Let's Play Crusader Kings - ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

Holy Cow · Jul 23, 2010

My name is Jorge. I was born 48 years ago in Burgos, in the Kingdom of Castille, and for 40 years I have been a monk in this abbey which will be soon lost to time. I have seen things the seeing have not; I have seen the rot spread through the land, where men's will was mistaken for the will of God. The rash norman has at last conquered the Island, and only the Highest knows how many innocent souls this has cost. I have seen brother fight against brother, son against father, all the while the Holy Land perishes in the hands of the heathen. In the land of the Scots, pagans have sacrificed a holy man to their unholy god. The frankish dynasty of barbarians still wages war amongst themselves, their bloodlust endless.

The Pope sits in his throne, oblivious to the words of our Saviour, and watches on as christian fights against christian.If this is God's Will manifest through God's Word, then God never spoke. It is the first of january of the year of our Lord of 1066. I pray that yet one knight will be born, pure of heart and firm of purpose, to sweep such darkness away from this land. For if only evil men are born in these evil times, then we are truly lost and the Apocalypse is upon us. I can only pray that such a knight will come to the lands of Iberia...and deliver us. Deus vult!

INDEX POSTORUM LPEORUM

1. Meet the King and His friendly staff
2. Jew Gold!
3. For the Greater Good of God
4. The King is dead. Long live the King!
5. Parabellum
6. Pater Noster in Caelis
7. Humble origins
8. You're overvaluing the retard, Sire.
9. Sweet Mother of Mercy
10. Gray Eminence
11. Jorge's Letter
12. Family Matters
13. War! What is it good for?
14. La Danza Macabra
15. Heaven is my judge
16. The Loyola Heresy
17. In Medias Res
18. What can change the nature of a Man?

Cassidy · Jul 23, 2010

Iberia. Drive the infidels back!

I'd suggest Poland, but its geopolitcal situation in 1066 wasn't as bad as it was in 1938.

Quilty · Jul 23, 2010

I'd suggest starting out with Croatia. It might seem easy early on, when all you're doing is uniting your provinces, you don't have any enemies, and killing an infidel now and then isn't too hard, but more often than not in my games Hungary grows huge and hungry, Germany expands quickly and reaches my borders, Byzantium decides it can deal with several enemies and take on even puny little Croatia, and that's about when the raping begins. In addition to the difficulty spike, I think it would be cool for the LP if it started out slow the way Croatia does, because you'd get to explore your characters in peace before all hell breaks loose and focus on banging maids to stock up on heirs.

Anyway, nice choice for an LP, will be following.

Cassidy · Jul 23, 2010

I insist that you go for an Iberian Duchy. Throw the Per, Muslims into the Spar, Spanish Pit!

Chef_Hathaway · Jul 23, 2010

What about the Kingdom of Jerusalem? You could try your hand in the holy land, unless you only want to start in 1066 that is.

marooned · Jul 23, 2010

Unify Iberia!

Send the muslin back home. Kill the stronger, maim and convert the weakling.

spekkio · Jul 23, 2010

Iberian Peninsula it should be!

Malakal · Jul 23, 2010

Do You really want to start as a King? Well that makes the early game more interesting.

Good starting choices are:
1. Navarra - relatively isolated from the muslims, Kingdom byt very small and weak.
2. Aargau - county, not interesting itself but ruled by Habsburgs, yes, THOSE Habsburgs.
3. Southern Italian states - rich and rather easy, good for novice players.
4. One of the later electorates of HRE - Duchies, get involved in the Empire, rather powerful.
5. Netherlands - rich areas and a lot of intercatholic warfare.

Cenobyte · Jul 23, 2010

Yep, take an Iberian country and lead a holy crusade against the infidels in Al-Andalus!

treave · Jul 23, 2010

Iberia, Reconquista!

I hope the Mongols aren't a disappointment this round. They usually are for me.

Phelot · Jul 23, 2010

Iberia!

Serious_Business · Jul 23, 2010

You should change title to "Kill all sandniggers"

sportforredneck · Jul 23, 2010

I typically play as Bohemia, break away from Germany and become king after a few years.

Takeda Kenshi · Jul 23, 2010

Iberia is easy but fun.

ironyuri · Jul 23, 2010

Is this game not available on any digital distribution network, I really want it now.

Malakal · Jul 23, 2010

ironyuri said:
Is this game not available on any digital distribution network, I really want it now.

Try Gamersgate or bargain bins around You.

Sovard · Jul 23, 2010

Crusader Kings is on Impulse for $5, and Deus Vult is $7.50.

Both on sale right now.

sportforredneck · Jul 23, 2010

Torrenting them is free.

Luzur · Jul 23, 2010

you'll notice that AI aggressivenes is set as weakling; that's because anything above that using DVIP's mod makes AIs go crazy and kill themselves idiotically in endless wars (germany will, for instance, fragment itself completely in about four decades or so), also, they will only accept peace if you conquer all of their land, which is idiotic. if anybody knows of a fix for this, i'd appreciate it.

if i remember correctly you can edit some file and change the "make peace" line into what you like, make peace after one province is captured or all provinces captured etc.

but its been awhile since i played around with EU/CK/HOI files so i could be remembering things wrong.

Malakal · Jul 23, 2010

Holy Shit, El Cid is really fantastic! With this martial You should be able to kick muslims out of Iberia in 20 years or less. Seriously, 21 martial should win You battles 10 to 1.

marooned · Jul 23, 2010

Quilty · Jul 23, 2010

Do go on, good sir.

Luzur · Jul 24, 2010

you could have forgotten some " or / somewhere, or delete someone with extensive lines into other scenarios/events.

those can greatly fuck-up your game.

Dragula · Jul 24, 2010

Is Deus Vult installed?

GarfunkeL · Jul 24, 2010

Doesn't matter if you change game-files now, since the save game will overwrite them when you restore - so reinstalling can only help if you start fresh. That's with all Paradox games.

Haven't played CK so dunno about the exact files but what Luzur wrote is most likely correct. You should be able to just add stuff as long as you don't run out of tags or slots or numbers, whichever CK uses for people.

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