The game just did it again to me . I was having a ton of fun, started as count of Krakow in Poland, 867 start. I wont bore you with the fun I had getting powerful enough to form the kingdom of Poland & Lithuania.
Well, I was expanding towards Pomerania, I had like almost 8k troops (1,5k of them hussar retinue which I wanted to try out, they are good), I had a nice +11 gold per month income, all counties in my realm have been converted to catholic... Life was good, you know?
I'm not one of those people that go on expansion frenzy, taking advantage of game mechanics to become world power, min/maxing to the point of making the game a "who can do world conquest faster" etc. Just trying to have fun. Forming Poland & Lithuania took me 80 years of casual playing / having fun. & then the game decided I had enough fun .
The independant duchy of Bohemia to the south was under an Arpad son, so naturally was an ally to the Hungarians. Reformed Tengri I might add, so I couldnt convert them to catholicism to avoid confrontations with them. So he decides to attack me for the whole kingdom of Poland.
Naturally he has like the same number of troops with me somehow. He brings in an indipendent cousin of his with some more troops. Then he calls in the rest of Hungary along. Those 3 together had like 25k-30k troops against my 8k plus a merc band of 4k troops.
Then an adventurer declares his interest in my lands. While I was at around -40% warscore with the Bohemians/Hungarians, a second adventurer declares he plans to attack me.
Long story short, I was so broken after losing so much in this particular game, that I'm thinking "has paradox been listening too much to the min/maxers who bark on the forums about "the game's too easy, I roflstomp it with my eyes closed""? Has the game become so unfriendingly (I'm making up words now) predatory to casual gamers?
Or I'm simply still sore by the beating & trying to blame something/someone? Whatever the case, the game managed to break my spirit again no emo stuff ofc, I'll be playing a new campaign in like an hour or two.
But, has the game ever destroyed you so much as to think "ok, you win game"?
edit: Mind you, I do not intend to start a "L2P" conversation or something, just want to know if you guys ever been broken by the game . This time I'll start somewhere far away from the Hungarians (most likely).
Well, I was expanding towards Pomerania, I had like almost 8k troops (1,5k of them hussar retinue which I wanted to try out, they are good), I had a nice +11 gold per month income, all counties in my realm have been converted to catholic... Life was good, you know?
I'm not one of those people that go on expansion frenzy, taking advantage of game mechanics to become world power, min/maxing to the point of making the game a "who can do world conquest faster" etc. Just trying to have fun. Forming Poland & Lithuania took me 80 years of casual playing / having fun. & then the game decided I had enough fun .
The independant duchy of Bohemia to the south was under an Arpad son, so naturally was an ally to the Hungarians. Reformed Tengri I might add, so I couldnt convert them to catholicism to avoid confrontations with them. So he decides to attack me for the whole kingdom of Poland.
Naturally he has like the same number of troops with me somehow. He brings in an indipendent cousin of his with some more troops. Then he calls in the rest of Hungary along. Those 3 together had like 25k-30k troops against my 8k plus a merc band of 4k troops.
Then an adventurer declares his interest in my lands. While I was at around -40% warscore with the Bohemians/Hungarians, a second adventurer declares he plans to attack me.
Long story short, I was so broken after losing so much in this particular game, that I'm thinking "has paradox been listening too much to the min/maxers who bark on the forums about "the game's too easy, I roflstomp it with my eyes closed""? Has the game become so unfriendingly (I'm making up words now) predatory to casual gamers?
Or I'm simply still sore by the beating & trying to blame something/someone? Whatever the case, the game managed to break my spirit again no emo stuff ofc, I'll be playing a new campaign in like an hour or two.
But, has the game ever destroyed you so much as to think "ok, you win game"?
edit: Mind you, I do not intend to start a "L2P" conversation or something, just want to know if you guys ever been broken by the game . This time I'll start somewhere far away from the Hungarians (most likely).
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