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How punishing is it to ignore calls to war? I know its pretty bad in EU4, HOI4. I get called to multiple wars quite often, and it leaves me comically exposed to someone coming in and taking everything.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:03
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buglord posted:How punishing is it to ignore calls to war? I know its pretty bad in EU4, HOI4. I get called to multiple wars quite often, and it leaves me comically exposed to someone coming in and taking everything. Not at all, it's an opinion malus. If you ignore them though, don't expect them to allow themselves to be called into your wars either.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:07
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lurksion posted:Is there a way to diplo-vassalize de jure dudes? Is it behind a lifestyle perk? You can offer vassalization as a normal diplomatic option. The middle tree of the Diplomacy lifestyle has a perk called True Ruler that gives you +25 to acceptance.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:14
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My Napoly run finally reached the Empire rank. My brave, temperate and trusting Sicilian boy-king inherited the throne at 14 along with 1 county in Italia. He was crowned Basileus in 970, aged 54, after engineering three ducal claim conquests and several holy wars versus the various northern Italian and French Lollards and Muwalladists (Catholicism has seen better centuries). Unfortunately, while I was kicking rear end, the Byzantines were 1) losing most of Anatolia to the Kazars and b) converting to loving Coptic. The only holy site Orthodoxy had was my imperial capital of Rome, our fervor was tanked, and well over half my realm was Lollards, Catholics and Muslims. Reforming to my own branch of Christianity was way too expensive as a martial character after all that holy warring, but converting to an existing branch was much cheaper so ...  Time for the Romans to marry their siblings and exalt carnally. Macintosh HD posted:Can anyone recommend any decent YouTube Let's Plays? I'm hoping to find a campaign done with a good player who's able to explain what they're doing and why. I like Lambert's Harald Fairhair game, I've had it at 2x in the background while making dinner or pretending to work. I'm not sure if it's necessarily a great newbie game but he does explain things. I like that it's not a stream recording, that he keeps his failures in (he plain loses the first start because :thatsck3:) and that he doesn't gimmick.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:15
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Thanks for the suggestion about saves, I'll try that for next time. I'm starting a new game as the Sulayhids in Yemen. I holy warred and got some Tribal holdings, how can I convert those to Clan and/or Feudal? If I grant them to vassals, how do they become Clan? It's not very clear how to make or encourage vassals to adopt your government type.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:17
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Here's an achievement I wasn't sure I'd ever get, let alone in my first real game. After a point, I was running out the clock to get the "last until 1453" achievement. So gold, prestige, etc. were all accumulating and not really being spent. Sweden and Denmark splintered somehow in the early 1400s, and I got a request to vassalize a petty queen, which was unexpected but, yeah, sure, I guess I am rich and famous. Then another. OK. Then two more. Then it snowballed; people everywhere, stretching across to the Byzantine/Seljuk border and down into Nubia, wanted me to be their emperor/empress, to the point that I eventually just had the dialog options to form seven new kingdoms. I don't know if this is a bug or not (I assume it is, tbh; that's a lot of people inexplicably eager for vassalization), but it was wild to watch. So I waited a few years so that everything would hopefully be intact through the end of the game, hired mercs, conquered two more kingdoms (I considered using Wales and England, but screw that, I actually fought for those, I wasn't going to do that unless I was almost out of time), then divvied the nine new kingdoms among my dynasty. That step was actually quite a pain in the rear end, and I was paranoid I was doing it wrong so I kept rechecking who was getting what, but after that it was just a matter of granting them all independence.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:18
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Some more new player questions: 1. I keep reading about people's partition woes. I'm king of Novogrod and Biarmaland, both of which have swedish sucession. My heir is the top of both of those elections, meaning he ought to be king when I die right? If all my other titles go to my other 14 children(!), who cares I'm still double king right?? 2. If I'm in a super patriarchal part of the world with no hope of matrilineal succession, who should I be marrying my many daughters to? Will they form alliances? I'm 55 and figure I ought to consolidate rather than warring with Minsk and no clear succession plan. I have 1 year old sons and 18 year old grandchildren lol. The same son has beat the poo poo out of like 5 of his siblings' bullies in slightly differing events. At least half my knights are sodomite berserkers. Must be a correlation there.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:30
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As long as no other heir inherits a title that is equal in tier as your player heir then nothing happens to the integrity of your holdings. Haven't played Scandinavian yet so I don't know how electing kings plays out.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:37
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Oh cool, you can use weak hooks to stop vassal wars. Very useful if they're your relatives and you're house head, since you get one free weak hook on each of them.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:38
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ho boy once the big levy numbers start coming out war becomes unfun
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Sep 8, 2020 04:42
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Arbite posted:Ik,r? It was... an interesting life. 
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Sep 8, 2020 04:47
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How do you end up having mid or high-tier good congenital traits on your primary heir without inbreeding like crazy for generations, or happening to have the murderous trait that lets you murder all your failsons? When I look to marry my heir, there might be like one girl he can marry with a mid-tier good congenital trait. And then of his children, it's always like the third son who gets the good trait and that just creates a problem for the real heir when that kid grows up smarter and stronger. If I had the Sadistic trait that'd be a help, but I don't, and inbreeding looks like it takes many generations of crummy heirs to sort itself out. That being said I did bite the bullet and marry my grandson to my genius niece. This is how it begins...
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Sep 8, 2020 04:55
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Get all your breeding done during tribal times so you can send your failsons to die on raids.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:58
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Oh, I picked the later start date. I suppose I could make the failsons knights and send them to war, but usually they just get maimed and don't actually die.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:59
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I got it. Am I the first Goon to unite India?  As for the Devotion requirement, the easiest way to get the last level is just to save the Decision where you sanctify the Ganges until you're already a Paragon of Virtue because it automatically pushes you up a level.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:00
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I'm playing tribal (gavelkind) and have 3 sons. Nothing happened to my eldest but out of the blue his heir status automatically transferred to the second eldest. Why? Other info: I made my eldest my Hofgodi, and he held no titles, while my second son holds three. Are either of those things factoring in?
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Sep 8, 2020 05:01
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My queen of France decided to start worshipping the Horned God because some guy whispered in her ear while she was sleeping. Now all my kids are witches too and I’ve formed a coven with them! I’m sure no one will ever find out about our terrible secret. My current ruler has 30 intrigue and permanent 100 dread so no one goes against her, but my heir has an intrigue of 2 so we’ll see how this turns out.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:02
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Zeron posted:Not at all, it's an opinion malus. If you ignore them though, don't expect them to allow themselves to be called into your wars either. what happens if you accept it but don't bother doing anything?
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Sep 8, 2020 05:02
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:what happens if you accept it but don't bother doing anything? Nothing, but apparently if you do it multiple times to the same person they’ll get pissed at you if you don’t actually contribute.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:05
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The Pannonian Migration has nothing on the Estonian Migration.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:06
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A God drat Ghost posted:How do you end up having mid or high-tier good congenital traits on your primary heir without inbreeding like crazy for generations, or happening to have the murderous trait that lets you murder all your failsons? When I look to marry my heir, there might be like one girl he can marry with a mid-tier good congenital trait. And then of his children, it's always like the third son who gets the good trait and that just creates a problem for the real heir when that kid grows up smarter and stronger. If I had the Sadistic trait that'd be a help, but I don't, and inbreeding looks like it takes many generations of crummy heirs to sort itself out. If you're not looking to hook up some alliances, there should usually be some lowborn geniuses/beauties/amazons hanging around somewhere, you can find them through the search function. Alternatively, you can also filter those traits when setting up a marriage. The various traits are, in order from tier 1 to 3: Quick/Intelligent/Genius, Comely/Pretty/Beautiful, Hale/Robust/Amazonian. Fecund can be good as well. Try putting one of those into the search function to filter when looking for a spouse. If you can't find the tier 3 one, go for the tier 2, and so on.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:07
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Some involved questions: Having trouble playing this because i think im still in the EU4 mindset. Is painting the map your color still the goal? Is it possible to play "tall"? Succession confuses me because im supposedly supposed to have my heir keep as many titles as possible, but also I should be giving vassals and advisors titles too so they're happy and not murderous with me. Does it matter who really has the titles so long as this kingdom, whatever it is, stays united? followup: is there a good youtube series which answers these sorts of things? Don't mind if they're LPs as well, I just have so many questions that would probably be answered by seeing people play while explaining why they're killing their failsons and how that benefits the heir.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:11
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Mantis42 posted:Goddamnit, I've had all the requirements to form India for several rulers now except the need to be the highest level of Devotion and I cannot for the life of me reach that within the life of one ruler. The best piety gain I got was +16 a month and was still 2000 Devotion away when he finally keeled over. You can wage a kingdom level holy war once per ruler and that still only gets you 150 points. Dunno if indian religions have the option, but as a catholic “go on a pilgrimage” decision can give 800 piety for 1000 gold every 15 years, and you can buy piety from the religious head once every 5.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:11
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Oh I already figured it out, look above. My new goal before the end date is to start my own religion. I started as a Count and leveled up to Emperor and the only way to continue growing is to become a God of some sort, that's how I see it. e: Hinduism definitely does not give that much piety for pilgrimages and there is no religious head.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:14
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Arven posted:Get all your breeding done during tribal times so you can send your failsons to die on raids. gently caress, THAT'S IT! THAT'S HOW TO SOLVE THIS
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Sep 8, 2020 05:17
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A God drat Ghost posted:How do you end up having mid or high-tier good congenital traits on your primary heir without inbreeding like crazy for generations, or happening to have the murderous trait that lets you murder all your failsons? When I look to marry my heir, there might be like one girl he can marry with a mid-tier good congenital trait. And then of his children, it's always like the third son who gets the good trait and that just creates a problem for the real heir when that kid grows up smarter and stronger. If I had the Sadistic trait that'd be a help, but I don't, and inbreeding looks like it takes many generations of crummy heirs to sort itself out. absolute crown authority lets you designate your heir, so just have as many kids as possible to try to roll for the best kid
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Sep 8, 2020 05:27
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Heh, seems I've got one of those time travelling bastards as well: Also Gerdr is not his mother.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:29
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ultrachrist posted:Some more new player questions: 2. ensure that your sons are sufficiently numerous and healthy--ideally have two or three of them--before sending your daughters off for non-matrilineal marriages. non-matrilineal marriages are very appealing for other rulers; they are helpful for forging alliances; but if a non-mat daughter is next in line for your primary succession then your dynasty is in peril. if your sons are shaky i recommend matrilineally marrying your eldest daughters as insurance against your succession. do not expect strong alliances from matrilineal marriages.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:31
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matrimarriages are great for recruiting high-statted lowborn people to your court to stack your council with competent folks.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:34
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buglord posted:Some involved questions: EU4 player here. Just pick a goal and do whatever you want. If you wanna paint the map your tag then go for it. If you wanna breed a lineage of beautiful geniuses in a witch coven that's an option too. Your heir should inherit the highest tier title (Duchies are part of a Kingdom so if they pick up the Kingdom title then all the Duchies fall in line under you). The other titles actually don't matter at that point unless you are also looking to found a Holy Order in which case you need a Barony with a City or Castle to base them in. Why yes my Empire with 20k+ levies had to crush some random one province minor so I could found an Order before my King died why do you ask
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Sep 8, 2020 05:35
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Macintosh HD posted:Can anyone recommend any decent YouTube Let's Plays? I'm hoping to find a campaign done with a good player who's able to explain what they're doing and why. quill18. He's on part 13 of his Count of Anjou playthrough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_u7IZeO7qg&list=PLs3acGYgI1-tnru5viwLivAxAEOGZmTfU
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Sep 8, 2020 05:35
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toasterwarrior posted:gently caress, THAT'S IT! THAT'S HOW TO SOLVE THIS You can pick your heir with absolute crown authority. Edit: welp I let the thread sit and got beat
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Sep 8, 2020 05:40
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Sep 8, 2020 05:42
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as long as you are the dynasty head you can also just disinherit all the other failsons and faildaughters it's reversible if you mess up/they die unexpectedly that REALLY should carry a dynasty-wide opinion penalty, imo e: lmao at the comet only having negative outcomes - lemme guess, identical stress too? classic paradox
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Sep 8, 2020 05:43
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OctaMurk posted:absolute crown authority lets you designate your heir, so just have as many kids as possible to try to roll for the best kid Oh that's amazing, I've never invested that heavily in crown authority, will have to try it. Iirc my people really didn't like when I raised it but it's too good. I've been able to find random lowborn spouses with a trait I want, the problem has been getting the right son to get it.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:43
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Excelzior posted:
It was actually a 50/50 for stress gain or stress loss for each.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:45
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The economy, fools!
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Sep 8, 2020 05:46
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Broken Cog posted:It was actually a 50/50 for stress gain or stress loss for each. neat I feel that comet came like clockwork within a few months whenever my stability peaked in EU. Sigh.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:46
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Broken Cog posted:
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