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[Ravensword]

Its their lack of flavor, tiny realms, and tendency to get Holy Wars as bad as Zoroastrians

It's not so bad when playing as a Zoroastrian dynasty if you console yourself some cash, but it sucks if you're playing as and Ethiopian dynasty, b/c you only have access to two mercenary units. I hear that Nubians still have the same amount of available mercenary units as Ethiopians. I should've probably played as a Khazar Jew. The one cool thing about the Ethiopian culture is that they get access to a cheap light troop unit.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Having (-) treasury for a short time to win a war doesn't ruin your kingdom but I prefer to use my personal standing army and the levies I demand from counts and dukes, and don't call for my own levies. I think I have enough income to hire mercenaries. I completely forgot about them, because few centuries ago they were too expensive.

[Steelcan]

http://www.twitch.tv...ctive/c/5092046

 

here is the latest info on the new Charlemagne DLC, in a streamed MP game of the Paradox devs.  I'll look through it and pull out anything that stands out as important new info.

[Steelcan]

New "Age of Vikings" Event that will immediately give Germanic Pagans shipyards, yes Norse religion has been re-named as Germanic.

[Ravensword]

Damn Norsemen.

My game runs slow when I own more territory and especially during battles. Is there any way I can improve my performance? I've already removed trees.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Use 'more capacity/faster rams' and CPU. I think it doesn't worth it! You can try installing the game on SSD too.

 

I use one speed lower than the highest speed (5x?) anyway.

[Steelcan]

Every now and then I'll have times where the game slows to a crawl for no apparent reason, I usually just turn the computer off and get ice cream, by the time I get back and restart it, everything is fine.

 

Also happens when I get a crusade declared against me, but that's more understandable, 90k norsemen meeting 100k germans isn't gonna go without a hitch

[Ravensword]

I run the game at 4x speed. 5x speed is hardly any faster for me. There was a flat water mod that gets rid of the water animations. I might use that.

Anyways, my Ethiopian Jewish run is pretty exciting so far. The Abbasid dynasty collapsed and was replaced by the Quadrid or whatever it's called dynasty. The Arabian empire still exists. The Muslims are still powerful and a pain in the ass to deal w/ it. I recently had to repel an invasion attempt on the Kingdom of Egypt. I'll I'm expanding westward. I'll stop before I take Marrakech so I don't unlock jihad for Muslims. I can't really expand eastward since there are provinces that are key holy sites for Muslims that'll unlock jihad for the Muslims as well. The former Abbasid Empire is still a formidable foe, but the Saffarid shahdom is quite powerful.

[Kimosabe]

I usually play on speed 4, I only use speed 5 when I start as a single minor when there is nothing to do or when I have become way overpowered and I am just waiting on truce timers to end/my assassination attempts to succeed. The only thing that gets annoying are the automatic saves in Ironman.. They fixed it in EU IV but not in CK II yet..

 

I really liked the twitch stream and I will definitely watch the next ones they will do.

I also like the fact that they changed the Norse to Germanic religion. It is more accurate, especially now that it is spread to North/North-West Europe. The Age of the Viking event sounds really ominous and it could easily make England an easy target and it looks that Francia never changes, always fighting eachother..

 

Meanwhile in my Venice game it looks like the Republic is still broken.. After losing an embargo war against the almighty Byzantines, all other patricians refuse to build new trading posts.. I have to steal them away from Amalfi to expand via trade..

[BroBear Berbil]

I'm excited about the custom empires. I've got this obsession with Frisia and I generally like to take the coast from Mortain to Oldenburg or sometimes up to Jutland. Also southern England with a couple of inland counties on both sides of the channel. I hated having to take all of Britain just to be an empire and get that demense and tech boost.

 

Now I wish Dutch retinues would just get buffed a bit.

 

In the meantime I've just started playing with the Magnate Lords mod and it's absolutely amazing.

 

I run the game at 4x speed. 5x speed is hardly any faster for me. There was a flat water mod that gets rid of the water animations. I might use that.
 

 

Don't know if that would help with the game slowing down. Flat water is a Godsend though for me and my old and dying gtx480 which is starting to overheat at 2560x1600. It was flat water or turning down my resolution...and I can't do that.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

I'm kinda tired of CK2. I'm gonna play EU4, so I can learn it before I export my CK2 Persia Empire, otherwise I may screw it up!

 

 

Don't know if that would help with the game slowing down. Flat water is a Godsend though for me and my old and dying gtx480 which is starting to overheat at 2560x1600. It was flat water or turning down my resolution...and I can't do that.

 

Try to clean your graphic card's fan with a nail or Hairdryer. My GTS 250 has become averagely 20 degree Celsius cooler since I've cleaned it.

[AventuroLegendary]

Custom kingdoms?

 

Glory to Arstotzka.

[CrazyRah]

Curious if there's anyone that got a decent amount of experience in Victoria 2 and maybe Hearts of Iron. Been playing so much of CK2 and EU4 by now that I just want to try out another time period while still hanging around the Paradox titles.

[Ravensword]

I'm excited about the custom empires. I've got this obsession with Frisia and I generally like to take the coast from Mortain to Oldenburg or sometimes up to Jutland. Also southern England with a couple of inland counties on both sides of the channel. I hated having to take all of Britain just to be an empire and get that demense and tech boost.

Now I wish Dutch retinues would just get buffed a bit.

In the meantime I've just started playing with the Magnate Lords mod and it's absolutely amazing.



Don't know if that would help with the game slowing down. Flat water is a Godsend though for me and my old and dying gtx480 which is starting to overheat at 2560x1600. It was flat water or turning down my resolution...and I can't do that.

I still haven't gotten Rajas; still waiting for it to go on sale. I might just buy Charlemagne straight away when it comes out, b/c being able to create custom empires sounds awesome. I wanna create an empire out of the Kingdom of Bavaria and spread weißwurst, pretzels, beer and Oktoberfest (centuries before the creation of the festival) to all of Europe.

I think my video card is pretty decent, it's just that my motherboard is older than my video card. CKII is pretty quick when you first start playing a new game when you have a small realm. I might just start using the flat water mod myself.

[AventuroLegendary]

Does anyone have recommendations for aesthetic and music DLC? I think the face packs are pretty straightforward but I'm not sure about music.

[Steelcan]

Does anyone have recommendations for aesthetic and music DLC? I think the face packs are pretty straightforward but I'm not sure about music.

I get the unit packs for variety

 

I skip the music because I usually don't even listen to the game soundtrack

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Andreas Waldetoft was a great composer in HOI 2 and EU III & :ROME but his current works are mostly meh.

 

 

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Also:

 

 

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

And:

 

 

 

Embrace the glory and the beauty!

[Gorthaur the Cruel]

So I've started a new game as the Satrap of Karen. Managed to become Shah of Khiva pretty quickly, and have since been quickly reconquering lands from the Persian Sunnis. Lookin forward to restoring the Persian Empire to it's former glory.

 

 

My current ruler, Narseh is quite the womanier. He's married to his eldest sister, has three concubines, and has two lovers who are also his friends.... It's good to be shah.

[Kimosabe]

After watching a couple of streams and dev diaries I have noticed a couple of interesting things regarding the upcoming dlc's:

 

CK II

Building with Prestige instead of Gold: The Tribal nations will not need gold as much as the more Feudal nations do. They can use Prestige to build bu

-  Managing big empires will be more difficult by limiting the number of vassals (centralization vs decentralization). Which sounds a bit weird to me because I always kept a limited number of direct vassals anyway, preferring to make use of vassal Kings..

-  The Chronicle looks nice

-  Added a new religion to play with; Zunist. Don't know them but I can imagine that they are implementing some unique events if they go to the trouble of adding it.

-  Removed Assassinations: This was atleast the case for the Middle Francian King while playing as East Francia. I really hope that they are not going to implement this because then I can't play my assassination games anymore

- Decadence: They will change it (again) to hopefully make it less a pain in the ass.

 

 

EU IV

- Transferring Occupation. After seizing a province, you have the opportunity to change which nation occupies it. The AI should do this as well for countries that are not strategically/historically important to them.

Marches

- Expanded Persia/Caucasus and massively expanded West-Africa and India. India got a massive overhaul, more than doubeling the amount of territories in it, as did West-Africa making both area's much more interesting to play as.

- Improved fleet management; you can now keep full maintenance for your trade fleet yet reduce it for your war fleet and you can upgrade a whole fleet at once

- Revolt risk is gone: The old Revolt Risk system has been taken apart and split into Unrest (the revolt part) and Local Autonomy (the economic part) that can be dealt with seperately

Reduced the negative penalties for Ming.

[AventuroLegendary]

My guess is that the limited number of vassals is there to "add incentive" to creating duchy and kingdom titles instead of just doing nothing so you can fight lots of little small rebellions instead of a couple huge ones. Though, that would be a bit redundant seeing as there's enough incentive like the benefits from happy duke vassals.

 

I sure hope the removal of diplomacy assassinations isn't final. I'd hate to be put at the mercy of the RNG god even further.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

So I've started a new game as the Satrap of Karen. Managed to become Shah of Khiva pretty quickly, and have since been quickly reconquering lands from the Persian Sunnis. Lookin forward to restoring the Persian Empire to it's former glory.

 

 

My current ruler, Narseh is quite the womanier. He's married to his eldest sister, has three concubines, and has two lovers who are also his friends.... It's good to be shah.

 

Eh, Why western Iraq has no rulers?

[Gorthaur the Cruel]

Eh, Why western Iraq has no rulers?

I think because the area is so lowly populated the makers of the map mod decided to omit it. I don't care for the big empty gaps in the map, but I'm willing to live with it since the map mod is far better than vanilla.

[Degenerate Rakia Time]

lol in my CK2 game the Hashimid just declared a Jihad on Jerusalem, problem is the Queen of Jerusalem is the daughter of the Emperor of Rome (aka me) so now im gonna drop half a million men on the Hashimid, end the Jihad and then im gonna attack them, take over the Arabian peninsula and put the caliph's head on a spike