Crusader Kings 2 Redux

[The Brain]

Why not?

[Valmy]

Why not?

Because it has never happened in the history of the world to the best of my knowledge?

[Tamas]

I had to fuck up something. My Orthodox vassals keep Holy Warring Catholics just to see their war instantly end.

[The Brain]

Why not?

Because it has never happened in the history of the world to the best of my knowledge?

Ah, the historical straightjacket fan. Rarely spotted these days.

[Caliga]

Why not?

Because it has never happened in the history of the world to the best of my knowledge?

Fourth Crusade? 

[Valmy]

Fourth Crusade? 

This is about the Orthodox declaring a holy war on Catholics not the other way around.  And if you want to talk about Crusades one was called on the Holy Roman Emperor

[Viking]

err, I can apparently Holy War Catholics as Orthodox. Is that WAD or I messed up my cb_types file?

Why wouldn't you be able to?

Why would I?

Why not?

Because before the Great Schism they were nominally all one big happy church.

[Queequeg]

Why not?

Because it has never happened in the history of the world to the best of my knowledge?

Several Russian wars against the various Catholic powers might fall under the rubric of a holy war. 

[garbon]

I just won a crusade that was targeting the kingdom of Andalusia which at this point had incorporated most of North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia into its dejure kingdom area as well as Iberia. I thought my game was going to break. I've now 313 holdings!

[Zanza]

Is the new expansion fun? I didn't really play The Republic much and I am not sure if I am interested in Pagans. Has someone played as East Francia?

[Cecil]

I ran a short game as Lotharingia. Those Karling kingdoms are a mess of unstability and claims and counterclaims. Dont expect to see any HRE popping up ever under current conditions. Only west frankia seems to be stable to any degree at all.

[garbon]

I ran a short game as Lotharingia. Those Karling kingdoms are a mess of unstability and claims and counterclaims. Dont expect to see any HRE popping up ever under current conditions. Only west frankia seems to be stable to any degree at all.

Eventually they stabilize. In my now long-running game, Germany has most of Germany and Hungary. Might have been able to found HRE but I took Lotharingia.  That said, I do think it'd make sense to lower formation requirement on HRE to maybe something like 65% or 70% being as how it is an Empire that we want to see form.

[Maximus]

It's not much of a challenge playing as a norse character. I started as the chief of Dublin and after 50 years the kingdom of Ireland includes the entirety of the British isles, most of the North Sea and Baltic coasts and large swathes of Scandinavia and Aquitaine. I have reformed the norse faith and now I pretty much take what I want.

Some oddities: East Francia was inherited very early on by West Francia, while Lotharingia was apparently inherited by some Greek dude. The entirety of Lotharingia went Orthodox in the first 20 years. More recently it has been absorbed into the Byzantine Empire

[garbon]

Something strange happened to me where the King of Ruthenia and Byzantine Empire both briefly went Ibadi (Shiite heresy?). Very odd that.

And yeah, not surprisingly the Norse are kind of a walk in the park.

[The Brain]

And yeah, not surprisingly the Norse are kind of a walk in the park.

Gay or regular?