PDOX Games VIII: Communism Will Win

[Ifreann]

Quite possibly the biggest Dev Diary ever created.

Bralia you forgot the best part. Direct Control of the Guillotine.

[happy guillotine noises]

[Bralia]

Bralia you forgot the best part. Direct Control of the Guillotine.

[happy guillotine noises]

It's been a while since I've identified a good thread title, myself, I don't normally have the eye for it. But this stands out. This right here is something we can all get behind.

[Bralia]

The only good wife/husband is one that stays in the bedroom. Highly opposed to this CK3 change.

[The Huskar Social Union]

The only good wife/husband is one that stays in the bedroom. Highly opposed to this CK3 change.

Im personally a fan of strong independent ducal women who conquer their own realms.

[North German Realm]

The only good wife/husband is one that stays in the bedroom. Highly opposed to this CK3 change.

I don't know. I mean, it's certainly a fresh change of air that the spouse can do things other than sit there, be pretty, and provide spawn. I wonder if this gives polygamous religions/heresies(?)/cultures an upper hand though. That said, other than this (and the addition of Bishops into the council and the fact that I don't have to throw coin at the count of some fucking borderland I only erected so I didn't have to do all the fighting myself so I can change my succession law) not much was actually new. Though then again, the next DD is going to be interesting, what with the portraits and all.

[Valrifell]

I've never been more excited to play EU4.

I want to achieve my lifelong goal of consolidating the HRE into one nation, and then making it go revolutionary.

This expandion/update is perfect.

[Ifreann]

I've never been more excited to play EU4.

I want to achieve my lifelong goal of consolidating the HRE into one nation, and then making it go revolutionary.

This expandion/update is perfect.

Huge Revolutionary Empire

[Danubian Peoples]

Funnily enough, the realm didn't explode on Gallu's death.

This is the (as of now) final post about my Oliagstra campaign, downloading all 66 DLCs prompts a notification telling me that I probably shouldn't load up this save. Okeri here is actually Gallu's grandson, his father inherited some lands outside the realm (I tended to marry landed rulers in this campaign, well that and rulers who had claims). Upon Gallu's death, Okeri inherited all of his predecessor's lands, but then his father, Gallu II, inherited Hungary and brought his late mother's territories in Germany to the realm. This drastically reduced the number of vassals I had deal with, which is good, and if I ever wanted to become king of Hungary again, since I was Gallu II's firstborn, if my father died (in fact I think was plotting that when I took this screenshot) I would inherit the kingdom and the vassal-lord relationship would go back to roughly status quo ante bellum. In the meantime Okeri holy warred even more of Byzantium (the incumbent heretic won the three-way civil war, clearly didn't win the Jihad despite 70k troops though). I guess with Byzantium looking closer and closer to a collapse, I'll be the new defender of Europe soon? Oh and BTW I had another one of those eternal crusades for Egypt in this save, except I didn't participate so Catholics and Sunnis just butted heads in North Africa for like, a long time before the latter won. That's one benefit to being Orthodox. You're exempt from crusades and really the pope in general. If I were Catholic, I'd be excommunicated ten rulers over in this save, at least until Spoleto became de jure part of Sardinia and Corsica. Overall this run was pretty fun, had a few ups and downs and each ruler occasionally has a unique epithet for me to remember my antics then. For instance, I talked about a Hungary campaign (a military campaign) that went terribly sour? Well the queen in charge of that got called 'the careless' after the claims and the wars sent the realm into debt. The marraige-making/crown-collecting I pulled off here was a relatively new concept to me. When I watched that CK2 guide it told me to marry good stewardship women, either that or ones with desirable genetics. This is how I played Steirmark, and this is how I played Ireland. Speaking of Ireland, I had basically landed all my dynastic relatives (another tip I learned, found that it was easier to culture and religion convert them instead) with random Irish counties, so matrilineal marraiges inevitably turned to marrying far-removed 'kinsmen' and my dynasty became a prestige printing machine due to the prestige bonus you get from marrying presitgious dynaties.

EDIT: Well I certainly won't be judging you. Count me in on your wanting!

EDIT 2: I've heard that Catholic MA tends to tank because the emperor/s of Western Europe really don't like putting up with the popes and install antipopes for their own realms. I've experienced antipopes before in my Steiermark games, and I'm assuming its pretty common for you guys. If so, then why is it that whenever I bother to check, Catholic MA is typically way up there, and heresies are at a minimum? I've read horror stories of religion view maps that could be passed of as Jackson Pollock paintings, every other province being some Catholic heresy. I'm guessing this is only a 769/867 thing, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Funnily enough, the realm didn't explode on Gallu's death.

This is the (as of now) final post about my Oliagstra campaign, downloading all 66 DLCs prompts a notification telling me that I probably shouldn't load up this save. Okeri here is actually Gallu's grandson, his father inherited some lands outside the realm (I tended to marry landed rulers in this campaign, well that and rulers who had claims). Upon Gallu's death, Okeri inherited all of his predecessor's lands, but then his father, Gallu II, inherited Hungary and brought his late mother's territories in Germany to the realm. This drastically reduced the number of vassals I had deal with, which is good, and if I ever wanted to become king of Hungary again, since I was Gallu II's firstborn, if my father died (in fact I think was plotting that when I took this screenshot) I would inherit the kingdom and the vassal-lord relationship would go back to roughly status quo ante bellum. In the meantime Okeri holy warred even more of Byzantium (the incumbent heretic won the three-way civil war, clearly didn't win the Jihad despite 70k troops though). I guess with Byzantium looking closer and closer to a collapse, I'll be the new defender of Europe soon? Oh and BTW I had another one of those eternal crusades for Egypt in this save, except I didn't participate so Catholics and Sunnis just butted heads in North Africa for like, a long time before the latter won. That's one benefit to being Orthodox. You're exempt from crusades and really the pope in general. If I were Catholic, I'd be excommunicated ten rulers over in this save, at least until Spoleto became de jure part of Sardinia and Corsica. Overall this run was pretty fun, had a few ups and downs and each ruler occasionally has a unique epithet for me to remember my antics then. For instance, I talked about a Hungary campaign (a military campaign) that went terribly sour? Well the queen in charge of that got called 'the careless' after the claims and the wars sent the realm into debt. The marraige-making/crown-collecting I pulled off here was a relatively new concept to me. When I watched that CK2 guide it told me to marry good stewardship women, either that or ones with desirable genetics. This is how I played Steirmark, and this is how I played Ireland. Speaking of Ireland, I had basically landed all my dynastic relatives (another tip I learned, found that it was easier to culture and religion convert them instead) with random Irish counties, so matrilineal marraiges inevitably turned to marrying far-removed 'kinsmen' and my dynasty became a prestige printing machine due to the prestige bonus you get from marrying presitgious dynaties.

EDIT: Well I certainly won't be judging you. Count me in on your wanting!

EDIT 2: I've heard that Catholic MA tends to tank because the emperor/s of Western Europe really don't like putting up with the popes and install antipopes for their own realms. I've experienced antipopes before in my Steiermark games, and I'm assuming its pretty common for you guys. If so, then why is it that whenever I bother to check, Catholic MA is typically way up there, and heresies are at a minimum? I've read horror stories of religion view maps that could be passed of as Jackson Pollock paintings, every other province being some Catholic heresy. I'm guessing this is only a 769/867 thing, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.

yeah its a 769/867 thing. By 1066 heresies are dead in the catholic world aside from the occasional random spawn and rapid revolts

[Valrifell]

Funnily enough, the realm didn't explode on Gallu's death.

This is the (as of now) final post about my Oliagstra campaign, downloading all 66 DLCs prompts a notification telling me that I probably shouldn't load up this save. Okeri here is actually Gallu's grandson, his father inherited some lands outside the realm (I tended to marry landed rulers in this campaign, well that and rulers who had claims). Upon Gallu's death, Okeri inherited all of his predecessor's lands, but then his father, Gallu II, inherited Hungary and brought his late mother's territories in Germany to the realm. This drastically reduced the number of vassals I had deal with, which is good, and if I ever wanted to become king of Hungary again, since I was Gallu II's firstborn, if my father died (in fact I think was plotting that when I took this screenshot) I would inherit the kingdom and the vassal-lord relationship would go back to roughly status quo ante bellum. In the meantime Okeri holy warred even more of Byzantium (the incumbent heretic won the three-way civil war, clearly didn't win the Jihad despite 70k troops though). I guess with Byzantium looking closer and closer to a collapse, I'll be the new defender of Europe soon? Oh and BTW I had another one of those eternal crusades for Egypt in this save, except I didn't participate so Catholics and Sunnis just butted heads in North Africa for like, a long time before the latter won. That's one benefit to being Orthodox. You're exempt from crusades and really the pope in general. If I were Catholic, I'd be excommunicated ten rulers over in this save, at least until Spoleto became de jure part of Sardinia and Corsica. Overall this run was pretty fun, had a few ups and downs and each ruler occasionally has a unique epithet for me to remember my antics then. For instance, I talked about a Hungary campaign (a military campaign) that went terribly sour? Well the queen in charge of that got called 'the careless' after the claims and the wars sent the realm into debt. The marraige-making/crown-collecting I pulled off here was a relatively new concept to me. When I watched that CK2 guide it told me to marry good stewardship women, either that or ones with desirable genetics. This is how I played Steirmark, and this is how I played Ireland. Speaking of Ireland, I had basically landed all my dynastic relatives (another tip I learned, found that it was easier to culture and religion convert them instead) with random Irish counties, so matrilineal marraiges inevitably turned to marrying far-removed 'kinsmen' and my dynasty became a prestige printing machine due to the prestige bonus you get from marrying presitgious dynaties.

EDIT: Well I certainly won't be judging you. Count me in on your wanting!

EDIT 2: I've heard that Catholic MA tends to tank because the emperor/s of Western Europe really don't like putting up with the popes and install antipopes for their own realms. I've experienced antipopes before in my Steiermark games, and I'm assuming its pretty common for you guys. If so, then why is it that whenever I bother to check, Catholic MA is typically way up there, and heresies are at a minimum? I've read horror stories of religion view maps that could be passed of as Jackson Pollock paintings, every other province being some Catholic heresy. I'm guessing this is only a 769/867 thing, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.

yeah its a 769/867 thing. By 1066 heresies are dead in the catholic world aside from the occasional random spawn and rapid revolts

It's so deeply frustrating watching the Catholic world fuck over itself constantly in 867. I mean, vikings are already stretching the MA thin with their raids, we really don't need six antipopes over the past ten years and four fucking cadaver synods in a row.

[Heloin]

yeah its a 769/867 thing. By 1066 heresies are dead in the catholic world aside from the occasional random spawn and rapid revolts

It's so deeply frustrating watching the Catholic world fuck over itself constantly in 867. I mean, vikings are already stretching the MA thin with their raids, we really don't need six antipopes over the past ten years and four fucking cadaver synods in a row.

Sounds like it's par for the course for medieval history

[Impaled Nazarene]

It's so deeply frustrating watching the Catholic world fuck over itself constantly in 867. I mean, vikings are already stretching the MA thin with their raids, we really don't need six antipopes over the past ten years and four fucking cadaver synods in a row.

Sounds like it's par for the course for medieval history

Highly inaccurate though as there's always a clear legitimate Pope in CK2 and not 2-4 popes all with weak/legitimate claims at the same time.

[Valrifell]

I've never been more excited to play EU4.

I want to achieve my lifelong goal of consolidating the HRE into one nation, and then making it go revolutionary.

This expandion/update is perfect.

Huge Revolutionary Empire

A glorious mega campaign detailing the rise of the Union of Central Roman Socialist Republics

[Serrus]

It's so deeply frustrating watching the Catholic world fuck over itself constantly in 867. I mean, vikings are already stretching the MA thin with their raids, we really don't need six antipopes over the past ten years and four fucking cadaver synods in a row.

I believe you mean awesome and hilarious. Unless you actually play catholic, then it isn't.

[Valrifell]

It's so deeply frustrating watching the Catholic world fuck over itself constantly in 867. I mean, vikings are already stretching the MA thin with their raids, we really don't need six antipopes over the past ten years and four fucking cadaver synods in a row.

I believe you mean awesome and hilarious. Unless you actually play catholic, then it isn't.

No, it's hilarious watching Charlemagne get attritioned to death in Saxony, watching the Catholics get stomped on all sides is just sad.

At least until the crusades fire, if they make it that far.

[Holy Tedalonia]

I believe you mean awesome and hilarious. Unless you actually play catholic, then it isn't.

No, it's hilarious watching Charlemagne get attritioned to death in Saxony, watching the Catholics get stomped on all sides is just sad.

At least until the crusades fire, if they make it that far.

I just wish the ai was smarter when it comes to attrition. Having them be more attrition oriented allows the armies not to blob all the time. And would give better tactics when invading China, which they intentionally designed the only way to beat them is to attrition kill their men.

[Bralia]

Probably should have mentioned this this morning, Imperator's Livy is now out.

And the game is free to play for 4 days! A perfect time for people to check out all of the improvements and decide whether to pay for it when the week's up.

[Danubian Peoples]

Sigurd Ring is in fact a great start!

Formed Sweden as Sigurd, reformed Germanic as Ragnar, conquered a lot as my dad, and conquered even more+forged a bloodline as Dag. It's crazy how powerful these guys are. In 4 characters I went from Swedish duke to Emperor of Scandinavia. Game won't give me that as my title however because I'm also the religious head, the same way caliphs aren't labled badshah for instance. I also founded a bloodline, went for the win 15 wars one because when I hit the prestige requirement by forming Scandinavia, I had managed to form said empire by warring against Suomensko pagans several times (pagan attrtion is BRUTAL, Military Org 4 is a livesaver), and taking whole swathes of England from heretic (and sometimes not even heretic) dukes. Catholicism's low MA let me get away with that real easy. In other words, I won 13 wars. So now I have the warrior-philosopher bloodline. Is it any good? Is there some kind of bloodline meta?

UPDATE: Stole back Stonehenge, and more importantly.. Venerable excrement I got the warrior legend bloodine! I've gotten that event before, but never with a character this strong. Every other attempt ended with a. me dying to the first challenge, b. dying to some unrelated cause before legend can begin, fellow warrior lodgers promptly get killed. This is truly the best character I've ever had.

[Bralia]

Intelligence reports that a HoI4 Dev Diary has dropped. Move in and read it immediately before the document becomes compromised.

[Ostroeuropa]

Gonna try an EU4 Sweden game.
50% inf combat ability is too tempting

[Bralia]

The picture doesn't quite do it justice, but this is probably the worst shade of yellow I've ever seen. I'm going to have to kill it. It's SOOOO bright, in-game. It reminds me of the sun, and being a nocturnal person, I HATE the sun.

[Lunas Legion]

The picture doesn't quite do it justice, but this is probably the worst shade of yellow I've ever seen. I'm going to have to kill it. It's SOOOO bright, in-game. It reminds me of the sun, and being a nocturnal person, I HATE the sun.

I didn't even know that could be formed but yes it is disgusting.

[North German Realm]

The picture doesn't quite do it justice, but this is probably the worst shade of yellow I've ever seen. I'm going to have to kill it. It's SOOOO bright, in-game. It reminds me of the sun, and being a nocturnal person, I HATE the sun.

I'm not sure if it's the Danish Prussia that offends me the most or the fact Burgundy still exists in 1550s.

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

Huge Revolutionary Empire

A glorious mega campaign detailing the rise of the Union of Central Roman Socialist Republics

Time to spend $250 on EU4 just so I can WC as the Union of Sacred Socialist Republics.

[Ifreann]

The picture doesn't quite do it justice, but this is probably the worst shade of yellow I've ever seen. I'm going to have to kill it. It's SOOOO bright, in-game. It reminds me of the sun, and being a nocturnal person, I HATE the sun.

I didn't even know that could be formed but yes it is disgusting.

I think I want to form this nation now.