Crusader Kings 2

[salty mud]

I see. It would be cool if the dynasty's score increased if I were king of England and my brother king of Scotland. Shame it doesn't quite work that way.

 

[Double A]

... It does.

 

[madviking]

There's a difference between score and dynasty prestige. The former is your playable characters while the latter is all characters in your house.

Score is the sum of a character's prestige and piety, e.g. King madviking I reigns and gets 1000 prestige and 500 piety thus the score after he dies is 1500.

If I install one of my non-heir family members as count/duke/king of somewhere else, then the dynasty prestige increases. This governs how much prestige a baby is born with in your family.

 

[Double A]

One of my sons got score from his mother, though. Granted, she was the queen of Serbia and she was a descendant of my first character.

 

[mechaerik]

Rule #1 of Crusader Kings II: Never piss off your spymaster (she says no because I had already sent the invitation to plot, but she did join).

End result:

Spoiler :

This happened about three days after she accepted the invitation.

 

[alpav]

What faction do you guys think is the best for a beginner? I tried the Irish but I cant capture cities due to lower soldiers than garrison, it was going goood as poland until half my kingdom revolted into little bits.

 

[mechaerik]

If you need more men, hire mercs. If the initial cost is high, then try and get multiple claims on different counts and fight several wars back to back.

 

[alpav]

problem is that mercs bankrupt me and i cannot afford to keep them.

 

[mechaerik]

Build up a good sized war chest before attacking. Because the armies you're fighting are likely to be rather small, one group of 1500 (either the Saxon Band or Catalan Company) will be more thhan enough.


Late game, Italy is supposed to be a good start, haven't tried it myself.

 

[Optical]

Dublin is brilliant, because the county south of you belongs to your father, meaning you'll inherit it when he dies. That gives you a good powerbase, the ability to easily create two 2-county Duke titles and access to the rest of Ireland.

 

[madviking]

problem is that mercs bankrupt me and i cannot afford to keep them.

Build castle towns and villages for cash.

 

[alpav]

How do I do that?

 

[madviking]

Click a county. Click the castle. One of the things you can build is a castle village. These provide income. You can build a castle town once you build a castle village. This provides more money. Etc.

 

[Double A]

If you haven't played the tutorial yet, I recommend that you do. It's long and boring, but it'll teach you what you need to know.

 

[cardgame]

Tutorial is short and dumb. I already learned everything (that it teaches) from the tooltips and playing through a couple games.

 

[Double A]

It teaches you how to upgrade stuff and build new holdings, doesn't it?

 

[cardgame]

That's available right from the game in no unclear terms.

 

[Double A]

It certainly is. Maybe alpav should just read a manual.

 

[alpav]

I did the tutorial but I don't recall them mentioning this.
No need to get grumpy.

 

[mechaerik]

Dublin is brilliant, because the county south of you belongs to your father, meaning you'll inherit it when he dies. That gives you a good powerbase, the ability to easily create two 2-county Duke titles and access to the rest of Ireland.

But Dublin is not Ulster, therefore not ruled by the Sithrigi, who have the best dynasty name in Ireland.