Crusader Kings 2 Redux

[Valmy]

The Messalian heresy now has access to Absolute Cognatic Succession

But only if they are 'perfecti' right?

This must be a new heresy I have never seen the Messalians before and I play a lot in the Orthodox part of the world.

[Queequeg]

[Psellus]Turkish should be Oghuz, and all of the Turkic peoples should have patronymics. [/Psellus]

[Razgovory]

I put my game on Steam but it won't give me achievements.

[garbon]

I put my game on Steam but it won't give me achievements.

Did you turn on Ironman mode? You can't get them without that.

[Valmy]

I hate ironman.  I rarely load a game anyway but when I mis-click and accidentally screw up dolling out titles to vassals and heirs or something it is nice to be able to load the autosave.

[garbon]

I hate ironman.  I rarely load a game anyway but when I mis-click and accidentally screw up dolling out titles to vassals and heirs or something it is nice to be able to load the autosave.

Yeah, I've no interest in it / I can't stand autosaving every month. Always causes a perceptible freeze for a moment which I find jarring.

[Valmy]

I hate ironman.  I rarely load a game anyway but when I mis-click and accidentally screw up dolling out titles to vassals and heirs or something it is nice to be able to load the autosave.

Yeah, I've no interest in it / I can't stand autosaving every month. Always causes a perceptible freeze for a moment which I find jarring.

Oh yeah that part sucks to.  It is bad enough having one every year.

[garbon]

I think it was a bad idea to have Ghaznavids, Seljuk and Timur start off as individual character prior to their invasions. Unless one enjoys the challenge of fighting off attritionless doomstacks (which is only really doable if you've expanded like crazy prior to the respective character events), there isn't really any reason to suffer said characters to live. Ghaznavid character and Seljuk started up in my realm. Imprisoned and executed both...anticlimactic.

[Agelastus]

Finally surrendered and activated the Steam version I was "gifted" with when Paradox cast Gamersgate adrift.

All of my previous Welsh kings have been lustful and fruitful (my previous king fathered four children in his Sixties on a homosexual wife.) My current king and his wife, both with fertility bonuses and both at prime breeding age, can't manage an heir in a decade...and I really, really need one at the moment.

I'm also curious as to why my relatives all want to marry their relatives (one of my previous kings had to assassinate the wife of his heir three times - he'd married "inbred", "family", "family" ) - is this something to do with diplomatic range leaving their "marriage lists" filled with a disproportionate number of relatives?

[Josquius]

Ironman is artificial. The game does sometimes crash and often I like to try experimenting with silly things just to see what happens.

[Agelastus]

OK. 1167 and finished uniting the British Isles (as the Empire of Prydain - I feel very "Taran"-esque.)

Went slowly as I wanted to bring all the old Brythonic lands under the de-jure Kingdom of Wales before gaining a higher title, including the Hen Ogledd.

Ground the Scots to death with my worst king/Emperor. I still sometimes wonder just how the logic works for some of these "AI" characters; the lowborn spymaster of Scotland (who was also the regent most of the time) co-operated with me in assassinating six successive Scottish kings leaving him regent to the ruler of a one province minor. De Jure war for a county, assassinate the king, de jure war for a county...etc. etc. 

Impressions:

(1) Over the last few expansions and iterations factions have become a lot easier to control; not one faction war and only twice with "dangerous factions" in three hundred years.

(2) Conversely religion has gotten awfully close to going past interesting and into annoying. Having four separate heresies in strength in your realm at one time is not only annoying but (I'm pretty sure) basically ahistorical. 

(3) You can still send a gift to a brand new pope for the basic cost if you're quick off the mark; I always thought this was a bug, but maybe it's design...

(4) The game is still enormous fun. Other kings of my dynasty rule France, Brittany and Germany - and most of Brittany and eastern France has become Welsh in culture (a successful early adventurer from my realm. ) The Byzantines have gone Bogomilist, the Norse have reformed and launched their equivalent of a crusade (despite the Catholic crusades not triggering - presumably partly because Jerusalem has been part of a lonely three province Byzantine enclave for about 250 years) and the most successful Islamic power holds the Imperial title of Hispania (most uccessful since the Arabian Empire of the Karen collapsed, anyway.)

(5) Why was I stuck as Wales (an Anglo-Saxon term) when Scotland became Alba when my ruler acquired the title...

[garbon]

Well I didn't know that rule. Head of a religion doesn't declare Great Holy War (or equiv) unless landed? Had reinstated priesthood for Zoroastrians but only once I gave head priest a province did he nearly immediately declare a great holy war for Arabia.

[Syt]

New official patch out.

I started a game as Saffarids. It's been ages since I've played Muslims. I took the Tahrids, then later started a holy war against that Zoroastrian Satrapy South of the Kaspian Sea.

At 85% war score they didn't want to peace out, and the second I took another holding they decided to turn Sunni, thus ending the war. Bastards. Now I will have a huge piety cost when I want to grab their lands. 

[jimmy olsen]

Started my first game of RoI as the Byzantines. Expansion was hampered early on by several revolts by Iconoclasts and Sunni but then I got really lucky with my first marriage. I paired up my father with an Italian princess and their daughter inherited the crown, only to die of an illness a few weeks later, leaving me Italy.

Had the son of Satan event fire. I divorced my wife and banished him in the hopes I'd get to seem him take over another kingdom but he kept killing my sons even though he's now a bastard, so I had him shanked.

Things are looking pretty good.

[garbon]

In my current game - Ruthenia, Khazaria and Bolghar are all lead by Slavic Khazarian monarchs.