Crusader Kings III

[jimmy olsen]

Don't have the new DLC, but have been enjoying the new features that were released to everyone like languages. I've never played as Alfred before, not even in CK2.

Turned out not too bad.

Here's a map of the British isles about a year before the death of Alfred



His lecherous intrigue focused son was easily elected king, but his 10 year old son is not getting votes because he's a child and rowdy which is considered evil.     

He's humble though and I predict good things for him. I gave him two counties and a barony due to domain limits and I betrothed him to my 13 year old niece (so, his first cousin I guess) because she's my strongest vassal (Duchess of Mercia). I was shocked to see him intervene in a liberty war against her that she was losing, and when I investigated it turned out that they were friends.

They're well on the way to winning that war now.

[jimmy olsen]

I haven't got the DLC, but there is a whole load of new free content that I'm loving.

I'm pretty sure I have a handle on minor positions, learning languages, the inventory and artifacts.

As for the traditions, they seem wildly expensive. Like you need to have a king reign for 30 years and save up their prestige for them expensive. Is it just me?

As an Anglo-Saxon king, what are good traditions that would go well with what I already have or be a realistic/historical addition?

My boy comes of age

[jimmy olsen]

Anglo-Saxons are Burecratic

Their traditions are
City Keepers
Hirds
The Witenagemot

I can see Beauracratic, Hirds and The Witenagemot...but the Anglo-Saxons hardly had any cities of note. Seems an odd choice by the developers. 

[crazy canuck]

Think of the Burhs created by Alfred, that became cities.  As for the Anglo Saxons as a group, you may have heard of London.  Yes it was founded before them.  But they built it back up so that by the the time of the conquest it was a city. 

[The Minsky Moment]

Urban life in Anglo Saxon England was pretty insignificant pre-Alfred, but towns did grow quite a bit in the 10th and 11th centuries, pre-conquest.

[jimmy olsen]

Urban life in Anglo Saxon England was pretty insignificant pre-Alfred, but towns did grow quite a bit in the 10th and 11th centuries, pre-conquest.

Yeah, but they were towns. They weren't exactly Paris or Milan.

[The Minsky Moment]

Urban life in Anglo Saxon England was pretty insignificant pre-Alfred, but towns did grow quite a bit in the 10th and 11th centuries, pre-conquest.

Yeah, but they were towns. They weren't exactly Paris or Milan.

Paris in the 10th century wasn't exactly Paris either, it's all relative.

[crazy canuck]

Urban life in Anglo Saxon England was pretty insignificant pre-Alfred, but towns did grow quite a bit in the 10th and 11th centuries, pre-conquest.

Yeah, but they were towns. They weren't exactly Paris or Milan.

Actually yes they were. You are thinking about cities in a later time period.

[jimmy olsen]

I just managed to get 76 counties in Britain, but before I could save the money to declare myself Emperor, I died. 

I just do not get succession at all anymore. Is this working as designed or is it bugged? Long time CK2 vet and it just doesn't look right.

I had a ton of sons, confederate partition and my chosen heir (Anglo-Saxon Elective) got nearly everything. He was elected King of England of course, the game created the Kingdom of Ireland and gave it to him, along with all of my duchies and counties. Does the game not count elective titles when doing this? Why didn't they give Ireland to another son? The game also created the Kingdom of Wales and gave it to my oldest son, an insane peg leg Plobian (is this a proto Polish culture?) duke. Why didn't any of my other sons get titles?

I'm actually allied with the new King of Wales, and I'm young enough, that if I war hard enough in Alba and Ireland and pick the right skills, I should be able to establish the Empire and vassalize him peacefully.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Anglo-Saxons are Burecratic

Their traditions are
City Keepers
Hirds
The Witenagemot

I can see Beauracratic, Hirds and The Witenagemot...but the Anglo-Saxons hardly had any cities of note. Seems an odd choice by the developers. 

Perhaps the reasoning is that if Anglo-Saxon England had maintained its independence then the burhs would have developed further and the country have been more urbanised in the high middle ages?

[The Minsky Moment]

Anglo-Saxons are Burecratic

Their traditions are
City Keepers
Hirds
The Witenagemot

I can see Beauracratic, Hirds and The Witenagemot...but the Anglo-Saxons hardly had any cities of note. Seems an odd choice by the developers. 

Perhaps the reasoning is that if Anglo-Saxon England had maintained its independence then the burhs would have developed further and the country have been more urbanised in the high middle ages?

There is some logic to that - the late Anglo-Saxon monarchy did seem to be interesed in promoting commercial activity, whereas the Norman takeover focused elite efforts on rural castle building to facilitate control of the countryside.  Otherwise it's hard to see why the Anglo-Saxons in particular would be seen as urban specialists.

[jimmy olsen]

If I'm emperor of Britania, but not King of England, I can't vote for who's going to be King of England, despite all my holdings being in southern England. This is dumb.

We'll, that King will almost certainly rebel, so that will solve the problem one way or the other.

[garbon]

As part of a new Paradox scheme, they are planning to sell evebt packs.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2114760/Crusader_Kings_III_Friends__Foes/?curator_clanid=36033026

We can pay extra for great events like these:

Fighting a wild woman to take her as a wife.


Losing our yellow hat to a paranoid.


War bants

[Tamas]

I kinda' see what they want to do, focusing on RP, but these kind of events and their apparent focus on it makes me think they consider their character-driven game mechanics a joke, so why should I then take them seriously?

Then again for all we know it must be their marketing department pushing them for more memes.

The free patch seems to be adding some good things though.

[garbon]

I kinda' see what they want to do, focusing on RP, but these kind of events and their apparent focus on it makes me think they consider their character-driven game mechanics a joke, so why should I then take them seriously?

Yep, all this.