Is this Normal?

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I'm playing my first game (ever) of Crusader Kings today. I decided to start with Norway because it's out of the way.

I look west and what do I see but this?

Is that normal? Scotland has taken over Ireland, England over taken France- with some Scottish pockets in there?

All I'll say is it'll make an interesting game come Europa time if they hold together.

 

[elDrastico]

it's possible but not very likely for this to happen, especially so soon into your game. Are you playing with the latest beta patch on?

 

[Tommy4ever]

Thats an English powerhouse!

The only time I've ever seen the AI expand that much was in a game I had as Poland where the English conquered Germany, France and Demark . This all happened before 1120.

 

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@Draztikus

I think I am. I think I downloaded the patches. Where should I go to check?

EDIT: I have 2.0

 

[jordarkelf]

Make sure you're using the last beta patch for Deus Vult -- or realms will pledge to the strongest nation on the map, even if this makes no real sense. But even with this patch it might happen, if England/Scotland are particulary succesful in taking their neighbours down.

 

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This is only semi-thread highjacking but how do I install the patch? There's no game updates button like in EU3

 

[elDrastico]

Here.

 

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But I mean, what do I click in it to get it to work. I hit the Crusaders.exe. in there and it just gives me an error.

(thank you for the quick replies)

 

[elDrastico]

there's no installer, you just copy all the files into your CK folder

 

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Thank you so much

 

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That's never happened to me before, but right now I'm playing as the Duke of Venice, my King (Heinrich of Germany) had Realm Durress, causing almost all the great Dukes to war with him. Eventually he died and the Duke of Provence took over but the damage was done. Now Saxony and this huge swarth down to the middle of the former empire swore themselves to Denmark, the South East (Bavaria, Carintha) swore themselves to Bohemia (seriously?), and the New King of Germany(formerly Lower Lorraine) controls pieces everywhere, while the former King, now the King of Burgundy/Italy controls much of the South.


Bottomline: Everything can get quite unpredictable in this game if the circumstances get crazy enough.

 

[Kaleidoscope]

^Does this forum have a report feature at all?

 

[Tommy4ever]

A mod should come and delete it soon enough

 

[iain_a_wilson]

That's quite amusing. That's what I love about CK; sometimes the map just goes mental!

 

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That's never happened to me before, but right now I'm playing as the Duke of Venice, my King (Heinrich of Germany) had Realm Durress, causing almost all the great Dukes to war with him. Eventually he died and the Duke of Provence took over but the damage was done. Now Saxony and this huge swarth down to the middle of the former empire swore themselves to Denmark, the South East (Bavaria, Carintha) swore themselves to Bohemia (seriously?), and the New King of Germany(formerly Lower Lorraine) controls pieces everywhere, while the former King, now the King of Burgundy/Italy controls much of the South.


Bottomline: Everything can get quite unpredictable in this game if the circumstances get crazy enough.

I once played a Luxembourg game where the King of France ended up with the king titles for France, Germany, Italy, and Burgundy. He even went on to conquer most of North Africa, only to get himself excommunicated and having his own son (together with most of his vassals) rebel on him.

Great game.

 

[LordofSaxony]

I once played a Luxembourg game where the King of France ended up with the king titles for France, Germany, Italy, and Burgundy. He even went on to conquer most of North Africa, ony to get himself excommunicated and having his own son (together with most of his vassals) rebel on him.

That's one of the things I love about the game. If a King dies and an heir is either a toddler or someone that is really horrible, it shows what it can do to a kingdom.

It's also an important factor to play the "Game of Thrones" and to position your heir with assassination and to mold him into a good leader before he takes the Kingdom.

 

[xGhost4000x]

Hehe, in My Duchy Of Galicia game my king died leaving a 9 year old as the King, 5 years later my 14 yr old king gets assassinated and his 6 yr old brother takes the thrown. The 6yr old lives to the age of 67 before dying in a battle against Burgundy. Needles to say though that was a rocky time for my kingdom. This. Game. Rocks.

 

[Jossar]

I've certainly seen stuff like that before...

Last game I was playing as the Count of Coimbra (eventually went up to Duke of Porto) and Castille became a tremendous powerhouse: Owned everything in Spain that wasn't Muslim or Navarre, the Netherlands, and a good portion of France. Of course, France itself had disintegrated into a number of warring duchies with the original king basically living out his days functionally equal to a two-bit duke.

Though yeah, I mainly agree with everyone above: Powerhouses tend to randomly form sometimes if you aren't carefully arranging it so that one country doesn't marry/infiltrate into half of Europe...