Crusader Kings II

[Kaiser Wilhelm]

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Well, my mission to whittle down my gaming backlog has hit another snag...lol. I had intended to finish up The Last of Us and Tomb Raider over the next few nights (including last night). I wanted to get my custom ruler scenario set up in CKII though, so I did that first. 6 hours later and the only thing that got me to stop messing with this game is the knowledge that my real life responsibilities would require at least a few hours of sleep. I still want to finish up those other games, but my mind is stuck on ideas of expanding a small Irish petty kingdom instead.

Ireland is easy. First gobble up Ireland. Then move to Brittany, or Wales if still independent. Then go for Scotland. Finally, save up boat loads of money for you massive mercenary invasion of England. Then you win.

[NYJetsfan]

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Not sure if I'm the only one that didn't know this, but a good piece of advice I got, being that I'm a newbie, from one of the videos is to not get discouraged if not much happens in the first 100 years or so. I restarted like 3 times because I was convinced I was doing something wrong because there just wasn't much going on. I eventually found that advice and use the time to kind of get familiar with my surroundings and make my evil plans.

[JWR3232]

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So I'm ready for September 3rd.

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[NYJetsfan]

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Holy hell this is addicting. I just spent 30 minutes studying potential husbands for my daughter. Hey, she's the only one I've got, can't have some creeper take her away!

[OSUFan_88]

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I love Paradox games. Every single one can suck you in and lose you for hours.

Just tried to become king of Ireland, and while I was making good progress, I made one mistake, my kingdom split and my half brother seized my kingdom while I rotted in jail.

How awesome?

[Perfect Zero]

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I just downloaded the game this afternoon and tried to play around in it. Why are all of my Kings/future Kings perverts?

[Skyboxer]

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Lots of little things I've been finding through play nows. Just things like setting up message pop ups etc..

Did dive more into vids for V2. I also watched some HoI.. and will probably leave that one alone..
at least for now.

[Stu]

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I can't believe I haven't really heard of this game until now. I am a former board gamer so this is right up my alley. Bought the game and DLC pack with the Steam sale yesterday. Pleasantly surprised to learn that it runs on my laptop even though I don't meet the minimum GPU requirements.

This game is definitely overwhelming to start. Does anyone have a recommended character to start with after doing the tutorials?

[JWR3232]

Ireland is a nice place to start its mostly just counts and dukes. You will have 100 or so years (at the 1066 start date) before Scotland or England start to interfere in Ireland. That's how I started as the count of Dublin (you also inherit another county from your father to). Make it your goal to unite Ireland. Spain is also a good start a lot tougher but much more goes on. At the 1066 start you family is divided between the kingdoms you have to keep a close watch on your family. With the Muslims to the south there's sure to be a lot of holy wars.

[Solidice]

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patch 1.102 was released along side a couple of small DLCs(celtic portrait pack, celtic unit pack and Dynasty shields III).

patch notes

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INTERFACE:
- Removed the erroneous warning text about disinheriting a dynasty member when granting him a temple holding, for non-Christians
- West Africans now use the Mongol on-map shields
- Diplo View: Crusades/Jihads/Great Holy Wars are now listed before they can be used (with a tooltip why you can't use them)
- Added some more random Coat of Arms elements (more work to come)
- Fixed an issue where the wrong temple icon could be shown in the province view
- Fixed an issue with the displaying of strong claims for pagans and Zoroastrians

GAMEPLAY:
- Fixed bug where Arsenal building could be deleted on succession
- The decision for creating Hungary now takes away the Ukrainian part of their realm
- Zoroastrians can now properly use their Crusade CB
- 1066: Rebalanced William's, Harold's and Harald's starting forces
- Fixed a bug where Crown Laws would not carry over into created kingdoms and empires
- Fixed some bugs with True Cognatic succession
- You no longer get messages about adventurers who are not actually declaring war
- You must now be in the West African culture group to recruit the Ghanan Band
- Slashed some unnecessary memory usage for living characters
- Fixed bug where you sometimes raised two runestones in honor of your father
- The event where a female courtier initiates romance with her liege now properly checks their opinion of each other
- Expanded the Justanid dynasty of Gilan
- Fixes and additions to several Norwegian dynasties
- The Imperial Reconquest CB now also applies to the Kingdom of Asturias
- Fixed a bug where the order of holdings in provinces did not remain consistent when stepping back and forth in history
- Varangians will now only come back Orthodox if it's the Byzantine ruler's religion
- Diseases now actually trigger before 1066
- Fixed a rare crash issue with invalid coat of arms for Muslim held titles
- Some slight memory and speed optimizations
- Lund is now a temple holding
- Marshals can no longer interfere with their own efforts to train troops in a province
- Court Chaplains no longer claim characters are heretics if they are already branded as such
- The opinion modifiers given by events 3243 and 4148 no longer instantly disappear
- Added the Dál gCais dynasty
- Expanded the Morgannwg dynasty
- Fixes to Gwerthrynion dynasty members
- 867: Corrected the character Hrolf, the first duke of Normandy
- 1066: Corrected an issue with Gurgan and Dailam not being part of the Seljuk empire
- Loosened up the culture requirements for the formation of the kingdoms of Rus and Finland
- Follow-up events should now trigger properly when your wife is impregnated by a lover
- Added the three winning submissions from the Event Contest
- Piety from buildings is now given to both the owner and his/her liege
- Moved the duchy of Hayya from Abyssinia to Nubia
- Fixed a bug where the liege would always inherit a courtier's gold
- Improved the gold inheritance check to look for siblings and grandchildren if necessary
- No longer possible to invite a concubine to your court
- The Blot and Nerge decisions are now high priority, giving players a heads up when they are available
- Landless Popes can now call crusades
- Titles with free duchy revocation (the ERE) can now also revoke the de jure capital county freely

AI:
- Will no longer declare war on its current "player heir", or vice versa
- Will not flip culture to Swedish, Danish or Norwegian culture if in a huge Norse empire
- Will now execute claimants whose claim is currently pressed in a war against it
- Doges and patricians are now more likely to build in their cities
- Pagans now willing to accept cross-religion marriages with other pagans if it likes you enough
- Will now accept marriage offers for courtiers of the right religion, even if the ruler is of a hostile religion
- Female rulers or heirs less likely to marry non-matrilineally, unless they really like you
- More likely to revoke its de jure capital title

MODDING:
- Added Enatic and Enatic-Cognatic Succession code support (laws not available without slight modding)
- Added 'can_hold_temples' to religions (like Muslims can hold temple holdings)
- The history command 'raise_troops' now raises them with full morale
- Added 'merge' field to the 'spawn_unit' effect
- Added 'can_use_gui' to CB types
- Added liege_prestige, allowing buildings to give prestige to its owner and his/her liege

along the lines of DLC, there are 2 more planned for August, however, don't think they have been announced, so not sure what they are yet. they are not supposed to be big DLCs, but also are not supposed to be pictures, unit packs, or music.

[Solidice]

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CKII and some DLC are 75% off at greenmangaming.

http://www.greenmangaming.com/search/?q=Crusader+Kings+II

I think all but The Old Gods and the 3 small DLC released today are 75% off.

It's only a 1 say sale, and as I post this, it had just under 17 hours left.

[NYJetsfan]

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This game is so ridiculously amazing. I'm getting the hang of a lot of things, but I feel I've made a lot of mistakes this game save. I started as a county in Scotland and it's pretty hard. The whole country has been taken over by the ****ing Norse *******s and it makes it difficult to do much of anything.

I've heard a county in Spain is a nice place to start. Thoughts?

[willIam9387]

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I started my first playthrough as the count of Lecce and managed to knock off my brother who made a claim to be next in line. My first son died at age 5, but my new heir Lancelin was just born. Overall, this game is sick, can't wait to buy Old Gods down the line.

[Perfect Zero]

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I've heard a county in Spain is a nice place to start. Thoughts?

I tested one out last night. Three months in, I was destroyed by my great uncle in Leon. He died a month later and left the Duchy to his nephew, who grew ill and left it back to me, his nephew. So yeah, it's a wild time down there with that and the Muslim influence.

[Stu]

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This game is so ridiculously amazing. I'm getting the hang of a lot of things, but I feel I've made a lot of mistakes this game save. I started as a county in Scotland and it's pretty hard. The whole country has been taken over by the ****ing Norse *******s and it makes it difficult to do much of anything.

I've heard a county in Spain is a nice place to start. Thoughts?

I started as a count in Castille and it didn't last long. The Muslim factions down there basically rolled over the Spanish kingdoms. The Spanish kingdoms have a claim or are heirs to the other kingdoms so if you can consolidate quickly you might stand a chance but I found it very difficult starting as a count. That being said, I'm still learning the game so probably not the best place for a noob to start.