Anyone actually play the bookmarks?

TentacleMayor

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• Jul 6, 2014

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Does anyone use the bookmarks and characters marked interesting? I think the 'start from 867/1066 and conquer everything' playstyle is vastly more popular. I'm playing Latin Empire 1204 now, hoping for some events or something to add flavor.

 

duhsveti

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• Jul 6, 2014

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Sure. I use it for shorter games, when i don't have the time to invest in long campaigns, and to make some quick saves for the converter.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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I've played later bookmarks when I want to play as special realms like The Hansa or the Mongol Empire, but generally I play 867 or 1066.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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I almost never play 867, 1066 is more common, but I really prefer later starts like 1337 or late 1200s.
I appear to be in the minority

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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95% of my games are campaigns starting in 867. The other 5% are played when I am looking for something specific to that bookmark.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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I usually like starting out in 867, because I almost always start as a count & sometimes it takes a long time to get something good going when you start so low.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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I usually just fish around for an interesting scenario 50% of the time. The other 50% is usually 1066 or the Alexiad or somewhere in between.

Don't play 867 anymore because the behavior of the Karling blob is utterly immersion breaking to me.

 

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VienLa

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• Jul 6, 2014

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I don't play 867, because it's really bad bookmark: blobs are almost everywhere. And in places there aren't, are either really lame or really skeletal pagans.

The later bookmarks are fun to play. It's really hard to play longer than 200 years anyway, since you blob out too much.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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I almost always play the bookmarks. I especially like the one with the Latin Empire; the world is in quite an interesting state there.

 

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Vindogo said:

Does anyone use the bookmarks and characters marked interesting? I think the 'start from 867/1066 and conquer everything' playstyle is vastly more popular. I'm playing Latin Empire 1204 now, hoping for some events or something to add flavor.

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Well, starting from 867 or (less commonly) 1066 (I use both 1066 bookmarks) are my favorites. But the others are all pretty cool too. The Alexiad is a lot of fun if you're tired of the same old near-east all the time, and the one where you can start as Ghengis Khan is just pure win.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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I can't get myself to play from starts after 867/1066, and for some reason I can't get myself to play EU4 without starting from CK2.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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• #12

Always as 867 and as a Count.
The next game i will try a Norse.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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never clicked on the bookmarks. Somehow feels like I'm not playing the game right if I don't start from the beginning.

 

Shadrol

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• Jul 6, 2014

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I found myself starting more often from start dates that are not bookmarked than bookmarked dates (other than the 70% 867 and 1066 starts). But those are mostly dates that are shortly around bookmarked dates.
On I quite liked was 1st April 1205 (instead of the Latin Empire bookmark on the 16 May 1204) playing as Cyprus.
At the Latin Empire bookmark 59 year old Amaury II is still alive and King of Jerusalem and Cyprus, while in 1205 Hugues aged 11 is only King of Cyprus (with claim on Jerusalem, which has a female ruler.)
I wanted to play as Cyprus, but starting with both Kingdoms on an old King felt weird chaning primary titles and besides Trebizond does not have it's titular Kingdom at the bookmark date.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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wolfing said:

never clicked on the bookmarks. Somehow feels like I'm not playing the game right if I don't start from the beginning.

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Using most pre-determined "interesting" bookmarks (like, Jorvik in 867 or Byzantium in the Alexiad, and so forth--and not counting the intentionally absurd ones like Khazars or Karen) take 100-200 years max before you've arrived at the point where you've won, and its just a matter of what shenanigans you want to fill the rest of the game with. Even starting as an obscure 1-province count in 867, you'll be king of the universe by 1100 most of the time. So, once you get tired of that, the later bookmarks add a lot of variety and flavor at the price of a bit less screwing around for the last half of the game.

Still, I too usually start at the earliest date possible. :ninja:

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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My most recent infatuation is visiting republics after having it since the night it came out. I just came up with an idea for a campaign. Norse republic. Go from Venezia to the northlands and conquer and convert to heathenry!

 

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I usually do the 1066, but the one after William has won the war.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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Alexiad in 1081 is a nice start, specially if you play alexios komnenos, or rom's seljukid.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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Obviously i want to play as long as possible, so unfortunately i always start in 867 now. I miss you 1066.

 

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• Jul 6, 2014

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Whenever I want to play as realms not present in 867/1066 start dates (like Jerusalem, Latin Empire, Mongol Empire, etc.), I use the bookmarks. Also, when I want to play after certain events (like restoring Byzantinium with Alexos) I also choose bookmarks.