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So that time of the week again and its time for me to make something up to write about. Today I decided to talk about regions and forts, two new concepts in Crusader Kings II.

First, regions isn't something that is going to affect you directly but it works somewhat like how it have done in the Europa Universalis Games. It's an area on the map that denotes a region with a name and it's mostly used to improve on our localization of things, such as hunting for tigers in India or hunting a deer in western Europe. So no longer will you find Tigers in the woods of Poland if you manage to move your capital of your Indian Empire out of the subcontinent. You can see these regions by opening up a province and click on the new region icon to get an outline of the region. It's also possible to search for regions in the old title finder.

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Next is a gameplay feature you will actually interact a bit more actively in. It's called forts which is an additional type of holding you can build in provinces next to the normal ones and trade posts. Because of this we had to extend the province view with a window you can open and close which will show "extra holding slots" which will contain the trade post and fort slots. The fort can be built anywhere from your own territory even enemy provinces that you have under your control. Their biggest advantage is that they are fortifications that you can build up really fast and very cheaply. The main point of them being to let you build up a region as your march towards a big neighbor which will let you slow down their advance but at the same time let you set up forward positions in the enemy territory.

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They do have some added bonuses though beyond that, for instance in Tribal land where you have the homeland attrition bonus, that bonus will be removed from the province as long as you have a fort there to supply your troops with. There is also a feature for the forts that is too related to the expansion so I can't delve into that any deeper.


And again here's some more random changelogs
- Fixed crash when a war is invalidated because of no defender
- Fixed the "hostile against everyone" bug
- Fixed bug where the AI would keep their units attached to characters they no longer participate in a war with.
- Added alert for having high prio minor titles available to grant.
- Fixed various provinces in India that had no rulers scripted for some start dates.
- Monks and other people living in celibacy will no longer try to arrange stealth marriages if ruled by a patrician.
- Defensive religions now properly also give defensive modifiers for Camel Cavalry and Elephants.
 
Good additions!
 
I'm more excited in the balancing/fixes to game (that are long overdue) > new expansion stuff.
Although I do not object a new expansion xD thanks paradox for another awesome dev diary.
 
im so disappointed by this diary. i was waiting this week not for that "big" progress. so little information about the forts where can i see prize the fort or effects against robbing? and lol u declare that big change is fix the bug with tigers of india? u separeted map for regions for that wtf
 
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Will there be specific flavor events (or even just one per) attached to the new regions? If so, I think that will give some great geographical immersion during gameplay.
 
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Nice, I guess the region will help to make many things in the game make sense again, like the culture specific building/ units, I don't want to see camels been produced in northern Europe.
 
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Could the forts work in peace times as well? Could a ruler's entire demesne be composed by forts, with the holdings he's in being held by other rulers independent from him?
 
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Question: does the region system act for the vassal levy penalty like different de-jure before?
e.g. a baron outside your capital-empire just gives you 25% of his total levy
now can we get this penalty for the region but no the de-jure?

De-jure still remains the same, regions are more for localisation in events and decisions
 
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Wait wait wait wait

Munster, the county in the fort picture, also has a trade post holding.

Munster is a land-locked province. It shouldn't have a trade post.

Does this signal the beginning of overland trade in CK2?

Why is no one else freaking excited about this?
 
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Wait wait wait wait

Munster, the county in the fort picture, also has a trade post holding.

Munster is a land-locked province. It shouldn't have a trade post.

Does this signal the beginning of overland trade in CK2?

Why is no one else freaking excited about this?
I was thinking this too. And forts could be used to protect the inland trade routes, perhaps.
 
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