DStecks posted:

It would certainly make playing as a kid more interesting.

I think it would just be neat in general to have more "story arc" event chains. The ones already in the game (pilgrimmage, hunting dog, necronomicon, Joan of Arc, satan spawn, etc.) are all great, and it would add a lot of flavour to have more, especially if they branch depending on multiple characters' decisions. So something like two suitors competing for a woman would be a cool event chain; maybe it could trigger if a girl is betrothed but has a different boy as a lover? Do kids even get lovers? If not, hell, the first event in the "suitor" chain could give her one.

Bloodly posted:

Setting the potential start date to 1(Crusader Kings 2/common/defines.txt) is minorly interesting. The Papacy comes into existance in 42AD. Byzantine Empire(as something with a playable character) shows up at something like 200, A few Zoroastrians(The lord of Kartli) are about as far back as 50AD. Pictland has someone about back to 210. Ireland(Specifically, the duchy of Munster) becomes a thing in 369.
Nomads don't exist at all that far back.

Mercs are basically un-hireable; their numbers and upkeep are too huge.

Effectively it's 'shattered world'-everywhere there's no one, it creates random guys.

jerman999 posted:

Horse Lords is on sale for $3.74:

http://www.wingamestore.com/product/4704/Crusader-Kings-II-Horse-Lords/

I just purchased this and it activated fine on my Steam account. This website also has some of the other DLCs for sale (I picked up the Republic, finally, too).

space kobold posted:

How hard would it be to replace all instances of the pope with a space pope, give him an even more awesome hat, and tweak the various game events / notifications to better reflect his galactic holiness?

I think I have the worst mod ideas.

prussian advisor posted:

So if I want to fill out the empty holding slots in my personal capital, what is generally held to be the best option. I always figured it would be with additional castles, since once you're a king or better I figure it's better to have more loyal military on hand than it is having potential extra cash from city vassals.

Groogy posted:

we have fixed bugs in it for 2.5 where the AI would sometimes be disgusted by the idea of marrying it's sister

LORD OF BUTT posted:

e3: Hahaha holy poo poo there's an event for if you're playing as the antichrist when they come of age, that's loving fantastic

Torrannor posted:

^^ Tribal vikings are a bit tricky, though it's easy mode once you reformed and became feudal.


Byzantine Empire? Umayyad Sultanate? Charlemagne himself?

If you want to play a horde, Khazaria or Bulgaria are easy starts.

Arbite posted:

Can't she still marry El Cid?

Dallan Invictus posted:

Doesn't currently have any daughters though? But 2 over demesne limit is isn't a terminal problem, it's -20 opinion and some relatively minor income/levy penalties, OP can probably ride it out with high state diplomacy (also IIRC Matilda has a pretty good martial score and favourable traits so she shouldn't have TOO many problems with her vassals.)

Too Poetic posted:

I'm pretty sure if your a woman leading armies it does make it impossible to get an heir.

Elias_Maluco posted:

Im pretty excited for this. More focus on internal politics is everything I wanted, and those civil laws looks awesome
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Clanpot Shake posted:

If you think that's -worthy, thanks to medium crown authority and a lust for Catholic lands my Viking vassals conquered the entirety of the British Isles in the span of maybe 60 years, giving me enough to form the empire without ever personally going to war.

TorakFade posted:

Ok in preparation of the new DLC I started an Old Gods game, as the Duke of Spoleto because I did want to be powerful but not a king just yet.

Little did I know, two years into the game a faction succeeds in pressing Elective on the Kingdom of Italy, so I'm asked to vote on a successor. Why not me?

Not two weeks later, King Louis dies in battle against Lotharingia and since 3 other blokes supported me, I am now King of Italy I literally did nothing but get married, bang my sweet wife to get a heir, assign my councilors and choose the Intrigue focus.

Ofaloaf posted:

An attractive horse.

Honky Dong Country posted:

I'd go seniority if it were me.

-Troika- posted:

Ahahaha what the hell

I just got an event where my king and a bunch of random courtiers were capering about dressed as wildmen, and someone set everyone involved on fire, causing a profusion of wounds and maimings (my king escaped with just a wound).

The Cheshire Cat posted:

If your kingdom capital is in Lombardy, you won't have to worry about tyranny to revoke the other counties in that duchy - one of the things that makes the "plot to revoke X" plots available is for counties in your capital duchy. It doesn't even have to be the de jure capital, so feel free to move your capital there solely for the purpose of plotting to revoke the counties.

Generally it's best to only hold on to duchies that you can fully control while staying undertone remember limit (so you don't get vassals with "desires the duchy of (your capital)" penalties). How big that is depends on how good the counties are - if you've got counties with 5 or 6 holding slots it doesn't take much to hit your limit if you go nuts building castles (which is usually a good idea because it lets you apply the various "capital county" bonuses as well as train troops/collect taxes jobs to multiple holdings at once). So you might only want a duchy with 3 counties in that case. If they've already been built way up with cities/temples, on the other hand, then you might want a bigger duchy since your holdings will be spread around more.

Regardless of which ones you decide to keep, it's not always a terrible idea to give land to kin, but it's probably better to find some more distant relatives that don't have claims on your titles rather that brothers/sons. You'll also want to make sure they aren't themselves an heir to something already, as you might suddenly find them controlling a lot more land than you expected.

Eric the Mauve posted:

There are mods that do an effective job of making seduction non-crazy, or it takes just a few minutes to jigger some settings yourself, but I guess you guys are ironman or bust?

Deceitful Penguin posted:

What the hell. Why can I not raise merchant ships as tribal still? Why the hell is my split council (3 for, 3 with) not deciding in my favour?? I thought the player was supposed to be the tie breaker, not just go "no, gently caress you, the idiots in your council don't like more land!!!"

Apoffys posted:

It depends on your situation, there are several ways to handle it. If you have gold, you can just buy favours. If you're strong enough to risk a civil war (from excluding powerful vassals from the council), you could appoint loyalists or low-ranking vassals (who are cheaper to bribe) to the council.

Favours don't seem to be inherited, so if you're sneaky enough to get away with some assassinations, you could just ask for their support (owing them a favour) and then have them killed after the law is passed. Failing that, ask for support from someone on the council who is likely to die anyway soon (old/sick) and hope they don't get around to cashing in their favour. People generally sit on their favours for ages rather than immediately cashing them in, so it's not too risky.

Also, you can only pass a new law every 5 years or so (I don't remember the exact number), so you could just reshuffle the council to pass a law every 5 years and then reappoint the old council afterwards.

Jedit posted:

You joined a plot to kill yourself?

GSD posted:

webmeister posted:

Okay, so where am I going wrong here? I'm slowly getting into this game as a complete newbie, and I'm following along with CapnAndy's tutorial Ireland LP. Obviously a lot of stuff has changed since he started, but I can generally get the gist of stuff. I started a new game in 1066 Ireland as the petty king of Munster, and declared war on Deasmhumhain (Desmond) to bring it within my duchy like CapnAndy did. I smashed his troops in a couple of battles, sieged out the first two holdings and with the warscore at 100% I claimed the victory.

Now the next step he took was booting out Earl Muiredach via a Plot to revoke the county of Desmond, but when I try and do that the option is greyed out (see screenshot below). I satisfy the requirements, but for some reason I'm not able to claim it. Any ideas?



I'm on the most recent version but I haven't bought any expansions after Republics.

The B_36 posted:

I'm fairly new to the game, but wouldn't all these succession issues with gavelkind be taken care of by switching to one of the elective ones? Your elected heir gets all the titles then anyway right? Sure, you don't get to know for sure whom out of your dynasty will get to be the heir (tho you have alot of control over it), but when it just goes automatically to your oldest son, you not only lose half your demesne most times, but he could grow up to be a complete retard. Between your votes and your vassals vote, you're going to end up with an heir that is at least pretty competent. The demesne size bonus with gavelkind usually only seems to give you an extra 1, maybe 2 holdings most times anyway.

Jedit posted:

Everyone hates you and you have a much smaller army.