Crusader Kings 2

[cybrxkhan]

I haven't played Wales yet, but it seems like it would be incredibly difficult unless England's always in civil war.

I would assume so too. I don't exactly how aggressive England is in unmodded CKII, and while it probably wouldn't attempt outright conquests of Wales, I would assume England would be a pretty big obstacle for any attempt at Welsh expansion.

 

[Optical]

There are a few keys to it (Wales is my favourite starting location, so I know a few tricks):

-England will use any fabricated claims the neighbouring counts get; to prevent this, any young count who gets a claim goes on the assassination list. Old ones are less of a worry.
-England will go into civil war quite often. Grab Cornwall at the earliest opportunity after declaring the kingdom of Wales.
-Ireland and Brittany are easy targets. Scotland isn't, and can be a threat in the early game. Keep them as allies or at least happy.
-France is a good ally, except when their king is Dutch and going through more civil wars than a Cathar Hungary (as in this game).

I was lucky in this game, but Perfeddwlad tends to be England's first, fairly early, war target.

 

[alpav]

That particular screenshot is taken from a couple days later, the last save I have - I console-killed my previous leader to see if things would get interesting on the succession.
On realizing that the answer was no, they wouldn't, I just abandoned the game. There's really no conceivable way I could end up with a rebellion at this point unless I deliberately provoke one. Born in the Purple, Augustus, plenty of gold for bribes, no need to have high taxes or levies (what am I going to use them for?), no Catholic leaders, a huge empire meaning plenty of selection for a high-diplomacy wife and a high-diplomacy chancellor, the ability to Designate Heir to pick which one succeeds me...

 

[cardgame]

haaax

 

[Double A]

haaax

This is not an inaccurate statement.

 

[coanda]

Yeah as I said, the point of that play-through was just sort of a personal what-if test of the limits of Republics; I rerolled a few times to get a good starting tech for the capital county (Adrianopolis), and used the console to give it to a Lollard Doge. Plus the final screenshot is after I console-killed my previous leader to see if there was anything interesting to look forward to. So yes, haaax.

Pretty sure it wouldn't be too hard to get a world conquest as a republic legitimately by around 1300 though, but you'd have to invite some claimants to your court and press their claims.

 

[ZeletDude]

Does anyone want to play a Multiplayer game ?

 

[SouthernKing]

Does anyone want to play a Multiplayer game ?

Everyone wants to, nobody seems to be able to get one organized. That bring said, I'd play if it was on the weekend.

 

[Zack]

I don't play Paradox games in multiplayer. If I can't pause at my pleasure and take my time when I do so, I will freak out.

 

[SouthernKing]

Also, out of curiosity, has anyone else played Lux Invicta? It's an alternate history mod, but it doesn't really have any single PoD, instead choosing to in effect preserve every single major country that existed between about 300 BCE and 1066. Yes, that means you can play as everything from the Seleucid Empire to the SPQR to the Huns to the Kingdom of Jorvik. It had 153 (!) different religions, including everything from Sumerian religion to Hellenic polytheism to Sol Invictus to bizarre combinations of those and the standard religions, and a really intuitive system of modifiers for each one.
I like it, and many of the countries are fun to play as, but on the flip side everything is really fractured for the sake of being fractured. OTOH that also means that there aren't any real überblobs like the Fatimids in vanilla.

 

[KaiserElectric]

I wish I could. Unfortunately, Paradox Forums is bad enough that they won't let me access the mod forums despite having registered the game with them. Twice.

 

[Double A]

Support?

 

[Ailedhoo]

The current progress in my Wales game (started at Stamford Bridge as the count of Perfeddwlad in Gwynedd):

Spoiler :

Excellent! As a Welsh citizen I am happy of your results! Keep it up!

 

[salty mud]

As a descendent of Welsh citizens I am also quite pleased. All that grazing land for the sheep.

 

[Antilogic]

Pretty nice Welsh game--I wish we'd see that kingdom form more often from the early starts. I'd also like to see a non-German Spain in at least one of my games, but that's not happening either, even with some choice save-game editing.

It would be a pretty boring EUIII game though

Skip straight to Vicky II, and watch 1848 set the world on fire.

 

[Optical]

Some gains made:

Spoiler :

A vassal of mine inherited England and took two Norman counties (Eu and Vexin) with him. I still haven't reclaimed Eu.

By a strange coincidence the royal line seems to have permanently retained the same hair colour as the Welsh map colour. That's Tydy I in the upper left, my worst eugenical failure (portrait-wise, his stats are good) this game.

 

[Bowsling]

I take it you play with Sunset Invasion?

Have fun with that...

 

[Optical]

No, I don't own SI. I just like the art.

 

[sophie]

Excellent! As a Welsh citizen I am happy of your results! Keep it up!

Oh, so you hold a Welsh passport then?

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

SI will be a lot better when TOG comes out and you can play as the Aztecs.