Convert or Reform?

[BrotherJonathan]

Playing as a nomad and wondering if the best long-term religion strategy is to try to reform the pagan religion I currently have, or to convert to a non-pagan religion? Is there a situation where one is a better choice than the other (leaving out pure roleplaying motivations)?

 

[rasuuru]

When I was doing "Nobody Comes To Fika" achievement I started as Asatru Mongol and, after conquering 30 counties and consolidating them into a single custom kingdom, I converted to Coptic for their "Mendicant Preachers" tenet and then reformed it. It was cheaper than converting to Bori and then reform it.

 

[DiabloDeVille]

Unreformed pagan faiths have an advantage bonus in defensive battles, so thats useful, going islamic means you can keep multiple wives so a decent meta choice and historical for most nomads

 

[Azhcristokos]

Most faiths have the offensive penalty you get to popular and vassal opinion if you are at war. Sticking to a warlike pagan religion like Tengri negates that and lets you keep conquering carefreely...otherwise, if you become the Khan of Khans, you can expect to find vassals with -100 opinion maluses just from offensive wars, and it takes a long time for that to go away barring death and succession.

 

[BrotherJonathan]

Is it ever worth it to reform an unreformed pagan faith (exclude pure roleplaying reasons or achievement/meme runs)?

 

[DiabloDeVille]

Is it ever worth it to reform an unreformed pagan faith (exclude pure roleplaying reasons or achievement/meme runs)?

When it is warmonger, yes

 

[Willy Waggler]

Is it ever worth it to reform an unreformed pagan faith

Different religions have different set of sins and virtues.

 

[rasuuru]

When I was doing "Nobody Comes To Fika" achievement I started as Asatru Mongol and, after conquering 30 counties and consolidating them into a single custom kingdom, I converted to Coptic for their "Mendicant Preachers" tenet and then reformed it. It was cheaper than converting to Bori and then reform it.

Oh, wait. I think Coptic has "Communal Identity" tenet and I added "Mendicant Preachers" myself. "Communal Identity" lets you convert culture faster in counties of your faith, so I first converted counties to my custom faith and then spread my culture. My chaplain and steward worked without any rest in parallel. "Communal Identity" also makes it slower to convert faiths in counties of another culture, so I added "Mendicant Preachers" and "Fundamentalism" to compensate for it.

Or was it not Coptic, but one of branches of Buddhism? I can't even remember. It was 2 years ago, right before the release of "Tours & Tournaments".