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Fedora Master

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Has anyone managed to get a game off the ground as one of the old CK2 favorites like Haesteinn oder the Karen guys? Being lone OPMs is a pain now.
 
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I island hopped to Sardinia, released the initial county, then took Egypt. Took a few tries and realized keeping the initial county screws you, because France will come for it and it will make you look weak causing the AI to dog-pile. I think the key is don't dick around with raiding, but conquer as much as you can (avoid Jerusalem) in his life time then shore up. Then as he is about to die go to raiding and keep lots of money on hand. If you can survive the first few attacks you will stabilize.
 
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Jenkem said:
Lil Dick Charles IV did jack shit to me when I played as Haesteinn, I easily conquered Brittany and then Wales to get the cheevo.
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I used to fuck off someplace else instead of staying around France but that's not as easy anymore. With restricted diplo range you can only reach as far as Iberia.
 
Heroic Liberator

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Fedora Master said:
Jenkem said:
Lil Dick Charles IV did jack shit to me when I played as Haesteinn, I easily conquered Brittany and then Wales to get the cheevo.
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I used to fuck off someplace else instead of staying around France but that's not as easy anymore. With restricted diplo range you can only reach as far as Iberia.
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Is restricted diplo range still a must after the patch?
 
Heroic Liberator

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Just reformed the Orthodox faith and now planning on migrating to Southern Italy, gaining independence and ruling over the enlightened Despotate of Syracuse. :obviously:
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More bitching. Levies are borderline useless in actual battles, and the only use for them outside of battles is to inflate your troop number to make yourself seem a harder target to foreign and realm assholes gunning for you. MaA just crush them, even when outnumbered massively, because MaA can be improved, where levies stay the same same bottom tier crap through the whole game.

And the problem is that the AI does not know that, and will cheerfully commit suicide with his armies attacking your smaller armies, not taking into account army composition. Finally the pope had enough of me and called a crusade on my ass, and enemy stacks just melted against my light cavalry stack I left sitting in flat terrain. 12k levies vs 4k light cavalry: levies suffer 100 to 1 casualties and a complete stack wipe. Again and again this happened.
 
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Zero Credibility said:
More bitching. Levies are borderline useless in actual battles, and the only use for them outside of battles is to inflate your troop number to make yourself seem a harder target to foreign and realm assholes gunning for you. MaA just crush them, even when outnumbered massively, because MaA can be improved, where levies stay the same same bottom tier crap through the whole game.

And the problem is that the AI does not know that, and will cheerfully commit suicide with his armies attacking your smaller armies, not taking into account army composition. Finally the pope had enough of me and called a crusade on my ass, and enemy stacks just melted against my light cavalry stack I left sitting in flat terrain. 12k levies vs 4k light cavalry: levies suffer 100 to 1 casualties and a complete stack wipe. Again and again this happened.
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Late game this becomes a big issue due to the fact that the AI does not upgrade his buildings.
 

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Also, how does ERE fare in your games? In my they've crushed the muslims, hold middle east, most of Africa, all of Balkans, most of eastern Europe, a good part of Persia, and most of Italy. They are probably going to restore the Roman Empire soon, I've never seen the AI Byzies that successful in CK2, not even close. Part of the reason is likely their primo where everyone else is stuck with gavelkind, but also orthodox seems weirdly stable when compared to poor catholics. What gives?
 
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