Crusader Kings III General Discussion

Godzilla Blitz wrote:
thrawn82 wrote:
tanstaafl wrote:

Lost a holy war and had to convert to Catholic. Had to give up my two concubines.

This religion sucks...

Hello friend, let me tell you about the joy and beauty of Insular Christianity...

Yes, Insular Christianity is where my 15 children have come from. It's all fun and games until the succession kicks in.

Insular Christianity was going great for me, until i had a ruler who only ever popped out female children, then i realized a major downside of it.. That next round of succession got harder when all the ducheys and such were held by non family memebers.

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Wow.

The new boobplate.

Didn't some ancient women warriors go into combat bare-breasted? Like the nude Celtic warriors?

There are nudist religions in the game where all your characters are nude.

tanstaafl wrote:

There are nudist religions in the game where all your characters are nude.

My first run in with Adamist heretics in Ireland was startling

So started my first proper game (after playing through Ireland for a bit) as King of Leon. Playing with high intrigue is so much fun. Murdered both my brothers and their kids to unite the Crown of Spain under my banner.
Slept with my sister and pretty much half of my own court, have bastards all over the place, even bedded the daughter of the William the Conquerer but that was found out and now she is in jail and my wife is annoyed. Then I got lost in the woods and now I'm a cannibal. This game is the best.

I'll never look at Iberico ham in quite the same way again....

I have a problem in the kingdom of Pereyaslavl: after the recent death of the venerable King (and saint) Yefimiy, Queen Xenia ascended to the throne. She's a perfectly competent ruler, but she's outlived her children and her heir apparent is her eldest grandson. This is a problem, because Lampert is a fool.

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Also he hates me.

Lampert needs to take 100 men and go fighting a war. You'll lose a province but with luck you'll also lose him.

He also looks like a young Matt Damon.

That "Fool", though... I hate scoping out someone and finding a surprise in that field. My fave was what would have been an interesting spymaster with something like "honest and trustworthy" as his base nature lol. He got killed off in the wars that ended Jorvik, though, before I had to worry about putting him in place.

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Unfortunately, I prioritized getting my spymaster to like me (-22), sorting out some intrigue messes, and fixing the treasury before I started to deal with the Lampert problem. In hindsight, I should have panicked more when Lampert's buddies got together in a faction and declared independence. If I'd acted promptly before their faction got going I might have headed off the cascade of dominoes.

In the event, the independence faction marched to war. I thought I could defeat them because, while they had slightly more troops, those troops were scattered across the kingdom and I could use my unified army to defeat them before they could link up. However, I miscalculated and ended up spending too much time chasing down one of the smaller groups while two of the larger armies converged on the capital. Before my allies could send enough reinforcements, Lampert seized the capital, captured the queen, and forced an end to the war.

This might still have been recoverable, but my neighbor decided this was a great time to target me with a Holy War and someone else decided that it would be a good idea to put my six-year-old half-brother Radoslav on the throne instead of me.

Which is where my biggest miscalculation came in: Radoslav, despite being six, was a genius with already high stats; he wasn't yet betrothed so he could use that to bring in a powerful ally, and I thought that since he was the same dynasty he'd still count as a player character, or at the very least the Queen Xenia would remain playable as a vassal. Unfortunately, I didn't check closely enough and she lost all her titles and the game didn't switch to Radoslav (possibly the landless check comes before the character switch?) and that ended the game.

Really, the seeds of the problem were present in the previous generation--Yefimiy may have been a saint, but he also outlived several of his more capable children and, obviously, did a terrible job as Lampert's guardian. Also I got too used to his consolidated position and should have been playing more defensively as soon as the succession happened and that long reign bonus went away...

It's early days, but I'm finding that the coup de main is more successful than in CK2. You seem to have a better chance of capturing someone important if you can capture the enemy capitol. Boldness can shorten wars.

Anyway, while I could technically reload the final game save and keep playing as Radoslav, I think it's time to look around the map and see what other options are out there. Maybe an early start? Though one thing I'm noticing is that it takes much more work and cultural development to change succession laws away from partitioning.

There are other issues with an early start, like adapting to sweeping religious and culture change as the feuding petty kingdoms give way to later actual kingdoms. It's exciting. And Raiding is a good mechanic, too.

So i'm, finally getting close to my goal of Uniting brittainia under an Insular irish flag. I had a couple bad rulers, the second of which had a problem having kids, which led to me ending up with a 4 year old girl as irish queen. Getting to guide from that early in amazing! She is now in her 50s, stomping on England while quietly converting all her family and vassals to veneration of the horned god. I'm desperately racing to try and grab the britanic empire title before she dies because her heir is not super great and will have trouble clawing back the scottish crown when it gets partitioned (welsh crown is already destroyed i think)

Hmm I accidentally inherited all of Poland and Hungary as a late reign Bavarian master diplomat king and I am gonna be so f*cked once things transfer to my heir who doesn't control the duchy of praha where my economy is just absolutely pumping out gold.

Probably going to have to let some land go/free vassals just to survive once my current king dies.
On the plus side my current king is heir to the HRE so my problems might get worse soon.

boogle wrote:

Hmm I accidentally inherited all of Poland and Hungary as a late reign Bavarian master diplomat king and I am gonna be so f*cked once things transfer to my heir who doesn't control the duchy of praha where my economy is just absolutely pumping out gold.

Probably going to have to let some land go/free vassals just to survive once my current king dies.
On the plus side my current king is heir to the HRE so my problems might get worse soon.

HRE is famously prone to accidents...

He is my friend tho (friends providing me stat bonuses at this time)

Anyone tried the Princes of Darkness mod yet ?

I'm definitely giving this a shot over the weekend.

I went with an early start as Bjorn Ironside but I’m just not digging it. The Viking playstyle seems a lot less thought out than CK 2 and my Norsemen units look lame. So I think I’m going to start over In 1066 but am open to suggestions. My ideas include:

1. Play as Duke of Bourbon cause well I love Bourbon and it’s an interesting start.
2. Join the knife fight in a phone booth - aka Spain as King of Leon.
3. Embrace my German heritage and play the Holy Roman Emperor, though as a new player that might be a bit much.
4. Play William the Conqueror and see if I can pull off the invasion.

Don't start as HRE, but start as an elector and work your way up.

boogle wrote:

Don't start as HRE, but start as an elector and work your way up.

Open to suggestions for electors.

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

Started a new game as the Aghlabids in 867. Tough start: all of my vassals hated me, I was at war with Emperor Basil I for Sicily, and I had very little cash, prestige, or piety. Ended up losing several vassals to independence and all of Sicily before I managed to stabilize things. But now things are going pretty well, with a new council of mostly loyal vassals.

Oh, and I made my half-brother my spymaster.

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

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?

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.

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.

Primogeniture?