Crusader Kings II Spirit-all

Game ends 133 years before Oliver Cromwell was born, Maq. So you're safe.

Robear wrote:

Game ends 133 years before Oliver Cromwell was born, Maq. So you're safe. :-)

But they are on their way !

So I bought this because of the sale and also IRC and the tutorial is super broken. I've tried the first 3 and each one puts me into a locked state.
Le sigh.

Is it correctly installed ? The current patch version is 1.09

Tutorials are for sissies. Get in and learn by doing.

The ingame tutorial isn't the best way to learn; check out the links in the original post. That'll get you up to speed faster.

Some of the tutorials are literally a single pop-up window with a couple lines of text.

The Republic and the Mediterranean/Russian DLCs just went on super sale on Steam for the first time. Go go go!

As much as I'm looking forward to EU4, it's going to be hard to buy it at launch for full price when Paradox has now trained us to expect crazy discounts on recent games via Steam and Amazon.

Not that I'm complaining, but I bought CK2 for $10 just 3 months after launch and haven't paid more than the price of a cup of coffee for any of the DLC.

I'll be there for EU4 on launch day at full price. Paradox's in-house developed titles have consistently been among my favorite pc games over the last several years, and I'm both excited to dive into EU4 headfirst, and to support them with a day one purchase.

I was surprised to see this weekend that I'm up over 70 hours played in Crusader Kings 2 now. That's among my most-played games on Steam.

Archangel wrote:

The Republic and the Mediterranean/Russian DLCs just went on super sale on Steam for the first time. Go go go!

Awesome, must grab the Republic. For some reason that's the dlc that appeals the most.

davet010 wrote:
Robear wrote:

Game ends 133 years before Oliver Cromwell was born, Maq. So you're safe. :-)

But they are on their way !

I, for one, would rather be anywhere else but here today.

boogle wrote:

So I bought this because of the sale and also IRC and the tutorial is super broken. I've tried the first 3 and each one puts me into a locked state.
Le sigh.

Yeah, Paradox's tutorials are almost always half-broken. Best to check out a video or two and then dive in.

Personally, I like all the DLC.

Sometimes I like to play games where I hope into different nations throughout a single play through. I did that after I had united Rome and it had grown enormously. So I hoped into an islamic power that had managed to grab some land in England for a while.

Kier wrote:

Personally, I like all the DLC.

Sometimes I like to play games where I hope into different nations throughout a single play through. I did that after I had united Rome and it had grown enormously. So I hoped into an islamic power that had managed to grab some land in England for a while.

I like that they let you do this. Switch to another kingdom when you load your save? Sure, why not!

Sword of Islam, Republic and Legacy of Rome DLC bought. Looking forward to cracking into those.

Managed to reach 1453! W00t!

Playing as Sweden, reached 75k points. My favourite part was joining the Crusade for Hungary in order to get my king un/de-excommunicated. And contributing so much I ended up with Hungary. I gave away all the dutchies and counties in Hungary to my loyal Swedish vassals. I kept Hungary as an independent kingdom for a few rounds of succession, but decided to destroy it eventually.

The end of the game was pretty much squabbling with Scotland, putting down local rebellions and trying to get myself un/de-excommunicated again.

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You didn't form the Scandinavian Empire? Looks like you could.

wordsmythe wrote:

You didn't form the Scandinavian Empire? Looks like you could.

Only found out about the option quite late. Most of Denmark was part of the Holy Roman Empire by then. If I do a Scandinavian game again I'll go for it.

Do you guys find that France seems to often take a bunch of Spain?

It seems the Muslims always take Spain and then France always takes it back.

Where else would France expand though? HRE? Ha.

In most of my games France splinters and ends up carved between HRE, Frisia, England, and sometimes even Muslims.

In my last Apulia start, by the time I took over the HRE and headed for France it was a tiny France, independent Aquitaine, independent Brittany, independent Flanders, and Normandy was still English. Burgundy was mostly independent counties.

It usually seems to hinge on how long the first two or three French Kings live. Quick deaths for them usually breaks up France quickly, and they have a tendency to die quickly.

Just as general information, I noodled around a bit with the Linux version of this, and it seemed to run very nicely. But it only wanted to run in the resolution of the desktop; it didn't seem to have the ability to independently set its own resolution. (I like to run this game at lower res, because the UI doesn't scale, and everything is very tiny at 2560x1600.)

Other than that, it looked just about perfect.

wordsmythe wrote:
davet010 wrote:
Robear wrote:

Game ends 133 years before Oliver Cromwell was born, Maq. So you're safe. :-)

But they are on their way !

I, for one, would rather be anywhere else but here today.

Don't start me talking.

Been playing The Republic a bit. It's quite a change, and fun, but balls hard. Started a couple of games as Venice, everything goes well until the Byzantine Emperor decides to go for an embargo war against me. I'm going to persist with the current one, but I'm running out of space in the Med, I need to get someone to embargo Pisa who are taking over.

In this game I've found Intrigue and Diplomacy more important than the vanilla game, but it does highlight the problem that you only have one diplomatic avenue available at any given time, so the chancellor needs to be a jet setter.

Does anyone know the consequences if you take over someone's coastal city? They can't like that.

Hrdina wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
davet010 wrote:
Robear wrote:

Game ends 133 years before Oliver Cromwell was born, Maq. So you're safe. :-)

But they are on their way !

I, for one, would rather be anywhere else but here today.

Don't start me talking.

Agreed. He can talk all night.

Not sure where to put this, so in here it goes. I have an extra key for Crusader Kings 2 as well as the Dynasty Shields DLC. Send me a message if you want it or knows someone who would enjoy it.

Edit: Keys gone.

Is there any information on troop types? I looked in couple places but how much difference does having a balanced army make?

First dev diary for The Old Gods is up. Looks interesting but not much information aside from pointing out how they are handling the various religious differences. Some cool screenshots though (traversable rivers!).

The best part about the dev diary is that, if they hold true to form, this means the DLC is only 6-8 weeks out.

Thanks tboon, I don't have the time to keep up with news much anymore. Still buy all the DLC day 1 though. Lol

I'd contact your next of kin to ask them to ring you every 6 hours.

If you've not played it (or any similar Paradox game before), have a watch of SeeKayEm99's "Let's Play" series - the Ireland one in particular spends a few of the early episodes going through some key concepts which are not at all transparent, even if you go through the tutorial.

It's not actually turn-based, it's pausable real-time. So you're even less likely to stop playing.