Ok, so I bought this game a while ago. I tried it out, but I found it a bit too complex to easily learn so I didn't play it too much. I did the normal thing - starting in Ireland to learn the basics. After that I had a fairly successful game as the Piasts of Poland before moving to other things. I stopped playing while the education bug existed, and haven't gotten back to it until now. So I have a few questions:
1) How do you deal with pagans? I remember it being a lot easier, but now with the religious CB others can join in, and they usually have fairly big armies. I tried as the Piasts and the Novgorodan Rurikovich family and almost got beaten by them a few times (though with the Rurikovichs family alliances help out a lot).
2) What's the best way to unite the Russian states? I tried starting as the Duke of Novgorod and changed succession to seniority (and perhaps because of that my wife later tried to poison me). But my father died before me, and my titles ended up passing to a landless uncle known as "the bewitched" who had the kinslayer trait. After that all my family members basically dogpiled me. In another attempt, the same thing happened even with a more favorable heir.
3) What's the best way to expand as Poland? Pagans seem to be a lot harder, and the HRE and Scandinavian states are as aggressive as ever.
4)What should I focus on as England? This was my most recent attempt, and I was actually doing fairly well until I got stuck in a bad regency and quit after dealing with maybe four fairly major rebellions (I won them all, but it was getting tiresome).
5) As the king of England I had a weird situation where I switched to high authority to avoid titles passing out of the kingdom. The Duke of Cornwall rebelled, and during the rebellion one of his counties passed to the Scottish duke of Lothain. Was that because he rebelled so crown laws briefly didn't apply?
Yeah, my questions are all about different nations. I'm not sure who to start my next attempt as yet.
1) How do you deal with pagans? I remember it being a lot easier, but now with the religious CB others can join in, and they usually have fairly big armies. I tried as the Piasts and the Novgorodan Rurikovich family and almost got beaten by them a few times (though with the Rurikovichs family alliances help out a lot).
2) What's the best way to unite the Russian states? I tried starting as the Duke of Novgorod and changed succession to seniority (and perhaps because of that my wife later tried to poison me). But my father died before me, and my titles ended up passing to a landless uncle known as "the bewitched" who had the kinslayer trait. After that all my family members basically dogpiled me. In another attempt, the same thing happened even with a more favorable heir.
3) What's the best way to expand as Poland? Pagans seem to be a lot harder, and the HRE and Scandinavian states are as aggressive as ever.
4)What should I focus on as England? This was my most recent attempt, and I was actually doing fairly well until I got stuck in a bad regency and quit after dealing with maybe four fairly major rebellions (I won them all, but it was getting tiresome).
5) As the king of England I had a weird situation where I switched to high authority to avoid titles passing out of the kingdom. The Duke of Cornwall rebelled, and during the rebellion one of his counties passed to the Scottish duke of Lothain. Was that because he rebelled so crown laws briefly didn't apply?
Yeah, my questions are all about different nations. I'm not sure who to start my next attempt as yet.