oh, well, they're not much fun and the point where I suddenly started worrying about supply :<
Their initial armies don't worry about supply though, and after they had taken the lands east of me, they sent their army after me. The first war was almost over before I got a sizable amount of troops in the area.
I managed to lure half of their army to the coast where my men in boats came ashore and crushed them.
Biggest battle I ever had was probably about 400k of my men against 240k of theirs.
You get an event telling you each time when a new mongol invasion is coming into europe though, so you can probably prepare better than I did (although I tried assassination in the later waves, but it didn't seem to have any effect)
I think you're supposed to just lose those lands they want, but I refused to do any such thing.
End on
I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
so this happened right in the middle of a crusade:
I feel like the Catholic factions are actually the most exciting to play. Also gives you more options to put your family on the throne of some other country.
Also, in EU4 I just kicked France's ass with a coalition of GB, Netherlands, Austria, Savoy, Castille, Portugal, Prussia (myself) and a handful of minors.
It's double funny because if you hadn't just broken West Francia into pieces they would probably have joined into the holy war on navarra's side.
The AI is so obnoxious about actually realizing when their enemies are distracted
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
The Long and Glorious Reign of King Gartzia the Last
King Louis the Stammerer rapidly crushes the abortive Poitou rebellion and heals the realm. Peace returns.
Then King Louis the Stammerer abruptly dies in his early 30s, and Aquitaine and West Francia are split once again between his young children, Aquitaine to King Carloman and West Francia to King Louis III. King Carloman immediately shows his youthful spunk by going to war with King Lothaire of Lotharingia over Aquitanian rights to the Kingdom of Italy.
In November 877, Queen Ximena dies unexpectedly at age 30, her noble heart breaking at the sight of her leal Christian subjects subjugated by black-hearted Moorish pagans. Prince Gartzia inherits the throne at the tender age of 9, his reign full of promise for all free Navarrese -
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit (I forgot to take a screencap of the actual declaration but you can guess right)
This time, Aquitaine intervenes in Navarre's defense, but King Carloman is already entangled in his ill-conceived Italian campaign against Lotharingia. The 8,000-strong host he does manage to raise is annihilated by a Muslim army twice its size in the mountains of Barcelona, ending the French intervention.
The combined Gascon-Navarrese army takes Pamplona, but is likewise destroyed soon after, whereupon King Gartzia flees to Armagnac, surrendering his crown to the victorious Moors.
Duke Antso III of the briefly-Royal House of Vasconia dies soon after, having lived long enough to see his royal succession won, realized and lost within the space of a decade.
In hopes of recouping some of our power, Duke Gartzia II betroths his son to the young Countess of Melgueil, in Provence. A county is less inspiring an inheritance than a kingdom, but at the very least this will the House of Vasconia some territory with a buffer between it and the Muslims.
Elsewhere, England slowly appears to be unifying against the Viking scourge, while the French have taken most of Brittany back from its erstwhile Norse conqueror. Lotharingia defeats Aquitaine, but King Lothaire then promptly dies, splitting up the Lotharingian Empire into the two new successor kingdoms of Burgundy and Italy.
First time I've achieved this in a game as an Irish count. I had to take the last kingdom, Scotland, from my character's sister. A few years before that, she had invaded me with her allies using a potentially game-ending "Press All Claims" casus belli and even my grandfather, the king of England, was waging war against me, so I had to kill him and take his throne in order to use his levies against my sister.
I finished my game up last night, it's much less interesting (and not impressive at all imo) since I was basically playing the easiest possible way at all times, but it was my way of dealing with the learning curve the game throws at you
I kind of wish the game allowed you to zoom out far enough to see the entire map, but I suppose you can guess who owns the southern parts of Africa and northern Scandinavia as well
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
that's kind of a funny place for the capitol of the "roman" empire
that's kind of a funny place for the capitol of the "roman" empire
Not really, Constantinople was founded in 330 as a new capital for the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire never considered itself distinct from the old Roman Empire, "Byzantine" is an early modern term
after you restore the empire you get a important decision where you can have your capital moved to rome
I could have moved to there without that, but rome starts with the wrong type of county capital so I had given it to a vassal. I think the decision also changes the holdings in other ways too?
End on
I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
I did eventually move my capital back to Rome, but I didn't until after I took that screenshot because I was worried about losing so much tech progress. At least once I was done conquering everything it was less of a concern.
Regarding what End said, when I moved my capital the county of Rome moved into my demesne without penalty, and the primary holding type went from bishopric to a castle, so that fixed itself too.
Emporium on
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ElldrenIs a woman dammitceterum censeoRegistered Userregular
bonus points if you can do that as a Habsburg
fuck gendered marketing
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Kane Red RobeMaster of MagicArcanusRegistered Userregular
edited September 2013
I fear this game may be affecting my morals. I started a game as the Count of Brabant with the goal of becoming King of Frisia, because I thought it would be historically interesting if BeNeLux had stayed one unified state instead of splitting and... well never mind. Anyways, I became Duke of Brabant in short order and casting my eyes about for more Frisian territory I noted that the Count of Zeeland had only two daughters, so I married my eldest son to his eldest daughter. In time the Count of Zeeland had a son and another daughter; dang I thought, at least I can press my grandson's claim on the place maybe. But then the Count died anda more cunning plan occurred to me. The new Count of Zeeland was an 8 year old boy, and there were no other sons, so if he were to tragically perish my daughter-in-law would inherit. One substantial bribe to the Court Chaplain (and regent) of Zeeland later and the boy-Count goes flying off the castle parapet. Success! My grandson will inherit Zeeland from his mother who is now the Countess there.
...Wait, did I just have an 8 year-old assassinated?
I fear this game may be affecting my morals. I started a game as the Count of Brabant with the goal of becoming King of Frisia, because I thought it would be historically interesting if BeNeLux had stayed one unified state instead of splitting and... well never mind. Anyways, I became Duke of Brabant in short order and casting my eyes about for more Frisian territory I noted that the Count of Zeeland had only two daughters, so I married my eldest son to his eldest daughter. In time the Count of Zeeland had a son and another daughter; dang I thought, at least I can press my grandson's claim on the place maybe. But then the Count died anda more cunning plan occurred to me. The new Count of Zeeland was an 8 year old boy, and there were no other sons, so if he were to tragically perish my daughter-in-law would inherit. One substantial bribe to the Court Chaplain (and regent) of Zeeland later and the boy-Count goes flying off the castle parapet. Success! My grandson will inherit Zeeland from his mother who is now the Countess there.
...Wait, did I just have an 8 year-old assassinated?
I did basically the same thing except with the duchy of holland.
My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
I still need to go back to my game and make everything Russia
wondering how I'll approach the Mongol invasion
is there a way to marry the Khan
I WANT HIS BLOOD IN MY DYNASTY, GODDAMMIT
you can marry him but he starts married and is presumably an infidel to you so unless his wife dies and he converts really early you have to settle for his grandson or something
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Their initial armies don't worry about supply though, and after they had taken the lands east of me, they sent their army after me. The first war was almost over before I got a sizable amount of troops in the area.
I managed to lure half of their army to the coast where my men in boats came ashore and crushed them.
Biggest battle I ever had was probably about 400k of my men against 240k of theirs.
You get an event telling you each time when a new mongol invasion is coming into europe though, so you can probably prepare better than I did (although I tried assassination in the later waves, but it didn't seem to have any effect)
I think you're supposed to just lose those lands they want, but I refused to do any such thing.
(the Great Pox is syphilis)
oh well
i have everything except for a handful of leonese counties and no real interest in waiting out the truce timer to take them all one at a time
my vassals, in theory, should be making themselves useful around this point, but instead they are being total shitlords and trying to fight france
much as i would love to invade the kingdom of aquitania, the holy roman emperor would not approve of that plan
so i dunno
kind of getting bored of this game, maybe i'll try another duke in the same timelime
You could use the console to change your race, grab a title, and then change back.
That what I did as the Zoroastrian Genghis Khan.
3DS: 1289-8447-4695
i can't become sultan of leon or aragon or castile
what i can become sultan of is uh
ireland
so look out british isles here comes islam
(for some reason i'm a badshah instead of a caliph. what's that about? it sounds kinda persian, i'm not persian though)
it made conquering ireland a cakewalk
if i'd had to use holy wars the fucking thing would have taking way longer and i would have run the risk of england getting involved
i tried moving on france a couple of times and whoa shit hello there THE HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR
There's some mechanism by which you can become caliph if there isn't one, but I can't remember it.
Feels good.
it's a different transliteration of Padishah
The AI is so obnoxious about actually realizing when their enemies are distracted
no I've just been super distracted with work
I'll update tomorrow
conquered mecca
now the caliph proper
trying to figure out how to use my special caliph powers
also dongs it is tomorrow i name thee liar
King Louis the Stammerer rapidly crushes the abortive Poitou rebellion and heals the realm. Peace returns.
Then King Louis the Stammerer abruptly dies in his early 30s, and Aquitaine and West Francia are split once again between his young children, Aquitaine to King Carloman and West Francia to King Louis III. King Carloman immediately shows his youthful spunk by going to war with King Lothaire of Lotharingia over Aquitanian rights to the Kingdom of Italy.
In November 877, Queen Ximena dies unexpectedly at age 30, her noble heart breaking at the sight of her leal Christian subjects subjugated by black-hearted Moorish pagans. Prince Gartzia inherits the throne at the tender age of 9, his reign full of promise for all free Navarrese -
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit (I forgot to take a screencap of the actual declaration but you can guess right)
This time, Aquitaine intervenes in Navarre's defense, but King Carloman is already entangled in his ill-conceived Italian campaign against Lotharingia. The 8,000-strong host he does manage to raise is annihilated by a Muslim army twice its size in the mountains of Barcelona, ending the French intervention.
The combined Gascon-Navarrese army takes Pamplona, but is likewise destroyed soon after, whereupon King Gartzia flees to Armagnac, surrendering his crown to the victorious Moors.
Duke Antso III of the briefly-Royal House of Vasconia dies soon after, having lived long enough to see his royal succession won, realized and lost within the space of a decade.
In hopes of recouping some of our power, Duke Gartzia II betroths his son to the young Countess of Melgueil, in Provence. A county is less inspiring an inheritance than a kingdom, but at the very least this will the House of Vasconia some territory with a buffer between it and the Muslims.
Elsewhere, England slowly appears to be unifying against the Viking scourge, while the French have taken most of Brittany back from its erstwhile Norse conqueror. Lotharingia defeats Aquitaine, but King Lothaire then promptly dies, splitting up the Lotharingian Empire into the two new successor kingdoms of Burgundy and Italy.
First time I've achieved this in a game as an Irish count. I had to take the last kingdom, Scotland, from my character's sister. A few years before that, she had invaded me with her allies using a potentially game-ending "Press All Claims" casus belli and even my grandfather, the king of England, was waging war against me, so I had to kill him and take his throne in order to use his levies against my sister.
I kind of wish the game allowed you to zoom out far enough to see the entire map, but I suppose you can guess who owns the southern parts of Africa and northern Scandinavia as well
Not really, Constantinople was founded in 330 as a new capital for the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire never considered itself distinct from the old Roman Empire, "Byzantine" is an early modern term
I could have moved to there without that, but rome starts with the wrong type of county capital so I had given it to a vassal. I think the decision also changes the holdings in other ways too?
Regarding what End said, when I moved my capital the county of Rome moved into my demesne without penalty, and the primary holding type went from bishopric to a castle, so that fixed itself too.
...Wait, did I just have an 8 year-old assassinated?
I did basically the same thing except with the duchy of holland.
"little edric plummeted from the top of the highest tower. his death was quick and presumably painless
chicken for dinner, i think"
jesus get elective monarchy already
Let us be your councilors
wondering how I'll approach the Mongol invasion
is there a way to marry the Khan
I WANT HIS BLOOD IN MY DYNASTY, GODDAMMIT
Twitch (I stream most days of the week)
Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
Ok
you are now Platypus of Beirut, Steward of Gascony
what is your counsel
Only if he converts to your religion, I think.
Or maybe you can capture one of his children and marry them to one of your's.
you can marry him but he starts married and is presumably an infidel to you so unless his wife dies and he converts really early you have to settle for his grandson or something