PDOX Games VIII: Communism Will Win

[Lunas Legion]

Wait, why? Were they deleted by youtube, or by user themselves?

It just says video unavailable. there's no post saying why he took them down or if he took them down at all. I am very concerned

Assume someone complained they were offensive.

[Licana]

Ring Worlds and Habs are looking pretty good now.

[Wallenburg]

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This, but unironically. The fucking gall of my vassals to dislike a tall, kind, charitable, brawny, brilliant strategist whose realm is twice as strong as any neighbors.

[Purpelia]

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This, but unironically. The fucking gall of my vassals to dislike a tall, kind, charitable, brawny, brilliant strategist whose realm is twice as strong as any neighbors.

Well of course they do. He is the one who steals their well earned money and calls it tax. Tax. Taxes are for peasants! Worse yet you drag their armies away from their vitally important dealings to waste on petty squabbles with other kings. And what do THEY get out of it? Nothing I tell you! And than you have the gall to try and push through reforms to make the realm even more centralized so as to further your banditry.

A good king is a weak king, a passive king, a stupid king, preferably underaged as well. At least as far as the nobility is concerned.

[Impaled Nazarene]

This, but unironically. The fucking gall of my vassals to dislike a tall, kind, charitable, brawny, brilliant strategist whose realm is twice as strong as any neighbors.

Well of course they do. He is the one who steals their well earned money and calls it tax. Tax. Taxes are for peasants! Worse yet you drag their armies away from their vitally important dealings to waste on petty squabbles with other kings. And what do THEY get out of it? Nothing I tell you! And than you have the gall to try and push through reforms to make the realm even more centralized so as to further your banditry.

A good king is a weak king, a passive king, a stupid king, preferably underaged as well. At least as far as the nobility is concerned.

The funny thing is I have less luck with idiot and underaged monarchs than intelligent ones.
Regents are the most uncooperative things on the planet especially for vassals they aren't allied to.
Idiot monarchs don't use tact they just imprison you or punish you. A Smart one just uses his stats to block you completely but at least you'll live.

[Serrus]

This, but unironically. The fucking gall of my vassals to dislike a tall, kind, charitable, brawny, brilliant strategist whose realm is twice as strong as any neighbors.

Well of course they do. He is the one who steals their well earned money and calls it tax. Tax. Taxes are for peasants! Worse yet you drag their armies away from their vitally important dealings to waste on petty squabbles with other kings. And what do THEY get out of it? Nothing I tell you! And than you have the gall to try and push through reforms to make the realm even more centralized so as to further your banditry.

A good king is a weak king, a passive king, a stupid king, preferably underaged as well. At least as far as the nobility is concerned.

My nobles usually like me, even though I get warmongery sometimes. That might be because I bribe them with gold and clean borders (i.e. if I'm the king of Eire, I put Mumu, Connachta, and whatever the other duke is as separate vassals of unrelated dynasties, whilst keeping Ulaidh as my own land out of paranoia.

[The Imperial Reach]

Well of course they do. He is the one who steals their well earned money and calls it tax. Tax. Taxes are for peasants! Worse yet you drag their armies away from their vitally important dealings to waste on petty squabbles with other kings. And what do THEY get out of it? Nothing I tell you! And than you have the gall to try and push through reforms to make the realm even more centralized so as to further your banditry.

A good king is a weak king, a passive king, a stupid king, preferably underaged as well. At least as far as the nobility is concerned.

My nobles usually like me, even though I get warmongery sometimes. That might be because I bribe them with gold and clean borders (i.e. if I'm the king of Eire, I put Mumu, Connachta, and whatever the other duke is as separate vassals of unrelated dynasties, whilst keeping Ulaidh as my own land out of paranoia.

Never let your vassals try to expand on their own. All they end up doing is either losing and fucking up your moral authority or winning and growing stronger, taking specific provinces you needed/wanted, destroying your tributaries/allies/other vassals, etc.

Honestly there is nothing good about vassal wars.

[Ism]

My nobles usually like me, even though I get warmongery sometimes. That might be because I bribe them with gold and clean borders (i.e. if I'm the king of Eire, I put Mumu, Connachta, and whatever the other duke is as separate vassals of unrelated dynasties, whilst keeping Ulaidh as my own land out of paranoia.

Never let your vassals try to expand on their own. All they end up doing is either losing and fucking up your moral authority or winning and growing stronger, taking specific provinces you needed/wanted, destroying your tributaries/allies/other vassals, etc.

Honestly there is nothing good about vassal wars.

Gotta disagree. While it’s not all good stuff, letting vassals expand can make life easy. For instance, back in my Israel game, my vassals conquered half the Middle East for me. And I don’t think I had a single revolt that entire game.

[The Imperial Reach]

Never let your vassals try to expand on their own. All they end up doing is either losing and fucking up your moral authority or winning and growing stronger, taking specific provinces you needed/wanted, destroying your tributaries/allies/other vassals, etc.

Honestly there is nothing good about vassal wars.

Gotta disagree. While it’s not all good stuff, letting vassals expand can make life easy. For instance, back in my Israel game, my vassals conquered half the Middle East for me. And I don’t think I had a single revolt that entire game.

Vassals will always be your biggest threat. You just got lucky.

[Ithalian Empire]

My nobles usually like me, even though I get warmongery sometimes. That might be because I bribe them with gold and clean borders (i.e. if I'm the king of Eire, I put Mumu, Connachta, and whatever the other duke is as separate vassals of unrelated dynasties, whilst keeping Ulaidh as my own land out of paranoia.

Never let your vassals try to expand on their own. All they end up doing is either losing and fucking up your moral authority or winning and growing stronger, taking specific provinces you needed/wanted, destroying your tributaries/allies/other vassals, etc.

Honestly there is nothing good about vassal wars.

Save for when they make your game interesting. Also, when playing as a duke tier character vassal wars are pretty fucking sweet, and ive never been one to just start as playing a king.

[Ism]

Gotta disagree. While it’s not all good stuff, letting vassals expand can make life easy. For instance, back in my Israel game, my vassals conquered half the Middle East for me. And I don’t think I had a single revolt that entire game.

Vassals will always be your biggest threat. You just got lucky.

Nah, I had elective succession(on a titular title, so only I had a vote), which they liked, cultivated high diplo and martial leaders, so they liked my characters and I had a massive levy, I maintained a fresh source of happy vassals through handing out conquered lands and vice royalties and I maintained a massive retinue army, thanks to the Ethiopian retinues being very cheap, which meant it was next to impossible for a faction to actually grow large enough to revolt. There’s always a little bit of luck, but vassals are not as difficult to herd as they seem. Besides, my biggest threat during that game was definitely the Fatimids, and later adventuring claimants and Crusades, not my vassals.

[Wallenburg]

My nobles usually like me, even though I get warmongery sometimes. That might be because I bribe them with gold and clean borders (i.e. if I'm the king of Eire, I put Mumu, Connachta, and whatever the other duke is as separate vassals of unrelated dynasties, whilst keeping Ulaidh as my own land out of paranoia.

Never let your vassals try to expand on their own. All they end up doing is either losing and fucking up your moral authority or winning and growing stronger, taking specific provinces you needed/wanted, destroying your tributaries/allies/other vassals, etc.

Honestly there is nothing good about vassal wars.

I once conquered everything from Sevastapol to Archangel without lifting a finger, all thanks to fanatically warmongery vassals.

[The Imperial Reach]

That glorious feel when you're the Catholic French Holy Roman Emperor and you put your Catholic French nephew on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.

[Wallenburg]

That glorious feel when you're the Catholic French Holy Roman Emperor and you put your Catholic French nephew on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.

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That horrible sinking feeling when he immediately enters a matrilineal marriage and gets usurped within a decade.

[The Imperial Reach]

That glorious feel when you're the Catholic French Holy Roman Emperor and you put your Catholic French nephew on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.

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That horrible sinking feeling when he immediately enters a matrilineal marriage and gets usurped within a decade.

He was already married and had a son when he became Basileus. He has two now, and is starting to convert his vassals to Catholicism by force after I help him fuck them up in constant civil wars.

RIP Orthodoxy

[Ithalian Empire]

That horrible sinking feeling when he immediately enters a matrilineal marriage and gets usurped within a decade.

He was already married and had a son when he became Basileus. He has two now, and is starting to convert his vassals to Catholicism by force after I help him fuck them up in constant civil wars.

RIP Orthodoxy

Why are you doing this to my boy?

[The Imperial Reach]

He was already married and had a son when he became Basileus. He has two now, and is starting to convert his vassals to Catholicism by force after I help him fuck them up in constant civil wars.

RIP Orthodoxy

Why are you doing this to my boy?

Sometimes you have to hurt what you love.

[Wallenburg]

I loaded this absurdity up just for giggles, and now that I've seen the full Lovecraftian horror of it all, I must play it. Wolfe, give me those extra 32 bits of address space. I'm gonna need all of them, I think.

[Lunas Legion]

I loaded this absurdity up just for giggles, and now that I've seen the full Lovecraftian horror of it all, I must play it. Wolfe, give me those extra 32 bits of address space. I'm gonna need all of them, I think.

How many stars is that?

[Bralia]

I loaded this absurdity up just for giggles, and now that I've seen the full Lovecraftian horror of it all, I must play it. Wolfe, give me those extra 32 bits of address space. I'm gonna need all of them, I think.

Now fill this galaxy with triple the existing amount of races and you've got a fun time. As it is now, you'd never meet another race for over 50 years, if you didn't know exactly where they were.

[Bralia]

I have a feeling I'll be able to enjoy Imperator: Rome even before September, the improvements being made in the Pompey patch are universally great.

[Wallenburg]

I loaded this absurdity up just for giggles, and now that I've seen the full Lovecraftian horror of it all, I must play it. Wolfe, give me those extra 32 bits of address space. I'm gonna need all of them, I think.

How many stars is that?

25,000

I loaded this absurdity up just for giggles, and now that I've seen the full Lovecraftian horror of it all, I must play it. Wolfe, give me those extra 32 bits of address space. I'm gonna need all of them, I think.

Now fill this galaxy with triple the existing amount of races and you've got a fun time. As it is now, you'd never meet another race for over 50 years, if you didn't know exactly where they were.

It's at 60 civs, 5 FEs, and 3x primitives, to match the density you see in normal maps. Truly a xeno-infested snakepit.

I have a feeling I'll be able to enjoy Imperator: Rome even before September, the improvements being made in the Pompey patch are universally great.

Ah, victory. Episode 2

[The Vekta-Helghast Empire]

Man, we really need more fear mechanics in CK2. Like, sure - having everyone love you is nice and all, but if I can't get them to love me, I might as well make them fear me with the threat of burning them alive, or beheading them.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Man, we really need more fear mechanics in CK2. Like, sure - having everyone love you is nice and all, but if I can't get them to love me, I might as well make them fear me with the threat of burning them alive, or beheading them.

Burn a city with a big beastie

[Impaled Nazarene]

I have a feeling I'll be able to enjoy Imperator: Rome even before September, the improvements being made in the Pompey patch are universally great.

Decent fixes but a long wait is still ahead.