Crusader Kings 2 Redux

[Admiral Yi]

I tried Boner's suggestion and played some more as a minor Mick.

Greedy neighbors were forging claims on my shit right and left.  Is there anything I can do to mitigate this?  At least in the old CK as long as you didn't get excommunicated you were safe against Christians.  Frankly it seems the ease with which claims can be fabricated makes playing a free minor nigh impossible.

Also, what are the repercussions of raising taxes and/or levies?  Again, in the old one it was right there on the screen: build a court house and up your burgher tax, no problem.

[Ed Anger]

Send your chancellor and forge a claim on them. Jump 'em before they can act.

[Admiral Yi]

With my 600 guys?  I'm talking about the King of the Northern Chavs eating my lunch, not some local idiot.

[Maximus]

Yea I'm not sure an independent minor is the best place to start. Try something that has a big guy backing you against foreign kings.

[Ed Anger]

With my 600 guys?  I'm talking about the King of the Northern Chavs eating my lunch, not some local idiot.

Yeah, you might be ready for a big boy duchy now.

Bohemia is fun, unless the horde assrape that far in the 1200's.

[Admiral Yi]

I've already started a Bohemia game.  Carefully saved up my ducats to create a kingdom, then found I needed 200 piety on top of the lucre. 

Plus Bohemia has this bonehead seniority inheritance law.

I do get the impression playing as the Holy Roman Emperor is no walk in the park.  Nonstop independence wars, eh?

What are the new rules on fighting pagans and Musselmen?  I can see Poland fighting somebody, and it looks like the the province no longer gets automatically taken over when conquered.

[Ed Anger]

You play a Empire, you are gonna have a civil war for each Imperial reign. more if the emperor is a dick.

[garbon]

You play a Empire, you are gonna have a civil war for each Imperial reign. more if the emperor is a dick.

Not necessarily. Before I got downgraded back to a duke, I had a very peaceful transfer of the Byzantine Empire from my gay one to my dwarf one.  The dwarf one was well respected and with my large treasury surplus had an entirely peaceful reign (sans conquests of Saracen lands).

[Ed Anger]

I tend to be a Dickish player.

[Razgovory]

I ran a fairly tight ship as the Russians until Johnny Mongol showed up.  I even managed to become king of Jerusalem.

[Zanza]

I do get the impression playing as the Holy Roman Emperor is no walk in the park.  Nonstop independence wars, eh?

Yes, but you are the most powerful ruler in the game and will be able to destroy all the Italian and Burgundian dukes.

[garbon]

Faction system sure makes it easier to take on lieges. My gay king of Serbia was able to rouse half of the Empire for his mother's claim to the throne. My event granted doomstacks steamrolled those of the then Emperor.

Ugh I had 4 decades of good emperors (even the gay one was good after he paid everyone off to ignore what was happening in his bedroom). However my next emperor ruled for 10 days before succumbing to the great pox. My current ruler is a 14 year old girl facing down a faction revolt for the rule of her aunt who has been Queen of Scotland for some 20 odd years.

Poor Anthe lost the throne and had to be content with a few dukedoms. Just recently took it back with her son who'd been born in the purple. Oddly when my faction only had 40% strength of the Emperor, said emperor gave in to my demands and abdicated.  Now facing down a powerful faction that wants to see my emperor's brother in charge.

Also, dwarfism got into the genetics of my family at some point and now everyone keeps popping out as dwarves. Tired of having dwarven Byzantine Emperors!

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Also, dwarfism got into the genetics of my family at some point and now everyone keeps popping out as dwarves. Tired of having dwarven Byzantine Emperors!

Ruling in Constaninerebor?

[Martinus]

In my current game as Burgundy, my uber-stats King Henri the Great (all stats above 15) became at one point the most influential man in Christendom, serving as the Steward and Regent of the Holy Roman Empire, Guardian of the young Emperor, and also pretender to thrones of France and England (two civil wars there trying to put him on the throne).

One surprise though. For some reason both the young emperor whom King Henri tutored, and each of his own sons (he has two) turned out to be gay. 

It seems there is something in the water in the royal court of Dijon. 

[garbon]

Read the latest dev diary. Sounds like they put a lot of thought into the mechanics for Republics, but still unconvinced that it'll be fun to be a non-ruling family.