Quote from: crazy canuck on Today at 01:04:23 PMQuote from: Valmy on Today at 12:57:23 PMQuote from: crazy canuck on Today at 12:52:25 PMMy advice is stop thinking about blobbing like you did in the EU I-IV. You need to think through your expansion carefully and consider all the cultural, religious, economic, political and tactical reasons for expanding or you will end up with a bunch of useless territory. Or worse, territory you cannot hold.
And man...territory is very useless without control. I think I get zero tax or anything from some of my largest cities. The most they contribute is a few hundred levies for wars.
Yep, and when you consider the cost of suppressing rebels when those Cabinet positions could be used for far better purposes, and just the cost in manpower of putting down rebellions. It's just not worth it.
I love how the game has created real constraints on expansion beyond just an arbitrary Bad Boy modifier. Also, if you have a country with a strong economy and can trade for or produce what you want/need. There is no need to go expansionist.
Quote from: crazy canuck on Today at 12:49:06 PMQuote from: Razgovory on Today at 11:56:37 AMQuote from: crazy canuck on Today at 10:54:12 AMClergy had children until the 1100s. And even then the rule requiring abstinence was more honoured in the breach.
Also, the rule had nothing to do with population control.
Nuns were often married and had children before entering the nunnery.
Do you have some evidence for the claim of wide spread infanticide?
I mean the Romans were pretty upfront about it. From the Vindalania letters, we have actually have a soldier telling his wife to kill the child if it's a girl. I think that a lot of cultures had a major imbalance between men and women mostly favoring men. Infanticide was pretty common among hunter-gatherers and neolithic cultures.
One letter does not make it common. And what is your source for hunter gatherers and neolithic cultures practicing it?
QuoteAs to exposing or rearing the children born, let there be a law that no deformed child shall be reared; but on the ground of number of children, if the regular customs hinder any of those born being exposed, there must be a limit fixed to the procreation of offspring, and if any people have a child as a result of intercourse in contravention of these regulations, abortion must be practised on it before it has developed sensation and life; for the line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 11, 2025, 01:26:42 PMQuote from: Norgy on November 11, 2025, 11:37:22 AMRingo was there and maybe the better drummer of him and Pete Best, I do not really have a frame of reference.
Yes he was a better drummer than Pete Best. Best got the job because his Mom owned a club where the band played.
Ringo got the job because he fit in with the group and was the best rock drummer in Liverpool in 1962.
Quote from: Valmy on Today at 12:57:23 PMQuote from: crazy canuck on Today at 12:52:25 PMMy advice is stop thinking about blobbing like you did in the EU I-IV. You need to think through your expansion carefully and consider all the cultural, religious, economic, political and tactical reasons for expanding or you will end up with a bunch of useless territory. Or worse, territory you cannot hold.
And man...territory is very useless without control. I think I get zero tax or anything from some of my largest cities. The most they contribute is a few hundred levies for wars.
Quote from: crazy canuck on Today at 12:52:25 PMMy advice is stop thinking about blobbing like you did in the EU I-IV. You need to think through your expansion carefully and consider all the cultural, religious, economic, political and tactical reasons for expanding or you will end up with a bunch of useless territory. Or worse, territory you cannot hold.
Quote from: Jacob on Today at 12:50:02 PMQuote from: crazy canuck on Today at 10:54:12 AMDo you have some evidence for the claim of wide spread infanticide?
I'm not in a position to proclaim whether the argument is correct or not, nor to state what the current scholarly consensus is, but as I understand it's been a fairly mainstream scholarly theory that infanticide was fairly common in pre-Christian Europe at least.
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