Allow me to introduce the dull slothful frat boy king of Italy. Was this nomad subjugation shenanigans? Nah, the previous queen was just normal married to a Tengri Alan... Also, Karl is alive and has Bavaria as his primary. <_<;
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Achievement Unlocked: The Frisian Coast Is Friggin' Huge.Not the usual AI title choice for the Karling blob, but whatever works.
Not the usual AI title choice for the Karling blob, but whatever works.
Looks like Saxons started migrating back towards Asia
This is the second time I've actually seen the Saxons make a run east. Both times involved a Saxon subjugation of Magyar, but as you can see, this time the Magyar kingdom title persisted and got released in gavelkind. Also, the Pomeranians subjugated Saxony both times.
The Kingdom of Magyar is now the major Germanic Saxon nation. Saxony is a mishmash, but ruled by Widikund.
The first time, I finally caught and vassalized Saxony after they had migrated east of the Urals. They had turned completely Tengri and some steppe people (Khazar, I think) by then. Then, they started conquering Siberia and extending themselves to the eastern border.
ETA: Here's a link to the first time.
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With HIP, needed a new wife with stats... which were decent but and she also had homosexual trait so didn't think much of it when I arranged the marriage
I should have picked the depressed option
Wow, Lombardo Lesbian, such a title to have and I quite like the alliteration it has
Good day. I am the veteran of Europa Universalis IV and Stellaris, and I have decided to try Crusader Kings II. I've played for few decades as Leon (went quite well, despite me not knowing wtf am I doing) until I lost half of my kingdom upon monarch death because I completely fail to understand the way titles work. Then I almost made ragequit but instead, I thought, I wanna switch to observer mode to see what happens in this game (knowing how lunatic universes can be produced this way in EU4).
This was a great choice.
Please comment the following screenshots, I wanna know how typical they are.
First of all, say hello to the Kaiser Amadeus of the Holy Roman Empire. Kaiser Amadeus took the Great Schism very badly and succumbed to alcoholism. Desperate to unite Christendom in some way, and under severe influence of Oktoberfest, he decided to do the only sensible option.
So, remember how I said I lost half of my Leon upon monarch death? By this point I was sure everything will go to hell shortly after, as my Leon had a series of rebellions, powerful Almoravid state next to it, HRE intervention in Iberia, angry neighbors etc. So I expected to see it, at best, undead after few centuries in AI observer mode hands.
Not exactly.
Leon, as you can see, understood "reconquista" not merely as the reconquest of Iberian lands, but also old Visigothic and Vandal Africa and far beyond.
Sicily didn't want to be worse, and had absurdly succesfull run against, well, entire muslim North Africa - it fought Berbers, Almoravids, Iberians, Libyans, Egyptians, Pope, Byzantine...
The final result of "reconquista" exceeded Christendom's expectations:
Islam is doing so horribly in this game that I expect it to be extinct by the EU4 timeframe.
Now some of you may have noticed this weird Catholic Egypt and thought "eh, what a succesfull Western crusade".
Well, yes, it is indeed succesfull crusade, but not exactly "western":
It is just Ruthenian Catholic crusade on Egypt, so here you can see somewhat abstract Egyptian Pharaoh Radoslav the Catholic and his Danish wife (residing in Cracow). It is somewhat baffling for me how he got Catholic enough to embark on a Pope's Party in the Nile River, seeing how Ruthenia is still Orthodox.
Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention, Rurikid dynasty of Ruthenia has somehow inherited thrones of Ruthenia and Poland while marrying itself to Scandinavian nobles. The resulting political history of Poland will be a serious headache for historians:
Followed by:
Now, some of you may have noted several tinier anomalies on this screenshot, namely
1) Egypt
2) Fatimid
3) Teutonic Order
You see, Teutonic Order was apparently called to this clusterfuck of a region after Catholic panic of local Muslim invasion. So they embarked on a travel to Ruthenia/Poland/Sweden/New Egypt and settled right next to Egypt.
But they were so foolish, this was our friendly Catholic Russian Egypt in Poland!
As you can see, everything with this guy is perfectly fine. What is NOT fine is Shia Fatimid Pomerania, the real cause of moral panic in the area, and the fact that Shia Caliph Abdul Salaam is legitimate heir to the Sheikhdom of Krakow and busy commanding his Baltic-Norse-Polish-German mujahideen against Christendom.
Oh, last and not least, that Fatimid enclawe in Belarus, what about it?
Ah yes, it is the famous Gulf of Venice, ruled by the King Danil, Count of Gulf of Venice (but apparently not the Venice itself), King of Sweden and Regent Pharaoh of Egypt.
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Now my only regrets are that I failed to capture the teen, lesbian, depressed, shy Basilissa of the Byzantine Empire that got the trait "brilliant commander" and repulsed the, what was it, oh the Mongol invasionand died in battle at the age of 29 as the "cavalry commander".
That or how one province minor Vasterbotten survived till second half of 13th century as Norse tribe perfoming regular Viking raids on Christendom (somehow surviving all this despite bordering French Christianized Post-Crusade Finland for like 150 years).
This was a great choice.
Please comment the following screenshots, I wanna know how typical they are.
First of all, say hello to the Kaiser Amadeus of the Holy Roman Empire. Kaiser Amadeus took the Great Schism very badly and succumbed to alcoholism. Desperate to unite Christendom in some way, and under severe influence of Oktoberfest, he decided to do the only sensible option.
So, remember how I said I lost half of my Leon upon monarch death? By this point I was sure everything will go to hell shortly after, as my Leon had a series of rebellions, powerful Almoravid state next to it, HRE intervention in Iberia, angry neighbors etc. So I expected to see it, at best, undead after few centuries in AI observer mode hands.
Not exactly.
Leon, as you can see, understood "reconquista" not merely as the reconquest of Iberian lands, but also old Visigothic and Vandal Africa and far beyond.
Sicily didn't want to be worse, and had absurdly succesfull run against, well, entire muslim North Africa - it fought Berbers, Almoravids, Iberians, Libyans, Egyptians, Pope, Byzantine...
The final result of "reconquista" exceeded Christendom's expectations:
Islam is doing so horribly in this game that I expect it to be extinct by the EU4 timeframe.
Now some of you may have noticed this weird Catholic Egypt and thought "eh, what a succesfull Western crusade".
Well, yes, it is indeed succesfull crusade, but not exactly "western":
It is just Ruthenian Catholic crusade on Egypt, so here you can see somewhat abstract Egyptian Pharaoh Radoslav the Catholic and his Danish wife (residing in Cracow). It is somewhat baffling for me how he got Catholic enough to embark on a Pope's Party in the Nile River, seeing how Ruthenia is still Orthodox.
Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention, Rurikid dynasty of Ruthenia has somehow inherited thrones of Ruthenia and Poland while marrying itself to Scandinavian nobles. The resulting political history of Poland will be a serious headache for historians:
Followed by:
Now, some of you may have noted several tinier anomalies on this screenshot, namely
1) Egypt
2) Fatimid
3) Teutonic Order
You see, Teutonic Order was apparently called to this clusterfuck of a region after Catholic panic of local Muslim invasion. So they embarked on a travel to Ruthenia/Poland/Sweden/New Egypt and settled right next to Egypt.
But they were so foolish, this was our friendly Catholic Russian Egypt in Poland!
As you can see, everything with this guy is perfectly fine. What is NOT fine is Shia Fatimid Pomerania, the real cause of moral panic in the area, and the fact that Shia Caliph Abdul Salaam is legitimate heir to the Sheikhdom of Krakow and busy commanding his Baltic-Norse-Polish-German mujahideen against Christendom.
Oh, last and not least, that Fatimid enclawe in Belarus, what about it?
Ah yes, it is the famous Gulf of Venice, ruled by the King Danil, Count of Gulf of Venice (but apparently not the Venice itself), King of Sweden and Regent Pharaoh of Egypt.
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Now my only regrets are that I failed to capture the teen, lesbian, depressed, shy Basilissa of the Byzantine Empire that got the trait "brilliant commander" and repulsed the, what was it, oh the Mongol invasionand died in battle at the age of 29 as the "cavalry commander".
That or how one province minor Vasterbotten survived till second half of 13th century as Norse tribe perfoming regular Viking raids on Christendom (somehow surviving all this despite bordering French Christianized Post-Crusade Finland for like 150 years).
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You shouldn't have quit. This game becomes most fun during failures. A few murders or a claim war would have been enough to re-unite your realm. And that was probably what the AI did to create super-Leon.
The observer mode screenshots were highly entertaining, though! Not sure how typical they are (as in would it happen in a game that was observer from the start? Who knows!) but they certainly show the possibilities and randomness of CKII. No play-through is the same.
The observer mode screenshots were highly entertaining, though! Not sure how typical they are (as in would it happen in a game that was observer from the start? Who knows!) but they certainly show the possibilities and randomness of CKII. No play-through is the same.
my wife want me to appoint myself as appoint my self as my own marshall? not sure if bug or just weird phrasing
...Why is it every time I stop paying attention to a region for awhile Judaism takes it over?
You may want to cap your FPS... At least down to 60 or 90 FPS... Just saying.
tfw surprise buddhist theocracy, appearently monk suryanarayan somehow conquered kingdom of bihar. That was fun and game.
tfw surprise buddhist theocracy, appearently monk suryanarayan somehow conquered kingdom of bihar. That was fun and game.
Seems a bit unusual that it maintains the dynasty name even though it's not hereditary.
I think it's just defined by the Game Rules, with Indian cultures (or is it Dharmic religions?) showing a realm name based on the dynasty. I bet the previous ruler's realm name was his dynastic name, too.
But as to the OP, that does seem like a rare occurrence and very fun indeed - I've never seen that happening.
It's all those randomly generated Jewish courtiers and/or court physician. They have such great stats that the AI makes the tutors and they eventually get a kid with heritage education assigned to them.
I'm a hunter bear, and happened to have a rebel "mauled to death by a bear" when I executed him.
That explains the converts but not the time the AI formed Israel as an Ashkenazim.