PDOX Games VIII: Communism Will Win

[Atheris]

Ok, so I was playing Dublin, heard it was a good starter nation. When you inherit that nation to the south of you, I had no clue what to do (thanks paradox) and I clicked a button.

It was released.

"Damn, think I'll need more territory then."

Declared war.

Lost all my armies.

Dead.

help

Wait, is there even a one-click way to grant independence or grant a title? What I'm saying is this seems to be a bit bigger than "I clicked a button"

If yer armies are shit, try hiring some mercs. If that's not an option, forget about it, it's gone forever. Well, not forever, but you sent thousands of men to die and with nothing to show for it. Maybe next time.

I did something with land or something and my brother and it got released. I can't plot to kill him or anything.

[Sefy the Great]

Ok, so I was playing Dublin, heard it was a good starter nation. When you inherit that nation to the south of you, I had no clue what to do (thanks paradox) and I clicked a button.

It was released.

"Damn, think I'll need more territory then."

Declared war.

Lost all my armies.

Dead.

help

Wait, is there even a one-click way to grant independence or grant a title? What I'm saying is this seems to be a bit bigger than "I clicked a button"

If yer armies are shit, try hiring some mercs. If that's not an option, forget about it, it's gone forever. Well, not forever, but you sent thousands of men to die and with nothing to show for it. Maybe next time.

well, for whatever reason, when you grant someone a Jarldom as @@SCANDANVAINIAN COUNTRY OF CHOICE@@, they break free from you.
kinda makes sense, you are granting them an entire kingdom, so they kinda can say "f!ck you, I rule here now."

[Renoa]

So I've taken a gander at the Steam sales for Cities: Skylines DLC and...
Jesus Hermengildo Christ everything the bundle is still so expensive.

[Hanafuridake]

Somehow my harebrained scheme ingenious strategy to support the elective monarchy faction in England with the hope of eventually being elected the next monarch has succeeded. Now I have to kill everyone before my character dies in order to make sure the title stays in the family.

[Bralia]

So the Children's Crusade fired off and made it all the way to the Levant. Somebody in this situation was wholly unprepared for it. And they paid the price.

[Ithalian Empire]

So the Children's Crusade fired off and made it all the way to the Levant. Somebody in this situation was wholly unprepared for it. And they paid the price.

That would make one hell of a story.

[Impaled Nazarene]

So the Children's Crusade fired off and made it all the way to the Levant. Somebody in this situation was wholly unprepared for it. And they paid the price.

It just triggered for me too. They shattered and were sold into slavery upon reaching the Holy Land.

[Myrensis]

So the Children's Crusade fired off and made it all the way to the Levant. Somebody in this situation was wholly unprepared for it. And they paid the price.

It just triggered for me too. They shattered and were sold into slavery upon reaching the Holy Land.

Hmm, every time I've seen it trigger they've stomped the Muslims easily. Though it's been a few weeks and I think I saw something in a patch about fixing a bug where they spawned way too many event troops.

Though it annoys me in general. Fired once for me and I somehow ended up as its..patron I guess? Or at least I kept getting spammed with calls for help when the little bastard got stranded in Greece for like 15 years. I didn't know how it played out so, like a good Catholic ruler, I kept giving him money and troops. They finally go and take Jerusalem and I get...nothing in return but a positive opinion with the King of Jerusalem.

Second time I saw it, no cries for help, but was only like a year from triggering to the fall of Jerusalem.

[Bralia]

Agent 47 went on the become one of the greatest human beings to ever exist.

[Atheris]

Okay, this is like not a joke. Can somebody actually give me a source for a good way to learn CK2? I'm completely lost in this fucking game

[The Huskar Social Union]

Okay, this is like not a joke. Can somebody actually give me a source for a good way to learn CK2? I'm completely lost in this fucking game

Here give this a watch, im sure others have other guides they have seen that they can link you need more help

[The Imperial Reach]

I said it before and I'll say it again: Muslims are too OP in CKII.

It's only 960 and I've watched them takeover all of Francia, Abyssinia, Italia, and Rajastan. They've further taken over most of Decca, Bengal, Tibet, Germania, and Byzantium. The Pope is now landless and the only Catholic leaders left are in Eastern Europe, oddly enough. The Byzantines are on the verge of death, India is being overrun, and for some reason every nomad from Rus' to Mongolia is either converting to Islam or getting squashed by nomads who already have. Pagans, which were going strong at first with the Germanics even managing to reform, are now feeling the Islamic Burn because there are no more Catholic states between the Umayyads and Pagan Europe now, so they're screwed and there's nothing their precious Fylkir can do about it.

What's weird is that the Pope actually got the ability to call Crusades before France, England, and Italy had fully fallen yet never bothered to call one. Not sure what the AI was thinking there, other than that it wasn't. The precious Catholic holy orders didn't seem to help either, as by that time the Badshah already had a mighty deathstack of doom which could have single-handedly taken on the remaining Catholic rulers' entire armies at once so a Crusade might not have even succeeded had it been called.

The only thing that surprises me is that Byzantium managed to hold out this long. In fact, it only just recently lost it's grip on Anatolia - which is odd because it usually gets overrun early on. To understand exactly how bad it is: the Caliph can call about 100,000 men into battle, making him virtually unstoppable until Mongols/Aztecs enter the picture but by then he might control the whole fucking world and even combined the two might not have enough power to stop him.

Muslims overpowered; Paradox pls nerf.

[Bralia]

I said it before and I'll say it again: Muslims are too OP in CKII.

It's only 960 and I've watched them takeover all of Francia, Abyssinia, Italia, and Rajastan. They've further taken over most of Decca, Bengal, Tibet, Germania, and Byzantium. The Pope is now landless and the only Catholic leaders left are in Eastern Europe, oddly enough. The Byzantines are on the verge of death, India is being overrun, and for some reason every nomad from Rus' to Mongolia is either converting to Islam or getting squashed by nomads who already have. Pagans, which were going strong at first with the Germanics even managing to reform, are now feeling the Islamic Burn because there are no more Catholic states between the Umayyads and Pagan Europe now, so they're screwed and there's nothing their precious Fylkir can do about it.

What's weird is that the Pope actually got the ability to call Crusades before France, England, and Italy had fully fallen yet never bothered to call one. Not sure what the AI was thinking there, other than that it wasn't. The precious Catholic holy orders didn't seem to help either, as by that time the Badshah already had a mighty deathstack of doom which could have single-handedly taken on the remaining Catholic rulers' entire armies at once so a Crusade might not have even succeeded had it been called.

The only thing that surprises me is that Byzantium managed to hold out this long. In fact, it only just recently lost it's grip on Anatolia - which is odd because it usually gets overrun early on. To understand exactly how bad it is: the Caliph can call about 100,000 men into battle, making him virtually unstoppable until Mongols/Aztecs enter the picture but by then he might control the whole fucking world and even combined the two might not have enough power to stop him.

Muslims overpowered; Paradox pls nerf.

Every religion is OP as of Holy Fury. 90% of the time, I've been using claims granted by the Pope to make my significant conquests in Britannia. All you need is better relations with the Pope than the guy who has the titles you want and you're golden. And because Popes generally die like flies, you can stack up SO MANY claims.

[Atheris]

Okay, this is like not a joke. Can somebody actually give me a source for a good way to learn CK2? I'm completely lost in this fucking game

Here give this a watch, im sure others have other guides they have seen that they can link you need more help

Thank you.

[Bralia]

It's not everyday that you see the "Holy Roman Empire" bordering the "Western Protectorate".

[Serrus]

It's not everyday that you see the "Holy Roman Empire" bordering the "Western Protectorate".

Umm yes I have several questions. First one is precisely how did this happen? Second is what did you do, because I am relatively sure that that isn't normal.

[Atheris]

It's not everyday that you see the "Holy Roman Empire" bordering the "Western Protectorate".

Umm yes I have several questions. First one is precisely how did this happen? Second is what did you do, because I am relatively sure that that isn't normal.

In ISP's mega-campaign Byzantium joined the HRE. I assumed that's what happened here.

[The Imperial Reach]

I said it before and I'll say it again: Muslims are too OP in CKII.

It's only 960 and I've watched them takeover all of Francia, Abyssinia, Italia, and Rajastan. They've further taken over most of Decca, Bengal, Tibet, Germania, and Byzantium. The Pope is now landless and the only Catholic leaders left are in Eastern Europe, oddly enough. The Byzantines are on the verge of death, India is being overrun, and for some reason every nomad from Rus' to Mongolia is either converting to Islam or getting squashed by nomads who already have. Pagans, which were going strong at first with the Germanics even managing to reform, are now feeling the Islamic Burn because there are no more Catholic states between the Umayyads and Pagan Europe now, so they're screwed and there's nothing their precious Fylkir can do about it.

What's weird is that the Pope actually got the ability to call Crusades before France, England, and Italy had fully fallen yet never bothered to call one. Not sure what the AI was thinking there, other than that it wasn't. The precious Catholic holy orders didn't seem to help either, as by that time the Badshah already had a mighty deathstack of doom which could have single-handedly taken on the remaining Catholic rulers' entire armies at once so a Crusade might not have even succeeded had it been called.

The only thing that surprises me is that Byzantium managed to hold out this long. In fact, it only just recently lost it's grip on Anatolia - which is odd because it usually gets overrun early on. To understand exactly how bad it is: the Caliph can call about 100,000 men into battle, making him virtually unstoppable until Mongols/Aztecs enter the picture but by then he might control the whole fucking world and even combined the two might not have enough power to stop him.

Muslims overpowered; Paradox pls nerf.

Every religion is OP as of Holy Fury. 90% of the time, I've been using claims granted by the Pope to make my significant conquests in Britannia. All you need is better relations with the Pope than the guy who has the titles you want and you're golden. And because Popes generally die like flies, you can stack up SO MANY claims.

I don't have Holy Fury or Jade Dragon yet, but I've heard Holy Fury is the best DLC since Old Gods.

Though to be honest that strategy sounds like it would work even without Holy Fury as the Pope can still grant you claims without it.

It's not everyday that you see the "Holy Roman Empire" bordering the "Western Protectorate".

Umm yes I have several questions. First one is precisely how did this happen? Second is what did you do, because I am relatively sure that that isn't normal.

Well Byzantium is obviously a tributary of the HRE, which isn't beyond possible. I'm assuming the same is true for the Western Protectorate and what I assume are the Seljuks but I have no idea how that could even happen.

[Abserdia]

Neato.

[Purpelia]

Something is deeply wrong with the Chinese in this patch. I am sure of that much. Used to be the protectorate had like 6K troops or something and could easily fight off the small hordes of raiders attacking them. Now however they seem to flounder around 1K troops and get constantly screwed over by 2K+ stacks from the north playing whackamole with their armies.

[Vlach]

Knowledge sharing saved my economy and my tech is abysmal but hey, Sarig Yogir isn't too bad.

I culture shifted to Tibetan so I can form Tibet and get its nice mission tree (hopefully that works). I think it's actually easier to form Tibet as Sarig Yogir than it is with any Tibetan nation simply because Tribal Supremacy CB is so good. I've also had a string of good luck that doesn't hurt and I have been pretty opportunistic about my wars. Chagatai integrated Yarkand and got attacked by Ming in a tributary war so naturally I swept in and took the entirety of Khotan in one go (thank god for gold mines, though I definitely should have converted the province before I developed it for the production boost).

Kinda weird that Sarig Yogir (Yellow Uyghurs) doesn't have the Uyghur culture but instead has Oirat. I'll probably save here and play out the campaign in two different ways, one as Sarig Yogir > Great Yuan or Mongol Empire (or just stay one tag) and the Tibet formation.

EDIT: Does reducing the cost of units (ie, Teutonic Knights first national idea) also reduce upkeep cost or is that only for creating them? Seems pretty trash otherwise.

[Abserdia]

So I got a question.
My first-born daughter was born from a matrilineal marriage between my current Empress (who has two patrilineal bloodlines, both transferable) and some now dead rando with no bloodlines. However, she (my daughter) doesn't have the bloodlines. Only children from my current marriage have them.

Why?

I mean, I'm not exactly bummed about it. My ten year old daughter with the bloodlines is shaping up to be a great character. I'm just confused.

[Serrus]

So close...SO CLOSE...YES! HAHA, BLAST YOU ALL, YES!
As for Europe...
is this why you guys hate Karlings? (not pictured: Saxony owning most of Scandinavia)
Scuse me...I thiiiink you're a little early for that...

[Dawetid]

So close...SO CLOSE...YES! HAHA, BLAST YOU ALL, YES!
As for Europe...
is this why you guys hate Karlings? (not pictured: Saxony owning most of Scandinavia)
Scuse me...I thiiiink you're a little early for that...

What is the religion at Transylvania?

[Ifreann]

Knowledge sharing saved my economy and my tech is abysmal but hey, Sarig Yogir isn't too bad.

I culture shifted to Tibetan so I can form Tibet and get its nice mission tree (hopefully that works). I think it's actually easier to form Tibet as Sarig Yogir than it is with any Tibetan nation simply because Tribal Supremacy CB is so good. I've also had a string of good luck that doesn't hurt and I have been pretty opportunistic about my wars. Chagatai integrated Yarkand and got attacked by Ming in a tributary war so naturally I swept in and took the entirety of Khotan in one go (thank god for gold mines, though I definitely should have converted the province before I developed it for the production boost).

Kinda weird that Sarig Yogir (Yellow Uyghurs) doesn't have the Uyghur culture but instead has Oirat. I'll probably save here and play out the campaign in two different ways, one as Sarig Yogir > Great Yuan or Mongol Empire (or just stay one tag) and the Tibet formation.

EDIT: Does reducing the cost of units (ie, Teutonic Knights first national idea) also reduce upkeep cost or is that only for creating them? Seems pretty trash otherwise.

Upkeep is based on cost, so reduced cost modifiers reduce the upkeep of units built when that bonus is active. Such is my understanding, at least.