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Also, it is the description text or the effect itself that's the bug here? I would expect that "Forder" would only really affect crossing rivers, but they go out of their way in the text to include "when disembarking from ships" while the advantage penalty is definitely very much still there. 
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So uh, Star Dynasties just got recommended to me and I'm tiddling with the demo of it right now. It's Crusader kings. In space. Like blatantly, unashamedly so. Anyone owned/played it?
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Just chiming in to say I made a war with Hästeinn work - when using Varangian adventure against Mercia, I suddenly had several thousand more troops than usual and pwned the anglos without too much trouble. Now to fix ailing control in 8 counties and having a clump of feudal buildings around I can't use.. What do do? E: poo poo, I still got a lot to learn. Immediate holy war tore my poo poo to pieces even though I spent Hästeinns considerable means on mercenaries. Tias fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Sep 5, 2021 |
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Sep 5, 2021 10:14
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Holy gently caress this game makes me want to poke my eyes out sometimes. I just played a game where I got on the back foot in a war against a neighbour and just ended up in constant Liberty and Independence wars for the best part of like 50 years as a result. My kingdom just shrinking and shrinking as I lost more and everyone gang-piled me. I feel like I'm playing loving whack-a-mole just chasing units around the map, very frustrating. Not sure whether I should just throw in the towel or not.
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Sep 5, 2021 11:24
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Unless you have a very specific reason for keeping crown authority high, just accept their demands and lower it instead of getting into another war. And sometimes you'll have to white peace or even surrender to end a war when you're too busy dealing with another 2. The latest patch specifically make factions easier to trigger when you're already dealing with others.
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Sep 5, 2021 14:12
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FreudianSlippers posted:How scary are the Mongols in CK3? I posted a while back about getting ruined by the Mongols while playing as Siberia. Ultimately it comes down to if Genghis is still alive and how many wars they're currently fighting. If the answer is yes and none, you're in deep poo poo if they come for you (though they will slow walk their armies from the far eastern edge of the map, probably, so you would have a year or so to prepare). If the answer is no and more than 1, you're probably fine and they'll fall into civil war before getting to you.
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Sep 5, 2021 15:04
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PancakeTransmission posted:Unless you have a very specific reason for keeping crown authority high, just accept their demands and lower it instead of getting into another war. I realised later that it’s kind of my fault as I had forgotten to get my steward to convert culture so French populists were constantly triggering along with the usual Liberty factions. It’s just annoying as when I started that first war against the neighbour I didn’t have any active factions so things seemed fine.
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Sep 5, 2021 20:05
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Getting back into the game; If I wanted to try out these Norse adventures stuff, someone a few pages ago suggested Harestien; ok sure, he starts in a lovely nothing-land but has a big army, so do I go conquering neighbors, or pop a Varangian adventure to relocate somewhere greener? I get no bonus troops since I/he is out of Scandinavia so it's wasteful, but if I don't take it now anything I conquer will be lost if I ever adventure later, sooo? Do I just eat a neighbor then go raiding? I'm not sure if I "get" the idea of being a Viking (as compared to just painting the map in conquest).
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Sep 6, 2021 04:09
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You can invade kingdom on Wessex on day 1, take that, then conquer duchy to get Mercia. You should be able (or very close to able) to form England at this point.
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Sep 6, 2021 05:13
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The big things for Haesteinn are that he (a) has enough prestige to immediately declare a kingdom invasion on anyone within diplo range, and (b) has enough health to live to 100 if you swap to the medicine focus late in life. You can do a Varangian adventure with him if you want, but unless you've taken the dynasty perk for bonus troops it is just a very expensive duchy conquest.
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Sep 6, 2021 05:28
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Ok, so paint-the-map. When does raiding happen? Between wars? Basically I'd like something different than Munster all over again.
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Sep 6, 2021 05:33
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Serephina posted:Getting back into the game; If I wanted to try out these Norse adventures stuff, someone a few pages ago suggested Harestien; ok sure, he starts in a lovely nothing-land but has a big army, so do I go conquering neighbors, or pop a Varangian adventure to relocate somewhere greener? I get no bonus troops since I/he is out of Scandinavia so it's wasteful, but if I don't take it now anything I conquer will be lost if I ever adventure later, sooo? Do I just eat a neighbor then go raiding? You generally doesn't want to stay where you are, you're surrounded by Karlings and they'll help each other crush you if you come at them. So pick somewhere interesting on the map and go be a Viking there. Raiding happens whenever you aren't at war.
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Sep 6, 2021 05:40
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Doing a jarl of Småland run, and I gotta say Bjørn and his sons are loving annoying. I'm playing on easy and can barely snuff out Sjælland to expand, while whoever's running Sweden is heir to the thrones of Sweden, Norway and Finland, and even when I murder them, no partition happens. Am I doing something wrong?
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Sep 6, 2021 07:33
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E: Dåbbelt indlæg
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Sep 6, 2021 07:33
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PittTheElder posted:You generally doesn't want to stay where you are, you're surrounded by Karlings and they'll help each other crush you if you come at them. So pick somewhere interesting on the map and go be a Viking there. Would have been good to know this before I did my start (see above!)! Is there anywhere that I can compare perks of different cultures? In my (probably doomed) Haesteinn run I've had the chance to covert to Norman and now Swedish but I have no idea if those are good ideas or not.
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Sep 6, 2021 08:19
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Chin Strap posted:Has there been any discussion of if the console versions mean we will get proper controller support on PC version too? Let's hope so, but Stellaris got a console port and no controller support on PC. 
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Sep 6, 2021 12:55
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Red_Fred posted:Is there anywhere that I can compare perks of different cultures? In my (probably doomed) Haesteinn run I've had the chance to covert to Norman and now Swedish but I have no idea if those are good ideas or not. Cultures don't have particular bonuses beyond the Innovations they possess. What innovations they have (and qualify for) can be seen by clicking on that culture on the map from the culture map mode. I think you can click into it off characters of that culture as well. For cultures that may not exist yet like Norman, you just have go with what the decision text tells you.
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Sep 6, 2021 15:55
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Red_Fred posted:Would have been good to know this before I did my start (see above!)! The problem, to me, seems that most places aren't too forgiving of us being heathens. Culture can change, that's the viking way, but I'd like to be able to keep raiding 
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Trying to rush Scandinavian empire as Bjorn. It's tricky but im getting a lot of free vassals so I'm focusing on getting a solid foothold to make each other kingdoms. Somehow I'm also accidentally making Ireland
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very fun save going on so, perhaps inspired by Kassandra from AO: Odyssey, I made a custom dynasty from Cephalonia. After I got the duchy (I started as countess), I figured that going for Sicily would be a better idea (and a much better stronghold) than making a foothold into the Byzantine thunderdome. Robert had rolled in Sicily and there wasn't much to poach there but then I learned that Cagliari has mines.Fortunately, it was all broken up. The previous ruler died leaving his two failsons as counts who hated each other so it was pretty easy to nab Argentierra and build an economic powerhouse from there. Meanwhile, having only two rocks in the coast of Greece, I focused only on archers and used my levies to buffer them from the enemy. They are really loving effective, especially when I managed to maneuver battles into favorable terrain. Palermo rebelled and went independent and promptly managed to nab that one, and afterwards it was Cephalonia-Apulia Sicilian Playoffs time. After I got Messina and Syracusa, Capua went for a bite and Benevento rebelled, then this emir out of loving nowhere comes to take Reggio Calabria. now I am thinking where to go: get a firm foothold in Italy proper by securing Napoli and Salerno (because of extremely good farmland terrain, to stack), or maybe going back to Greece for Epirus. Ideally I want to make some mad fat stacks of cash to field cataphracts and maybe then go for basileus
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Still on my first play through, so I am struggling with a couple of things. 1- Started as the Byzantine empire, reformed the roman empire. Started getting vassal limit messages, but the only members of court I could transfer vassals to were the pope and the patriarchy. So I did that frequently. It wasn't until later that I realized that the problem was that I was hogging too many kingdom titles. Started giving away kingdom titles to my dynasty, and so now I can transfer vassals to them instead. Except that now the pope and the patriarchy are super powerful. And because they don't have kids its not as if their domains will splinter up through the generations. Any way to get back some of those vassals without incurring a tyranny penalty? 2- My empire encompasses the entire mediterranean. It's huge. But the troops I raise are generally just poo poo. Most of the guides I've seen are for small kingdoms and stuff like improving your men at arms. Is there a way to make it so that my 50k person army isn't just a bunch of scrubs getting owned by much smaller forces?
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joepinetree posted:2- My empire encompasses the entire mediterranean. It's huge. But the troops I raise are generally just poo poo. Most of the guides I've seen are for small kingdoms and stuff like improving your men at arms. Is there a way to make it so that my 50k person army isn't just a bunch of scrubs getting owned by much smaller forces? I found that when you have an absolute gently caress-off huge army it's a good idea to only raise men at arms for most wars. It gets your army in the field faster, and if you've stacked building bonuses for them they can demolish levies.
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joepinetree posted:Still on my first play through, so I am struggling with a couple of things. I dont think theres any way to improve your levies: they really are poo poo. They are cannon fodder You improve your MaAs. If they are strong enough, you wont even need to use your levies most of the time (or even 100% of the time). But even if you still need the levies, your MaA should make sure you dont get beaten by smaller forces
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Another tip for physicians which I didn't see mentioned: Put your marshal on training. Your knights will get wounded sometimes, which will let your physician practice on them.
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PittTheElder posted:Cultures don't have particular bonuses beyond the Innovations they possess. What innovations they have (and qualify for) can be seen by clicking on that culture on the map from the culture map mode. I think you can click into it off characters of that culture as well. Ah good to know!
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Bad news everyone. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-09-06-employee-survey-at-paradox-interactive-alleges-gender-discrimination-and-mistreatment
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Started a Transylvanian witch cult but got done in because I started under a Khanate, expanded to have 3 duchies and 12 counties, but kept getting bullied in holy wars I couldn't participate in because they were against the khan's religion and not mine. Eventually saw I was bigger than than Khan so I went for independence, he white peaced his holy wars and fought me off, then Bulgaria and Hungary declared holy wars on him and... Immediately rushed in to beat up my army and siege my capital. Then he declared victory in my independence war and stripped me of everything. My family had all started murdering each other at some point also so I was gonna be down to an 8 year old heir with no claims when my guy died in prison. Figure that's a wrap. I guess in my next game I need to 1) focus more on actually developing some holdings, 2) not start under a Khanate. Maybe if I start in the earlier year instead of 1066? It's really annoying that tribal is limited to confederate partition but I think it would be better without a liege, especially not one hostile to my culture. Anyhow, enjoyed making a witch coven so I'm just gonna do that again while maybe trying to find better circumstances for the start. I should probably play at the Duke level to start instead of the Count too, would cut down on Khan fuckery. Edit: reading up it looks like I should probably improve men at arms too. I was like 2 generations in when I figured out you did that with buildings in holdings but I only ever had enough cash on hand to do that when I went raiding or waited 20 years so I guess I need to figure out some economy too. I have the intrigue game down tho!!! Edit 2: would really like to do some high level Catholic fuckery but also, witch cults. Maybe Italy........ Paramemetic fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Sep 7, 2021 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:Bad news everyone. well, poo poo. not exactly out of nowhere given other previous problems and complaints
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Might be worth pointing out that that's the publisher, not the developers. At least from what someone posted in the other thread.
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New developer diary - Holding Court at Court in The Royal Court (in a courtly fashion)
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Looks great. Actually being inside the court room instead of just getting events is better than I expected. Also lmao at the guy in the pdx forum post going "if dlc havers can sometimes vassalize someone because they ask you to the power balance is shifted too much and people without dlc will need something" because asking to vassalize someone is a thing that comes up so often and matters so much. It's like reading youtube comments. I'm an idiot for doing either.
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Paramemetic posted:Started a Transylvanian witch cult but got done in because I started under a Khanate, expanded to have 3 duchies and 12 counties, but kept getting bullied in holy wars I couldn't participate in because they were against the khan's religion and not mine. Eventually saw I was bigger than than Khan so I went for independence, he white peaced his holy wars and fought me off, then Bulgaria and Hungary declared holy wars on him and... Immediately rushed in to beat up my army and siege my capital. Then he declared victory in my independence war and stripped me of everything. My family had all started murdering each other at some point also so I was gonna be down to an 8 year old heir with no claims when my guy died in prison. Figure that's a wrap. Before you spend money improving MaA with buildings make sure you've got the MaA Regiments you want and that they're at the max size (that you can afford) for your era. Buildings make for nice buffs but if you don't have the numbers in the first place it can only help so much.
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M_Gargantua posted:Before you spend money improving MaA with buildings make sure you've got the MaA Regiments you want and that they're at the max size (that you can afford) for your era. Buildings make for nice buffs but if you don't have the numbers in the first place it can only help so much. I don't think I realized you can increase the MaA sizes? Before I got clowned I was sitting at 5/5 MaAs but they were all 100/100 mans. I won't be home until later to look at the menu but lol UI. Is it an option in there somewhere? Paramemetic fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Sep 7, 2021 |
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Paramemetic posted:I don't think I realized you can increase the MaA sizes? Before I got clowned I was sitting at 5/5 MaAs but they were all 100/100 mans. Click on the picture of each regiment in the military screen, and you can increase the size there.
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Each of the MaA regiment has a size. Eg most are 100 units x Size per stack, heavy cavalry is 50 x Size per stack, and seige weapons are 10 x Size per stack. In each era there is a tech that unlocks having more per regiment, being early game 5/5 is the max for each of them. So early game there is the Mustering Grounds innovation that gives you +2 to the max size of a regiment and +1 to the number of regiments you can have. If you click on the regiment in your military screen you can change the size So earliest game you can have 2-5 regiments (baseline depending on rank, Count is 2, Duke is 3, King is 4, and Emperor is 5) of Size 3 MaA Mustering grounds bumps that up +1 and to size 5 Early Medieval Household soldiers gives you another Regiment up to size 8 High Medieval Men-at-arms is another +1 and up to size 12 Late Medieval Standing armies is yet another +1 to max regiments and up to size 17 The final teir of the Warfare Dynasty Legacy will give you yet another +1 to max regiments. So at the pinnacle of military achievement you can theoretically support 10 Regiments of Size 17, which would be 17,000 infantry/light calvary if you only used the 100/per types.
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joepinetree posted:Still on my first play through, so I am struggling with a couple of things. 1. Not really, but Tyranny is a currency and you should expect to accrue some of it at any given time. Plus if they decline and revolt you can strip extra titles off them if you can defeat them. 2. Cataphracts. Cataphracts. Cataphracts. levies are poo poo and don't get better. fighting wars with MaA only is what you want to do, with the main impediment being expense, but as the Roman Emperor that shouldn't be a problem PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Sep 7, 2021 |
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Is the conventional wisdom to start fabricating claims and aggressively expanding right away or is there some merit to building up one's own holdings for a generation or two while making tactical marriages and so on? I've seen conflicting info on this. I ran into a problem where I couldn't afford to do expansion while also doing wars but a lot of this is probably to do with my relying on unupgraded armies and just kinda flailing about because it was my first go.
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Paramemetic posted:Is the conventional wisdom to start fabricating claims and aggressively expanding right away or is there some merit to building up one's own holdings for a generation or two while making tactical marriages and so on? I've seen conflicting info on this. I ran into a problem where I couldn't afford to do expansion while also doing wars but a lot of this is probably to do with my relying on unupgraded armies and just kinda flailing about because it was my first go. My strategy is to aggressively expand fabricating claims while making tactical marriages too. And leave building up for when money starts to not being a problem. At the beginning, most my money will be used to build MaA, gift vassals to keep them happy and occasionally hire mercs In any case, that early expansion through fabricating claims is very important, in my experience, as it will quickly bring you money and levies, that you can use to expand over bigger neightbours and also to defend yourself from the ones that might want to expand over you
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Elias_Maluco posted:My strategy is to aggressively expand fabricating claims while making tactical marriages too. And leave building up for when money starts to not being a problem. At the beginning, most my money will be used to build MaA, gift vassals to keep them happy and occasionally hire mercs Okay cool, that's how I'd done it, I just spent money on building up holdings instead of on MaA because I didn't realize that was a thing, and so lost some very unfortunate battles. Maybe I'll try again in Transylvania and just try to get out from under the Khan earlier with a better army. Or maybe I'll start in the 800s and see if the Khan even exists then.
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