CKII is released.

Also, obviously, get the coat of arms packs.

 

Just know that the four main ways to gain new lands are inheritance (takes a long time without application of a knife), getting a claim on lands for yourself and pressing it (gotten through plots, usurping dutchy or higher titles when you own 50% of their lands, or fabricated), or getting someone with a claim to be your vassal (usually by inviting a courtier to your court and granting them any old land) and pressing it for them (Must be a lower rank than you or otherwise they go independent, or if you marry you can have your children inherit both your titles) or holy wars (50/50 chance of getting a ton of land in one go or getting reverse dogpiled, and the land is unusable for a long time due to religious and cultural differences nuking what you get).

As long as you understand that there's no reason not to jump right in, the game is pretty tame and even if you screw up you won't be gutted and annexed like in most games, just gain a liege and pay a fairly small amount of taxes or lose 1 or 2 lands (but still have the claims to get them back later). Only way to truly lose is to have no heir and die, but that's pretty hard unless you start with an unmarried 50 year old woman.

Also always educate your own heir (send them to another educator with max rank education traits like Midas Touched or Grey Eminence before their 16th birthday if you want so they can get those traits, but that's kind of exploitative). This way you can determine their trait growth.

 

They now have introduced working tutorials however.

 

They are useless though, so they don't work for their intended purpose.

 

Sounds like real life to me.

 

Paging Trash. Just wondering if your mod works with all the recent patches & DLC's. And if so, could i have a link to kind sir?

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?stote70360e3t5c

There you go. Feel free to ploink that link down wherever you want. It's for the 1.07 version and copatible with the main dlc's. Think it should also work with the last patch. I'll update the mod when they release the republic dlc.

 

Republics Dev Diary #2
Weeeee "Grant Independence" button & more Mercs

 

Fucking finally. Next they need premature abdication. Where you can prevent yourself from becoming an Emperor, when you don't want to be.

 

Gotta say, the expansion DLCs can be very demoralizing for modder work ethic. I haven't done any work on CK2 for a while now, since I just wait for the Republic DLC so I have less shit to fix.

 

Another thing should be the ability to either a) not recognise female dukes or b) enforce succession laws on vassals. The biggest problem in my games is always the vassal duchies that grow due to marriages.

 

1. Invite to a court some Arab imam.
2. Wait.
3. Convert to Religion of Peace™
4. Profit.

 

Dream on.

 

Actually, in my current Byzantium game there was a crusade against Norway. I was like "wat" and checked the religion map.

The king of Norway had converted to Islam.
He had married a muslim wife and she somehow managed to convert him.
Epic lulz ensued.

 

I think they should add naval combat (even a rudimentary one) for the republic dlc. You can't fight a maritime war with just the glorified transports known as CK2 navies.

 

SO what Russian pack bring to game except cool portraits and units? Always wanted to play as Rus Prince but Russias were never classic feudal states.

 

Some posters on Paradox Forum are quite sure, that devs somewhere stated that naval combat will never be implemented in CK2.
But, hey game isn't even year old, so expect at least couple of big DLC's after Republic and who knows...

I don't have it, but from what I red and saw on forums, there is nothing new, apart from graphical flavour and music.

 

I took it during steam sales, if only i knew , i had bought it earlier. This game is pure goodness, already spend 100 hours on it , plotting ,conquering, smashing countries with the religion of peace, assassinating too ambitious vassals , marrying my daughters to rich old farts. I dont know what makes it works, what is the subtle alchemy in some 4X that makes me want to play another turn, but at 6 am i was still playing it . Its not so easy to master , but now i am starting to do good , since i took byzantine empire i had two extra objectives, unite religion and rebuild the whole roman empire, not an easy task but finally managed it, now i am going to try to conquer the whole world, not sure if theres enough time left in the campaign to do it .
Only major flaw is the lack of naval warfare, if the ships dont fight each others, why even bother to put them in,having to micro every troops loading has no interest.

 

I guess that's why there was no such thing as "maritime war" since roman times until, like, 16 century. Tying a thousand ships into the bridge across Kattegat doesn't really count.

 

Yes, seriously, people asking for naval combat - it just doesnt suit the era. Not to mention that spotting another fleet without proper tools was nearly impossible at that time so fleets could search for each other in one sea province eternally.

 

Well that multiplayer idea sort of fizzled out due to lack of organization (host mainly). I'm considering trying tunngle to see if it could be used for this purpose, it has worked out quite well with all games I've played with it so far. Any one with a copy of the game and the program installed want to try out if we can set up a game?

 

I'm available almost any time.

 

Thanks man, been without internet for 4 days now but now i can get my hands on it!

 

You're more than welcome. I'll update Memento Mori with the next patch and dlc and will also put the mediafire here*.

*And I'll check if it then works with my fav mods and put links to them here as well.

 

Rather underwhelming Republics Dev Diary #3