#crusader kings 2

[sistersorrow]

Playing Crusader Kings and shaking my head the whole time so people know I'm not a monarchist

[sorryitisandy]

So actually while I've got you on the line, let me tell you what I particularly like about Crusader Kings above all other strategy games. Let's start with a basic zinger: In a conventional sense, Crusaders Kings is very fucking easy. This is our map.

If you want to map paint, then even with only a decent understanding of the game's mechanics you can play as Ireland and say "top of the Morning" to the folks over in Pagan. I won't say this has no challenge, but in a other title, like say EU4, this would be a much harder task. That game has a lot of mechanics specifically surrounding aggressive expansion. You touch one province in the Holy Roman Empire and every European power might let you find out for free.

But you aren't playing as a Kingdom, not abstractly. This is who I started as for my first run with the new content pack:

If you aren't familiar with the game, what is chiefly important to understand is that I am this guy.

He has a family. He has an age. He has personality traits. He has a religion he publicly claims to follow. He has a history as a person. He happens to be the King of Sweden, but he can lose those titles. He eventually dies and passes them on to his heirs based on the realms established succession laws. I am not playing as Sweden in the abstract, but the man who claims to rule it.

What CK3 is at it's core is a role playing game. When you accept this Immersion and bind yourself to accept this, and also accept that you must abide by in character actions (helped by the stress system), the absolute WONDER of this game (and its predecessor) opens itself up to you. This guy likes to lead his own armies (he is brave and a noted warrior and commander), this guy is stubborn to a fault and it often causes friction with vassals and foreign rulers, this guy is wrathful and the consequences of his temper are often fatal. He isn't a great father or guide to any of his children but his oldest son. His lack of consideration and legacy have left scars on many of his other children.

So my genuine reccomendation is that if you haven't played it, it is a genuinely fun role playing experience, and is one of the best examples of emergent gameplay I have ever played across both CK2 and CK3.

[heyo-phillip-dead]

the steam reviews for crusader kings ii are fucking unhinged

[morgenstern16]

I love the Crusader Kings subreddit

[sunshinemoonrx]

If anyone who's followed me for a while is wondering if I'm still at CK2, and how that's going if so:

THIS IS TEN PERCENT LUCK

TWENTY PERCENT SKILL

FIFTEEN PERCENT CONCENTRATED POWER OF WILL

Honestly, the empress is barely paying attention to this, she's back in Tibet doing, y'know, important stuff.

"Cat did you say Tibet. That is clearly a picture of Italy"

yeah, this campaign has been, uh

A HUNDRED PERCENT REASON TO REMEMBER THE NAME

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[victusinveritas]

[leere-persoenlichkeit]

im finally making my ck2 title mod, Aldi Kings, public. ive been too anxious to post this for a long time (you can see in the photo that i last updated it in January) but now i feel ready. hope you all enjoy.

[championsandheroes]

Back in the good old days, before Paradox took the assassination button away from me, I once made the mistake of sending my genius son off to lead an army. These days the promising heirs are stuck in a tower, rolled up in approximately eight blankets at all times. For everyone's safety.

Patreon, society6, and redbubble have never lost a genius heir to a random battle for a puny county you were only marginally invested in and it shows.

[holycrowe]

"I'm very sorry to the guy who ran away from China to find refuge in my court but I recently took up an extremely expensive hobby (gardening apparently) and if China gives me money for you, you gotta go back srry"

[sistersorrow]

Recently found out the Avatar: The Last Airbender mod for CK2 is still being updated, so I reinstalled it

Played as Kyoshi after she'd killed Chin the Conquerer, causing his Empire to be split between his sons and a bunch of minor warlords

Since I was Best Killer Queen Kyoshi, it was easy to just keep declaring wars to take their land one county at a time, but slow, so I decided to do a little trolling

I married the first guy I could find, had kids, and married my son to a distantly related claimant go the Southern Chin Empire warlord state, then swore fealty to him, but since all the warlords hate me cause i killed Chin, so I get to keep challenging the Emperor to Totally Honourable Duels and using my OP Avatar powers to just keep killing Emperors until my daughter-in-law became Empress

She's since then had a daughter, so my current line of sucession is Kyoshi -> my son -> the heir to the Southern Chin Empire

In the meantime, I've been declaring wars on every fellow vassal in my part of the Empire and taking their land

This is so harmonic and balanced of me

[jorocks30]

Ta-da! I’ve finally done it, I’m now posting to AO3. If you want to read some nice little tidbits about my OCs please check it out. The story and characters are all based off of one of my CK2 AGOT playthroughs. I hope you enjoy; the stories are mainly character exploration, dynamics, and world building for my little oc story.

[da-riya]

The funniest thing about being a Scorpio is actually the way it's portrayed in the CK2 traits

[morgenstern16]

one of the most interesting ways that things have changed from crusader kings 2 to crusader kings 3 is the 867 afghanistan start. in ck2 the early years were a vicious fight for survival against the saffarids, the seljuks, and the ghaznavids as they sought to smite your infidel ass but now in ck3 you can just hand off your Least Important Baby to them for 16 years and they'll just sheepishly take care of it while you focus on taking over western india completely safe

[crimsonsapphic]

Down with the Bear, down with the Emperor! The General of Gaia will return, stronger than ever, and defeat allies of the grove and the smoke serpant! LONG LIVE THE DRYADS AND THE FOREST, LONG LIVE GAIA!!