EPTAnyway, as the English Vikings, I think the key is knocking down Murcia and Wessex so they cant repeatedly holy war you. That way the only nearest Christian country will be either France that is always busy falling apart or Scotland that will be too busy digesting the Islanders/Northumbria.
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Sub40APM
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Anyway, as the English Vikings, I think the key is knocking down Murcia and Wessex so they cant repeatedly holy war you. That way the only nearest Christian country will be either France that is always busy falling apart or Scotland that will be too busy digesting the Islanders/Northumbria. | ||
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Sermokala
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Yuljan
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 ). When my old king dies and I got a new fresh heir I immediately started subjugating Sweden and Denmark. In the 10 year period between the subjugations you can get some provinces from finland. Dont worry if sweden or Denmark isnt completely united. They will most likely accept a vassalization offer after you subjugate the biggest one. After that become the emporer of scandinavia and divide your kingdoms/provinces between your sons. I try to keep my sons at 1 though. Homosexual females are my preferred wives. Does anyone know how to become the head of the norse religion? I got 3 holy sites but cant create it. It says im not norse. Maybe its buggy? PS: Whats with all the Priests trying to convert me? I get like 2 priests every month. 50g for free. | ||
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Chocolate
United States2350 Posts
Homosexual females are my preferred wives. Only in Crusader Kings. On topic: Maybe it is buggy, but do you have enough piety? | ||
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Sub40APM
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Sermokala
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Caller
Poland8075 Posts
have all the benefits of being a norseman but with patrician elective succession also did someone say... gold? | ||
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GGTeMpLaR
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Talin
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Yuljan
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On May 30 2013 21:09 Talin wrote: Can somebody explain how the tech system works now? Because it seems like I can't click on anything anymore and I have 0.00 +0 tech point growth. Tech level slowly increases. As a count you dont gain any tech points except(not sure about this) through sending your spy to study technology (some random event gives you 50 points). Dukes, Kings and Emporers gain points steadily with emporer gaining the most. You can manually upgrade a specific tech with these points. (Retinue + 200% every upgrade is op) . | ||
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rezoacken
Canada2719 Posts
On May 31 2013 01:38 Yuljan wrote: Tech level slowly increases. As a count you dont gain any tech points except(not sure about this) through sending your spy to study technology (some random event gives you 50 points). Dukes, Kings and Emporers gain points steadily with emporer gaining the most. You can manually upgrade a specific tech with these points. (Retinue + 200% every upgrade is op) . 200% retinue is just retarded, it's nerfed to 50% in PB. | ||
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Talin
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Sub40APM
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On a related note, they need to really figure out a way to get the Byzantine ai more interested in Syria/Egypt and less interested in Croatia/Hungary. Everytime I look over there the purple blob keeps moving closer and closer to Germany. | ||
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
Just a warning. | ||
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
On May 31 2013 09:29 LaNague wrote: Gavelkind is pretty stupid right now, if you form a kingdom you will lose your capital on succession, which makes you lose all the new tech, too. Just a warning. It depends on how much land you preemptively give your heir I think. | ||
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Sermokala
United States13754 Posts
On May 31 2013 11:17 GGTeMpLaR wrote: It depends on how much land you preemptively give your heir I think. you can only give your imediate heir 1 land title I think. The point is taht you should be preemtively giveing your other sons poorer provinces to support your favorite son. | ||
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Caller
Poland8075 Posts
prepared invasion of sicily, won, ruler dies in a viking raid, fortunately had stuffed enough money into the campaign fund, second ruler invades italy, won, annexed some other sicilian territories, raided various countries, captured byzantine princess... with a strong claim on the empire... that half the empire was currently in a civil war (and winning) for. o.O | ||
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Sub40APM
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ManicMarine
Australia409 Posts
On May 29 2013 22:38 Yuljan wrote: Raiding wasnt possible before I guess. Anyone else tried playing the zoroastrians? Really hard position after 30~ years the sunnis declare multiple holy wars on me and crush my little empire. Why cant a man marry his sister and be left alone! I managed to restore the Persian Empire, but I had a bit of help with a successful Byzantine Empire keeping the muslims busy, and the Arabian Empire imploding ~20 years into the game. I used Cumania's frequent civil wars to take Turkestan, relying on my 5000 free starting troops to win the war quickly. Became Turkestan, upped the Crown Authority to Low, and made it elective. This gave me a decent power base, large enough to win a war against Khiva. However, any invasion would inevitably be joined by Persia, so I had to wait for a civil war in Persia to give me the window of opportunity I needed. When the old King of Persia died and his sons started squabbling, I gobbled up half of Khiva, which subsequently imploded into independent counts, which suited me just fine I managed to hold onto all my western territories by playing a defensive game whenever I was invaded. The mountains there make army movements very slow, and have low supply limits, meaning that 15k army which crossed the border is down to 8k by the time it reaches my capital. Even though it sieged down all the provinces along the way, I was only at -50% warscore when I finally met them in battle at my capital, in which I crushed their army. I then deseiged the provinces I had lost and ended up with +40% warscore, and only had to wait a few years for a nice 500gold pay packet. So by 960 I was king of Turkestan and Khiva, held all of the southern coastline of the Aral, and my northern dukes had been working hard as well, picking at the bones of the Cumans. They had managed to extend my borders almost all the way up to the top right of the map, and I had a northwest border on the river Volga. I did have to fight a couple of wars against these northern dukes, but I won and centralised my power, distributing titles in a way I hoped would avoid any duke, or pair of dukes, having sufficient power to challenge the throne. My other main problem was the frequency of revolts. I had Persian culture, so all my Turkish northern subjects hated me. Peasant revolts every 5 years. Also, because Zoroastrians don't start in control of any of their Holy Sites, their moral authority is really low. This means frequent heresies, which means frequent religious rebellions. Anyway, once you have this position all you need to do is wait for a civil war in Persia, and then swoop in and carve out a huge chunk of it. That should cripple them, and you can spend the next few decades slowly eating them, eventually becoming King of Persia. Reclaiming Mesopotamia was easy for me because as I said the Arabian Empire was no more, but I'm guessing it'd be a lot harder if that didn't happen. TL;DR To win as Zoroastrians, expand first to the north and then consume Khiva when the opportunity arises. Fight defensive wars and let attrition do its job. Muslims love their civil wars, take full advantage of them. | ||
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Sermokala
United States13754 Posts
On May 31 2013 12:22 Caller wrote: continuing my norse republic game... prepared invasion of sicily, won, ruler dies in a viking raid, fortunately had stuffed enough money into the campaign fund, second ruler invades italy, won, annexed some other sicilian territories, raided various countries, captured byzantine princess... with a strong claim on the empire... that half the empire was currently in a civil war (and winning) for. o.O This is the story of like half my games. you can get so quickly wrapped into the struggle for the Eastern roman empire it'll make your head spin. Constantinople is where crusader kings 2 games go to die. | ||
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