In my last 2 games, Harold won pretty quickly (against AIs, no player influence). Is this normal now?
It's pretty hard for William to win now that landing armies takes half of their morale.In my last 2 games, Harold won pretty quickly (against AIs, no player influence). Is this normal now?
-Radboud Folcwalding of Holland
Listed a few times here. He is incredibly hard to play. Your Nord liege will try to revoke your title as soon as possible to make it the capital of the Duchy of Holland. It's quite interesting tho, because it really is a challenge to improve your situation as a simple count, with a rich historical family.
Has anyone found this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimund He was a bishop who became a SEAFARING WARLORD ADVENTURER after 1147. It'd be really cool to find him unlanded somewhere in the isle of man or Scotland.
He is a good character to play with, however he is not the last Ivar. His son owns Galloway a d his Grandson Carrack so two nice allies for that part of the world early on. You can swear fealty to scottland or just take Ireland.Count Godfrey of Mann, 1066 start
The last descendant of King Ivar the Boneless. Fittingly, his dynasty is named Ivaring. A bit of a hard start, though.
Pecheneg Khanate
- Count Yavdi Kuertsitsur of Khopyor, January 867:
Manicheanism once competed against Christianity for dominance. It's influence spread from Britain to China. Now, it's dying. You are one of the two rulers still clinging to it's teachings. Your poor realm is surrounded by hostile Jews and pagans but for the time being, you are protected by Khan of Pechenegs. All is not lost however, as you already have an heir and your wife is set to inherit the lands of your brother-in-law (and only ally), if he should have an unfortunate "accident".
Can you establish a new realm for "Religion of Light" in these unforgiving lands or is Mani's light destined to die out?
Is manicheanism an actual in-game religion, or heresy of orthodoxy/catholocism, or non-existant mechanics wise?
Ladislaus IV 'the Cuman' of Hungary, 6 August 1272. Self-explanatory. Well, half-Cuman through his mother, who was his regent when he succeded at 10 years of age. He favoured Cuman dress and custom over Hungarian and hung out with the Cumans a lot.
I got to ask, have anyone succeeded in getting the Kingdom of Sweden as Erik the Heathen without converting post-old gods? I've so far been very, very unsuccessful.
There are two totally not-gamey ways to do it, which requires most clever vassal play, which I enjoyed greatly to perform. Remember, you are a duke in an elective kingdom, the second duke is a boy in Ostergotland, and, of course, there is pneumonic king Stenkill, whose heir, prince Inge is zealous bastard. What do we have here? Prince Inge must not inherit, medium CA must not be implemented. Claimant Eric must either be elected as a king or press the claim by force.
You have but one boon in this situation - an electoral vote for the title of the king. But the duke boy will never support an infidel, while the king has the ability to create a second elector. Nevermind though. If you can create 3 pious Norse duchies in the kingdom (you already have one and a territory of the second, and a chance to expand into the third), you may legally inherit Sweden. This is a very risky plan however. I contemplated it but never implemented. There is another one, better one. There are two real candidates - a legitimate Stenkilling, with powerful and consolidated royal demense, solid allies in Scandinavia, with power and desire to expel the last of true believers from the face of the Earth, and a second one, a non-assuming boy-duke, who owns a single county and has no real power whatsoever.
Give your vote to the duke of Ostergotland, and he will become a weak boy-king with two major vassals who hate his guts, while you will be given many peaceful years to consolidate your power. If you run into some unexpected trouble, you can always press Stenkilling claim on Sweden, adding even more anarchy in the kingdom and resetting crown authority. I myself didn't need to, but pressed my own claim, which was quite easy, since the king barely had demence, Stenkilling, whose power surpassed mine, denied him levies as pretender to the throne, and he didn't have any allies to call into the war. The victory was swift, but after that I had some serious trouble which cost me some territory (and also putting me below the limit for prepped invasions). Then the realm was stable, I had Norway invaded Sjaelland single-county conquered and Faith reformed following some intense raiding and temple-burning.
I've managed to take over sweden as Erik once or twice, but I always get wiped out by my holy war-addicted neighbors. How did you manage to prevent that?