The Obligatory CK2 Strange Screenshot Thread

[Sarenarass]

Many Strange Screenshots

Time for a lot of pictures! So, get ready.

First off, the mysterious deaths of the House of Rose.

Right when Beordraed Rose died comatose in bed the entire family mysteriously passed away on the same day.

Next up: 348: SPARTANS.

348 Greeks (presumably Spartans) were called up by the Duke of Athens to help their liege fend off the vile invading PERSIANS. Unfortunately, they didn't receive news that their Emperor was in full retreat while they were standing to defend and couldn't run away fast enough to re-group with their king. It was 348 Greeks... vs 18,000 Seljuks. The entire Greek Army was killed, not one survivor. Except for the Duke who got away somehow. But before he left he managed to find the Seljuk King and kill him? what.

lol. Only 300 men, the battle only lasted about 3 days and the Turks had maybe 4 casualties? Just so happened their leader was one of them.

More next post.

 

[Sarenarass]

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The most evil sounding regent... ever. He's up there with Jafar on his obvious "evil" character.

Vlach, the most evil sounding of all of the culture groups. He's also Tengri Pagan. Backstory is as Norman King I married into the Croatian dynasty. The Queen died for some reason and now I had four Norman daughters who were all in line to become queen, and were also my only heirs. However they kept dying to mysterious accidents and then... I found out who was their regent. Seneslav? Already sounds like he should go in some movie as the primary antagonist. And he just happens to have that mustache and the brown hood.

Even though I'm King Magnus I "the Great" and everyone loves me... my Dukes get bored and want some random legitimized bastard, hedonist to be King even though he's in Spain somewhere. O.K.

Go-go Pagan Sweden! They live on.

 

[Gagik]

Yeah, that's what that red cross in the temporary modifier box is. I've got/had some old lady in my court with the same assortment of traits, and the temp modifier (she might have died when I wasn't paying attention, sadly. I need to check later.) I wish I had noticed sooner, if only to see if I could have married the two. And I meant he should have been the Pope in an ideal world. CKII is not an ideal world.


Also, here's an image I posted over in the current Republics thread:



Look where France should be. That kingdom has rather bad luck in my games, it seems.

Wow, looks like Abbasids have their second golden age!

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Time for a lot of pictures! So, get ready.

First off, the mysterious deaths of the House of Rose.







Right when Beordraed Rose died comatose in bed the entire family mysteriously passed away on the same day.

If this is with 1.092, please post this with an attached save file (zipped) in the Bug Subforum.
They are probably aware of it, but it stil happens and its good to call it to their attention. Happened to me with unrelated persons as well.
Thanks

 

[Jorlem]

Here's two interesting ones:



Any idea what is going on here? My vassal is in a war that I'm not involved in, but I still got that pop up message.




Apparently, some units can enter the Sahara?

 

[Boogeyman]

Here's two interesting ones:

Any idea what is going on here? My vassal is in a war that I'm not involved in, but I still got that pop up message.

Apparently, some units can enter the Sahara?

You're seeing the pop-ups due to your message settings (maybe).
Sometimes units flee to sahara after losing combat.

 

[Jorlem]

You're seeing the pop-ups due to your message settings (maybe).

Maybe, but I just got this:



I don't have any holdings there. Not even one from winning a siege.

Edit:
Here's a screenshot with the message settings visible:



Also, this siege isn't showing up in the sidebar list.

Edit 2:
Should I take this over to the bug subforum? I made a save at exactly this point, just in case.

 

[cybrxkhan]

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I am playing with just VIET mod. Orthodox Christianity has gone almost extinct. Byzantine Empire and Novgorod (the last Russian Duchy standing) switched to Judaism.

Out of curiosity, is that a current version of VIET?

Is that a face pack from Paradox or work of the mod? Because Pegalios looks genuinely intimidating.

In VIET I've taken the Mediterranean Portriats Beautified mod and changed it so European Mediterranean males have the normal Western beards and hair. So ultimately while the mediterranean people look distinct and diverse, they don't look as bad as they did in the vanilla Med portraits.

 

[adijarca]

Vlach, the most evil sounding of all of the culture groups. He's also Tengri Pagan. Backstory is as Norman King I married into the Croatian dynasty. The Queen died for some reason and now I had four Norman daughters who were all in line to become queen, and were also my only heirs. However they kept dying to mysterious accidents and then... I found out who was their regent. Seneslav? Already sounds like he should go in some movie as the primary antagonist. And he just happens to have that mustache and the brown hood.

But...but... we are not evil :sad:

One more reason for paradox to change it to the historically accurate Romanian culture.

 

[Rewjeo]

I get that message about my holding being besieged whenever I have an army in a province where there is a siege, regardless of whose holding it is. It's been around for a long time now and I think I experience it regardless of the mod I'm playing/not playing.

 

[Jorlem]

I get that message about my holding being besieged whenever I have an army in a province where there is a siege, regardless of whose holding it is. It's been around for a long time now and I think I experience it regardless of the mod I'm playing/not playing.

Well, I'm not using any mods, so it is native to vanilla.

Anyway, take a look at this:



Sadly, they'll split when he dies, as the HRE uses primogenitor, while the Golden Horde uses ultimogenitor.

Kaiser Markward the Magnanimous will go down in history as the most powerful man of the age, and quite possibly of all ages. The son of Kaiser Eckard the Great and Mandukhai Buri, a daughter of Khagan Chiledu the Great with his first wife, Markward was born on the seventeenth of October, in the year 1300. He ascended to rulership of the Golden Horde on January 28, 1321, instead of of his younger half-uncle, the only child of the former Khagan's second wife. While this child normally would have been chosen as the next leader of the Golden Horde, the day that Khagan Chiledu died was also the young Belgutei's tenth birthday. This was seen as an ill omen, so Belgutei was denied the Khaganate, which was given to Markward instead. Then, on November 20th, 1333, Kaiser Eckard died, at the age of fifty, and Markward became Kaiser as well. Commanding the power of both the Holy Roman Empire and the Golden Horde, his might is unrivaled. Should he so choose, none would be able to stop him.





In all seriousness though, I have no idea why Belgutei wasn't the heir. The GH uses agnatic ultimogeniture, and he was ten, while Markward was twenty one. That's what ultimogeniture does, right? The youngest gets the titles?

As a side note, I am very tempted to come back to this save later, and play as the super-Kaiser instead. Seriously. This is nuts. I mean, when a player does something like this, that's one thing, but...

Edit:
Took a deeper look at the Khagan's family tree, and quite a few of those grandchildren younger than Belgutei died in suspicious accidents, but that doesn't explain why Markward got the instead.

 

[antigravitycat]

All the Mayors of Mali knew that Pagano was somehow different, but they did not dare tell him, because he was so easily stressed.

 

[lelyanra]

All the Mayors of Mali knew that Pagano was somehow different, but they did not dare tell him, because he was so easily stressed.

He's a legitimized bastard and his family name is italian. He is likelly a bastard child of the italian grand mayor (apointed after the county was conquered by a merchant republic) that was raised by a mandé. You see, city-counties have the open elective succession, which means the most capable male heir will inhert the city county. So even if he didn't inherited after his father, he likelly inherited after his father's successor.

This is not WTF at all. It happened all the time in my game as pisa, specially with the mahgreb culture.

 

[takedown47]

Nothing strange about this screenshot, there is just something just really cool about a third empire in europe.

 

[Jorlem]

Two last images of my game's HRE, a few years apart:

Before Kaiser Markward died.




And after:

 

[unmerged(566615)]

Nothing strange about this screenshot, there is just something just really cool about a third empire in europe.

Gotta love the prince and the thane mod

Edit: Embarrassing typos

 

[OrangeOranges]

Nothing strange about this screenshot, there is just something just really cool about a third empire in europe.

Can you create your own empires in PatT from whatever two Kingdoms you hold and it creates a custom title?

 

[takedown47]

Can you create your own empires in PatT from whatever two Kingdoms you hold and it creates a custom title?

Nah, I don't think so. Hungary-Croatia is a titular empire similar to the latin empire but it's still cool.

 

[unmerged(566615)]

Got two for you guys:

Apparently my homosexual King of Jerusalem fell in love with one of his holy orders. Great plot for a Hollywood movie right there.

And this one (both from the prince and the thane):

 

[firelordzuko]

Got two for you guys:
And this one (both from the prince and the thane):

You can actually perfectly recreate the Auditore arms with Patrum Scuta (integrated in TPaTT). I did so, before TPTT started crashing every five minutes.