CK2 - Dev Diary #123 - Iron Century

[BjornB]

I’m 110% excited about a new date, but...


...were you deliberately trying to make weapons in the picture that anachronistic?
Sword in the hand of the bearded guy in the center (Otto der Große, I suppose?) has a typical hilt of a longsword - weapon, that wasn't invented until 1100-1200, and didn't came into prominence until 1300.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longsword)

And the pole-arm in the hands of man right in front of him is undeniably the halberd right from 1400s
(This picture shows his especially nice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_weapon#/media/File:Polearms.jpg )
It literally wouldn’t be more anachronistic if he had a firearm instead

I fixed it!

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[Keizer Harm]

I fixed it!

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@Divine, you know what to do

 

[Rags17]

I fixed it!

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Obviously an eastern European monarch - using an AKM !

 

[Horror In The Deep]

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You forgot THE HALBERD!!!

 

[somerandomduke]

Why would Karl form the Holy Roman Empire? He was crowned Emperor of the Romans by the pope, but that did not actually mean anything, it was just a publicity stunt to piss of thhe Byzantines and "reward" Charles for being so pious and good to the Papacy. The first actual Holy Roman Emperor, who created the Holy Roman Empire was Otto I in 962.

Let me put it like this.
Karl can't take out the Saxons or Lombards for shit. Once in a while he'll get the Lombards, but it mostly if not totally stops at the united francias (which then immediately break apart because succession is really shite in CK2 and is one of if not the biggest factor to why things like border gore get so damned bad.)

 

[jalner]

Cool What's with all the free stuff? Not that I'm complaining, but it is a bit odd.

Must be the weather in Sweden

 

[elvain]

I can't decide whether I am more happy for a new bookmark in the 10th century or the fact that the new bookmark doesn't push any earlier.

It greatly suits to the feudal mechanics, it gives us enough and good Pagan rulers and it already has good and strong Christians in Europe. Furthemore the situation in Islamic world in this period is extremely interesting throughout the entire 10th century. So one big YAY for this bookmark

I really hope this means that some sort of overhaul of mechanics in islamic societies is still possible.

We nee new Bookmarks for sure - in EARLIER periods to give us longer games.....

Be honest. How many of your games did you play fully from the start to the end of the game?
Vast majority of players' runs don't go beyong 300 years. That means... with Charlemagne bookmark most of games played don't even get to the period of propper feudalism, which is the main topic of this game. Since the beggining the game's graphical and religious setup is based on world after 1054 and it doesn't seem to even include a pre-Schism mechanics.

No we don't. I never finished anything close to a 700 year game.
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Extending the feudal mechanics to even earlier times is also historically questionable in many locations

Yes.
It's not questionable in many locations. It is questionable in many locations in 10th century. Already in the Charlemagne bookmark feudal mechanics don't even fit to the cradle of feudalism.

Bah.... skips and keeps waiting for Asia expansion!

Thankfully never gonna happen. The existence of Jade Dragon DLC simply excludes such possibility.

 

[Guriezous]

Bah.... skips and keeps waiting for Asia expansion!

Unexpected coming from you

 

[JosunUrashima]

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You know this just makes me want a small free DLC thing that has weird time travel shenanigan things and magic and the like more fully thrown in.

 

[Karscha]

When is the release date?

 

[Askorti]

When I saw that graphic... Why is that footman on the right using a polearm from the beginning of 15th century if this is meant to represent the 10th century?

 

[Alfray Stryke]

When is the release date?

Tomorrow.

 

[Jck2]

I'd personally like to see an earlier start date, but that's just me.

 

[Byzantium2000]

I'd personally like to see an earlier start date, but that's just me.

Any earlier and the Byzantines Control Rome Great Schism won’t make much sense then.

 

[Tomaster]

Any earlier and the Byzantines Control Rome Great Schism won’t make much sense then.

People have been wanting a Great Schism mechanic since The Old Gods went back to 867 anyway. CK2+ already simulates it and that mod has had a decent few of its features get adopted into the base game over time. Who knows.

 

[ow592]

Was this the last Dev Diary or is something more to come?

 

[El-Daddy]

They said after the summer.. so hopefully this means one next week.

 

[TinWiz]

They said after the summer.. so hopefully this means one next week.

Or it could be in four weeks, which would be the first Friday after the autumnal equinox and before Michaelmas.

 

[Karlington]

Was this the last Dev Diary or is something more to come?

This was the last one. When they wrote "We will resume dev diaries after summer" they obviously meant "We will never resume dev diaries. This game is done forever, and further development is cancelled."

 

[IndigoRage]

This was the last one. When they wrote "We will resume dev diaries after summer" they obviously meant "We will never resume dev diaries. This game is done forever, and further development is cancelled."

Every dev team says that before July though. Referring to them having July off. I think it's at least fair to not think they literally meant dev diaries would come back after the Fall Equinox.