Crusader Kings III

[Habbaku]

https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/en/crusader-kings-iii-in-numbers-18-million-murders-four-million-betrothals-and-one-cannibalized-pope/

Interesting stats. But how are they collected? If I'm playing and I pet my dog, that gets recorded?

Ratio of murders to childbirths seems unsustainably high.  I don't think even the Merovingians knocked each other off at such a clip.

Remember, though, this is births to player characters vs. murders by player characters. The pool of potential murder-ees is much higher.

[jimmy olsen]

Is it just me, or is the AI way better at war than in CK2?

I feel like even when I'm a King with a large demnse, I'm always in danger of some random Duke and his two allies invading to take a border county, and I never felt like that in CK2.

It just that it's harder to out retinue them in the early like in CK2? I've no doubt that if you invest in your holdings, that over time you can get your economy rolling so that you can have a killer man at arms stack, but at least at the beginning of the game, things seem far more balanced between kings and dukes. Which is rather historical.

[Syt]

Hotfix is out:

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- Fixed male/female dominated doctrine blocking all claims for the other sex, rather than just implicit claims. The behavior should now be identical to how it was previously.
- Fixed various display issues in the Russian localization
- Fixed tyranny being gained from rightful revocations when you had a claim on the title in question
- Independence Faction wars no longer require the defender to occupy the entire domain of the rebelling vassals to stop ticking warscore
- Reinstated Central Germanic and West Slavic name lists that had accidentally been removed

[jimmy olsen]

Matilda's a super easy start
You just need 2 counties to usurp the Pope and then the Kaiser will transfer the rest of your dejure counties to you.

[The Minsky Moment]

Matilda's a super easy start
You just need 2 counties to usurp the Pope and then the Kaiser will transfer the rest of your dejure counties to you.

That really shouldn't be, given that Matilda consistently allied with the Popes of that era and was at odds with the Emperor.

[Habbaku]

Unfortunately, that happens now because the mechanics of the Papacy are very thin at the moment. There's no real reason for the Emperor not to cooperate with Matilda at the moment.

[Syt]

The pope is some dude in Rome who gives me money and sells me claims.

[Tonitrus]

I'll admit to being kinda mad one cannot play the Pope. 

[Zanza]

The Pope is the guy who asks everybody to fight the Caliph and then parks his 10k men in Rome to guard against some Berber pirates who conquered Orvieto...

[Syt]

Crusades being a messy clusterfuck is kind of on brand, though.

[Tamas]

OMG what have they done to the UI colours and font in the patch, I want it back the way it was.

[jimmy olsen]

Unfortunately, that happens now because the mechanics of the Papacy are very thin at the moment. There's no real reason for the Emperor not to cooperate with Matilda at the moment.

And no reason for Matilda to cooperate with the Pope when she can usurp a royal title from him.

[The Minsky Moment]

The real Matilda became a de jure papal vassal (while also acting as papal patroness and protector).
What in game royal title can she usurp from the Pope?

[jimmy olsen]

Kingdom of Romagna. It's dejure territory covers that of the Papal states at their medival height and she starts out with like 40% of that territory.

[Josephus]

Thing that's annoying me right now is the endless spam calls from allies to fight losing wars. I think they should nerf any penalty for refusing to join an offensive war.