CKII is released.

Hmm, just thought of something. Anyone try enabling muslims via text editing after the 1.06 patch? I assume at least the basic Sword of Islam gameplay changes for muslims are in there since the AI uses them (I assume), but are the events?

Mildly curious even though I'm in no big rush to pick up Sword of Islam yet.

 

I knew the Muslims would become extremely powerful after this patch. Lots of wives + lots of kids = A LOT of alliances.

Spain did not stand a chance...

 

I assume the dlc will be cheaper next week or so when steam summer sale starts? Probably wait until then.

 

The Muslims are now supposedly hardcoded as unplayable unless you have SoI installed, and converting in game will mean game over.

Also, it seems the new conquest CB that lets Muslims attack any neighbouring province also applies to the Pagans. Things will get a lot more interesting in the north too now.

 

You mean you actually gave Paradox the DLC Scheme Jews your money?

Nigga you crazy

 

Nah, the magicka DLC was part of the bundle. the 10 eurobucks were for all of the mentioned games combined. Now they're asking 1½ times that for mudslimes alone.
The bundle was a Good Deal. the Mudslime DLC is not. they should make a Jewish ruler DLC now they're at it. It would be strangely appropriate.

 

Well, I haven't gotten to that kind of stuff yet, but I'm going to port over my pagan (largely Finno-Ugric) improvement mod, which adjusts the naming mechanisms, gives Lithuanian pagans a special CB so they can grow strong (will get Catholicism conversion choice event chain later), Tribal Raid CB so pagans ARE a pain in the ass for all their neighbours (in conjunction with original Warrior Cult, so it will really take a hundred years of play before pagans start dropping), improves presentation of Finno-Ugric tribes in the Uralic region (ie, there were several provinces that were part of Russian duchies 200 years early, cultures of the tribes tweaked, etc) and so on. I'm going to play a campaign of vanilla Sword of Andhaira as some proto-cybernegroes before deciding which stuff I'll port over and see if I need to make balance improvements (though it seems BE is no longer a cakewalk, so I might just have to adjust their de jure to exclude Palestine and such).

Then I can get to work on adding more events and decisions for Pagans (both universal and religion-specific, ideas and brainstorming appreciated).

Also, anyone know how the region flag/name changes based on religion work? I've been trying to change a few duchies (namely two in the Urals, so in pagan hands they're Mordvins and Khanty-Mansia, changing to Cheremisa and Tyumen in non-pagan hands).

 

I dunno. The Muslims are weaker in my game than before the patch. HRE is the strongest I've ever seen it, wrapping around my Navarra campaign in conquering Spain.

 

One game usually isnt representative. Especially for Paradox games when one mistake made by a major player can affect the whole game.

In general I think that muslims will expand more and collapse more, due to new cbs and new internal strife mechanics. We'll see about that.

 

Obviously my HRE changes would still be in to prevent things like non-Elective rule there (while also nerfing Elective so the next emperor isn't the chosen son/grandson of the current one almost without exception).

 

If you have this mindset, you should wait for Crusader Kings II Enhanced Edition, all DLCs included.

 

Probably going to

 

The moment I installed the patch, the mudslimes from Spain invaded and conquered Brittany (owned by Castille-Navarra). To think I've spent 20 years matrimarrying, breeding, pressing claims, whitepeacing, assassinating and pressing claims again one county at a time... all to have mudslimes handle me the whole duchy on a golden plate etched with the words "holy war, lol". Where were you before, too busy fucking goats?

I should probably skip a few years and let them conquer the whole non-Holy Roman world, then steamroll over them all at once.

 

What a surprise it's nearly unplayable - lets just wait for the patch again.

 

Just found out why my mod wasn't working as intended. Pdox messed up and now CKII won't overwrite vanilla with mod stuff upon loading. Or so it is thought.


Been seeing quite some small but noticeable bugs appear with the latest patch and dlc as well.

 

I've seen more armies getting struck on some counties doing nothing. Barcelona duke declared Holy War on Albarracin. The Cordoba Emirate joining his brother in religion. Cue to an 4K+ muslim army standing on Albarracin for five years doing nothing, while the Barcelonian army just moved randomly from county to county. For 5 fucking years.

 

I wish someone would mod the map to make major rivers navigable (i.e. parts of the ocean). A fleet is unable to traverse the Neva and Ladoga lake to Novgorod, or go up Seine and drop the troops on the outskirts of Paris? Yeah right, tell that to the vikings. Hamburg not being a port city? Wow, what were those Hansa fools thinking...

A Nile-Red Sea channel (coincidentally making Red Sea navigable as well) would likewise restore the long-abandoned notion of "fun" when it comes to dealing with the SE corner of the map. Moreover, it will make the butts of historifag larpers explode in fountains of blood, making it a win-win scenario.

 

The eternal circle of bug creation - bug patching continues

 

It's a vicious circle. I often find myself about to play a Paradox game, when I think "I may as well wait until next week when the patch/DLC goes on sale/whatever". By the time that happens you may as well wait another week or two for bug-fixes. At this point, I fall into the hype of whatever new patch/DLC/expansion they're pushing on me. I just... can't quit.

 

Alright, I've gathered pictures (classic public domain paintings) for use with events in the Sword of Andhaira version of Kalevala Mod. Lithuanians and Latvians here can chip in for their own ancient cultural traditions, as I'm not enough of an internet warrior on those, I'm focusing on coming up with ideas for Finno-Ugrics.

The first event I'm going to work on is a small event chain (either Finno-Ugric specific or for all pagans) concerning Bastard infants: Namely, the liege getting saddled with the decision whether or not to slay the bastard for being a bastard. This extends to the entire court's children, and the decision to not execute will have higher costs than execution (which just kills the child and grants you Piety) in the form of relation penalty and piety loss. In case it's your own bastard, the choice not to kill causes a larger Piety hit and relation penalty and legitimizes the bastard, and killing provides a larger Piety gain. In case it's a bastard from your wife, the penalty for not killing is the same as normal, but the Piety gain for killing is lower than normal. The event can fire between ages 0 and 5 of the bastard (meantime 4 months), and only fires once per bastard (the relation penalty lasts two years).

 

What is the historical background for this? Sound's interesting, I didn't know the ancient Finns were so down on bastards.

 

As far as I know Finnish pagans (apparently other pagans as well) had some very hardline attitudes towards bastards due to how offensive their existence was seen as. The final rune of Kalevala also deals with this (while being a metaphor for the coming of Christianity), where Väinämöinen condemns the Jesus metaphor to death for technically being a bastard child. Hey, that's a good idea for an event (Gates of Hell style)!

 

GRRR That Gates of Hell event ruined my awesome Byzantine game I had going. Endless loop.

 

Autosave Phelot?

 

Man, I keep getting a million children and grandchildren when I play as Muslims and they all contribute to my decadence score so I have to land them, but that just means they'll have more children and I'll have to land them too. It's gotten to the point where every barony in my territory has someone from my dynasty and I've got so many people who need to be landed that I have to be at war 24/7. How do I stop this cycle? Execute family members? How do I keep my dynasty small when they just won't stop having kids?