Crusader Kings 2

SouthernKing said:
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My Habsburg game. It's in Direct Vassals map mode, and I am the Duke of Ancona and Savoy. All of the counties that are contiguous in the center of the screen are in my demesne, and Urbino and Ancona have vassal lord mayors. The Emperor keeps giving me free titles, which helps on the expansion side of things. I'm set to inherit the Duchy of Brabant as well.

Outside of this, Rus surprisingly formed ~1090. England's post-1066 civil war was far worse than normal, and it wasn't until ~1115 that England was able to mop up everything. I also just noticed that the French royal court is in Algeria.

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This wins the title of worst Holy Roman Emperor I have ever seen. Imbecile, kinslayer, slothful, and as a result a big fat zero in three traits, a crappy 4 in the fourth, and an only slightly-above average 13 in the fifth, it's little wonder there have been about 30 vassals try to gain independence, including one time where there was 11 or 12 trying at once.

Also, even though I am a duke, I am not an elector of the HRE. Does anyone know why that could be?
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Savoy? :twitch: I got bad memories trying to annex them. They seem to have immunity to the marriage-assassination trick.

Has anyone actually broken free? If duchies can't break free when nearly a dozen are revolting against that guy, then there is a problem. Imbecile leaders seem to be all the rage in my current Sicily game--I think too many have been dummies getting married to people in high places.

salty mud said:
Not sure if this is a bug or something, but my infant queen is already 'great...'

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I think any ruler with more than 1,000 prestige has a chance of randomly receiving the title 'the Great' (but it's more common if you pass 2,000 or 3,000). It's rare, but I suppose it can happen.

I'm surprised she didn't get 'the Young' title.
 
So in my Munster -> Ireland, I have random-ass Hungarian and Castillian portions of the O'Brien family. This leads to hilarious names like Aengus MacZoltan (Hungarian father) and Jaime Donnchadez (Castillian, with Irish father). :rotfl:

Also, why are my offspring becoming random ethnicities? My king is Irish, my consort is Occitanian, but my offspring are German. Why? :confused:
 
That happens to me too, in my Sicilian game, my heir is English, and all his kids are English.. it's rather odd :\
 
ZeletDude said:
That happens to me too, in my Sicilian game, my heir is English, and all his kids are English.. it's rather odd :\
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The character usually takes on the culture of the province they are born in. This could happen if you marry an English ruler.
 
Just finished my first game of CKII. Started as the Duchy of Apulia, created the Kingdom of Sicily with my second character and went from there. Boy, what a game. What I love is that there is no right or wrong way to play; you really have no idea what the game is going to throw at you and it will be different each and every time, even if you play as the same character at the start. I made a tradition of calling my sons "Roger" (though not all) and my final Roger was the ninth such. It was a nice little touch that because the final Roger was of German culture, his name changed to Rudger. Here's some pictures of the game end:

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It's great how each game kind of tells a story of your dynasty. I wasn't playing to "win" or become almighty and powerful; I was playing how I feel I should play, how I wanted my dynasty to pan out. When I conquered Croatia for instance back in the 1100s, instead of dealing with the revolts of holding two kingdoms I gave the Kingdom of Croatia to my second son, and the first would inherit the Kingdom of Sicily. The two Kingdoms ruled side-by-side for about 150 years as allies, until Croatia was absorbed by the Byzantine Empire. I did the same thing also with the Kingdom of Africa.

It was unfortunate that in the final hundred years or so I lost a major civil war, deposing my character and instead putting my sister on the throne. I was reduced to ruling a duchy, so I did the most evil thing I've ever done in a video game. I killed all 4 of the new ruling queen's children, one by one, and then killed her too. It worked - I got my kingdom back! But at a terrible cost. My vassals hated me, understandably so, revolts were rife, and several provinces broke away. During this time as well I had to recognise the Kaiser as my leige instead of being independent. This was the downfall of the D'Hautville dynasty. My final characters barely reigned more than ten years each. They were either locked up and executed due to trying to assassinate people, died of disease or just pure misfortune. All in all, a very fun game, and I'm looking forward to starting my next one, though it won't be just yet because I don't want to get burned out on the game.

Some good little touches that made me smile:
  • Your character's portrait changes depending on where they are - a war scene if leading troops, or a tavern if they have the drunkard trait
  • How names can become "tradition" in a dynasty. I mentioned earlier of me installing my brother on the throne of Croatia. He was called Luigi; a distinctly un-Croation name. But his first born was called Luigi, and the one after that. Made me chuckle.
  • Your allies will actually try their hardest to help you in a war.
  • Special names for monarchs such as "the Great" or "the Confesser"
  • Traits give characters more personality, and these runs through their family also. I found myself constantly threatened by the dukes and duchesses of Sicily (the island) while my other vassals were reasonably loyal.

However, there are some things that annoy me:
  • Peasant revolts. The bane of every Paradox game, and it is no different here.
  • I sometimes get the impression that vassals are a bit TOO hard to please. Surely they can't hate EVERY monarch that comes to the throne, surely? Only some damn good traits stop few early years of reign being whack-a-vassal back into line.
  • I want more events! There's plenty in the game now, but I want more! I don't care if it's as mundane as "King Roger slipped over on some dog turd today! Lose 5 prestige!" I just want more!
  • A little explanation of how your character dies would be nice. It's kind of annoying to have your character die at age 24 without a reason.

Well that's it for now. My advice would be if you haven't bought this game yet, but seem interested in it, do it. You won't regret it. Maybe your wives/girlfriends will, but you could just send them to the oubliette, couldn't you. :mischief:
 
Nice!
The naming is a nice touch, I find it rather amusing how I'll name my kids random things, such as friends at school, and then a century later find that one of those named kids created a cadet branch that has 5 people named that.
I've also started trolling school friends with this game! Great Fun! :mischief:
 
Carl Von Uber said:
This sounds really interesting how difficult is it to learn? I have been looking at some lets play and I am really wanting it. But have relativly no experience with this kind of game.
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The tutorial is pretty useful, but most of the learning takes place as you place the game more. But it gets to be very rewarding in the end.
 
I started a Von Habsburg game (twice) and I keep running into the fact that my children are suddenly of the dynasty of my wife/husband...

How is the dynasty of your children decided and is there anything you can do to keep these children within your own dynasty?
 
A normal marriage means the children will be of the man's dynasty. Matrilineal means all children will be of the woman's dynasty.
 
aha... that would mean I somehow got myself into a Matrilineal marriage without knowing.. :undecide:

thanks for the answer
 
Sometimes the AI get cheeky and ask to marry off one of your family matrilinearly. Always be sure to read the pop-up box very carefully. ;)
 
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