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Maybe it's just me but when all your units are properly hooked up to your lead HQ and you have it selected it looks really cool.
[quote]To the magnificent Emperor Alias I,
May you live in harmony and contentment. Your request has merit. In the name of God, I grant you the right to invade the Republic of Genoa![/quote]
that mega genoa is doomed
[QUOTE=scout1;38368105]that mega genoa is doomed[/QUOTE]
Did they change it so requesting an invasion doesn't require you have less provinces than the other guy? You seem to have plenty more than Genoa.
I like how the Horde is breaking apart with Kiev reappearing and the Byzantines pushing forward. You ended their momentum and they'll have to sort out their internal issues before another push. You could be seeing the end of them.
Because Genoa is a republic they can't form kingdoms. So I fabbed a claim on the duchy of genoa and...
I've won the war by now. It was bloody. Really bloody. I just threw armies up the genoan coast. Vassals are at -30 opinion for having their levies raised by the time I declared I'd win. The only provinces I didn't take were 3 in the southmost part of italy.
Then I spent forever creating a bunch of new baronies and handing out titles. FOREVER.
[QUOTE=scout1;38368467]Because Genoa is a republic they can't form kingdoms. So I fabbed a claim on the duchy of genoa and...
I've won the war by now. It was bloody. Really bloody. I just threw armies up the genoan coast. Vassals are at -30 opinion for having their levies raised by the time I declared I'd win. The only provinces I didn't take were 3 in the southmost part of italy.
Then I spent forever creating a bunch of new baronies and handing out titles. FOREVER.[/QUOTE]
Do you hand out ducal titles en masse, or do you just keep everyone at a county level? I'm having a problem of finding people to get the titles, and with the newly captured Anatolia I'm in a bit of a problem, mainly because everyone in my kingdom has a medium to high level claim on something else.
I hand out duke titles. Having more than 2 gives -10 opinion with all vassals for each one, so...
Also now that I've actually given out duke titles in Italy (the former doge of all italy had them all and he had 1 province left as my vassal so I had to revoke that after he rebelled), I'm getting shitloads of taxes. A lot of the county capitals changed to cities and I have high city taxes - Whereas I have small fuedal taxes (35% city vs 10% fuedal). The taxes keep fluctuating, though. I'm earning either 135/month or 250/month depending on what month it is! Some of the duke titles appear to be 'open elective' so I have no idea if they're constantly changing hands or not. No idea if it's a problem, either. So long as they pay taxes and troops, I won't have to march back down there and start italian conquest deux...
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The dude had a lot of titles. And gold.
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And I have a lot of courtiers with genius, apparently.
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Seems like a good tactic. Although as of right now I'm more concerned about stopping all the damn independence factions. At this rate the entire country will rebel by the time my current ruler dies.
I tend to throw gold at them. Join independence faction? Have a gift!
So long as I keep it down to one or two dudes they don't rise against me except at the end of bloody wars, or so. Haven't had TOO many problems with them.
what's a good model viewer program for clausewitz engine games? i wanna see all the vehicle and infantry model variants in vicky ii
Welp. Time to begin a game of Crusader Kings II as the glorious leader of [b]The Isle of Man[/b]
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"Are you sure he's mine?"
"How could you even ask that?!"
[QUOTE=scout1;38368971]I tend to throw gold at them. Join independence faction? Have a gift!
So long as I keep it down to one or two dudes they don't rise against me except at the end of bloody wars, or so. Haven't had TOO many problems with them.[/QUOTE]A cheaper way of doing it is setting your spymaster to scheme in a province owned by the faction leader. When it fires you have the chance to threaten the leader into leaving the faction, thus making it disintegrate.
It's tricky and doesn't always work. There's 3 options you need to choose correctly for them to accept your demands. There's a one-third chance of it being successful if you choose the wrong one and a large penalty to relations if it fails.
But I think it goes like like
Blackmail: Homosexual
Obligate: Just
Threaten: Cowardly
[QUOTE=kamikaze470;38374646]A cheaper of doing it is setting your spymaster to scheme in a province owned by the faction leader. When it fires you have the chance to threaten the leader into leaving the faction, thus making it disintegrate.
It's tricky and doesn't always work. There's 3 options you need to choose correctly for them to accept your demands. There's a one-third chance of it being successful if you choose the wrong one and a large penalty to relations if it fails.
But I think it goes like like
Blackmail: Homosexual
Obligate: Just
Threaten: Cowardly[/QUOTE]
There's just so many factions though, and I can't be assed repeatedly throwing my spymaster around. Didn't know that dissuading the faction leader causes it all to disintegrate though. Much better than picking off people 1-by-1.
[QUOTE=scout1;38374720]There's just so many factions though, and I can't be assed repeatedly throwing my spymaster around. Didn't know that dissuading the faction leader causes it all to disintegrate though. Much better than picking off people 1-by-1.[/QUOTE]Just many factions in general or just the ones that are the "dangerous" factions? In the latters case, I'd prioritize getting rid of it over the others. Because from my experience, non-Independence factions don't give you their ultimatum until they're at 80%+ strength.
Any news on East Vs West?
What's a good paradox game for an introduction to grand strategy? I've always like WWII and wanted to get into HoI, but I got way too overwhelmed trying to play it. Would something like CK2 be a good start?
EU3 is a way better one to start with, it's simple, forgiving and easy to get the hang of. Play as a big country first off because bigger = easier, once you get the hang of it it's easy enough to move on to any of the others.
[QUOTE=Bumgall;38379174]What's a good paradox game for an introduction to grand strategy? I've always like WWII and wanted to get into HoI, but I got way too overwhelmed trying to play it. Would something like CK2 be a good start?[/QUOTE]
Well if you wanted to start off with HoI3, just chuck everything on AI control and manage one section at a time, not much to overwhelm you at all.
[QUOTE=scout1;38374720]There's just so many factions though, and I can't be assed repeatedly throwing my spymaster around. Didn't know that dissuading the faction leader causes it all to disintegrate though. Much better than picking off people 1-by-1.[/QUOTE]
IIRC imprisoning faction leaders also shuts the faction down completely, however obviously you need a just reason (or fabricated evidence if you're playing CK2+) or else you'll gather tyranny.
Just imprisoned the leader of an independence faction, someone else just took over.
Oh well.
Noting is more fun than playing as a nation in Vicky 2 that you really weren't meant to play.
Fear the Empire of New Zealand. hehehe
[QUOTE=VOSK;38382426]Noting is more fun than playing as a nation in Vicky 2 that you really weren't meant to play. [/QUOTE]
Empire of Sikkim. Do it.
I'm looking at Hearts of Iron III w/ all the DLC, but I found that the Collection Pack doesn't include The Finest Hour. Is Hearts of Iron III worth getting because I heard it wasn't as good as HoII or I.
[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;38383467]I'm looking at Hearts of Iron III w/ all the DLC, but I found that the Collection Pack doesn't include The Finest Hour. Is Hearts of Iron III worth getting because I heard it wasn't as good as HoII or I.[/QUOTE]
It's a great game, not as good as HoI2, but nonetheless a good purchase. It slows down late game, the engine still has a few kinks, and some nations are ovepowered as shit (*COUGH*ItalyandJapan*COUGH*), but I love it.
You can complete a campaign in a pile of hours as compared to a Vicky 2 campaign that you can draw out for weeks.
Also don't forget that HoI3 is more about effective micromanagement-based large scale warfare than diplomacy. Nobody gives a shit about your relations with whatever country there is, you're meant to invade as many neutrals and enemy faction members as strategically viable it is for you until the WW2 period ends.
Technology is still important though, and investing alot into industrial tech and coal-to-oil will help you maintain positive resource and IC use.
Dawn breaks early on the morning of January 2nd, 1592.
Aymar, Emperor of Francia, looks over his domain from his castle. He sees the magnificent barracks and cathedrals, the cities built on his dynasty's command, the gathering of vassals for the yearly feast.
He knows it will all end soon.
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The empire is vast. Danes, Germans, Italians, Dutchmen, English, Orthodoxy and Muslims of various locales all swear allegiance to His Majesty.
It is protected in the east by the newer Kingdom of Hungary and Poland. This catholic buffer state, carved from the mongol hordes by the blood of thousands, ensures that Catholic Europe will never have to fight a bloody crusade for a very, very long time. Long since has Hungary-Poland protected Europe, though. Its courtiers and counts have produced a vast amount of intellectuals and geniuses, carefully herded and exploited through his family line. Without their skills and traits, Francia may not have gotten to where it was today.
Further south is the Bryzantine Empire. It has fallen on hard times recently. A series of wars with Francia robbed of its holdings in Northern Italy, and bloody skirmishes with the Horde left it blindsided by a shia invasion its eastern holdings. Although the Muslims sit on the door of Anatolia proper, the Empire is by no means defeated. It can call upon the levies of almost one hundred thousand men, with vastly superior technology and leadership to its eastern neighbors. The Kingdom of Hungary-Poland to the north provides some relief from the Horde masses.
The Horde is its own story. Fearsome invaders from the east, their known holdings are vast alone, but they hold more in the uncharted eastern territories. They have brought their heathen religion and spread it far. Although the Rus of past were unsavory characters, His Majesty laments their destruction and replacement with far more savage and terrible fellows. At least it could be claimed that the Rus were christian brothers. Now the Heathen hordes regularly pillage Christian monasteries in Scandanavia, their advance checked only by the seas and brave knights of Hungary-Poland.
Indeed that religion is such a point, he thought to himself. Its rise, fall, and rekindling were all central points of the rule of the Empire. It was they who pushed the Sunni out of Iberia, and they who came to check the Horde at the doorstep of Berlin. When the Heretics rose in Italy, they too were put to the torch. He was safe in the knowledge that Europe was firmly and properly Catholic... for now. Later rulers may once again have to fight in defense of Christendom.
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But as far as Religion had torn empires apart, Culture had kept it together. His predecessors had a habit of replacing conquered dukes and counts with Occitan rulers. He had expanded on this. In the last 20 years, with little left to conquer, he turned inward. Rebellious dukes were crushed, ferreted out, encouraged to rise. Titles stripped, holdings burned, men slaughtered. Proper Occitans now ruled more than 70% of the empire. But still, the populace resisted. The Frankish of the north had always hated the 'Southern King', so dirty was his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather to them. Some inroads had been made in the region, but the support of Northern France was always vital to the Empire. Without those dukes, the levies would be depleted, the wars lost. They provided men when Iberia was taken by fire and sword, and compatriots when counties were to be revoked.
The other territories, however, had taken much more kindly to their Occitan overlords. Central Italy, although one of the more recent additions to the Empire, had gladly embraced the culture. Northern Dukes of Germany and the Lords of Bohemia had tentatively began to embrace their fashions.
But Hispania... Hispania was where they had become truly Occitan. The Heathens killed, kindly Christians implanted, it had become a stronghold for Occitan culture. With new Religion came new Culture. Although there were still several pockets of local holdouts, they would assimilate eventually. He only hoped it would be soon. The Kingdoms of Leon, Castille, Aragon, Portugal, and Galicia had typically been places to expend the Empire's resources. When the wars were declared and levies called, the Nobility of Hispania sat back, content to keep the whole of their levies. His forefathers had seen fit to do so, so as not to encourage them to rise and perhaps resist the change.
Aymar had a slightly different idea. He saw the vast potential of the formerly Muslim holdings, so much more grand than some of his own. He would tap its manpower base, bringing in a hundred thousand more men than any of his forefathers ever had. He knew that in the future, whereas Hispania had always a place to pour resources into, it would soon become a place where the Empire could pull them from. It would become the new backbone of the Empire in the coming Era.
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The Empire would need it. Situations across Europe were troubling. The Holy Roman Empire was a part of Francia, yes, but very tentatively. His father had not expected it to fold in so cleanly. He was merely trying to break it apart in order to pick up the pieces when a messenger came, congratulating him on his election as Emperor. Emperor of a second Empire! It would be grand, were it not more troubling than conquering it by sword.
The German Dukes are eager to regain freedom, seeing the previous structure of the Roman Empire as inherently flawed. They seek to uplift themselves within the new Empire. Why should they not? The Lords of Germany are familiar with the feudal structure, being at one point its masters as the sole power of Europe. They want a new Empire, but no Emperor. They want a [B]Kaiser[/B].
In Italy there remain whispers of rebellion. Whereas previously most of Italy had been ruled by an elected Doge, there is now only an absolute Emperor. Although they have gladly adopted the lessons of those who defeated them, they have not forgotten that they are [B]Italy[/B], [I]not[/I] Francia. In the mountains, out of reach of the ruling nobles, forlorn peasants plot a new Kingdom, one not of Occitan or Italian or German rule, but of the common man.
The Papacy held the land it had held for hundreds of years. Its borders had not changed, although its rulers had. It watched with weary eyes as Catholicism first destroyed itself and then rose again under Francia rule. It had at one time sought to take on the Empire itself, and regain its authority as [I]sole[/I] head of the churches, appointer of bishops. But when the Horde overran Warsaw, such concerns were forgotten. It would be Francia that led two hundred thousand men over the Alps to come down upon the Heathen armies at Bavaria. Francia who pushed the Heathens out of Pommerania. Francia who encourged and pushed for Hungary's eventual transformation into Hungary-Poland. Although at first concerned when the Empire swallowed the entire peninsula of Italy, much to the dismay of the Pope who has sanctioned the invasion, they were quick to reorient when Francia promised the Papacy a permanent residence in its current holdings. Not a year too soon, either. The bryzantines had, at that time, been poised to engulf the entire Kingdom of Sicily. But the line was drawn, and a series of buffer counties established. If the Bryzantines wanted the Papacy - They'd have to go through Francia first.
In the Isles of Albion, lands lay fragmented. Border claims shoot straight through fields, and in some places Castles change hand from one room to the other! Vicious infighting among English Dukes and Scottish Barons had fragmented the island for the last 200 years. German intervention had inflamed it. Now the land lay divided between three main powers. One, Francia, sought to sacrifice its holdings and gain a friendly, but stable Kingdom. One, England, sought to retake its lawful territory and push out the foreigners. And in Scotland, they hoped for something greater. An empire.
The Irish sat gleeful for the world. Long ago divided and subjugated, they ruled amongst one king. Ireland was Irish, and perhaps, that was all that really mattered.
Yes, all this and more, he thought. He was old. Tired. Soon he would not have to deal with any of it. But his Sons would. His Daughters would. The house of De Comminges would shape the future. He was not sure how, but he knew it would be grand. He, himself, was an immensely impressive man, even by others' standards.
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A silver tongue that convinced many a vassal to turn on his friend and revoke many a county. A sword-arm that had, rather unwillingly, saw action through the mountains of Italy, the hills of Iberia, the plains of Germany, the seas of the Baltic, and the interiors of Bryzantine halls. A purse with no end - Between his immense count of vassals and own financial genius, Francia was never in want of coin. A mind that knew no equal, for he had plotted a hundred dozen events before his vassals even knew they were scheming for a single one. And lastly, he considered himself 'well enough' learned. He could help, but he would mostly leave it to Churchmen.
But it was not He that would carry Francia into the future. He knew it would be his children, and what a wonderful family he had.
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Uniquely skilled, young and capable. They would form cadet branches of the family line, or perhaps rule Francia itself. Whether they stooped in the assay office or stood at the parapets, they would do the future fine. Truly great, he thought. Truly great.
He leaned back and closed his eyes as a single tear rolled down his cheek.
"The rennaisance sweeps across Europe and the fuedal era draws to a close."
Final score: 159627
Man, imagine a world where the Greeks aren't incompetent shitheads.
1952? Really?
He made a shitty typo in a big post. Get over it.
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