Loading saves when things go bad even once a campaign makes me wake up sweating at night and gave me plenty of whipping scares on my back. The purgatory has an extra spot reserved it seems
The game doesn't have much difficulty.. You can play without any save-load and achieve a similar result.
Although you might have to try a few times due to some unexpected results.. (Like your king being killed in the first battle, against a very small enemy army)
Since you are not contributing with anything remotely related to the topic cant you gentlemen just make a tread in which you can share your views on save/reloading instead.
It would be nice, but I don't see that happening. Too much Internet tough guy syndrome.
Nice posting, but are you sure about education?
Afaik guardians don't tend to give the same traits, but use their traits for a decision. For example a zealous character will always use the "pray to god" option if the choice for a trait for the child occurs, while for example wroth characters tend to take the aggressive decision and so on.
So for careful trait decisions i wont second your idea to give your primary heir 50% of the time to another guardian.
Also: cognatic may be nice, but in a real game (sorry for that but with lots of loading its not "real") you can easy get problems with too many claimants. If you're unlucky your 3rd degree niece will get the throne, and have an heir thats not of your dynasty...
Did I mention my love for load/saving? I sure hope so, and in case it snowed under in troll posts I'll make sure I did so again. Which is kinda a conundrum, and fascinatingly off topic.
So I tried the whole stealing heir's thing in a Scandinavian Empire game I was playing (trying to get England) i invited the claimant gave him a county in Finland, killed his father and... Nope Independent England and the county gone with it. So i'm not entirely sure what I did wrong, if you could give me an answer Sultanyegah on how you did it i'd really appreciate it as I am really interested in your strategy.
I'm pretty sure the strongest move for the first few years of gameplay if you're purely min/maxing is just to hold every bit of demesne yourself. There's simply no other way to earn cash that fast early in the game, and cash is the limiting factor in early military strength. The fact that it also gives you a larger levy size and no risk of rebellions is a footnote, as is the fact that everyone in your court hates you and (for a few years) you can't afford to land heirs. Once you have a massive war chest and can start keeping most / all the mercenaries on retainer, you hand out all your holdings.
You should be able to organize a sieging army. Sometimes an enemy approaches you when you are sieging and if your army doesn’t have commanders, it’s frustrating to click move, organize, cancel move and lose that 20 days of `making siege equipments’.
• You should be able to search traits. It’s really boring to search for Organizers among hundreds of man each time you try to select a commander for a hastily needed army. Or it’s time consuming to search for a “zealous” young mistress, who is also humble & kind (to marry a heir). Or trying to search for a genius trait bride candidate. We should at least be able to search for just one trait, or sort people per a specific trait.
• There should also be a “Search Courtiers” button at Find Characters window.
• There should be a much functional search for people. We should be able to search people based on any of their character data.