Crusader Kings 2 Redux

[Faeelin]

They do pretty well in the new patch. I'm playing as Seville -> Andalusia now, and Castille is whomping on the Taifas.

Just watch out for the Fatimids; they jihaded Aragon and seized it. Periodically they walk 15,000 men across my land for unclear reasons.

[Cecil]

I am getting the feeling that the game basically comes down as a HRE-Fatimid conflict, due to the massive OPness of these two, with the medium powers perhaps getting a say if the cards are right.

Fatimids and the Emperor must be nerfed

Well at least everyone isnt whining about teh ERE anymore. They actually do loose now and then with 1.06. Granted most of the time its to those retarded fatimid doomstacks but hey...beggars cant be choosers.

[Tamas]

I gave the Fatimids 60% starting Decadence, and just let stuff run as the habsburg count.

In 1104, the Fatimids havent intervened in Hispania, and Leon and Castille are almost double their original size, the Seljuks were left alone to jihad away Armenia, and HRE won the crusade for Jerusalem.

[Faeelin]

Heh. The unmodified Fatimids just seized France. All of it.

[Tamas]

the invasion CB is a bit... overpowered

[Queequeg]

Is it possible to get as a Christian? 

[garbon]

Christians have had invasion CBs since the beginning (it's the Bastard's war is). You have to get permission from the Pope.

[Queequeg]

Ah. I almost never play Catholic.

[Tamas]

Has anyone tried the ck2plus mod?

[Sahib]

Has anyone tried the ck2plus mod?

Only played one game on 1.06 patch, but seemed much more balanced and polished than vanilla.

[Faeelin]

Christians have had invasion CBs since the beginning (it's the Bastard's war is). You have to get permission from the Pope.

You can only invade a nation larger than you, right?

[Tamas]

A new game as England, still 60% Fatimid startind decadence, funnily enough saw a kind of historic Iberian development. The Christians made headway initially, only slowed by Castillian infighting. But their eventual victory seemed asured, when the Almorovids (sp?) from North Africa Invaded them, for Andalusia. That made big-ass Leon lose half of it's size.
How it would have ended up, I am not sure, because when a crusade was called to take it back, I couldn't resist, moved in and kicked butt

[Tamas]

  this may very well be the first game I lose in CK2: I have a single heir left, he is 57 years old (younger bro of my char), he has no son, one daughter, who married non-matrilineary and is too old for new children to begin with.

[Jaron]

this may very well be the first game I lose in CK2: I have a single heir left, he is 57 years old (younger bro of my char), he has no son, one daughter, who married non-matrilineary and is too old for new children to begin with.

That happened to be me once. I had married my dukes oldest daughter to the King of France, and later all his male sons died. As they had not yet had any children, I pulled some strings and got the two divorced after my duke died. I arranged a matrilineal marriage to some good-for-nothing lesser noble (just a sperm donor) but before they could bear fruit, my duchess was mysteriously assassinated... perhaps by the hand of her jealous ex-husband?

[Tamas]

and even my heir was assassinated, by the same asshole who assassinated the only (then still infant) son of the youngest brother of the generation, who was dead already at the time. Some Byzantine count, who head a weak claim somehow. He destroyed my dynasty

Now my character is 65, posessed, syphilicy. Not much use for the young lustful bimbette I got for him as wife.

I checked the dynasty tree and I see no reason to go elective or seniority, or female-compatible inheritance - there is simple nobody left.

Wow.