Paradox Games II

[United Marxist Nations]

I don't have any mods!

The DLCs shouldn't change the version type.

Is this CKII, or another game?

CKII. It's XQSJ most of the time, but it can also be YQSJ.

[Lunas Legion]

So, continuing my Hansa game; Denmark's dead, along with Holstein and I have full control over their lands. I've got colonies in Canada, and have the second largest naval force limit after Spain (take that France!), although I demolished their (Spain's) fleet a while back so I'm unchallenged at sea by anyone nearby. I also have the second largest income after France through trade.

Unfortunately, the French blob continues to grow. The Dutch Revolution didn't seem to even make a dent in their armies and now they're advancing into Protestant N.Germany and Catholic N.Italy. I reckon I can take them on given time since a treasury averaging 5000 ducats means I can just pile on mercs and more mercs until they die, and for my next idea group (currently I have trade, naval, offensive, expansion, exploration) I'm either going espionage to try and destroy them with inflation and rebels or quantity to try and make my army large enough so that the Protestant Bloc of N.Germany can destroy them.

I may, however, have to 'cheat' by luring their stacks onto islands which I can easily surround with my fleet and leave them stranded while I siege my way across France and force them to die in instability, rebels, war exhaustion and inflation.

[Shaggai]

So one of my nieces was betrothed to the Khan of Cumania. They just now became able to marry. First, I got the notice that the betrothed could marry. So I sent them a request asking if the Khan would be willing to marry my niece. Then I got a notice from the Khan, asking to marry my niece. I accepted, they became married, etc., etc. Then I got the Khan's reply to my request. He said "I do not feel that it would be a good idea for them to get married at this time."
Someone is doing something wrong here.

[Lykens]

The DLCs shouldn't change the version type.

Is this CKII, or another game?

CKII. It's XQSJ most of the time, but it can also be YQSJ.

XQSJ is the version without mods.

The YQSJ, I've no clue. Maybe its a little glitch or bug.

[The Jonathanian States]

So one of my nieces was betrothed to the Khan of Cumania. They just now became able to marry. First, I got the notice that the betrothed could marry. So I sent them a request asking if the Khan would be willing to marry my niece. Then I got a notice from the Khan, asking to marry my niece. I accepted, they became married, etc., etc. Then I got the Khan's reply to my request. He said "I do not feel that it would be a good idea for them to get married at this time."
Someone is doing something wrong here.

He doesn't feel that it'd be a good idea for them to get married, because they already are! He didn't fall for your trick of proving that he doesn't know his wife. *nods*

[The Rhomaion]

CKII. It's XQSJ most of the time, but it can also be YQSJ.

XQSJ is the version without mods.

The YQSJ, I've no clue. Maybe its a little glitch or bug.

It's when you resign from a game to get back to the game's in-game start menu. The checksum jumps back (or forward, it varies) one letter each time you do so. I think that's what's causing it, anyway.

It's been reported to Paradox before, but I don't think they've ever really mentioned doing anything to stop it (AFAIK).

[Shaggai]

All. The goddamned. Peasant revolts.

[Herargon]

All. The goddamned. Peasant revolts.

3K troops can be really interesting if you are Homgardr. Trust me. They really occupy you fast.
What you need to do is to lure them with one small troop to a point, where the other troops are walking towards the enemy.
That way, he doesn't flee fast.

Also, search for the shortest distance between two cities for you.

[Shaggai]

All. The goddamned. Peasant revolts.

3K troops can be really interesting if you are Homgardr. Trust me. They really occupy you fast.
What you need to do is to lure them with one small troop to a point, where the other troops are walking towards the enemy.
That way, he doesn't flee fast.

Also, search for the shortest distance between two cities for you.

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand. Could you rephrase that?

[Herargon]

XQSJ is the version without mods.

The YQSJ, I've no clue. Maybe its a little glitch or bug.

It's when you resign from a game to get back to the game's in-game start menu. The checksum jumps back (or forward, it varies) one letter each time you do so. I think that's what's causing it, anyway.

It's been reported to Paradox before, but I don't think they've ever really mentioned doing anything to stop it (AFAIK).

I have YQCT or something like that. No mods, all DLC's.

[Herargon]

So one of my nieces was betrothed to the Khan of Cumania. They just now became able to marry. First, I got the notice that the betrothed could marry. So I sent them a request asking if the Khan would be willing to marry my niece. Then I got a notice from the Khan, asking to marry my niece. I accepted, they became married, etc., etc. Then I got the Khan's reply to my request. He said "I do not feel that it would be a good idea for them to get married at this time."
Someone is doing something wrong here.

I once had a marriage planned with a woman. She was a duchess with freaking high stats everywhere. I was a King, with decent stats, and...

well, she said 'no'. Should I plot..?

Also, I once was the count of Monemvasia and bored as I was, I cheated some 5000s of money for fun in trying to restore the roman empire indirectly for our oh so dear Basileus.

Later, a war is beginning. Jihad against Anatolia. I decide to join in, and help my emperor. After the war, the emperor demands to take all my titles.
I then stare at the screen and the first though that came upon in my head was:

What?! I helped you! I had a doomstack of 35K and I helped you, even when all his troops were decimated. I helped you plotting and assasinating through generations of people to ensure a civil war would never break out. And after all, you say this: ''Go away. You are worthless''?!

This place is truly strange!

[United Marxist Nations]

So one of my nieces was betrothed to the Khan of Cumania. They just now became able to marry. First, I got the notice that the betrothed could marry. So I sent them a request asking if the Khan would be willing to marry my niece. Then I got a notice from the Khan, asking to marry my niece. I accepted, they became married, etc., etc. Then I got the Khan's reply to my request. He said "I do not feel that it would be a good idea for them to get married at this time."
Someone is doing something wrong here.

I once had a marriage planned with a woman. She was a duchess with freaking high stats everywhere. I was a King, with decent stats, and...

well, she said 'no'. Should I plot..?

Also, I once was the count of Monemvasia and bored as I was, I cheated some 5000s of money for fun in trying to restore the roman empire indirectly for our oh so dear Basileus.

Later, a war is beginning. Jihad against Anatolia. I decide to join in, and help my emperor. After the war, the emperor demands to take all my titles.
I then stare at the screen and the first though that came upon in my head was:

What?! I helped you! I had a doomstack of 35K and I helped you, even when all his troops were decimated. I helped you plotting and assasinating through generations of people to ensure a civil war would never break out. And after all, you say this: ''Go away. You are worthless''?!

This place is truly strange!

His logic was probably "damn, that guys got a 35k doomstack; I need to get rid of him before he decides he wants to be Basileus."

[Herargon]

3K troops can be really interesting if you are Homgardr. Trust me. They really occupy you fast.
What you need to do is to lure them with one small troop to a point, where the other troops are walking towards the enemy.
That way, he doesn't flee fast.

Also, search for the shortest distance between two cities for you.

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand. Could you rephrase that?

Most peasant revolts have about three thousand troops. They are relatively unorganized, but they can occupy your provinces in a matter of days.
You have to lure them into another territory - place.

For instance, let's say you are an Irish king and you are wealthy.
3000 peasant troops are heading from Connacht to Dublin. If you want, you could raise your mercenaries, and have some 6000 troops in total. You then decide to have 3000 troops in Thomond, heading for Dublin, and some 3000 in Leicester, also heading for Dublin.

Then you raise your personal and vassal troops in the north which are 2000 troops strong. They are in Ulster and blocking any peasant troops from fleeing out of your country. Now you can send all your troops luring the peasant troops into Ulster, because these 2000 troops in Ulster are weaker than the 3000 peasant troops.

But, they forget to know that you have 6000 troops now heading for Ulster - as you lured them into that place. You come on time, and can kill the peasant troops off.

Now you understand, I think.

[Bojikami]

I've got an idea, how about we, at some point; do some kind of CKII based RP? Just an idea in its infancy. Doesn't have to be a total RP, just a multiplayer game; maybe all start out as dukes or counts or something like that.

I would totally do that.

[Shaggai]

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand. Could you rephrase that?

Most peasant revolts have about three thousand troops. They are relatively unorganized, but they can occupy your provinces in a matter of days.
You have to lure them into another territory - place.

For instance, let's say you are an Irish king and you are wealthy.
3000 peasant troops are heading from Connacht to Dublin. If you want, you could raise your mercenaries, and have some 6000 troops in total. You then decide to have 3000 troops in Thomond, heading for Dublin, and some 3000 in Leicester, also heading for Dublin.

Then you raise your personal and vassal troops in the north which are 2000 troops strong. They are in Ulster and blocking any peasant troops from fleeing out of your country. Now you can send all your troops luring the peasant troops into Ulster, because these 2000 troops in Ulster are weaker than the 3000 peasant troops.

But, they forget to know that you have 6000 troops now heading for Ulster - as you lured them into that place. You come on time, and can kill the peasant troops off.

Now you understand, I think.

There's no way that they'll manage to do much to my realm overall. I'm the Holy Roman Empire, and I also control France and England. Since I have so much land, they won't be able to occupy a very large percentage of it. But the amount of land also means that I have to send my troops trekking all across Europe to get them, and they pop up an absurd amount. It's really, really annoying, but nothing more.

[Ostroeuropa]

Elder Kings again.

Started as a customized Dunmer count on the Telvannii Islands as a House Telvanii. (It's a trait that gives them a bonus relationship with other Dunmer of House Telvanii, but a penalty to relations with other houses. It may also effect events.)

Dunmer / Hermaus Mora religion. (Dunmer are usually Almivisi, Hermaeus Mora has two provinces devoted to him on the whole map, both on Telvanni Islands. He has holy sites, but no holy leader.)

Custom character was a god among men...and elves i guess, basically to fit the view of him being Hermaeus's chosen champion, but he had several maiming wounds that took decades to regenerate with magic.
Starting out as a one eyed, no tongued, one eared, no legged, one armed mage, (Gotta get those points to spend somewhere.) I turned myself immortal first after 6 years building up power for the ritual.

Quietly subverted the rest of the Telvanii Islands and took the Duchy title from my liege, then spread discontent among the rest of the Dunmer lords so a civil war began in Morrowind, then declared independence and sat back while I brought the religion of Hermaeus to the rest of the islands.

Morrowwind did recover, but it was too late and I won the independence war. By now i'd regenerated my wounds and began summoning Daedra to defend the islands in case the king of morrowwind decided he wanted them back.
I invaded the Islands to the east of Tamriel so I could island hop to Akavir and establish a power base there away from home with which to seize Tamriel.

THEN THE FUCKIKNG DRAGONBORN.
Skyrim united under a young Dragonborn king who managed to inherit half of it from the get go. I was initially pleased. But he started growing too strong when he invaded parts of Cyrodil, Hammerfall and High rock. I was worried a united empire of Men may prove too much for the rest of Tamriel to resist, and this would make the Akavir strategy a bit of a wash if Tamriel were united against it.
Akavir was going well. I had several footholds and was slowly bringing it under my, uh, Hermaeuses dominion.
I decided to take my army of Daedra and strike at the Skyrim kingdom, placing a claimant on the throne (Some Craven bastard who could be under the imperial title ) to remove the dragonborn and disunite his empire.
I was gathering my troops ready to assault using Solstheim as a launching pad, but then the Morrrowwind king decided to use this time to reclaim the Telvani islands. No matter. I had enough Daedra.
...
And the Akaviris decided to reclaim the bits of Akavir I had taken from them. Well, it's going to be rough but i'm sure i'll mana-
The Mane of Elseweyr joined them. Apparently he's allied to a the Great tiger guys. The Mane controls about half of Argonia. Ok, a final showdown it is then.
At least the rest of the Elves are staying out of it.

THEN THE FUCKING DRAGONBORN.
He turns up with 9000 men to my 27000, and I'm laughing, thinking if I can destroy this stack that'll mean Skyrims armies are weak enough to mop up and remove from the war before they manage to link up with the rest of the invaders. The battle of Whiterun occurs, and me and the Dragonborn meet in combat.
As soon as that event popped up, I panicked. Murphy's law meant i knew what the result would be. I guess it's what I deserve for playing a villain. Biggest score for a single lifetime though.

Managed to serve Hermaeus quite well though, and the Dunmer have cultural colonies on Akavir now, so even if the Morrowind king managed to finally seize back Telvanii after my death, it'd still mean a sizeable (If somewhat disunited and a nightmare to organize, because Island empire.) empire of Hermaeus Moran Dunmer were ruling the seas between Tamriel and Akavir, as well as several footholds in Akavir.

For the record, I completely eradicated House Telvanii. I had intended to put a permanent end to all the great dunmer houses once I was king of morrowwind, but oh well.

Mentioned this here because it was an epic one, considering it was the dragonborn who finally put a stop to me.
If I hadn't pissed about and had just seized morrowwind slice by slice instead of going for the silly island hopping campaign (for roleplay reasons) it would have been a different matter.

[Shaggai]

My heir just died under suspicious circumstances. Unfortunately, the person I had in mind to be next in line is still underage. I'd better hope my king doesn't die any time soon.

Edit: I chose a different one of my sisters to be heir. So far, it seems that people vastly prefer her to the son who I had chosen. I'm no longer going to lose France and the HRE. I will lose England if I don't manage to change the succession to Agnatic-Cognatic first, but my selected heir for England is of my dynasty so eventually I can take it back even if I fail.

[The Huskar Social Union]

So i started another GoT mod play through for CK2. Decided to start in the storm lands this time as the Ruler of Tarth, playing another custom family called Clayworth (looked up a random english name and went with it) My initial plan was to be a loyal vassal to the Baratheons when they got into power similar in how i was a loyalist to the Starks in my last game in the North.

I picked the Conquest start date and things went well enough, the Targ's slowly destroyed everyone who went up against them and when they came round to the Stormlands i refused to join the war against them and instead defected to their side and fought alongside them against the Storm King. War was over in a matter of months and the king bent the knee however he died a few years later in one of the many early civil wars (against the Reach i believe, cant remember) As did Orys Baratheon without a lawful heir so that left Storms End vacant and as i had a good relationship with Aegon i asked to take over as Lord Paramount of the Stormlands as he held the position. And he said yes to my amazement.

Its been largely quiet though since then about 50 years later, well in the Stormlands at least. Aegon died, the Starks got dethroned as Lords Paramount in the North and replaced by the Flints, though they got it back not that long after. House Gardner maintained their place in the Reach, as did the lannisters who somehow managed to win a war against the Iron Throne and became Independent. The Mallisters ruled the Riverlands for a while till they were ousted by the Freys (bastards) who are now being attacked by the Iron Born who have a claim on the title. The Martells were ousted as well and have largely died off though they still hold a seat or two. Arryns still rule the vale.

I largely stayed out of the various wars but did get involved in Dorne a couple of times, first to help out the Martells and then to depose a few rulers to get someone who liked me in power so i had an ally to the south. Ill try and get some screenshots up later.

The Prince of Dorne arrested me once because he found out that i was momentarily involved with his wife years before hand when i captured her in one of my other engagements in the Province and got her knocked up with a bastard. Some how he managed to imprison me and put me on trial, as always i demanded trial by combat and had my son in law with a martial score of 30 destroy the enemy champion and i walked out laughing. He then died and the Bastard took over as his only heir, who i then later deposed to put one of his uncles in power (the ally i mentioned before because the guy is an awesome commander) This is going to be a fun game.

[Shaggai]

Is there any way to enforce peace on vassals in CKII?

[Lykens]

Is there any way to enforce peace on vassals in CKII?

If you mean peace on vassals as in between each other, you can raise crown authority to medium.

I'm not sure what the crown authority has to be to stop vassals from fighting outside entities.

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

Is there any way to enforce peace on vassals in CKII?

If you mean peace on vassals as in between each other, you can raise crown authority to medium.

I'm not sure what the crown authority has to be to stop vassals from fighting outside entities.

Absolute.

[The SFSR]

I am in a state of Pax Germania, having Schlieffen'd France three times in the last decade, forced Britain to pay reparations on their home soil, and liberated Poland and Lithuania (separately). I am bored, and America is too far away.

It is 1882. What now?

[The Jonathanian States]

I am in a state of Pax Germania, having Schlieffen'd France three times in the last decade, forced Britain to pay reparations on their home soil, and liberated Poland and Lithuania (separately). I am bored, and America is too far away.

It is 1882. What now?

Go create the UBD! Make Scandinavia your puppets! Steal as much African Clay as possible!
Also, the following comes before everything else if it hasn't been done yet: Annex Austria!

[The SFSR]

I am in a state of Pax Germania, having Schlieffen'd France three times in the last decade, forced Britain to pay reparations on their home soil, and liberated Poland and Lithuania (separately). I am bored, and America is too far away.

It is 1882. What now?

Go create the UBD! Make Scandinavia your puppets! Steal as much African Clay as possible!
Also, the following comes before everything else if it hasn't been done yet: Annex Austria!

What's the UBD, something Baltics related? I have Mittelafrika, Brazzaville to Zanzibar to Madagascar, plus as far south as Zimbabwe, and satellites in a federation from Morocco to the Algerian interior; rest of Africa is claimed (even a Libya-to-Nigeria corridor by the Ottomans!). I have a truce with Sweden as a result of the Lithuanian war of liberation. I have Shanghai and Taiwan.

How many wars will that take?

[The Jonathanian States]

Go create the UBD! Make Scandinavia your puppets! Steal as much African Clay as possible!
Also, the following comes before everything else if it hasn't been done yet: Annex Austria!

What's the UBD, something Baltics related? I have Mittelafrika, Brazzaville to Zanzibar to Madagascar, plus as far south as Zimbabwe, and satellites in a federation from Morocco to the Algerian interior; rest of Africa is claimed (even a Libya-to-Nigeria corridor by the Ottomans!). I have a truce with Sweden as a result of the Lithuanian war of liberation. I have Shanghai and Taiwan.

How many wars will that take?

The UBD is the United Baltic Duchy.
I PDM you can create it as a satellite if you have Estonia+Lativa (Lithuania is an optional addition).

How many wars it'll take? As many as are required to carefully explain to the world that GERMANY STRONKEST!