that happen?

jwalrus posted:

If that flag is supposed to prevent it ever firing again, I don't think it's working. I've been testing, and was able to fill up a county's slots with castles using that event, just by having each successive ruler take the rulership focus.

Autonomous Monster posted:

- Landless AI religious heads are not prevented from starting crusades anymore.

beedeebee posted:

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.

beedeebee posted:

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

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

The Silk Road is not technically just for Nomads. But looking at the map you probably need to be a steppe Nomad or Indian for it to matter much.

Anyone looked at the files to see how the Silk Road works?

TTBF posted:

Go to Green Man Gaming, add Crusader Kings 2 and whatever DLC you want and use the code GMGSUM-MERSAL-E20OFF at checkout for 20% off.

E: The current steam sale is way better than that though.

Broken Cog posted:

Can you pillage provinces you own?

TTBF posted:

What's going on with prestige here? Retinues are maxed out and they're all cavalry. Can't figure it out.

verbal enema posted:

Do I just park my horde on poo poo I own with the loot modifier on to pillage?

AdjectiveNoun posted:

Modding-savvy goons, how moddable does the Silk Road look? Does it look like it can be copied and duplicated to simulate other important overland trade routes such as the Sahara Trade?

Krataar posted:

Can you only pillage a holding into dust if you are the Khagan of your Horde?

Dante posted:

So I found a weird bug. If you pick a nomad (say Khazaria) and alter the ruler with the Ruler Designer (depending on traits it seems) the rulers location is set to ANY_ALL.
That itself doesn't matter much, but unfortunately 500 units worth of army also has their location set to ANY_ALL (which I think I'm commanding). I haven't been able to get this ghost unit to appear anywhere.

Larry Parrish posted:

So I've been giving out titles exclusively to dynasty members ever since I reformed into feudalism...




About 30 of those allies are called into his current war versus an OPM shithead in Italy.


40k troops total holy gently caress

mythomanic posted:

Modding is fun! I gave the Normans and Norse cultures mercenaries, as well as letting Norman and Berber cultures raid.

Strudel Man posted:

Might not be the most historical thing in the world, but I feel like you ought to be able to send missionary expeditions out even to rulers of non-pagan faiths.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

I think it allows them to do coastal raids, period (non-seafarer raiders can only raid provinces next to their realm - they can't load boats up with loot like the Vikings). It might also allow them to use boats along the major rivers.

OhGreatAGinger posted:

code:

		AND = {
	c_jerusalem = { # Jerusalem's holder is of the non-heretic western Christian faith
			holder_scope = {
				religion = ROOT
				}
			}
	
		AND = {
	c_jerusalem = { # Jerusalem's holder's top liege is of the non-heretic western Christian faith
	holder_scope = {
		top_liege ={
		  religion = ROOT
       		}
	}
	}	

The Cheshire Cat posted:

Would female patrician enabled Republics be able to do matri marriages though? I thought that was the hard-coded aspect - like with Muslims you could always enable female succession, but doing so would lead to a game over within a generation because you wouldn't have the ability to produce an heir of your dynasty (although I suppose you can sidestep that now with seduction focus and producing a bunch of bastards).

Bel Monte posted:

Sounds good. What's to stop me from, just prior to reforming, taking all the county level titles for myself, pissing off the realm, reforming the government shortly after, then issuing out land again? Seems like a fast way to get to get small kingdoms ready to go and modernized. Looking at you, Ireland.

RonJeremysBalzac posted:

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

But, why?

Black Dynamite posted:

I took out all his troops, including the Knights Templar and their buddies. War score remains 0. Pope issued the following statement: "It's just a flesh wound!"


Is there a way to like, delete the Pope? I can't do poo poo because this war won't go away.

Bloodly posted:

You wanna explain why? I'm missing it.

Bloodly posted:

The bolded: do these still apply if there's a religion/culture mismatch? Are they forced to accept?

Whorelord posted:

Made a demigod Zoroastrian in ruler designer, managed to snag all of the Persian empire in one lifetime to become Saoshyant, turned Sunni Islam into a heresy plagued mess, captured the Caliph's wives, turned them into my concubines. Whose following a dying religion now

Not just Sunni Islam that's having problems either; the entirety of southern England is Lollard and the nobility of East Francia are all Cathars about 30 years into the game.

Hambilderberglar posted:

Anything missing or is this possible in fewer steps?