Paradox Interactive Thread: V2 The cartographers nightmare. - Games

[QUOTE=kamikaze470;40967423]I made a stitched image thingamajig of my game. [t]http://i5.minus.com/ib00BZkuegaTVb.jpg[/t] [t]http://i1.minus.com/ibcQs4keNXHYPO.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] That's probably the nicest looking colonization I've ever seen. I remember the AI doing much worse in my Vietnam playthrough. I thought the Norse screwing over Britannia in TOG was bad enough, now they've converted to Islam.

[QUOTE=Tureis;40970070]That's probably the nicest looking colonization I've ever seen. I remember the AI doing much worse in my Vietnam playthrough. I thought the Norse screwing over Britannia in TOG was bad enough, now they've converted to Islam.[/QUOTE]Yeah, I went into the Clausewitz editor and mopped up some colonies here and there. It was sorta bad, there was weird inland outposts here and there that made borders look weird. I handed over many of them to either the Dutch, Spanish or French depending on the proximity a stray colony was bordering. Since a few were Roman colonies, and the latter collapsed, I thought it would be realistically justified to hand over all of them to the colonial powers.

Does the Pope just do nothing until 1066? The Norse Sultanate of England is basically wrecking Germany's shit and he doesn't care.

[QUOTE=Tureis;40965927]Trying to cause a Hellenic reformation in Crusader Kings, literally impossible to do it from inside the Byzantine Empire because the Emperor will just revoke all your titles.[/QUOTE] Maybe you should try it from the Latin Empire bookmark as Epirus/Nicaea? Nicaea would be a lot easier than Epirus but either way you don't have a liege and it's possible to nip territory from the Latin states and re-establish the Byzantine Empire.

[QUOTE=Kefirman;40960811]So guys, playing CO2, started as King of Scotland, and created Britannia. Even got a piece of Norway, too. What next? Should I make King of England, Ireland etc. a different person then myself? Also, does anybody knows hiw to deal with annoying factions? There is always that whiny bitch that goes "Elective Monarchy for England", end up revolting with 110% of my troops.[/QUOTE] Generally you should only seek to hold the highest titles in your state unless they give you personal troops or help to avoid negative relation penalties (the two duchies where you have your counties). You should give away Ireland and England, but Scotland can go or stay depending on what you find more annoying: one king who wants your personal demesne titles, or several dukes who want your kingdom title. Additionally, an unimportant but nifty trick is to make sure the duke you are lording has a coastal capital so you can easily raise levies and you'll have all the kingdom's troops and all the kingdom's boats in one province for easy deployment.

[QUOTE=StaticFit;40971127]Generally you should only seek to hold the highest titles in your state unless they give you personal troops or help to avoid negative relation penalties (the two duchies where you have your counties). You should give away Ireland and England, but Scotland can go or stay depending on what you find more annoying: one king who wants your personal demesne titles, or several dukes who want your kingdom title. Additionally, an unimportant but nifty trick is to make sure the duke you are lording has a coastal capital so you can easily raise levies and you'll have all the kingdom's troops and all the kingdom's boats in one province for easy deployment.[/QUOTE] Thanks, that is so helpful! One qusetion though - should I make my sons the Kings, or any other loyal vassals? I'm leaning to sons, to keep those holding in my bloodline, is it the right decision?

[img]http://i.imgur.com/I3wuLqG.jpg[/img] This is one decade after Castille won a war to take a county from the Umayyad sultanate. It is collapsing and people are declaring holy wars on it all the time.

Old gods seems pretty easy as a pagan. Already reformed the religion and have almost all of scandanavia. West Francia and hungary have also mega-blobed [t]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/1119423428154021594/A50D1BE71B4BD4A9E3EBF6FD9F00E1903769A01C/[/t]

Just got CK2 and the GoT mod. Anyone know if Tyrion is playable? I see that he's Tywin's heir in the character screen in-game but I don't know how to (or if I can) get to him when picking a player initially.

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;40980415]Just got CK2 and the GoT mod. Anyone know if Tyrion is playable? I see that he's Tywin's heir in the character screen in-game but I don't know how to (or if I can) get to him when picking a player initially.[/QUOTE] Well you can try and do this 1.Play as Tywin Lannister from whatever scenario you want to play Tyrion as 2.As soon as you start the game,Give Tyrion a landed title 3.Save and return to main menu 4.Click on the game you saved and then click on the land you gave Tyrion,Select him and enjoy

[QUOTE=Tureis;40970985]Does the Pope just do nothing until 1066? [B][U]The Norse Sultanate of England[/U][/B] is basically wrecking Germany's shit and he doesn't care.[/QUOTE] You just RUINED MY MONITOR! i'll never clean this up hahahah!

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;40980415]Just got CK2 and the GoT mod. Anyone know if Tyrion is playable? I see that he's Tywin's heir in the character screen in-game but I don't know how to (or if I can) get to him when picking a player initially.[/QUOTE] Assuming you pick after a certain start date (any time after Jaime is accepted into the Kingsguard) Tyrion will become Tywin Lannister's Heir. You'll play as him once Tywin dies unless Tyrion dies first which can happen; my most recent game saw him murdered by Cersei.

[QUOTE=Kefirman;40971763]Thanks, that is so helpful! One qusetion though - should I make my sons the Kings, or any other loyal vassals? I'm leaning to sons, to keep those holding in my bloodline, is it the right decision?[/QUOTE] God no. Your sons have claims on all your titles so they are the worst people to give large amounts of power to as they can fight you for EVERYTHING you own as opposed to the occasional independence or crown authority war of your random vassals.

The only people who can "safely" be given land within your dynasty is your heir and anyone from distant branches labelled kinsmen who don't have claims on your titles

If you have free investiture, you can just give your family all the church titles. [editline]10th June 2013[/editline] Well they have to be immediate family or at your court.

[QUOTE=Frayyyy;40985288]The only people who can "safely" be given land within your dynasty is your heir and anyone from distant branches labelled kinsmen who don't have claims on your titles[/QUOTE]No, not even your heir. Because he might do something retarded by getting himself maimed.

[QUOTE=kamikaze470;40986028]No, not even your heir. Because he might do something retarded by getting himself maimed.[/QUOTE] OR JOINING FACTIONS!

I've managed to hold off the Nip menace and reunite China under one glorious banner, however things are not going well on the Eastern Front for the Red Army, perhap they need some Chinese assistance? [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33594635/hoi3_tfh%202013-06-10%2023-03-33-09.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=kamikaze470;40986028]No, not even your heir. Because he might do something retarded by getting himself maimed.[/QUOTE] In my Elder Kings game I betrothed my Heir to the Queen of Colovia and then gave him a castle because what harm could he do with a Barony, right? He cancelled the Betrothal to marry an infertile Orc with Swamp Fever.

[QUOTE=StaticFit;40983078]God no. Your sons have claims on all your titles so they are the worst people to give large amounts of power to as they can fight you for EVERYTHING you own as opposed to the occasional independence or crown authority war of your random vassals.[/QUOTE] Well fuck me sideways, I just ruined my Empire by doing the opposite before reading that. Everything was going relatively fine, claimed a piece of France even, and then King dies of some illness, I play as little kid, and everyone feel the sudden urge to be the Emperor. What a shame, guess I'll have to load my previous save.

So I have been working my way up from lowborn to a Duke in England (in Crusader Kings 2). At the moment I have a number of Duchies, but they are all going to be given away thanks to gavelkind succession. I foolishly voted against increasing crown authority laws and I want to change my mind, is that possible? It seems like once you vote you can't change it, which is silly because when you are the one trying to insitute the laws you can get them to change their minds. Does anyone know how to go about it? [editline]June[/editline] It's okay, I discovered that it was impossible! Alas. I ended up just killing my other male children. Now I just have to hope my only heir doesn't die...

[img_thumb]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/884110347631270060/313A83AFE2F75D4092E8189C5E300EBA6CB34AB0/[/img_thumb] I had to expand to destroy the Tengri from killing everyone. Now I'm just going to sit here and kill the Mongols the second they step foot in Europe. I also invaded a bit too far west into Swabia to prevent the English Muslims from spreading.

[QUOTE=Tureis;40990623][img_thumb]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/884110347631270060/313A83AFE2F75D4092E8189C5E300EBA6CB34AB0/[/img_thumb] I had to expand to destroy the Tengri from killing everyone. Now I'm just going to sit here and kill the Mongols the second they step foot in Europe. I also invaded a bit too far west into Swabia to prevent the English Muslims from spreading.[/QUOTE] Cool thing about Old Gods is that they have events in place that will crash these huge empires. I know my scandinavian empire is fighting to reform the norse faith before the Christians get too much power up here or the individual countries start going "lol-sweden"

Well it would crash, but it's not Pagan, converted to Catholicism and eliminated all the pagans. :v: I did have a almost Empire crashing event happen, my heir who just refused to procreate died and had it split among his three cousins, I had to deal with them through intrigue and outright tyranny to save Poland. Now I'm excommunicated for what I did.

[QUOTE=Tureis;40991700]Well it would crash, but it's not Pagan, converted to Catholicism and eliminated all the pagans. :v: I did have a almost Empire crashing event happen, my heir who just refused to procreate died and had it split among his three cousins, I had to deal with them through intrigue and outright tyranny to save Poland. Now I'm excommunicated for what I did.[/QUOTE] The path has been made clear You have to kill the pope.

I wish you could straight up eliminate the Papacy. Leave Europe a confused wreck, or have all the different Bishops start fighting to replace the Pope.

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;40992389]I wish you could straight up eliminate the Papacy. Leave Europe a confused wreck, or have all the different Bishops start fighting to replace the Pope.[/QUOTE] Get everyone to somehow enforce free papal election? I don't think that you answer to the pope if you have an anti-pope.

[QUOTE=croguy;40992500]Get everyone to somehow enforce free papal election? I don't think that you answer to the pope if you have an anti-pope.[/QUOTE] Nah, you don't. Anti-popes are great, really. Your bishops pay you no matter what and you can just bully the Pope into doing stuff for you, otherwise they'll dance with my headman.

Christ, I got like 20 events of alcoholism during a feast I held and it turns out all my vassals are drunkards along with me. My heir is also a drunkard; did we all just take up Vodka or what?

[QUOTE=Tureis;40993386]Christ, I got like 20 events of alcoholism during a feast I held and it turns out all my vassals are drunkards along with me. My heir is also a drunkard; did we all just take up Vodka or what?[/QUOTE] "And now for our feast, 20 pints of vodka appetizers with 20 pints of alcohol for the main course and several wine for dessert!"