Crusader Kings III General Discussion

boogle wrote:
thrawn82 wrote:
boogle wrote:

Bavaria is a kingdom with single inheritance (Ultimogeniture), but really any elector will be fun.

is that the one where the youngest child inherits?

UH I dunno if I got the name right but it's eldest living family member male preference.

I did manage to snag the Empire of (Alba) but my poor ireland isn't even in the right catagory yet to be able to shift to -genature successions yet

Gremlin wrote:

I see no way in which this could possibly go wrong.

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I have no idea how this happened.

"If you sit down to play cards, and you can't identify the sucker at the table.... It's you!"

boogle wrote:
thrawn82 wrote:
boogle wrote:

Bavaria is a kingdom with single inheritance (Ultimogeniture), but really any elector will be fun.

is that the one where the youngest child inherits?

UH I dunno if I got the name right but it's eldest living family member male preference.

That sounds just like the agnatic house seniority succession that Bohemia uses

Yeah House Seniority (Primo is first child)

I started a Spain campaign as King of Leon and realized the entire Jimena family are jackholes. I’m now debating if I switch sides to the Abbasids who are actually decent people with solid stats, though I’m afraid that being a Muslim character is more of an “advanced” option way beyond my current skill level.

jdzappa wrote:

I’m afraid that being a Muslim character is more of an “advanced” option way beyond my current skill level.

On 9-11 I think a lot of people have had this thought

Nice CKIII review from a history blogger who doesn't normally do game reviews.

Miscellanea: My Thoughts on Crusader Kings III

(I'm also enjoying his loooong essay on "The Fremen Mirage.")

jdzappa wrote:

I started a Spain campaign as King of Leon and realized the entire Jimena family are jackholes.

I have a question for you guys...

I started a sub-Saharan game (the suggested one by the game) and it's been a hoot so far. Except one problem. The culture, by default, supports equal inheritance. My starting character was a countess which I drove up to a Queen level. All of the marriage proposals that she made all defaulted to matrilineal, even if it was my sons I was trying to marry off. When she died, her firstborn son took over and then all of the marriage proposals ended up being patrilineal. Fine, I guess the game is not smart enough to figure out what is the most advantageous thing for me. No big deal. But after my multi-kingdom split, and some of the crowns ended up going to female rulers, they've been, without fail marrying off their daughters in patrilineal marriages. I assassinated half the map by now and forced all these princesses to marry their cousins, but this is not sustainable.

Is this expected behaviour? Or is this a bug? Do all NPCs automatically do patrilineal no matter what? They are fully aware of inheritance rules when negotiating with me, so I'm wondering if this "smart" translates when they negotiate between NPCs.

I've given a gift to my daughter's jailer, I've schemed to make him like me and I've gotten his opinion up to 100 but he still won't ransom my daughter? What do I need to do to get him to ransom her?

Get a hook on him, by learning his secrets? Or he could have a mysterious accident...

You do have the gold to meet a high ransom, right? Like 50 or 100?

So after bouncing around trying all the Spanish factions, I'm back in 867 England only this time as Alfred the Great. Hoollly crap what a roller coaster. I destroyed the Great Heathen Army and united Wessex but then Ivar the Boneless showed up and kicked me out of East Anglia. So now I'm running around trying to get alliances with all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Alfred is a total badass and I'm still in my late 20s so hoping to bide my time and go on the offensive in a few years. But this has been a lot more fun than CK 2 where the Saxons were total punching bags.

Hah! I tried the 876 Aelfred start and the Vikings barely even attacked me. They beat me in battle but didn't siege anything, taking counties from the other Vikings and Mercia. The war ended and I had all my land intact.

I ended up leaning into the Stewardship trees and my country grew leaps and bounds. When I died I was rolling in money and very popular. My daughter inherited; I had married her matrilineally to the Prince of Brittany, so that was a good alliance. She was able to stabilize the realm easily and things are going pretty well, except that her uncle Alfred (who is *amazingly* talented) just made a pass at her... Not cool...

Agathos wrote:

Nice CKIII review from a history blogger who doesn't normally do game reviews.

Miscellanea: My Thoughts on Crusader Kings III

Thanks for sharing that Agathos. That was an interesting read.

Fun fact I discovered, when at war with someone, having their heir in your jail gives you 50% war score. Even if you already have them in your jail because you have kidnapped them earlier in the year. All of Catholic Spain is now mine, I mean everybody hates my king and I've already surived one civil war. Think now I'm going to try and surive till the end of his reign before eyes can turn towards the muslims.

It's been a couple of weeks now and yet no one has reported an Aztec invasion. Dissapointed!

onewild wrote:

Fun fact I discovered, when at war with someone, having their heir in your jail gives you 50% war score. Even if you already have them in your jail because you have kidnapped them earlier in the year. All of Catholic Spain is now mine, I mean everybody hates my king and I've already surived one civil war. Think now I'm going to try and surive till the end of his reign before eyes can turn towards the muslims.

Kidnapping the leader herself during the war counts as having captured them and gives you an intimidate 100%

leads to a legit tactic of starting your war just before your kidnap scheme is about to fire

thrawn82 wrote:
onewild wrote:

Fun fact I discovered, when at war with someone, having their heir in your jail gives you 50% war score. Even if you already have them in your jail because you have kidnapped them earlier in the year. All of Catholic Spain is now mine, I mean everybody hates my king and I've already surived one civil war. Think now I'm going to try and surive till the end of his reign before eyes can turn towards the muslims.

Kidnapping the leader herself during the war counts as having captured them and gives you an intimidate 100%

leads to a legit tactic of starting your war just before your kidnap scheme is about to fire

Oh, this is brilliant! I've been targeting leaders during wars to try to imprison them, but kidnapping the leader right after declaring war is clever as can be.

And I've reached difficult 3rd ruler zone - wasn't helped by the fact that my son died in battle so now I'm a 13 year old in charge of half of the Iberian Peninsula. Most of the vassels went to lower crown authority down to level 2 (having already forced it down from 4 to 3 a generation back) and there are 2 different sets of peasants about to revolt. Think I will have to give into the vassels demands so I can stop the peasants. Then hopefully get enough time to rebuild.

How to stop a ruler f*cking, i really would like him not to f*ck or at least have no more sons

Have the spouse or lover take vows, I guess...

boogle wrote:

How to stop a ruler f*cking, i really would like him not to f*ck or at least have no more sons

There's a node in the Body/Learning tree that lets you voluntarily embrace chastity

Agathos wrote:

(I'm also enjoying his loooong essay on "The Fremen Mirage.")

Just started, but this is really interesting!

Mixolyde wrote:
Agathos wrote:

(I'm also enjoying his loooong essay on "The Fremen Mirage.")

Just started, but this is really interesting!

Then you can follow it up with This Isn’t Sparta his essay on the historical Sparta and the myth.

Does anyone know how education works? I recently finished up personally educating my male heir and eldest daughter - yet she came out way ahead (I think eminence) versus him (base level negotiator). What i don’t understand is he had higher diplomacy rating and is gregarious so I don’t understand the huge difference. Is there diminishing returns in raising multiple kids? Should I have my heir train with other officials? Is it random?

On the plus side, she’s married to the German emperor which is allowing me to rofl stomp the Vikings as Wessex.

I feel like my neighbors will have some unfortunate thoughts about me and mine after I yelled out loud "WHY ARE ALL OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS F**KING EACH OTHER?" during a recent game.

Welcome to CK 3 baby.

Gee, all I did today was say to my wife (who has Hungarian ancestry) "I don't know why I married a Hungarian". This is the kind of thing that can happen, if she's the Queen of Hungary anyway...

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I'm the King of Bohemia, and I'm on decent terms with Poland so don't really want to attack him. Besides, I did have to fight his father once (when my liege the HR Emperor attacked him) and that didn't end very well.

Edit: Gah, in the process of clicking through all the various rulers involved in this war, I somehow managed to dismiss the "Call to War" dialog without actually making a decision. I'm not at war with Poland, and my wife isn't mad at me for declining...

Save/reload fixed that. I agreed to help her. I'm sure that will go well.

That war went surprisingly well.

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I think that the Polish armies were busy in the north fighting Denmark, so my wife's armies were able to take Krakow without a lot of resistance.

One funny thing about this whole situation is that my character (King Ota of Bohemia) and Queen Eufemia of Hungary had only two daughters. They were each married off non-matrilineally before Ota became King of Bohemia. So, unless I do something drastic those lands will belong to another family in a couple of generations. The oldest daughter married Sigisbert of House Lantpertidi (from Salerno); I look forward to his dynastry ruling Poland.