Crusader Kings 2 Redux

[Drakken]

Launched a game as King of Poland (...) - took a 80 fame hit to marry some fat non entity because she had nice stewardship and diplomacy stats - only to discover I couldn't appoint her on the council.     Are appointments tied to the succession laws in anyway?  Hmm  come to think of it she was Queen Consort - and not Queen...  Perhaps because she wasn't a noble?

I confess I feel a little overwhelmed by all the choices you can make - all the actions you can do... 
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If she's a low-born she won't be Queen, but just a consort. Think of it as a morganatic marriage.

And no, IIRC a woman cannot be appointed in the Council EXCEPT for Spymaster if she's either your wife or your mother. I'm not sure if it can be changed through Crown Laws, I thought I read somewhere that they could.

[garbon]

Btw, I believe the demo tutorial pointed out that you still want a wife with high diplomacy as half of her value is added to the realm's diplomacy.

edit: Found it

Your diplomatic advisor. Select one with as high diplomatic skill as possible, this persons value, plus your own, plus half of your wife's is what makes up the state diplomacy value. That affects how all characters not employed by you view you.

[Fireblade]

I missed Paradox forums. For example:

Great demo, but there are some historical inaccuracies.

1.Capital of County of Rashka is not Prizren, it is Ras.
2.City of Dioclea is not in Rashka, it is in Zeta and it doesn't exist in the 11th century.
3.Capital of County of Naisus is Nish the birthplace of Constantine the Great, not Koprijan.
4.Hum is in the wrong place, and the city of Novi Pazar is first time mentioned in 1461 and it's not in Hum like Pec either.
5.House of Dukljanin doesn't exist, there is House of Vojislavljevic.

I saw that. It's always the balkantards who whine about stupid shit like some city not being in the right place. I mean, fuck, Paradox hasn't gotten Arkansas geography right once in a game, and you don't see me writing jeremiads on the forum.

Okay, so Venice isn't playable. Ethiopia is hilarious, though. I think I'll write an AAR when the game comes out. Also, shall we begin planning our first MP game now? I vote that we play French dukes.

[PRC]

Another thing i'd like to see is a demesne map similar to the first Crusader Kings.  You click on your own province and you see your directly controlled counties in one colour, your Dukes counties in another colour and your Counts counties in another shade.  Loved that map mode in the first game and haven't found a map mode that i'm entirely happy with in the sequel.

[garbon]

Yeah, best so far for me was direct vassals map but that doesn't do what you're asking for.

[Fireblade]

Garbon, let's do an MP game with Jaron. I'll play Ethiopia, Jaron will play Axum, and you can be Nubia. Together, we niggaz will go to the next hood and steal those cracker-ass Egyptians' TVs.

[Tamas]

Yeah, best so far for me was direct vassals map but that doesn't do what you're asking for.

use the diplomacy map view, your vassals will be green.

[garbon]

Yeah, best so far for me was direct vassals map but that doesn't do what you're asking for.

use the diplomacy map view, your vassals will be green.

Yeah but that's an obnoxious mode to play on.

[Ed Anger]

I noticed the portrait of Michael Doukas is Jon Lovitz. He has risen in the world.

[Josquius]

Is there a bride finder?
With marrying for love/stats being out in the game (a good move really) finding exactly the right noble lady seems it could be a difficult and annoying task....

[garbon]

Is there a bride finder?
With marrying for love/stats being out in the game (a good move really) finding exactly the right noble lady seems it could be a difficult and annoying task....

Yes. When was there ever marrying for love? You still can marry for stats (i.e. diplomacy!) but rank also matters as well (so as to avoid prestige hits, etc.).

[Josquius]

Is there a bride finder?
With marrying for love/stats being out in the game (a good move really) finding exactly the right noble lady seems it could be a difficult and annoying task....

Yes. When was there ever marrying for love? You still can marry for stats (i.e. diplomacy!) but rank also matters as well (so as to avoid prestige hits, etc.).

I was joking, RPwise I explained away marrying a random nobody for their stats as marrying for love.

[sbr]

Is there a bride finder?
With marrying for love/stats being out in the game (a good move really) finding exactly the right noble lady seems it could be a difficult and annoying task....

Yes. When was there ever marrying for love? You still can marry for stats (i.e. diplomacy!) but rank also matters as well (so as to avoid prestige hits, etc.).

I was joking, RPwise I explained away marrying a random nobody for their stats as marrying for love.

How is that out of the game?

[Drakken]

It's not out of the game, husbands and wives can fall in love and fall out of love.

[Josquius]

How is that out of the game?

The big fame hits for marrying nobodies.
Makes sense for encouraging realistic and political marriages and will make marrying folk just for their stats less common. Maybe I exaggerate by saying out of the game, no clue what numbers count as big and small, 80 fame sounded a big enough hit to make such uncommon though.