One of the things we looked to do in CK2 is make the traits and abilities of the commanders become as important as possible. To this end we removed dice rolls and replaced them with combat tactics. Combat tactics affect the power of the unit types in either attack or defence. Before you ask, yes, they are fully modable.


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is the Year of our Lord Twelve hundred and Fifteen, and rumours have reached Christendom that a new Khagan has united the tribes of the steppes. This event is the first clue that the Mongols are coming. Soon after, the first invasion wave hits as the Ilkhanate Horde arrives. The horde arrives with many thousands of blood crazed horse warriors (exact number subject to change). These regiments form the shock force of the Mongol invasion. Some time after 1224, the second wave hits, further to the North and again with a huge force of shock regiments, the Golden Horde comes into play.
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With a title like Crusader Kings II we could not have not included the crusades, and, in what must class as a piece of unintentional irony by Doomdark, I have been delegated to write it.

First off, for those of you who really are getting immersed into the world of Crusader Kings II and simply cannot wait for the Pope to call a crusade there is nothing stopping you going off on a solo tour. You always have a CB against religious enemies, so if you have the will we have given you the means. The CB targets a De Jure Duchy of a religious enemy, and on success you acquire all the holdings inside the Duchy, leaving you to just decide who will be the new bishops and mayors.
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Part I – Prelude

So it is the 26th May 1467 and the Ashikaga Shogunate has fallen. The Onin war has kicked off around Kyoto and meanwhile the Uesugi clan are off to deal with some rebels in the Kanto region. Up in the far North of Japan sits Clan Nanbu, about as far from the action as you can be while still actually living in Japan. The situation in the North is everyone is at peace, and this is good because it allows us to strike where we want and when we want to.


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One of the nice things about being a game designer is that you get to make the games you like. This is also rather important because part of the way you keep score is how many people buy your game, and if you wouldn’t play your own creation then who would?

So with that thought we went to work on the design of For the Motherland. One of the parts of particular interest to me in World War II was the convoy battles. My grandfather served on destroyers and landing craft. During the war itself he was at Normandy, part of the Royal Navy contingent for the Norwegian campaign and, in the context of this little developer diary, on the convoys.
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Back again for another developer diary, this week we are going to look at a number of small changes we put into the diplomatic ...

Divine Wind gets ever closer to release and the Multiplayer game rolls on. I wrote my update in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien ...

The official Semper Fi patch is now out. Get it through your launcher or directly from here:

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/in-game/...emperFi203.exe ...

While Divine Wine comes closer to completion we have been working hard on polishing and balancing the game. To this end ...

With Johan away to E3 we didn’t want to leave you all with a total information blackout so I have been drafted to fill the ...

Well time for instalment number 2 of the developer diary process. In order to inject some much needed controversy we decided ...

Well this is it, the first developer diary for Victoria 2. You’ll be seeing a lot more of these over the coming weeks; we ...