For some reason I prefer Crusader Kings with the Deus Vult expansion over Crusader Kings II.
Everybody looking like they're inbred is much more realistic I guess.
[QUOTE=Consentes;39387727]Does anyone here have any good challenge for CK2? I want something I can aspire to do while playing the game, instead of just mindlessly popping out babies and killing Scottish people.[/QUOTE]
Play as the Kingdom of Nubia.
Survive till 1125.
What am I doing wrong as a Count in CKII?
I am right now a French Count and my Liege is the Duke of Burgundy, I have won 3 wars of independence against the Duke now and still every time I enforce my demands for peace he is still my liege, how do I become independent from him?
Someone on Something Awful is doing a LP of the Steppe Wolfe mod for EU3
[url]http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3524107[/url]
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Good old Steppe Wolfe
Apparently this image is from an older LP that died.
[img]http://lpix.org/510247/171.png[/img]
[QUOTE=VOSK;39389670]Another Vicky 2 expansion clue:
[img]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/528796_10151662019154816_543610133_n.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Political expansion, maybe? Actual politics this time?
What's a good way to get money quickly in CK2? I'm still playing as the Italian count turned diplo-duke character and now I'm sitting pretty with my ducal titles ruling as the Dukeof Modena, Tuscany, and somewhere else. I'm planning on making some powerful allies and starting a war of Independence to break away from the clutches of tyranny that is the HRE but when I raise my armies...I lose money. Lots of it. I'm working on upgrading my cities to increase profit - is there any other surefire way to get cash fast?
Steppe wolf is hilarious. Bulgaria is OP as shit.
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[QUOTE=Pedro the Fuzzy;39404121]What's a good way to get money quickly in CK2? I'm still playing as the Italian count turned diplo-duke character and now I'm sitting pretty with my ducal titles ruling as the Dukeof Modena, Tuscany, and somewhere else. I'm planning on making some powerful allies and starting a war of Independence to break away from the clutches of tyranny that is the HRE but when I raise my armies...I lose money. Lots of it. I'm working on upgrading my cities to increase profit - is there any other surefire way to get cash fast?[/QUOTE]
If you go to war with people, you could ransom them. You get 70 from counts, 145 from dukes, etc.
Hey, so quick question.
There was a game quite like the games that Paradox Interactive makes that takes place "some time in the future", where you could choose a number of campaigns. The title screen for the game has an SU fighter jet, and the central theme around the game is resource wars. There was also a campaign where the United States federal government has fallen apart and now all of the states are independent nations.
Does this ring a bell for anyone? All of the units were represented by 3D models as well.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;39401336]Clue 5
[img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/734929_10151664012194816_93127673_n.png[/img]
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I'm starting to think WW1 Themed Expansion.[/QUOTE]It's definitely going to be WW1. Clue 3 was a dead giveaway for [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_Sea]Race to the Sea[/url].
I seriously do not want a WW1 themed expansion, Victoria 2's mechanics are [B]not[/B] meant for it. There are far better alternative's like Darkest Hour and the WW1 mod for HoI3.
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[QUOTE=ewitwins;39404862]Hey, so quick question.
There was a game quite like the games that Paradox Interactive makes that takes place "some time in the future", where you could choose a number of campaigns. The title screen for the game has an SU fighter jet, and the central theme around the game is resource wars. There was also a campaign where the United States federal government has fallen apart and now all of the states are independent nations.
Does this ring a bell for anyone? All of the units were represented by 3D models as well.[/QUOTE]Supreme Ruler 2020 maybe? I only played the Cold War one so I have no idea about the latter part of your statement.
Steppe Wolf looks pretty awesome, will try it after my game as Ming.
Right on the money, you guys always have the answer!
hey guys I hear you guys are good with answers
what is the meaning of life and death?
But on topic:
I just completed a Victoria 2 AHD campaign as america with PDM mod, my first fully complete Vicky 2 run. Ended as a fascist after spending the majority of the game doing as much as I could to become one, and then it turns out I'm only there for a year before the game ends.
A few interesting things happened that heavily diverge from history. Austria was completely and utterly broken and beat from the beginning, splitting apart into Austria and Hungary, and then getting eaten up by Hungary and Italy. But they made a resurgence after Italy lost it's big war with France. This war also resulted in forced release of the nation buffering France and Spain, along with Venice & Two Sicilies. All of Italy's holdings in Africa turned into Somaliland. This was the last major war of the game, and resulted in quite a large loss of POP's on both sides.
Another giant war was "The Great War" in which America, Germany, Japan, Scandinavia, and constituent spheres all fought Great Britain, Russia, and Beiyang China. This war was insane, mostly because of the fact germany went ALL-OUT on its war against Russia. It conquered all the way from Poland to Korea, after which, Germany won the war against all three. Russia fell all the way to 60th place, and turned into a Presidential Dictatorship, and then a Democracy. Other interesting things, were:
Persia won multiple wars against the Ottomans/Turkey, and Egypt was released and turned Fascist. The Ottomans and the Austrians were the dead, rotting corpses of Europe.
Every single nation in the Balkans besides Hungary is Fascist, resulting in a LOT of wars.
Due to my intervention in africa, and my spheres, Chile owns part of Tripoli.
For the majority of the game after The Great War in 1910, Germany owned Northwest England.
Japan was on it's way to conquering Indochina.
Mexico looked at me funny.
[IMG]http://puu.sh/1UBKD[/IMG]
Woo! Paradox agreed to let me interview one of their developers in person for my Uni assignment. I have to interview somebody with an engineering degree. (since I study IT engineering myself) Gonna be fun. :dance:
I can't help but want a Victoria 2 DLC that is from 1900-2000.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;39406531]I can't help but want a Victoria 2 DLC that is from 1900-2000.[/QUOTE]
It'd be interesting, but the world from a century ago is a vastly different world than the world of today in many aspects, and would need sufficient added gameplay mechanics to account for the economic and social challenges of today.
Or a game in the style of Victoria in the Modern Period.
Sort of like how EvW is going to be HOI in the Cold War period.
Not the exact same game but similar.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;39406705]Or a game in the style of Victoria in the Modern Period.
Sort of like how EvW is going to be HOI in the Cold War period.
Not the exact same game but similar.[/QUOTE]
I know, but EvW is a War and Strategy game, Victoria 2 is much more focused on political, social, and economic aspects of things and how they tie together.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;39406705]Or a game in the style of Victoria in the Modern Period.
Sort of like how EvW is going to be HOI in the Cold War period.
Not the exact same game but similar.[/QUOTE]When you think about it they do sound fit to be the same, EvW looks like the perfect love child of HoI3+Vick2. No doubt there will be fan mods being rolled out to extend EvW beyond the 1991 enddate to the present.
[url=http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/content.php?1270-East-vs.-West-Developer-Diary-3-The-Art-Of-The-Cold-War]Speaking of which, there' a new EvW dev diary out today.[/url]
Oh cool. By those screens, we see a rotateable earth. Haven't seen that since rome :v:
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[img]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=72464&d=1359392689[/img]
It would look better if the Terrain was 3D
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You know, I always thought the aircraft carriers with ramps looked silly
[t]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=72419&d=1359392701[/t]
it's like its smirking at me
Once you have a standing army of 50k or more in CK2, and you have destroyed the first/second Mongol doomstacks, just declare holy wars on them as soon as you sign peace.
The 100 prestige hit is nullified by prestige gained from the war, and an opinion hit with the pagans isn't worth bothering about.
I literally conquered the whole of Denmark and Poland in a single year, before giving them to the Teutonic Knights and Templars respectively. The Mongols have literally no soldiers left, and are being overrun with rebels and about 5 civil wars.
I have 50k gold from being a Republic, I even spam city holdings and upgrade every building in every place I capture for giggles.
my guess is that the Vicky 2 expansion might go in-depth with things like trench warfare, and everything that might come with that.
I feel like something terribly wrong happened to the republics in my CK2+ game. Genoa was conquered by Savoy and turned into a kingdom and Venice was conquered by the HRE/Croatia and the city is now a duchy in control of some German dynasty. Other than Gotland/Smaland controlling the entire Baltic the only other republic left is Pisa but they only have two counties and minor trade control around the Tyrrhenian Sea. There has been zero interference on my part, so it's a shame since I was hoping for a major Venetian empire :(
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;39408587]Once you have a standing army of 50k or more in CK2, and you have destroyed the first/second Mongol doomstacks, just declare holy wars on them as soon as you sign peace.
The 100 prestige hit is nullified by prestige gained from the war, and an opinion hit with the pagans isn't worth bothering about.
I literally conquered the whole of Denmark and Poland in a single year, before giving them to the Teutonic Knights and Templars respectively. The Mongols have literally no soldiers left, and are being overrun with rebels and about 5 civil wars.
I have 50k gold from being a Republic, I even spam city holdings and upgrade every building in every place I capture for giggles.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, after the Ilkhanate decided to absorb the Golden Horde, I brought my 121,000 man Byzantine army down upon them, and the HRE brought 60,000 to help so the Mongols are reeling in my game.
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[QUOTE=Frayyyy;39408955]I feel like something terribly wrong happened to the republics in my CK2+ game. Genoa was conquered by Savoy and turned into a kingdom and Venice was conquered by the HRE/Croatia and the city is now a duchy in control of some German dynasty. Other than Gotland/Smaland controlling the entire Baltic the only other republic left is Pisa but they only have two counties and minor trade control around the Tyrrhenian Sea. There has been zero interference on my part, so it's a shame since I was hoping for a major Venetian empire :([/QUOTE]
Venice is pissing me the fuck off in my game. I inherited the Byzantine Empire when it had been compressed by Muslim incursions into 4 landlocked provinces in Greece/Serbia, and while I was trying to maintain control Venice grabbed all of Turkey, 3 Greek provinces, half of Africa and southern Spain.
The Serene Doge keeps sending me 650 gold gifts so he must be loaded - knocking out their endless mercenary hordes will be tough.
if i have the chance to start making russia part of the HRE should i take it
[QUOTE=Roof;39409929]if i have the chance to start making russia part of the HRE should i take it[/QUOTE]
Why not? Up to the Urals at most though I'd say
[QUOTE=Roof;39409929]if i have the chance to start making russia part of the HRE should i take it[/QUOTE]
Holy Siberian Empire anyone?
