Hmm. I could swear there was a stickied "Interesting characters you could play as" thread a while ago. Maybe those two could be merged and stickied?
@Ols Thanks for the info! Bummer, I'll have to remove her.
How does one summon a mod to request a sticky?
Still looking for suggestions!
@Tywinzo There are a lot of Wikipedia entries for Blanche de Navarre, but it looks like only one was Queen of France - and she was queen-consort, and she was never a countess or duchess, so she's not playable.
Can we check through this list one by one to make sure that they are all playable characters and not speculative? It's very difficult to wind up playing a female character if they're not landed at game start, so it's misleading to suggest that you can just switch to a historical figure ingame (since women can't be granted land if they're not landed already).
They can be granted land quite easily - by quickly changing the inheritance laws via the console - and since you are granting land and switching characters anyways this is a non-issue.
Instead - a set of simple instructions on how to get these characters in position to be played should be written.
Edit - Thank you for stickying this thread.
The reason I disagree with you is that there are too few playable characters without including those that can be made playable. Ironman mode is an optional playmode. A popular mode, perhaps but it is still optional and not everyone plays ironman mode.
It is just like in the old thread, people listed the "playable" character of Johan ... even though you had to grant him land and switch characters. Under your rules, he would no longer be listed because those playing iron man would not be able to switch characters.
Edit: The whole point of this thread should be to inform the community of the possibilities. Limiting those possibilities seems to go against the spirit of the thread.
A much simpler way of addressing your concern is to denote whether the character is playable in ironman or not. I guess instead of dragging out this further we can agree to disagree here.
All right... this thread is now officially a STICKY!! Let's add some more characters and make this worth it!
By the way, only one or two characters on this list aren't available in Ironman. I'll change the options for Eleanor because she's Ironman-friendly. There's just that one Sultana you probably can't play.