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Keep sieging them down/sieging down the war goal if you haven't already (whatever county/area your casus belli was for). Occupying capitals will only give you 100% warscore if they're one county large or if you manage to capture the war leader.
So where else can I siege? Usually moving to some other county, even if it has a castle in it, doesn't lead to anything.
Aaah, I think the forced conversions will become handy im playing with spain.
Is there anyway to check where people who leave your court actually go? I suddenly got a prompt that notified that my marshal position is open. No idea what happened.
Also if someone starts a faction against me with a claim on my lands... can I just try to murder the claimant and get rid of the faction...?
You might wanna double check that you are standing on enemy county.
Can someone explain why I have 1233 total levies but when I man my army I only get like 300 men on the field? There still is some of this stuff that this game doesnt communicate at all to the player. Like I have zero idea why on this playthrough the difference between levies and the actual manning army is this huge.
Nvm. Had a random army standing like two countries below. I presume it was left from my now defunct brother hihiihi...
Nvm. Had a random army standing like two countries below. I presume it was left from my now defunct brother hihiihi...
It's a perk in the Intrigue lifestyle tree. Very busted rn because it means you can win wars via an Intrigue check.
When I get called in to help an ally with a war, how do I tell the strength of the person they are fighting?
Hell I'm not even exactly sure how to verify my ally's strength at that point. Is it just going to their capital and checking the levies? Seems like there's gotta be a more efficient way I'm missing. When you declare war or ally with someone via marriage it gives you the info easy enough.
Hell I'm not even exactly sure how to verify my ally's strength at that point. Is it just going to their capital and checking the levies? Seems like there's gotta be a more efficient way I'm missing. When you declare war or ally with someone via marriage it gives you the info easy enough.
Ohhhh that explains it, i barely use that perk tree.
Yeah i don't think there is a way, you just gotta click their portraits and see the levies.
This game stays trying to fuck up your good progress. plague, disfigured, children murdering people, small pox, horrible traits for your heirs etc lol
Step 1 to destroying the papacy complete. I took Rome and the Vatican.
Holy shit. this city is insane. Level 6 buildings when i'm still stuck at 2. It and the neighboring county doubled my income and increased my armies by about 50%. Aboslutely so damn worth it..
Holy shit. this city is insane. Level 6 buildings when i'm still stuck at 2. It and the neighboring county doubled my income and increased my armies by about 50%. Aboslutely so damn worth it..
So what do you do when you gain the title of high kingdom? I'm not sure how I can expand any more because any new land i take control of will presumably be lost on succession to one of my other heirs. I'm stuck in the Tribal era and won't be able to go Feudal for a long time.
The king phase is rough, but keep expanding. Have your new heir use their advantage to conquer their siblings, and just do this every generation until you can for an empire, once you can do that the kingdom titles will stay as vassals.
Sorry i used the wrong terminogy - I am actually an emperor currently. I own the Kanem-Bornu empire in Africa. It doesn't look like there's another tier above this and so I'm not sure how I am supposed to continue expanding.
Oh, at that point you can expand as much as you want, all kings will be vassals of the emperor. Only problem is if you're in confederate partition and a single heir besides your main gets enough stuff to form a new empire, but that's unlikely, and easy to prevent.
Welp, even after surviving pneumonia during a war in his late 60s, Murchad the Conqueror died of old age a few years later.
Aaaaaaaaand his son was instantly murdered...
Aaaaaaaaand now I'm a toddler who is ~ -20 with everyone and I'm pretty sure this dynasty is about to be Anastasia'd any day now...
Aaaaaaaaand his son was instantly murdered...
Aaaaaaaaand now I'm a toddler who is ~ -20 with everyone and I'm pretty sure this dynasty is about to be Anastasia'd any day now...
So question. I just formed my first empire. Technically I can also usurp the title of Emperor of Italia but what would happen to my current title then? And would I lose one of those two titles upon succession?
One thing I don't like about custom faiths is the lack of changing holy sites. If I for example was to play a Catholic character who wants to resurrect Arianism in North Africa, I would still be bound to Catholic holy sites that are irrelevant to my faith, e.g. Cologne or Canterbury. I understand that Paradox do not want to overpower heresies that way, but from an roleplay perspective it would make more sense to change/swap at least one original holy site to that of the founding place of your new faith. At least, that way, one could have easier access to head of faiths.
I had a disastrous illness with my ruler and my 0 year old heir took over right after that. A damn CRUSADE was led against me and then multiple rebellions with all my most powerful Vassals turning on me. Being as I was not an adult, I couldn't really so shit lol. No schemes, no alliance marragies, no perks to go for, nothing. I just sat there and fought with what I had. When all the wars were over, I was at -7k gold. I was almost done anyway so I just 5 speed the last couple decades. All and all, the Ireland historic start at 1067 or whatever it was took me well over 100 hours to play through. I can only imagine how long a start from the earliest point would take. Never got bored, it was always super engaging and super fun.
What an insane campaign that was. I really went through tons of dynamic story stuff that kinda of puts a lot of what gets put out in games to shame. This is an utterly fantastic game, Paradox deserves a lot of credit for putting something this sprawling out and making it pretty approachable. I can't wait for the updates and DLC to start coming in, I know the game we have in a few years will be much different and much improved.
What an insane campaign that was. I really went through tons of dynamic story stuff that kinda of puts a lot of what gets put out in games to shame. This is an utterly fantastic game, Paradox deserves a lot of credit for putting something this sprawling out and making it pretty approachable. I can't wait for the updates and DLC to start coming in, I know the game we have in a few years will be much different and much improved.
just wait until everybody hates your heir and immediately start a civil war
Can only recommend people to play non ironman right now. 30 hour campaign down the drain due to a crash that corrupted my only save.
edit: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ve-file-gets-corrupted.1418074/#post-26879007
This solution allowed me to recover my save. Just posting here in case other people run into the same problem.
edit: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ve-file-gets-corrupted.1418074/#post-26879007
This solution allowed me to recover my save. Just posting here in case other people run into the same problem.
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Well it did happened lol
Got a new heir and i got cocky and went into a big big war immediately... big mistake since the vassals immediately turn on me and force me to reduce the law.
Then with the law reduced one of my vassals went crazy conquering the other vassals, he took 2 of my 4 kingdoms and its now way stronger than i wanted.
Also made de mistake of putting my 2 king brothers in weak duchies/counties so when the law got reduced their vassals took them out easily.
How long do you usually keep playing a campaign?
I founded a new empire with my last ruler and think about starting a new campaign.
I founded a new empire with my last ruler and think about starting a new campaign.
Play until you get bored unless you're going after a specific (official or self-defined) achievement, basically. I don't think I've ever played a CK game out to the time limit.
Like, I just formed Portugal, for instance, which was my main goal. I'm thinking of starting a new game now because I didn't have anything special in mind for that run beyond that, although I might try to "Unite the Three Crowns" and/or found a new heresy to get out from under Catholicism' permanent 0% Fervor.
Feel like i am getting bit better at game. Playing on Iron Man to get achievments i played from rank of Count of Wessex to Empress of Brittania (Empress because i converted to Adamitism). So everyone is of course nude, also got achievement for having a nude empress.
22% achievements all in all.
22% achievements all in all.
Yes, that's correct
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My bisexual heir (who had his own tutor as a lover) somehow managed to reform the asatru faith with no sacrifices (he was just, so it would make him stressed). Now we're egalitarian, super progressive, love witchcraft (but still do human sacrifices)
He also took enought land to form a new empire. Killed his own grandson because because i forgot to marry the daughter matrilinealy, and the kid was the player heir, but no one is perfect.
Things were going well until the catholics call a holy war for england, but i payd them back by using my special invasion CB on the newly installed king. The guy i put in charge of the newly conquered kingdom challenged me to a duel to decide who should lead the empire. So killed every single f his heirs not of my dinasty (was super easy, since every single king hated his guts).
After the new emperor tried to revoke my capital holding i accidentaly pressed the okay button when my allies and i had more troops than the emperor. After that the empire basically fell apart,losing every single war i didn't offer to join. Did manage to convert to feudalism, but the ~1k i had saved was not enough. I also miss raiding.
Next try will be a run with a lord of India.
Sometimes it feels as if I'm in a cheap porn production!
Unexpected succession crisis. I might have to find myself a young fertile princess to give me another son before I die.
Unexpected succession crisis. I might have to find myself a young fertile princess to give me another son before I die.
Everything was cool between the 3 of us and our de jure boundaries (RIP Scotland) for about a century. Then it suddenly got awkward.
Would a Merchants & traders dlc is possible? Did they hinted what would be the first of the dozen dlcs?
I've been focusing on stewardship but I think I'm going to start focusing on diplomacy and intrigue after the shit my bastard brother put me through.
Keep thinking about whether I want to murder him or torture to death in my dungeon.
So far imprisoning and revoking titles while they're my prisoner has worked pretty well in the past.
Keep thinking about whether I want to murder him or torture to death in my dungeon.
So far imprisoning and revoking titles while they're my prisoner has worked pretty well in the past.
I'm super confident that republics will be made playable again. I just hope that we can play landlocked republics as well which would be more historically immersive since many Italian city-states were places like Florence for example and obviously didn't have ports.
There are some members of my court that I can't appoint to a council position. what are the requirements of being put on a council?
EDIT: oh, wait a minute, a council position is a title, and my religion prevents women from holding titles, I think. Is that it?
EDIT: oh, wait a minute, a council position is a title, and my religion prevents women from holding titles, I think. Is that it?
Are they women? You can only appoint women if they're rulers. (Assuming male dominated like most of the world)
Some titles can only be held by men, yes. Alternatively it's possible one of your vassals has a mandatory council position in his contract, which means you can't remove him either.
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So, my character was into Learning and got the "I'm going to die in a year" warning. No problem, I thought, I'll sort everything out. Pump my crown authority to max so I can designate an heir, unfortunately my only son died but I can name a daughter. No problem.
But then I died and got a game over screen? I must have missed something about the Designate Heir feature, does it not automatically transfer your primary title to that character or something?
I was playing Iron Man, so I can't jump back to just before succession and see what happened, but I can load the save as an observer, and apparently some random family member from one of my marriage alliances ended up inheriting the Kingdom instead of the heir that I designated?
So, my character was into Learning and got the "I'm going to die in a year" warning. No problem, I thought, I'll sort everything out. Pump my crown authority to max so I can designate an heir, unfortunately my only son died but I can name a daughter. No problem.
But then I died and got a game over screen? I must have missed something about the Designate Heir feature, does it not automatically transfer your primary title to that character or something?
I was playing Iron Man, so I can't jump back to just before succession and see what happened, but I can load the save as an observer, and apparently some random family member from one of my marriage alliances ended up inheriting the Kingdom instead of the heir that I designated?
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Any idea why I cant press my courtiers claim? The claim is for a county which is under a duchy which belongs my kingdom of castille
I believe that your player heir and the heir of your realm can be different. If your designated heir was not of your dynasty and different from your player heir, and your player heir would be unlanded on succession, then your game would end.
Also it's possible that your daughter was married to someone else and not in a matrilineal way so maybe her husband inherited instead? Not sure.
Ok, how do you guys handle Crown authority factions?
On each ruler change, I have this huge faction that pops up. Only semi-solution I found was to spend looots of money on appeasing them while going down the right Steward tree, but that means I'm always forced to go down that tree...
Also, when does a vassal leave that faction? I often have some remaining in the faction while having 15+ opinion of me.
On each ruler change, I have this huge faction that pops up. Only semi-solution I found was to spend looots of money on appeasing them while going down the right Steward tree, but that means I'm always forced to go down that tree...
Also, when does a vassal leave that faction? I often have some remaining in the faction while having 15+ opinion of me.