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Well yeah, except playing a County in CK2 is a lot more fun / there's a lot more options and things to do than when playing a single-territory faction in EU3.
Also if you have Legacy of Rome, being inside a Kingdom is pretty fun due to the new faction politics, alliances, plots and so on that come with the DLC. I think Legacy of Rome actually made it more fun to play non-independents than independents, since you get all these Game-of-Thrones-ish scenarios going on internally. =P
When playing an easy independent (nobody higher has a claim on you and so on), it's too easy to fall into the fabricate-conquer-fabricate-conquer-create title-conquer routine that gets pretty boring after a while.
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I'm really tempted to include the DLC, but I think I'm just gonna do a vanilla one first. It'll be a lot easier for me, since I don't have quite that much experience with sword of the islam & legacy of rome, I'll definetly be up for doing one with DLC after we finish this one though.
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the content of the dlcs is included in the patches anyways, except for retinues.
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Soon to be conquered Europe, unaware of its own fate
Alright, time to decide which duke we're going to be directing to murder his wife and relatives.
Poll: Which duke will we be rolling asJarl Eric the heathen (8) 31% Dutchess Matilda of Toscana (4) 15% Duke Murchard of Munster (2) 8% Duke Nuno of Portucale (2) 8% Duke Bleddyn of Gwynedd (2) 8% Duke Conan of Brittany (2) 8% Duke Wladyslaw of Mazovia (2) 8% Duke Alberto Azzo of Lombardia (2) 8% Duke Robert the Old (1) 4% Duke Vratislav of Bohemia (1) 4% Duke Pierre of Savoie (0) 0% Duke Gotfried of Lower Lorraine (0) 0% 26 total votes Your vote: Which duke will we be rolling as (Vote): Duke Murchard of Munster
(Vote): Duke Pierre of Savoie
(Vote): Duke Nuno of Portucale
(Vote): Duke Bleddyn of Gwynedd
(Vote): Duke Conan of Brittany
(Vote): Duke Robert the Old
(Vote): Duke Gotfried of Lower Lorraine
(Vote): Duke Vratislav of Bohemia
(Vote): Duke Wladyslaw of Mazovia
(Vote): Jarl Eric the heathen
(Vote): Dutchess Matilda of Toscana
(Vote): Duke Alberto Azzo of Lombardia
I tried to give a varied selection of dukes, if you've got any suggestions, I might make a second poll. This is everything I could fit into this one
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Voting is still ongoing, but I think we're gonna see a conquerer in the north!
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I thought the Jarl looked somewhat easy being a 6 county duke, but does his title mean he isn't Catholic? That would make it really interesting. Anyway just looking at the map I thought Lombardy would be a whirlwind place to start.
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he is a pagan, but he is part of sweden, which is catholic.
btw, africa has fun places to start, too. But you can get wiped out quickly in the violent continent, so its probably better this public game is in europe.
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On October 28 2012 04:59 LaNague wrote:
he is a pagan, but he is part of sweden, which is catholic.
btw, africa has fun places to start, too. But you can get wiped out quickly in the violent continent, so its probably better this public game is in europe.
Well, I wouldn't mind seeing the intrigue of being a heathen under the kingdom of Sweden. Also I don't think he is going to play with any of the expansion so Africa would only be Aksum/Abyssinia.
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Alright, lets get this party started
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Just another day being a Heathen surrounded by my Christian brethern. I'd love to conquer something, but what....
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Yes! Let's conquer Finland! Screw those Swedish and Norwegian snobs!
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Damn, got here too late. I was going to suggest the Duchy of the Isles.
You have 4 provinces but 3 are vassals of different race from you. You have a claim on the Isle of Man but Sctoland has a claim on you. Lots of fun gathering Ireland and Scotland and Norway into an Empire since you are racially Norwegian.
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Once I get home we'll go about conquering Finland, time to expand the heathen empire!
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how can you play as a norse >: ?
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Need to get yourself some kids ASAP.
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did you use mods to enable pagans for playing?
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Does that not come with the Sword of Islam Expansion? Or am I thinking of something else?
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On October 29 2012 21:25 jtype wrote:
Does that not come with the Sword of Islam Expansion? Or am I thinking of something else?
nope that dlc only allowed muslims
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Huh.... oh well I guess mods are being used then. 
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Conquer a hot swedish wife asap
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On October 29 2012 21:41 jtype wrote:Huh.... oh well I guess mods are being used then.
? you can play as a pagan with no mods.
No idea if a patch added it or you need the first expansion for it.
If this playtrough is unmodded on the latest patch, we will see some crazyness with fatamids/byzantines and mongol hordes.
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