CKII is released.

I hope retrofitting this stuff into my old save won't be much of a hassle.

 

Sounds pretty nice, though I wonder how extensive it is? I imagine it will only work for cultures in traditionally conflicted areas like Anatolia, Iberia and Karelia. I wonder if I can make Novgorod into Holmgård under a Swedish ruler.

 

It should be modable.

 

Well yes I wouldn't be surprised if it was, mostly I was wondering how far they would take the feature in the default game. Though one could of course in a mod create cultural titles for all kind of strange possibilities. Georgian Spain maybe?

 

Depends on how many culture groups are there in the game. I dont know but if we had like 12 groups then each group could feasibly get names for each region. If more then probably just historic and plausible ones.

 

Well, could work easily unless you want to be anal about things like what Danish-controlled Åbo would be called.

Anyway, the most obvious use for this is in the Ural area for the Duchies there, removes the need for Titular titles. A good example are the Tyumen and Cheremisa Duchies, which can easily be renamed to renamed to Khanty-Mansia and Mordvins respectively with the new addition (and to Tyumen and Cheremisa after conquest by just about anyone but Altaics and Finno-Ugrics).


PS: There are 18 culture groups (19 if you count the Aztecs), which are West Germanic (English pigdogs and Trash), Central Germanic (Krauts), North Germanic (newfag snowfags), Latin (Guidos and Frenchies), Iberian (Spanish devils and the Basque), Byzantine (Liberals and some guys called Greeks), South Slavic (Tupac's chosen people plus zoo), West Slavic ( : x ), East Slavic (Worst Rus), Altaic (Worst Turk and Gorram Mongorians), Iranian (have you seen how Persians decorate?), Arabic (tilemalamala doha ALLAAAAAH), Celtic (all sorts of assholes), Magyar (in denial), Baltic (is cold, no potato), Finno-Ugric (oldfag snowfags), East African (niggas), West African (the other niggas).

 

I'm currently playing with King of Navarra and all assorted Iberian crap (don't want to be Emperor just yet) and my 2 adult sons are sitting in prison for starting civil wars. Both have rather average statistics and I'm currently tutoring my youngest, third, genius son. Guess which inheritance law would I like to have...
It was quite popular in countryside during XIX and first half of XX century Poland. Older sons were sent to the city; youngest stayed with ageing parents, took care of them and inherited household.

 

It's for Mongols.

 

Dunno... It seems like a shitty succession to me, unless you kill off your wife once she shits out a useful son. I'd hate to see all my hard work turning my progeny into proper sociopaths go to waste just because my cuntbag of a wife won't get a back alley abortion in our twilight years.

Granted, I've killed off a fair amount of wives. I usually get one of our sons or daughters to perform the deed as spymaster for extra Kodex Kool Kred

 

Youngest son inherits means that once you die your heir will be very young. Oldest sons like to take up the throne in their 40s and don't get me started on seniority.
Although with this

it may become less important.

 

Really hope the family feud thing will make an appearance also for nobles. The potential for luls is immense. Not to mention how cool it would be to actually have a proper vendetta going on against your asshole neighbour.

 

Though in player hands in a self-made kingdom it'll probably be kinslaying all the way.

 

The CK series is a breeding-simulation and a game of, as Vaarna puts it, Unfortunate Accidents (right?). But oh is it lovely, yes it is oh indeed it is!

 

Have they released a DLC or patch with an expanded pagan/norse focus?

 

Nope, think they are planning too though.

 

It is not as if they are looking to put a dagger in your back and grab your titles at the first opportunity anyway, so I figure it would be alright.

 

Norse focus for the DLC would be pandering to the audience though. By the time of the Grand Campaign the relevant pagans were the various Finno-Ugrics between Scandinavia and Novgorod and shamanists in the East, but most importantly Lithuanians.

 

Enough about finns!

 

No arguments, just curious. Since I saw the DLC where they highlight the potential for Aztecs to invade Europe, I figured anything was on the table. I don't see the problem with a little alt-history audience pandering when releasing DLCs. It doesn't tarnish the vanilla released product IMO.

Also - I want a glorious Odin worshiping Europe putting the pope in his place.

 

Sure. But that's always what it's about. Hating on the neighbours would make some fun addition tho.

And I can't think of anything but a Pagan dlc next. Unless they want to expand on the church and holy orders first. I personally got the feeling they save the Pagan one for last as they might expect it to be the biggest draw?

 

Quite possible. And like discussed before, it'll probably be named Wrath of Odin or something. Naming the DLC in a way to reflect how history went better wouldn't work that well, seeing how "Perkele Perkele Perkele Perkele Perkele Perkele Perkele Perkele Perkele Perkele Perkele" doesn't really have marketing power.

 

I'm sure there's at least 10 of us who would buy a game on that name alone.

 

I dislike alternative history in history-based games though, therefore I consider Aztec DLC a terrible rape on a great game made by it's own father.

 

If there is ever an excuse to pander to some audience, norse focus that is. Not to mention some 50-100 years timeline rollback is a given (I hope), which means twice the awesome for the price of one.

Lithuanians' only claim to fame was sitting on their collective arse doing exactly nothing beyond stubbornly refuting teutonic advances; the mongols are unplayable in half the scenarios and it took them no more than half a century to bend over and convert despite being a supreme ruling power, and those "hey, it's free land" guys in extreme northeast - who are they again?

Fuck these losers. OOOODHIIIINNNN!