Crusader Kings II - Paradox Entertainement (02/12)

[Grey Wolf]

Originally Posted by Tyg

Depending on your personality traits, you MAY be able to choose to resist the temptation, but it's not something you can be proactive about. If you've got a lustful lord, you've just got to hope you don't get a bastard.

Oh, the more the merrier, I'll marry them off to foreigners if I can

How do I make myself lustful?

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

[stefanbl]

Originally Posted by Grey Wolf

Are there hot keys like in Victoria II? I've found the Print Screen key often does not copy the floating event box in the middle of the screen, which is usuallythebit I want to copy!

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

F12


And there's no sure fire way to gain most traits really.

[Yorel]

Yet again no screenshots from me.

I have found one complaint with one of the updates: when you fight a rebelling vassal, if a foreign army invades said vassal's territory and occupies one castle... You can't negotiate peace!
It happened to me while I was fighting Roger I, Duke of Barcelona, who had rebelled. I had litterally crushed the man: I had occupied a bunch of his counties and his armies were destroyed. I even had a 76% warscore in my favor. But! The Sultan of Mauretania invaded the Duchy of Barcelona and took one castle in a province with a huge army and I couldn't negotiate peace with Roger because of that damn 10k muslim army... I did vainquish it, took back the castle and then forced the Duke of Barcelona to sign peace with me and go to jail.
This new system kills any chance of opportunistic strategies: a bunch of my eastern expansion in Game was the result of HRE vassals rebelling and me taking advantage of this to press any claim from my vassals or me in the East. With the new system, I won't be able to do much unless I manage to beat my opponent before his liege takes one castle. And to think I did this to avoid fighting the HRE...

Anyway, not minding that, the Regency of Leonard IV has finally ended and became nicknamed "the Great"... at 20! He currently is 25 (I think) but mutilated and I am praying he doesn't die before his eldest son becomes 16 or so I have only to face a short-lengthened Regency: the 11 years of Leonard IV's regency were a nightmare. Married Leonard IV to a Premsylid princess named Zofia: currently have three children (a daughter, Mélisende, and two sons, Josselin and Guilhem) and the queen is expecting her fourtch child.

The Duke of Barcelona was in jail after his rebellion but he managed to escape. As I didn't want to fight him again, I did huge concessions: I gave him money, I gave him a courtesy title and I transfered control to him of one vassal. He now likes my King a lot while my King still hates his guts

I annexed the Duchy of Leinster (I even became Duke) but I lost that of Britanny. Why? Because the Duchess of Britanny (a Capetian Cousin) overthrew the King of Wales (former King of Ireland whom I overthrew... Guess that won't make him love the Capet family ) and became Queen of Wales. She might loose the crown of Wales soon though... Might still mean I'll have to reconquer or revassalise Britanny...

Also, I am officially now in the last playable century of the game: i'm in 1362. Current total score (Combined Prestige+Piety of all your rulers) is 68k, which isn't so bad.

[stefanbl]

It's very easy to keep playing after the official end date.

[Lone Wolf]

So, I just bought CK2 off Steam. I have already pimped it out with CK2Plus and the compatible mods, since I wanted to play as a Pagan state... now, I am ruling the Yatviags hoping to unite all the Romuva Pagan peoples. Unfortunately, the only viable option for a wife was the Romuva ruler of a Muslim hole occupied by the Bulgars (not the Bulgarians) miles away, and now she's trying to force me to lead my tribal troops in a war against an army that's probably tenfold my size, since she hates her liege's guts. Fortunately, she's also lustful, meaning that we'll be fucking like rabbits and marrying our heathen spawns off to half the Baltic

Edit: I just lost the game. Both my ruler and his wife died at the hands of the Bulgars. Guess I have to choose an easier ruler...

[Dr. Strangelove]

In case someone is interested, I have a list of interesting people to start games with:

-Counts of Vermandois (House Karling) in 1066: You're single and the last member of your house. You are also the last living direct descendant of Charlemagne. You know what to do.

-Counts of Dal in 1066: apparently the most boring starting position conceivable outside Iceland. You are the single member of your house (apparently you rose up from primordial mud), your court has one person in it, you are independent but wedged between Sweden and Norway. You are going to last some 10 seconds before either invades you and turns you into their vassal. Time to take them from the inside.

-Denmark in 1066: You have a claim on the English throne, so go and turn England into a 4-sided war.

-Qitbuga, ruler of Aleppo in 1260: As a Nestorian, he's the only playable mongol character in the unmodded game. Everybody hates you and historically you're the guy who got his ass kicked at Ain Jalut.

-Counts of Beersheba from 1134 on: House of Ibelin, of Kingdom of Heaven's fame. Turn these parvenus into a great european house before the arabs push you to the sea.

-Counts of Valencia between 1094 and 1099: You are the fucking Cid.

-Counts of Aargau in 1066: House Habsburg, currently ruling only a backwater county in the middle of nowhere.

-House Spartenos, Counts of Napoli in 1066: Last orthodox greek noble house left in Southern Italy. Everybody around you hates you, but you can get powerful friends.

-Latin Empire between 1204-1261: Ersatz Byzantium. You're Catholic and everybody around you hates you.

-Galicia in 1109: The 1066 start is tricky, but easy to turn into a great power with a bit of luck. In 1109 you're independent but only a Duke, Portucale is independent and hates you, you're of a different dynasty as your neighbours and you are only a child. Also, all the muslims in Iberia are united under Mauritania. Good luck, you're going to need it.

[Kelian]

Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove

-Counts of Valencia between 1094 and 1099: You are the fucking Cid.

That's just brilliantly worded.

I will be buying this game ASAP!

[God-Eater of the Marshes]

Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove

-House Spartenos, Counts of Napoli in 1066: Last orthodox greek noble house left in Southern Italy. Everybody around you hates you, but you can get powerful friends.

I had ridiculous amounts of fun with this one.

Added bonus: being able to maliciously cackle with glee as you slowly surrond the Papacy with Orthodox Greeks.

Also I'd like to add that the Monophysite king of Abyssinia are a very fun play.

[Zuvarq]

Crusader Kings II is a game with great presentation. The music, the interface, the zooming on onto the map from the main menu and when starting a game, etc.

Also, Ruler designer + Sweden's pagan regions + hired Ethiopian nobles = muahahaha.

[TurkishCapybara]

I currently have:

Thande, Beylik of Athens, (I think his is plotting against me, so I am blaming him for the lost of Aintop to Baghdad when it revolted.)

TurkishCapybara, Beylerbeylik of Karuva.

Kalij I Arslan "The Fat", Sultan of Rum.


The lands owned by the Sultan are:

-Istanbul.

-A Region North of Athens.

-Bits and pieces of Central Anatolia, with one bit being Galata, the capital.

[Grey Wolf]

Bugger! I don't know what medieval Greek for "Fuck!" is, but my Regent is saying it loud

My wonderful strong Byzantine emperor died in battle against the Bulgarians - which was a surprise, as I hadn't realised I was leading my troops in person!

My new emperor is like 6 years old, and screwed. Immediately on succession one duke rose up, screwing the war so I had to make terms on a very diosadvantageous basis, which caused another ruler to rise up.

Currently I've got 2 civil wars, stressed out levies (who wanted to conquer Bulhgaria) and -£400 money due to Bulgarian demands...

Things can only get...hmmm, worse? If I had the money I'd assassinate myself

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

[Dr. Strangelove]

Sounds like Byzantium to me.

This game is similar to Dwarf Fortress in that losing is perhaps funnier than winning.

[Lone Wolf]

After yesterday's epic fail, I started a new game with an easier man to control: William the Bastard. I succeeded in crowning myself King of England on April 24, 1070, and my lateness probably unleashed a storm of butterflies that covered France's skies... Apparently, the ruler of Burgundy started a war for the French throne that basically turned France into the Balkans. War is ended, and all of France's vassals have gone independent, leaving their former liege with only the territory on the north-east of former France. At present, the ruler of Burgundy is prisoner of the duke of Aquitaine.

England... I have many of Godwin's former vassals in my dungeons, and i'll leave them there to rot, only to divide the spoils they left among my faithful. I'll keep the capital at Rouen, and will try to force Norman culture all over England. My daughter has married a Danish prince. As for rump France, I'll try to get a claim on their throne, but will not expand South, since I want to see if Occitania catharifies

[Grey Wolf]

Well, that game became an assassination fest! 6 year old Duchess Alethea even managed to arrange the assassination of one of the emperor's sisters, before the sad bastard had her executed!

Duchess Eirene spent her reign assassinating her husbands, trying to kill her daughter, racking up an emperor and a count, but falling eventually to one of her own vassals who didn't like being assassinated and executed her!

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

[Lone Wolf]

Finally, I have been able to see a character die peacefully in his bed, rather than losing a war or being beheaded by enemies in a civil war.

Sabe I reigned from September 1066 to December 1078 as High Chief of Curonians, and from December 1078 to December 1099 as Duke of Courland, gaining Sudovia, Zemgale and Saaremaa in the meantime. He successfully fought back the Christian armies 2 times, and waged 3 successful wars of conquest on his own. He himself married the Countess of Zhmud, fathering 3 children, of which the youngest is currently betrothed to the Duke of Lithuania. His heir, Vaishvilkas I, is currently waiting for his mother to kick the bucket, so that he can inherit the County of Zhmud, give the title to his brother, and kick Lithuania's ass: I hope that the Duke's sons and brothers die in battle or rot in my cells, so that I will inherit Lithuania by default. Vaishvilkas and his brother are betrothed to pagan Pommeranian (Wend) and Prussian nobility.

My aim is to unify the lands whose religion is Romuva: the annexation of Finnish Pagan Saaremaa only came as a reaction to the discovery that the local count was trying to fabricate claims on my territories. You don't fuck with Dievs. Currently, my priests are tyring to convert the region, just to keep myself... coherent... with my original plans.

Memel and Sudovia are "ruled" by my brother, that is currently too young to actually rule.

[Arcvalons]

Some interesting moments from my 170+ hours of playing CKII

Being the most powerful vassal of the English Eempire:


Forming the Kingdom of Italy:


And then proclaiming Empire:

[Strategos' Risk]

I'm annoyed that if you start in 1066 the Normans may not invade England regardless of who you play as. I'm Welsh surrounded by Saxons. So everyone's still speaking Old English.

[Kome]

Originally Posted by Strategos' Risk

I'm annoyed that if you start in 1066 the Normans may not invade England regardless of who you play as. I'm Welsh surrounded by Saxons. So everyone's still speaking Old English.

The Normans start at war with the English in all scenarios. Its possible they invaded and ended up losing.

[Strategos' Risk]

Maybe they started the war and did nothing to continue it or they failed to cross the English Channel. I wonder what Saxon England would be like.

[TurkishCapybara]

Originally Posted by Strategos' Risk

Maybe they started the war and did nothing to continue it or they failed to cross the English Channel. I wonder what Saxon England would be like.

Norway always starts with an Army in York, Normandy always has large Army in Normandy, and both start at war with England.