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On March 07 2012 12:24 screamingpalm wrote:
Yeah this game is a blast... haven't enjoyed a new release this much in a long time.
My heir rebelled and died in battle, and his only child ended up being heir. I took him under my wing and became his guardian and the rest of the family was plotting to assassinate him. It is hilarious as he is getting these traits like honest and kind and it's like I was protecting him and also redeeming my past sins in a way. Now he is king and a reunited France has poor relations and claims on damn near everything, but he is not yet of age and desperately searching for alliances. A crusade was called just as the king died but not sure how that works.
How do you join a crusade? or do you just go and attack? There is also nothing listed under "Holy Orders".
Ya you just go and attack the province the Pope wanted crusaded.
Holy Orders are just super mercenaries you use against Muslims. They are pretty amazing against all but the biggest Muslim unit stacks.
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Lol,
wanted a break for a minute of building my super kingdom of Sicily ,
so i started a new game to toy around with.
Picked kingdom of Jerusalem with the time of third crusade as start.
Took me a good while to realise that the reason i got all these weird lines/events were due to my king having the " imbecile" trait.
was funny.
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On March 07 2012 19:47 Arunu wrote:
Lol,
wanted a break for a minute of building my super kingdom of Sicily ,
so i started a new game to toy around with.
Picked kingdom of Jerusalem with the time of third crusade as start.
Took me a good while to realise that the reason i got all these weird lines/events were due to my king having the " imbecile" trait.
was funny.
You get some funny ones too with Possessed.
Like Voice of God where you believe god is talking to you.
Funny stuff...
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Has anyone tried using holy orders against the orthodox? I recall the tooltip when the orders show up saying "Cannot be used against catholics".... Hmmm.
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And so I have played the greatest character so far:
Born as the second son to the lowly count of Hapsburg, " Radbot " (is this really a German name?) watched his father assemble the Duchy of Upper Burgundy thanks to a great chancellor who creatively 'found' titles to all the surrounding Swiss counties, Radbot continued his fathers work and built a medium sized Duchy of all the counties that were de jure in Upper Burgundy + Lyon...but was wrongfully accused and arrested by the Emperor, after numerous escape attempts failed he was content to die because he had two sons and HRE was elective instead of gravelkind monarchy..but when all hope was lost he was released in his mid 50s and elected Holy Roman Emperor himself the next year....and then proceeded to live another 27 years, go through two more wives...breed 16 children in all...conquer Sicily from the Muslims and claim the Kingdom of Siciliy from the Normans....had his children or their heirs carrying the Hapsburg name inherit Bavaria, Holstein, Toulouis, Orleans, Anjou, Solerno and numerous daughters that probably raised the other half of the Dukes.
The current HRE is the great grand child of Radbot...and is older than at least 4 of Radbot's children :D
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Anyone tried this on multiplayer yet? Looks like it might be fun. Maybe we could get a TL game going? :D
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goddamn this game is fucked up
start game as count of viscaya. have 4 sons, 5 half siblings. watch all of them die before 45 year old me at start of game you. aging wife doesn't want a divorce, is my spymaster. fuck. turn 65, wife dies. marry random ethiopian princess... who's under the court of poland. okay. produce one son. Yes! son dies. FUCK.
But wait! One of my sons before he died had a daughter. Quick! Bumble through the title system. Somehow she ends up as the countess of Navarra... which I conquered... and she's not my vassal...
Watch as my lord (Castille) gets totally destroyed by the Emir of Toledo. Watch my granddaughter revolt against my lord. I join my granddaughter in a separate revolt... and die... and get inherited by my granddaughter. So somehow despite my efforts I manage to get all my titles back together again.
In the meantime I discover that somehow I have Absolute Cognatic Primogeniture. Which means chicks inherit. Go Basque!
It turns out my granddaughter was betrohed to some incompetent fat Provencian bastard. And she turns 30 and still no heirs. The fat fuck is infertile as well, and I can't get a divorce or get him excommunicated. I have him assasinated with a 33% chance. Fuck yes.
Naturally I look for the most fertile fuck possible as my Duchess of Navarra and Aragon (which we stole from the Muslims) is 35 and withering. Obvious answer is some testosteroned Russian Orthodox from Ryazan with 20 (!) stewardship.
and now everything is spinning into chaos again wheee
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I have basically no idea what I'm doing, but I keep accidentally winning. I dont know how I do it.
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On March 16 2012 09:29 Candadar wrote:
I have basically no idea what I'm doing, but I keep accidentally winning. I dont know how I do it.
I did the same thing my first real game. Ironically, now that I 'know' how to play I'm getting smoked. Maybe it's because I'm trying harder titles, and that Bohemia is really easy since I ended up with like half the HRE, but playing as England, Scotland, a French Duchy, a Byzantine Duchy, and Castille have all ended in utter failure.
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paradox interactive why no horror survival game?
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On March 16 2012 09:39 Myles wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2012 09:29 Candadar wrote:
I have basically no idea what I'm doing, but I keep accidentally winning. I dont know how I do it. I did the same thing my first real game. Ironically, now that I 'know' how to play I'm getting smoked. Maybe it's because I'm trying harder titles, and that Bohemia is really easy since I ended up with like half the HRE, but playing as England, Scotland, a French Duchy, a Byzantine Duchy, and Castille have all ended in utter failure.
I mean, I was playing as Leon. I assassinated my brother in Castille and got all of his land and just gave his vassals a bunch of land claims so they don't hate me, and then my brother in Galicia somehow died and I inherited his throne along with Navarra and out of nowhere I control all of Northern Spain in like...2 years. However, I tried to fight the Muslims and uh...they have a few more troops than I can muster. Like 2000 v 3000 =/
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On March 16 2012 10:03 Candadar wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2012 09:39 Myles wrote:On March 16 2012 09:29 Candadar wrote:
I have basically no idea what I'm doing, but I keep accidentally winning. I dont know how I do it. I did the same thing my first real game. Ironically, now that I 'know' how to play I'm getting smoked. Maybe it's because I'm trying harder titles, and that Bohemia is really easy since I ended up with like half the HRE, but playing as England, Scotland, a French Duchy, a Byzantine Duchy, and Castille have all ended in utter failure. I mean, I was playing as Leon. I assassinated my brother in Castille and got all of his land and just gave his vassals a bunch of land claims so they don't hate me, and then my brother in Galicia somehow died and I inherited his throne along with Navarra and out of nowhere I control all of Northern Spain in like...2 years. However, I tried to fight the Muslims and uh...they have a few more troops than I can muster. Like 2000 v 3000 =/
That actually happened in my Castille game. I inherited 2 other Kingdoms, then got rolled by Muslims.
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key to fighting Muslims in Spain pre-Crusaders is to save a ton of money so you can buy a mercanary unit and try to target Muslim armies that have a lot of leaders you can ransom them back to buy more mercanaries, basically you just want to stay alive until the Holy Orders show up. Then just hire those guys and roflstomp the Muslims. 7500 stack of almost all knights and heavy infantry is unstoppable.
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So I'd really like to have achievements in the game, so I actually have some structure to work for.
I can see in the steam folder (steam/steamapps/common/crusader kings ii/achievements) that there's a .txt with a bunch of achievements, but there are no steam achievements even though it says so in the store page.
Anyone who knows what's up with that?
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Well the other games have achievements on "Paradox Connect". You should be able to log into it somewhere from the title screen iirc.
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On March 16 2012 21:47 3Form wrote:
Well the other games have achievements on "Paradox Connect". You should be able to log into it somewhere from the title screen iirc.
Yeah, but there are none there either as far as I can see.
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So one of my friends told me that its possible to gain merc/templar titles. I am intrigued. But I can't find any way to usurp/inheirit them, any ideas?
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On March 17 2012 22:02 seRapH wrote:
So one of my friends told me that its possible to gain merc/templar titles. I am intrigued. But I can't find any way to usurp/inheirit them, any ideas?
this is how it might work:
- give land to crusaders
- land has to be controled by one of your heirs
- heir becomes boss of the crusaders
- after you die your heir gets the titles you own too
- now you got templars and your normal title
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On March 17 2012 22:40 Skilledblob wrote:Show nested quote +On March 17 2012 22:02 seRapH wrote:
So one of my friends told me that its possible to gain merc/templar titles. I am intrigued. But I can't find any way to usurp/inheirit them, any ideas? this is how it might work: - give land to crusaders - land has to be controled by one of your heirs - heir becomes boss of the crusaders - after you die your heir gets the titles you own too - now you got templars and your normal title
I wonder what the benefit of being a merc/templar is O___O
Could anyone try this?
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