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I am enjoying the game so far but goddamn does the AI's "MUST DESTROY THE PLAYER AT ALL COSTS" directive need to be toned down. I'm playing England, allied to Asturias, and after being drug into the 18th war in a row with them I was too broke to raise my whole army on the next defensive call. So here we are in two different defensive wars with some Norse nation and Anjou. Being broke I just raised my onagers and a pack of 500 footmen and decided to just go siege some irrelevant province the Norsemen had in the middle of Bavaria and the entirety of both the Anjou and Norse forces completely abandoned Asturias, sailed around as far as they could, marched across half of Europe just to attack my 500 guys (whom I just ran away with). They then went back and right as they were landing on their wargoals again I re-sieged and they both packed back up and did it again. We won both defensive wars because almost 12k troops, half of which weren't even allied to the person I was attacking, couldn't stand the thought of me, the player, having 550 troops doing a siege.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2020 22:32 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 09:23 |
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I had two of them by like 980
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2020 05:25 |
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:"Station Besiegers" splitting off your men-at-arms before your levies is the dumbest thing. Why is that the way it was coded? lmao Watching Arumba it didn't even leave his onagers
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2020 07:03 |
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Things found written on bathroom walls
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2020 09:23 |
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Have you guys ever had knights (or champions in this case) just vanish on you with no messages? I've got 14 champions, and suddenly with no notice at all I've got 7 and my entire council is gone. e: and fake edit, I reloaded the save half a dozen times and what seems to be happening is my liege conquered mercia and landed all of my champions
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2020 06:08 |
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Tanistry seems way worse in this anyway. My recollection from CK2 was you voted for an heir and all your poo poo went to him, in this one it's just gavelkind with voting
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2020 06:12 |
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Keep in mind alliances can be formed whenever. I attacked a neighbor with 0 allies and even before my army finished marching up the hill to his capital I got "enemy ally has joined the war" with an extra 3200 troops
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2020 10:40 |
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Reveilled posted:There is also an event where a vassal can ask you for money and offer you one of his counties in return. And not even that much money, I got one for like 40g I guess I can delay that feast for a few months
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2020 21:44 |
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If you win the crusade you can still play them
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2020 23:17 |
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Aschlafly posted:I've married a group of lovely women with claims on the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden and the Byzantine Empire. I assume it's the same as ck2 where you can only press a women's claim if the place is in regency
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 00:11 |
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DrPop posted:I've lost two long, fun Ironman games to savegame corruption now. Is this happening frequently for anyone else? Is there anything I can do to make it happen less often? Can just make backups of the save if nothing else
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 03:31 |
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Just that if you've got a backup maybe you can recover something. The cloud backups are just stored in the steam folder so they're as easy to copy as the non-cloud versions
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 03:39 |
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Broken Cog posted:
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 05:46 |
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Yes, and their kids aren't of your dynasty and they have pressable claims on your lands and probably still inherit normally when you die
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 06:15 |
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Based on the number of 1 year old bullies, he probably will
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 08:33 |
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Davincie posted:ah that would have been nice to known and have massively sped up the game, don't think it tells you anywhere. i did move the rally point constantly though You can make a ton of rally points too
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 17:08 |
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:I had a daughter betrothed to another character, but somehow in the last few years he got his balls cut off and became a eunich. When she came of age she was stuck in the betrothal, but the marriage also couldn't be accepted. I had to take a huge opinion hit with basically everyone by breaking the betrothal I had no choice but to break. Yeah, that happens if the groom is in a mercenary company too. It'll happily let you do the engagement, but the wedding is forbidden so you have to break it. There's a lot of little hidden gotchas in the UI that can be pretty frustrating. Someone on reddit has a picture of them trying to consecrate their bloodline and describing all of the crusades/sacrifices/etc/etc they needed to do to get the piety and holy sites and whatnot, and it's forbidden because they've got the "Content" trait e: Found the picture Azhais fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Sep 8, 2020 |
# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 22:51 |
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Castles make more money weirdly, but the general recommendation I've heard is build all the churches if you're planning for the long haul
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 01:16 |
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That's why you don't start in a spooky forest
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 01:42 |
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FileNotFound posted:This isn't really a Paradox issue - there is no game company that I am aware of that treats their QA with any sort of decency. There's even another story about call of duty linked Game tester is a pretty poo poo job with long hours
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 03:57 |
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Excelzior posted:note : this one is actually achievement/ironman compatible! Yeah, all of the brightening mods are compatible. I use that colorful education traits along with one that just brightens the background on the stats https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2222839530 And one that makes all the sundry progress bars way easier to read https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2222364460
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 16:13 |
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Yeah, I abandoned my inverted gender role game, it was just miserable. The game also doesn't seem to compensate by generating more women either, there were stretches I didn't even have a full council because there were only two drat women in my whole court.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 16:18 |
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Whorelord posted:The fact that I can't save preset game rules is really annoying, especially since it was in CK2 and because they reset every time you quit. I'm really hoping they let you default those in the first patch. I'd also really like it if you could set game rules in the launcher so each playset/modset could have game rules attached
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 16:25 |
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The effects of renown + the diplomacy trees seems a little OP. I just finished forming the empire of hispania by force vassalizing one of my Muslim neighbors and he was still +63 afterwards despite the -30 religion is evil and -20 declared war and everything else modifiers. And he, along with everyone else I could be bothered to check, was at least a +80 to me beforehand too. Random people in the middle of India love me.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 17:48 |
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Piell posted:Woops I accidentally named all three of my daughters the same thing. Thanks random name generator Just name all of your kids George like Mr Forman
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 18:49 |
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:After my reasonably long-lived king died and I took over as his daughter, I realized my next primary heir was her ridiculous fail-daughter. A ton of bad traits, nothing good, yikes. I signed her up as a knight and hoped that she wouldn't make it through two or three decades of wars, but then I called a hunt and she turned the tables by merking me. Now I'm this terrible queen that everyone hates. I was in a similar situation with my Hispania heir, son 1 was a real shitter, son 2 a paragon of virtue with 27 diplomacy at 30. I tried the whole "get the craven killed in wars" route for a while, then just ate the penalty for disinheriting which is certainly a route you could have taken. Otherwise I think one of the murder-y trees in intrigue lets you kill your kids, that'd be an option too.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 21:11 |
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People with hooks on me seem to have a lot of accidents
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 01:30 |
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Gobblecoque posted:Yeah, all the positions have a different passive benefit. I know that spymaster gives you +40 natural dread and steward gives an extra +3 gold per month. Councillor gives you 2 prestige
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 02:04 |
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I have to say so far my favorite crusade was against the lollards that ended up with my daughter being the queen of Italy. Much more likely to hang on to than something on the middle of Muslim territory
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 04:11 |
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That's the current cheese meta. Fabricate a hook on the spymaster, abduct the ruler, right before it triggers declare a war
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 07:26 |
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Elective is just partition with voting
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 07:47 |
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Could have just let them win if the guy they wanted was of your dynasty and better
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 16:57 |
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Question: I own enough of the counties to create a dutchy, but some of the area that it would encompass is inside the realm of a neighbor. If I create the dutchy, do I get a claim on him? Yes
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 17:04 |
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The cloud saves are all stored locally in the steam/userdata directory. I don't know if removing them there will cause steam to remove them from the cloud or not
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 18:40 |
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Mercenaries too. My daughter who received half of Italy after a lollards crusade keeps dragging me into wars to take the rest of her de jure territory which includes Rome. Last war the Pope hired 37000 mercs to deal with her 6500 and my 27000 troops
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 18:45 |
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Boot and Rally posted:I'm not sure I understand the seduction perk tree, or seduction of people that aren't currently your spouse in general. The only two things I can see it doing are: Lovers can't join factions is the big one I keep hearing. Make everyone bisexual in the game rules and have the most stable kingdom ever
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 22:59 |
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Can you hold multiple Empire titles?
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 23:20 |
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My hispania game continues to go better than any game I've had. Random women showed up to court with a claim on Scotland. Quick assassination later it was pressable. One of the newly acquired vassals had a claim on enough of Ireland to form that kingdom and everyone else accepted vassalization. The last of which had a claim on all of Wales so that got absorbed. The Queen of Scotland then died and her son has a claim on all of France so that's about to get eaten. Not sure I've ever had a game that kept having things fall into place as cleanly. That said the fervor system is just bad, it's like 50 years to convert anything. Half the empire is Muslim and insular and sundry heresies.
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2020 02:05 |
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Mrs. Dash posted:Could you not seduce people in an enemy court to make them easy accomplices in murder schemes and stuff? Seduce or fabricate hooks or just search for secrets in the court and hope you get someone relevant
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2020 03:14 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 09:23 |
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Stairmaster posted:I was playing as a duke in switzerland and i seiged a single province during the crusade and now my daughter is queen of jerusalem how did that happen Was that single province Jerusalem, it'd be a lot of war score on it's own. That's how I won it in ck2 the first time, my little 400 stack arrived first and I got credit for the whole siege and suddenly the count of Desmond was the king of Jerusalem, which didn't end well
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2020 04:59 |