EPT"Implemented Government Ranks feature. Each Government type can now have up to 3 ranks, with higher ranks conferring better bonuses, and higher government ranks lowering cooldown on changing your National Focus. Players with the Common Sense expansion can dynamically change their government rank through the Government screen and various events and decisions while those without are locked to rank 1 or 2 depending on whether they are independent, unless they are playing a historical empire such as Byzantium and Ming." - http://www.eu4wiki.com/Patch_1.12
On June 08 2015 08:52 Broetchenholer wrote:
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More derailment of the thread with CK2 :D. Maybe someone knows a trick that could applie here. I am the Wendish Empire and a reformed romuvan empire level merchant republic. I own all the land east of the Elbe and north to Bohemia. It's 997 after Jebus and Bohemia as well as Saxonia have survived this far. I like it that way. Why? As Braunschweig is in the hands of Slavs, the pope called the time of the crusades 10 years ago. 3 Holy orders instantly appeared and the first crusade for germany was called. Saxony fought valiantly, but more then 15k endlessly respawning order troops were a bit much even for a defensive religions king with 5000 men. Bohemia joined the war but got destroyed by my own holy warriors, as i had just lost an election.
So, i don't want to border christians. I can probably repel 1 or 2, but i own very valuable parts of germany myself and i like that shield in front of me. I need to win time. I could destroy the present christian troops, but i cannot join the war, as i am not of their religion and as merchant republic it's hard to get your offspring even married to counts. I don't have the option to declar on Saxony myself to get hostile to the cristians, as the crusade and holy war i could do don't count as the same war goal. I can't. And here i....
Okay, i just found one little solution. The leader of the war is the pope. Raiding the pope will flag me as hostile with him, and, as i had to experience before in the worst way possible, if you are hostile to a army that has other armies stacked to them, you fight them all. Free Saxony for now, but this war will drag on...
Anybody has any good idea how i could keep the crusades from my money cows Lübeck, Hamburg and Holstein until i am too strong to actually care?
Also, is there any way to prevent the viking raids from happening? If they turn christian i guess, but this is nowhere to be seen and as they haven't reformed their own faith yet, i have to deal with up to 3000 raiders at once. And once i am in a war, i can't afford to have 2000 men waiting to play whack-a-mole with them
So, i don't want to border christians. I can probably repel 1 or 2, but i own very valuable parts of germany myself and i like that shield in front of me. I need to win time. I could destroy the present christian troops, but i cannot join the war, as i am not of their religion and as merchant republic it's hard to get your offspring even married to counts. I don't have the option to declar on Saxony myself to get hostile to the cristians, as the crusade and holy war i could do don't count as the same war goal. I can't. And here i....
Okay, i just found one little solution. The leader of the war is the pope. Raiding the pope will flag me as hostile with him, and, as i had to experience before in the worst way possible, if you are hostile to a army that has other armies stacked to them, you fight them all. Free Saxony for now, but this war will drag on...
Anybody has any good idea how i could keep the crusades from my money cows Lübeck, Hamburg and Holstein until i am too strong to actually care?
Also, is there any way to prevent the viking raids from happening? If they turn christian i guess, but this is nowhere to be seen and as they haven't reformed their own faith yet, i have to deal with up to 3000 raiders at once. And once i am in a war, i can't afford to have 2000 men waiting to play whack-a-mole with them
It has been a long time since I've played CK2. IIRC a great way to weaken the Chrisitans is to reduce their Moral Authority which should increase the spawning of heresies. So win holy wars, push back the Crusades and go on a raiding spree to burn down every church you can find.
If you can't convert or conquer the vikings try to build up your coastal holdings so that they have to sit on the province. You'll lose less money and levies but they'll still be a nuisance.
