PDX Games IX: Western Pre-Turkic Empire

[Washington Resistance Army]

The disinherit button is really just the most OP thing.

[Heloin]

The disinherit button is really just the most OP thing.

It feels like something that should be in the option menu of "you can do this but you won't get achievements."

[The Restored Danelaw]

The disinherit button is really just the most OP thing.

It feels like something that should be in the option menu of "you can do this but you won't get achievements."

Or preferably it should have the same mechanics as revoke. You can disinherit, but unless you have appropriate grounds you get a heavy tyranny penalty and be disliked by your dynasty/house members. Though given how quick everyone is to the dagger, that doesn't really mean much. Everyone's either an adulterer or a murderer.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

If I send out my assassin, no one will find out even I die.This secret will disappear into history.
This may be why there is a Master Assassin on the cover of CK3.I now suspect that the other two is a adulterer and a poor king who is too stressed and about to collapse.

[The New California Republic]

The disinherit button is really just the most OP thing.

There are costs involved in it, which can mount up if there are a lot of children that need disinheriting.

[Myrensis]

The disinherit button is really just the most OP thing.

There are costs involved in it, which can mount up if there are a lot of children that need disinheriting.

Yeah, always fun to have to throw away hundreds/potentially thousands of prestige and dynasty renown just to keep your realm from fragmenting into a dozen pieces when you die..

[The Restored Danelaw]

There are costs involved in it, which can mount up if there are a lot of children that need disinheriting.

Yeah, always fun to have to throw away hundreds/potentially thousands of prestige and dynasty renown just to keep your realm from fragmenting into a dozen pieces when you die..

Which is hilarious because your renown increases dramatically if your realm fragments correctly. Of course, Confederate Partition is ridiculous because there's pretty much no way to know how it divides things. You might lose 90% of your land but when West Francia partitions the primary heir keeps all 5 fucking kingdoms titles.

[Immoren]

Can't you just make confederate partition more predictable by making your kids your vassals if you've enough land or creating specific succession laws for titles?

[The Hindustani State]

Every time I plot to kill one of my kids I remember there's a disinherit button now, but it's always so late into the plan I don't feel like calling it off. It's been nearly a month, you'd think I'd learn by now.

Seems like CK has learned from EU

[Danubian Peoples]

867 Samanids game-details inside

Decided to try and restore Zoroastrian Iran. Started as the powerful Samanids in the north since I wasn't keen on losing head privileges as the Karens, and decided, 'not playing Ironman so I might as well cheese convert.' It turns out that the Samanid kings were actually descended from Zoroastrians, so maybe this wasn't as cheese as I originally thought. Anyway in the span of two characters I converted to Khurzmata religion and Sogdian culture, then blobbed from my kingdom and formed the empire of Turan.

Starting as my first character, I converted to Sogdian since it was the most prevalent culture in my realm at the time (still is to an extent), and also because I moved my capital to the Ferghana valley for some sweet farmland, which is like 100% Sogdian. I converted to Khurzmadism and not some other Zoroastrian demonination because of the same reason, and because its pluralist stance lowered the upfront piety cost for converting, making the whole ordeal easier on my character's moral bank account. Also it came with the Esotericism tenent, which basically gives you Mystic traits with ease via Pilgrimage.

Onto conquest as this first character, whose name I forgot (actually Wikipedia tells me it was Nasr, but I don't know for sure, could be reading Wikipedia's articles wrong). I conquered that circle of counties north of Tibet, which I believe corresponds to Sinkiang. I had focused most of my conquests there since the realms I needed to mop up were largely feudal, and as such supply penalties weren't an issue while I marched through their lands. Once that was done, and messed around for a while, improving buildings and such.

And then I croaked. Onto my next character, Nasr zk Nasr, which I presume means Nasr, son of Nasr in Sogdian. Really that should've clued me in to my first guy's name. Of note was that he was asexual, but that did not put any brakes on the amount of kids he, his wife and his concubines collectively spawned. Since I had mopped up the east, I needed to nab one duchy from the Oghuz Il in order to do this. Problem is, they were tribal, and supply in their territory was always at 1000 max. This was brutal, largely because of how incompetent I am. Had to load a save again and again so as to formulate a battle plan that well, worked. When I finally got it to work, I took the duchy of Transcaspia, stockpiled gold and formed the Empire of Turan.

From there I began eating up the Tahirids to my south. My Empire of Turan was rather powerful, boasting some 5000-9000 troops depending on vassal opinion (kept clan government despite converting for some reason), and it allowed me to make off clean house with 2 Tahirid duchies over the course of 2 wars. From here I am planning to gobbling up the rest of Iran and then becoming Saoshyant. A Khurzmata Sogdian Samanid Saoshyant. At this rate I should've debugged myself some piety and made my own Zoroastrian heresy, just so I could be that little bit more out there.

[The New California Republic]

It's hilarious when the Vatican gets vassalized by an Islamic empire and the Pope ceases to exist, leaving Catholicism without a head of faith...

[The Imperial Reach]

I was really hoping that CKIII would fix that little problem with OP Muslims in early start dates and on the one hand, as I watch the Byzantines gobble up Africa, it did but on the other hand, as I watch Andalusians push all the way up the French coast and into Wales, it didn't.

Mind, this is the 1066 start - not the 867 start.

[Serrus]

I was really hoping that CKIII would fix that little problem with OP Muslims in early start dates and on the one hand, as I watch the Byzantines gobble up Africa, it did but on the other hand, as I watch Andalusians push all the way up the French coast and into Wales, it didn't.

Mind, this is the 1066 start - not the 867 start.

what in the hell
Not to mention how though?

[The New California Republic]

I was really hoping that CKIII would fix that little problem with OP Muslims in early start dates and on the one hand, as I watch the Byzantines gobble up Africa, it did but on the other hand, as I watch Andalusians push all the way up the French coast and into Wales, it didn't.

Mind, this is the 1066 start - not the 867 start.

Oh yeah I've got that problem on my current playthrough as well. France and most of Italy have been absorbed by an Islamic empire that spans most of the map. They are pushing into Russia and China as well.

[Purpelia]

Is there a way in Victoria 2 to intervene in the american civil war?

[Heloin]

Is there a way in Victoria 2 to intervene in the american civil war?

Quickly raise your influence with the CSA to friendly and hope to god that they didn't die a brutal death before that point.

If you want to help the Americans who are going to win anyways send them some money I guess, thoughts and prayers.

You could also just invade either side (or both, go nuts) and take their shite while they're busy with that whole war nonsense.

[Lunas Legion]

Is there a way in Victoria 2 to intervene in the american civil war?

Playing with or without mods?

[Purpelia]

Is there a way in Victoria 2 to intervene in the american civil war?

Playing with or without mods?

Either way. I just like want the CSA to win for once.

[Myrensis]

Anyone know if there's a CK3->EU4 save converter yet?

[Purpelia]

Anyone know if there's a CK3->EU4 save converter yet?

My bet would be no.

[Dakran]

Is it normal that I don't get any notification that someone's declared war on me in CK3?

[The New California Republic]

Is it normal that I don't get any notification that someone's declared war on me in CK3?

There is usually some kind of message.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

Is it normal that I don't get any notification that someone's declared war on me in CK3?

In the lower right corner, there should be a coat of arms for those who are fighting with you or your Lord

[Shanghai industrial complex]

Yeah, always fun to have to throw away hundreds/potentially thousands of prestige and dynasty renown just to keep your realm from fragmenting into a dozen pieces when you die..

Which is hilarious because your renown increases dramatically if your realm fragments correctly. Of course, Confederate Partition is ridiculous because there's pretty much no way to know how it divides things. You might lose 90% of your land but when West Francia partitions the primary heir keeps all 5 fucking kingdoms titles.

If I were the king of Byzantine Empire, and I had four kings. But my heir may only get one throne because he has too many brothers.If there is only one throne, I may not have enough strength to go to the East and blow up the head of Mongolian Khan.I didn't have enough strength to protect Byzantium when my emperor converted to Islam, because my colleagues didn't have Rome in their hearts.

[The Restored Danelaw]

Is it normal that I don't get any notification that someone's declared war on me in CK3?

You usually get a notif when someone declares war on you. Sometimes, when you "inherit" a war, you don't get a notification. You can find all the wars you're in in the low right part of the screen at any rate.