MMM Whatchya Say posted:

This is the Steppe Wolf we've always dreamed of

Eric the Mauve posted:

Erwin the Magnificent Bastard?

Eric the Mauve posted:

And if no one but him knows the awful truth, he probably doesn't want to bring any accusations against his wife without some kind of caught-in-the-act-by-several-eyewitnesses proof, lest he have to explain to the court how he can be sure he isn't the father.

Eric the Mauve posted:

I didn't even know if it was possible to kill the son of a bitch.

Another Person posted:

I did a beautiful thing.



All bow down to the Wolf.

Tomn posted:

So I finally got around to trying Crisis of the Confederation yesterday.

As of when I quit, the Terran Confederation is an unstable, constantly-revolting mess of Neo-Socialists ruled over initially by Terran Federalists before the last democratically-elected President was overthrown in a coup by an obscure Cyberneticist military officer who has reformed the state from a corporate republic into a military republic, presumably one based around the virtues of robots. The most powerful man in the Confederation is myself, Fleet Admiral Tao Luo, who managed to single-handedly promote himself up from Counter-Admiral by pouncing on weak, independent rebel states and turning them into liberated territories run under martial law in highly illegal military campaigns that were nevertheless countenanced by the President since I was retaking Confederate territory, despite the furious protests of the Grand Admiral of Confederate Space Command. The second-most powerful person in the Confederation is the aforementioned Grand Admiral Amita Afolayan, who is in fact the clone daughter of Lorrane Afolayan, the former Grand Admiral, who was herself daughter of Morgan Afolayan, the President of the Confederation during the Crisis who had appointed Lorrane to the post of Grand Admiral after my own father, the first Grand Admiral, kicked the bucket. We loathe each other.

Also, somewhere in all the chaos of the above, Mars somehow managed to slip the leash of the Confederation. The former headquarters of Confederate Space Command is now the personal and independent fiefdom of Lord John of Mars, who I can only imagine is surnamed "Carter."

Mod owns.

Eric the Mauve posted:

Playing as nomads is a very different way to play, and it's Easy Mode.

Bloodly posted:

You use and abuse your Horde-effectively a retinue/merc force all of your own, controlled from the Retinue page. You start with 500 dudes, mostly cavalry. Buy up cheap forces to bulk yourself up(There are initial choices that cost Prestige in both cost and maintenance rather than Gold). Use that to raid and take land(Remember you have things like County Conquest, so there's always SOMETHING to take). Use the Population and thus Manpower you get from taking such land to bulk the horde further. Start with weak tribes. You really don't need levies much, if at all. The hardest part is the start, because you have so little.

Elias_Maluco posted:

Where and when do you started? Keep in mind that your 100% cavalry horde troops are far superior than regular troops, you can take armies bigger than yours easily.

Elias_Maluco posted:

Totally viable, Ive started on 769 too, and my game was very easy.

I dont know here you are, I choose as a vassal Khan in the Uyghur Kahaganate. At the start, there are all those buddhist counties to the south, you can pretty much conquer one after the other without much trouble. You should be able to take then even with inferior numbers, your troops are a lot superior.

Esroc posted:

So, I guess there's a possibility that the GoT mod might be dead? Apparently post HL updates broke major systems the mod relies on, but they are systems Vanilla doesn't use the way the mod does so Vanilla is unaffected by the changes. And since Vanilla is unaffected, Paradox has taken a "not our problem" approach. The mod devs allegedly can't just find a new way to implement the broken systems.

Might just be overreacting on the part of mod fans, but things like this have happened before with mods for other games.

CrazyLoon posted:

If you were willing to go a bit ahistorical (and make up some stuff about the secret, hidden history of those places and use unconfirmed sources), this could be interesting.

SlothfulCobra posted:

Looks like you either don't have the cash or the prestige.

Shnooks posted:

I spent like an hour trying to Usurp a title, except the guy was never at peace, and then I don't know someone died and I couldn't usurp it anymore Stop playin' games with me, CK2

majestic12 posted:

Torrannor posted:

It's the old Charlemagne start. When 1066 was the earliest start date, that guy he's playing was the last member of Charlemagne's dynasty. If I recall correctly, you start married to the daughter or sister of a duke, while you yourself are only a lowly count. Stabbing until your wife inherits was one of the most important acts at the start of your game then. He was just successful in getting his heir to inherit a bunch of duchies, which warrants a screenshot.

Skellybones posted:

I'm not entirely sure how many have actually been given events to make them appear but the total overseas cultures are British, Hawaiian, Brazilian, Singaporean, Yuehai (Cantonese), Edokko (Japanese), Novorusskiy (Russian), Ozlander (Aboriginal Australian), Kinh (Vietnamese), Tagalog (Filipino), and... Nigerian.

Eric the Mauve posted:

* If you're Catholic, if the pope likes you and hates him the pope might give you a claim on his poo poo. Then you can revoke with no tyranny penalty.

CrazyLoon posted:

It might be an option, if war was not imminent. But like how he described it? Way too unreliable I think, especially since the whole insta-murder for hundreds of gold option got removed. Even if you get 100-200% plot power on the Abbasid Caliph (very hard most likely), sometimes the RNG just makes it so that it doesn't trigger for 2 or 3 years. Even if a child takes over by then, I dunno...very dicey.

Eric the Mauve posted:

I'm in Europe so there is no HRE.

Excelzior posted:

Going to assume it's meant in the French sense of the Assemblée des notables - meaning women can be part of your council, even if the land isn't under Absolute Cognatic succession (which would be Full status)

Groogy posted:

Could potentially add it in but a bit more difficult but I'll see after it. The "you are part of the council" flag on a title supports any title, landed, minor, religious or job. So you can potentially mark every duchy in the HRE as a voter title making them legible to vote on council matters. Can also make the Keeper of the Swans a important role on the council if you so wish. The system was made to be extremely flexible.

Nobody Interesting posted:

CK bugs get you a homosexual inbred possessed dwarf lady stomping up and down the middle of Europe with 30000 men, attempting to kill herself and falling in love with the Pope. XCOM bugs kill your favourite marine, Chad, after you've bonded with him for 30 hours.

Er, okay and I guess CK has more CTDs than XCOM probably will...

Deceitful Penguin posted:

there's never a jew around when you need one

LemonAIDS posted:

I don't think Jesus realized my daughter is the Antichrist

Darkrenown posted:

Probably going to, I know Doomdark and all the scripty people have it preordered. RIP productivity

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

Some youtuber called Kailvin is showing early access Conclave.

Except he plays as an Absolute realm so he doesn't show off the Council mechanics at all Thrill as he gathers a war chest!

MMM Whatchya Say posted:

additional point: can you bang a horse?

Honky Dong Country posted:

I got the same from one of the other patricians in my current Venice game. Didn't really seem out of whack to me though, the guy was vying to be the next doge so I assumed he was using the hell out of carousing to raise his prestige. No traits from it though. Also keep in mind that carousing can result in friendships, so that may also be a goal of the party animal in question.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

Europe in the 769 start can go one of two ways; either Charlie holds on long enough to form Francia (or the HRE, very rarely), and then it more or less stays a giant blue blob forever, or he kicks the bucket early, the whole continent splits up into three kingdoms, which themselves fall into chaos, and everything goes to hell like in the east. In my current game it was the latter - in fact he died off so early that Carloman actually ended up as king of West Francia for a while because Karl died before the event fired that kills Carloman off.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

Apparently they're going to address the huge infamy from the Charlemagne events in the next patch, but the Pope requirement will probably always be an issue for the AI now.