Grand Strategy Crusader Kings III

[Theodora]

It's a teeny, tiny thing, but I love that the Old North got reified. They're so often forgotten about! The only other game I've seen them explicitly portrayed in was Thrones of Britannia, maybe because games tend to go off public expectation more than historical fact. (And for several reasons, folks usually don't think through to the fact that Brittonic-speaking people filled the island all the way to Hadrian's Wall prior to the Migration Period.)

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(And probably not what anyone here cares about, but West Africa's cultural map is super detailed; I wonder if that fragmentation will help prevent ahistorical blobbing in the region.)

 

[IDtenT]

Play as Coomania or Cumbrains?

 

[Theodora]

The Old Cumbrains

 

[janior]

def gonna play it in 2030

 

[Sranchammer]

Fucking $TOKED

 

[Zariusz]

If you are going to play CK3, what will be your first playthrough? I think im going to restore true zoroastrian persia and become shahanshah. Or unite west slavs under Poland, i cant decide.

 

[IDtenT]

If you are going to play CK3, what will be your first playthrough? I think im going to restore true zoroastrian persia and become shahanshah. Or unite west slavs under Poland, i cant decide.

I'll probably play Ireland just to familiarize myself and maybe a Catholic too after, like Brittany.

My first serious play will probably be Coptic.

 

[Theodora]

If you are going to play CK3, what will be your first playthrough? I think im going to restore true zoroastrian persia and become shahanshah. Or unite west slavs under Poland, i cant decide.

Whatever the venn diagram is of "relatively fleshed out in vanilla" and "not going to get me flattened in a decade".

 

[Life of the Party]

If you're not crusading against the Demiurge as Gnostic Siberians you're playing this game the wrong way.

 

[Zariusz]

If you're not crusading against the Demiurge as Gnostic Siberians you're playing this game the wrong way.

Gnostic fingolian horde crusade... patrician taste

 

[Life of the Party]

Finnghis Khan.

 

[Fedora Master]

I knew I kept this pic for a reason.

 

[Fedora Master]

You're right Fanta, I should've brought the Bulgars back into sweet embrace of their steppe brothers.

 

[fantadomat]

You're right Fanta, I should've brought the Bulgars back into sweet embrace of their steppe brothers.

I have done that lol . Nah the problem was that you let sweden exist,true heresy that is!

 

[fantadomat]

You're right Fanta, I should've brought the Bulgars back into sweet embrace of their steppe brothers.

I have done that lol . Nah the problem was that you let sweden exist,true heresy that is!

Here is my latest CK 2 game lol. Still haven't finished it tho.

 

[Theodora]

Gotta wait on China before we get our Siberian nomads.

Found a cool mod that adds as far as Japan to the CK2's map, Tianxi. Might give some impression of what CK3 would be like post mystery DLC.

Although this kinda DLC doesn't really fit their new model (as per Stellaris and Imperator) where DLC mostly adds flavour, rather than whole new mechanics / parts of the game.

edit: nice, fanta i'm trying and failing horribly to do the monarch's journey challenges.

 

[fantadomat]

There was a pretty good "three kingdom" mod about china and the region. But i don't know if it is still supported.

I really dislike how restrictive CK2 is. You can't just revoke title based on religion or culture,you can't just force convert or genocide certain people. It is very unrealistic.

 

[Life of the Party]

There's some stuff around Baikal but I'm not sure what those tribes are supposed to represent. I guess the Buryats? I'm kinda hoping for a Yukaghir or two, to be honest, although that's probably a bit too far to the north. Still, DLCs for the DLC god.

The main motivation I had when playing CKII was to take over the world as some obscure religion or heresy, preferably as the Tocharians or Sogdians or some similar Picto-Basques. Manichaeism is probably the best example but I did play as Paulicians, Bogomils, Cathars, etc. There were even some mods that added the Tondrakians but that seemed to do nothing. A proto-anarchist ascends the Roman throne... and nothing.

 

[Theodora]

There was a pretty good "three kingdom" mod about china and the region. But i don't know if it is still supported.

I tried it, but it felt too scripted to me.

When the World Stopped Making Sense is the one I was happy to see come back (starts just before Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus). I kinda hope Lux Invicta gets updated. Basically Sol Invicta Romans vs. Zororastrian Sassanids; haven't tried it but it sounds interesting.

 

[Zariusz]

I hope that there is no sunset invasion.

 

[fantadomat]

I hope that there is no sunset invasion.

Why not,are you one of those bigots that don't want playing with a bunch of shit skinned people covered in feathers???

 

[fantadomat]

There was a pretty good "three kingdom" mod about china and the region. But i don't know if it is still supported.

I tried it, but it felt too scripted to me.

When the World Stopped Making Sense is the one I was happy to see come back (starts just before Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus). I kinda hope Lux Invicta gets updated. Basically Sol Invicta Romans vs. Zororastrian Sassanids; haven't tried it but it sounds interesting.

I don't mind scripted,that way is more fun when you change the history .

 

[Life of the Party]

They should replace Aztecs with Atlanteans.

 

[Zariusz]

They should replace Aztecs with Atlanteans.

That certainly sounds better than hordes of half naked guys running wearing animal skins.

Actually it could be cool to have mod that adds mythical lands to world map. Like many legendary cities, wineta or that flooded city from brettonian legend.

 

[Life of the Party]

But there is such a thing. At least for Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron.

Occultis Orbis Terrestere is a legendary mod that has been abandoned so many times its development became no less mythical than the lands it added.

I'm not sure if you can even join the Paradox modding community without abandoning that mod at least once.