CKII is released.

I have no clue.

The one DLC I've been expecting is a theoretical Dead Gods expansion, where you have a chance to resurrect dead pagan faiths. They already have Hellenism in there, not being used after all.

 

Well I'm actually half-expecting it ending up like that.

 

You are looking at this from wrong way. In this game player is likely to:
-murder random NPCs
-rape women
-castrate men
-blind both genders
-imprison and torture vassals and family members
-assassinate his own children
-create various eugenics experiments more often than not ending in inbreed retards.
And so on. Your vassals hate you for expelling jews because you are sparing them from yourself.

 

Has anyone tried a Lawful Good LP? I'd like to see how long that lasts.

 

And with the latest patch, they managed to break the fucking buildings under construction again. Jewish buildings my ass. Do they ever learn?

 

It really depends on what you call a good thing. One could easily argue, that killing some horrible person, who don't like you and threaten to descent all your realm into bloody civil war, is a genuine good thing. Maybe not that lawful, but good.
And you relly overstimating CK2 difficulty. Except some very hot spots on the map, playing a canonical Lawful Good would be more boring than challenging. Especially for count start.

 

Try Latin Empire
I tried to be lawful good but the Greeks just won't reciprocate.
And then when my liege died in battle, I simply couldn't afford to let my vassals walk all over me.

 

Gotta be hard to be lawful good seeing how chastity is a virtue.

 

Chastity isn't much of an issue, piety gain is good.

 

As romanophile I will never do that. But why would standard "Let them rebel, beat them with mercenaries and retinues forces and then give their titles to your culture/religion guys" wouldn't work?

I don't see Lawful Good game as "get as much virtues as possible." Especially chastity one.

 

What retinue? You own just 3 counties out of the whole 'Empire'
Your vassals are larger than you, Byzantines want Constantinople back.
Bulgaria is to the west.
Perhaps with Jew moneylenders it's possible to hire an early stack to stave off the early attacks now.

 

At last

 

Lol you also get lots of +50 tech points events for having Jewish council members

 

That's neutral good logic at best. As lawful good the best you could do is imprison all the bad guys.

 

Playing as Cathar Hispania. Can I make catholicism a heresy?

I could really use all these holy orders. Seljuk kebab blobbed to a ridiculous level.

 

You need to make Cathar the dominant Catholic denomination before it will be orthodox doctrine.

Better start a few holy wars.

 

The only place where heresy pays off is Britain.
Suppose you're strong but lack the cassus beli, going heresy will pay off in establishing the Empire of Britannia.
Muslims will never invade the British Isles.
Hispania? Good luck with that.

 

The Cathars held that all sex (even reproductive and married) was sinful and that all humans ought to abstain entirely

"Cathars also rejected marriage. Their theology was based principally on the belief that the physical world, including the flesh, was irredeemably evil - as it stemmed from the evil principle or "demiurge". Therefore, reproduction was viewed by them as a moral evil to be avoided - as it continued the chain of reincarnation and suffering in the material world."

Probably for the best that these guys historically got stamped out.

 

Sweet, gave successor all newly conquered lands, he took initiative and declared holy war on remnants of Cumania.
I broke truce as well and together father and son wiped the dirty bastards off the map.
All hail Prince Infinitron!

 

Paradox should give all Cathars the celibate trait for lulz. Speaking of Cathars, there was a French campaign scenario in Lords of the Realm 3 where you could choose sides in the Albigensian Crusade. I had never heard of it prior to playing the mission.

 

Finally the first Jewish Emperor.

 

No wonder my fertility rate seems to have plummeted after coverting. I keep getting single children.

 

So remember those feast where one of your vassal kills a servant?
I decided to RP a Just liege and got severely punished for it.
It adds -20 Tyrant penalty whenever you imprison a noble this way.
Since there were three guests who did it...
Sigh.
At least the unhappiest ones are jailed now.

 

Ouch, that sucks. I remember when the -20 penalty happened to me the first time. The worst thing about it was the fact that my character was already just, so I didn't even get that perk. Fortunately, my ruler was already old, so I didn't have to wait 20 years for the Tyrant penalty to expire.

 

Yeah, that feast event is balls.