I've recently picked this game up in a sale and finding it very enjoyable. I thought I'd start with the tutorial, and I've got as far as owning almost all of southern Italy, having completed most of the tutorial objectives apart from the last two - I did take some screenshots, but rather unhelpfully they're all blank. I've just got a few questions based on what I've played so far:
First of all, when I load the game my subjects are disloyal until a month ticks past: I assume this is a bug and something I'm going to have to live with given that development has been shelved?
Whilst I'm on about subjects, what should I have done with my feudatories by now (about 40-50 years into the game, I play rather slowly!)? I'm guessing either integrated or released/claimed and DOW'ed (as suggested by the Wiki) as they don't have that many levies and I might be able to make better use of the land? They were certainly helpful in the war against Samnium/Apulia but when I own most of Southern Italy they've probably outlived their usefulness?
Second, I've tried reading the Wiki pages about culture, pops and converting and I'm still not sure I understand it! Again I'm sort of assuming that this is something I'll pick up with some more time playing the game. The Wiki talks about assimilating and integrating cultures/religious conversions etc, but I don't seem to have come across this yet - is this because everything I own is in the Italic culture group/Hellenic religion? (apologies for not having this as a screenshot, but the maps show Italy as Italic/Hellenic).
Third, if I play a "proper" game like I've done the tutorial, how bad are the consequences likely to be for my actions? It took me a while to declare the Samnium war because I wasn't sure about taking on the defensive league, but I ended up winning and annexing all five members of the defensive league (conquering Lucania and Apulia in the process). From having played a lot of CK2/EU4 I'd have a defensive pact/coalition on my hands if I even thought about taking that much territory. Is there a modifier in the tutorial that's stopping this? Or would I actually get away with it?
Last: From the position I'm in now it looks like I've got three options: a) attack the remnants of Etruria, which will bring in a five/six member defensive league (Genua, Boii and the other small states in northern Italy), b) attack the few remaining city states in the southern half of Italy, nearly all of which are feudatories of Epirus, or c) do as I'm supposed to do as Rome, and attack Carthage. Obviously I'd like to try all of them just to learn how to play the game, the question is which one would it be better to do first?
Thanks in advance to anyone who does answer. Apologies for some quite basic questions!
First of all, when I load the game my subjects are disloyal until a month ticks past: I assume this is a bug and something I'm going to have to live with given that development has been shelved?
Whilst I'm on about subjects, what should I have done with my feudatories by now (about 40-50 years into the game, I play rather slowly!)? I'm guessing either integrated or released/claimed and DOW'ed (as suggested by the Wiki) as they don't have that many levies and I might be able to make better use of the land? They were certainly helpful in the war against Samnium/Apulia but when I own most of Southern Italy they've probably outlived their usefulness?
Second, I've tried reading the Wiki pages about culture, pops and converting and I'm still not sure I understand it! Again I'm sort of assuming that this is something I'll pick up with some more time playing the game. The Wiki talks about assimilating and integrating cultures/religious conversions etc, but I don't seem to have come across this yet - is this because everything I own is in the Italic culture group/Hellenic religion? (apologies for not having this as a screenshot, but the maps show Italy as Italic/Hellenic).
Third, if I play a "proper" game like I've done the tutorial, how bad are the consequences likely to be for my actions? It took me a while to declare the Samnium war because I wasn't sure about taking on the defensive league, but I ended up winning and annexing all five members of the defensive league (conquering Lucania and Apulia in the process). From having played a lot of CK2/EU4 I'd have a defensive pact/coalition on my hands if I even thought about taking that much territory. Is there a modifier in the tutorial that's stopping this? Or would I actually get away with it?
Last: From the position I'm in now it looks like I've got three options: a) attack the remnants of Etruria, which will bring in a five/six member defensive league (Genua, Boii and the other small states in northern Italy), b) attack the few remaining city states in the southern half of Italy, nearly all of which are feudatories of Epirus, or c) do as I'm supposed to do as Rome, and attack Carthage. Obviously I'd like to try all of them just to learn how to play the game, the question is which one would it be better to do first?
Thanks in advance to anyone who does answer. Apologies for some quite basic questions!
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