Achievements hunters

[Patriarch of Bub]

I'm a little monster, and I feed on those sweet achievement tiles.
Far from being a "completionist", i still like to collect them.

I have a few ongoing campaigns where I'm trying for achievements like "Norse-East", "Survivor", "Never start a land war in Asia".

Are there achievements which you really felt disappointed in or otherwise had a very anti-climactic feeling when you got them?
I can't get "hunter" for example, or even "wise guy". They are just too random for me:/

 

[jonjowett]

Ten Thrones.

I was expecting an epic game of thrones, creating and landing claimants while preserving those that were already in place. (I deliberately chose not to take the obvious "gamey" route of landing kings in my empire and then setting them free all at once.) I decided that it was an appropriate goal for my von Hapsburg run after the recent implementation of their special decision.

But then I got it mostly by accident: I got the Alexander bloodline early in the run and, after switching dynastic branch via a crusade, my distant cousins just... kinda... ran with it. Historical, in a way, but also rather anticlimactic.

 

[jwalche]

Often my favorite goals are not any achievement. Collect 100 living lovers. Finish WC in two years. WC without declaring a single war. Abduct 100 spouses. Extinct all historical families. etc etc.

 

[Patriarch of Bub]

Often my favorite goals are not any achievement. Collect 100 living lovers. Finish WC in two years. WC without declaring a single war. Abduct 100 spouses. Extinct all historical families. etc etc.

Ahah, you are awesome! Remember you are dealing with mere mortals here

Ten Thrones.

I was expecting an epic game of thrones, creating and landing claimants while preserving those that were already in place. (I deliberately chose not to take the obvious "gamey" route of landing kings in my empire and then setting them free all at once.) I decided that it was an appropriate goal for my von Hapsburg run after the recent implementation of their special decision.

But then I got it mostly by accident: I got the Alexander bloodline early in the run and, after switching dynastic branch via a crusade, my distant cousins just... kinda... ran with it. Historical, in a way, but also rather anticlimactic.

This achievement, joint with the huge empire building ones are a thorn in my collection :/

 

[Masternachos]

Mostly wanted to gripe because this just happened and, as an achievement hunter, you'd probably appreciate it:
Playing as Basil I, who a year earlier earned me the Saint achievement by reaching 10k piety. Then I see I'm super close to 10k prestige, which would also be a first. Month changes, he's at 9,999 prestige. THEN HE DIES.
Oddly enough, the game crashed before it autosaved, and I was able to reload with Basil still alive! Month roles over, he's at 9,999 prestige again.
THEN HE DIES AGAIN.

Granted, he was 84, but come on! TWICE!!

 

[RenevB]

I got the one for an inbred child randomly. Not while playing Zoro, no close kin marriage involved. I managed to "fix" it later, though.

 

[BuddyLove]

Most disappointing was probably Great Indian Sultanate-- I went to a late start date and got it with a handful of small wars.

Most satisfying- Aladdin, White Hun, and Survivor

I'm on a Frisian start now- started Duchy of Flanders in 867 and did Good Old Days, Frisian Coast is Long, then Legacy of Rome and I'm almost to SPQR (then planning to try for Never Start a Land War in Asia since its only 1100) on the way to the longer survivor.

 

[Karlington]

I got the one for an inbred child randomly. Not while playing Zoro, no close kin marriage involved. I managed to "fix" it later, though.

Same thing happened to me. Accidents do happen even when you're not murder plotting I guess, heh.

By the way, which mod do you need to play

?

 

[BuddyLove]

I assume when he meant Zoroastrian.

 

[mrinku]

Don't know that I've ever been disappointed by an achievement. Most satisfying one was "Empire of the Sun", which was done the hard way, in the face of a bug that prevented pagans getting MA for building or taking temples. Took a LOT of work to get enough MA to reform.

 

[raistlin_wizard]

Some disappoining ones were the ones that became more tedious than challenging. Seven centuries, for one. From Norse to English you had to spend a lot of time until you were able to become English (I still loved the playthrough, though), or the ones that require "completely control" and have to start barony hunting or mindlessly blobbing.

 

[Ezumiyr]

The only achievement that actually felt like a reward for me was the "The Can Be Only One" for having an immortal character.
It happened in my first Zunist run. I didn't really know what to expect, but I had a quite succesful character (third one in the playthrough I think?) and about to become large enough so the Zunists' very existence wouldn't be threatened anymore. That character became immortal and survived for centuries. He reformed the faith and created the Zun Empire. So I also got other achievements with him (Empire of the Sun, Reform a Pagan Faith, Surivive the Black Death...), but they didn't feel like rewards. The true reward was becoming immortal after struggling in the had beginning, for a first try.
To this day he's also the only immortal character who managed to stay alive for so long. Most others I had die in their 90s-110s.

Honourable mention for the achievement for reforming the hellenic faith: at first I was quite happy to do it as a family originating from the north-east coast of the black sea. But I was soon frustrated, because the whole point of that playthrough was to make some kind of Greek-Amazon empire (and not another boring pagan roman empire). The problem is that the reformed Hellenic faith is tailored for Romano-greek revival, so even with Agnatic Clans the high gods names remain Zeus and tutti quanti. So it was a bit immersion breaking, and after that I didn't stopped getting disappointed by the new reformation feature, that was supposed to be so modular but ended up being quite restrictive.

 

[Tapio]

Can't remember being disappointed in any one of them. Some started feeling more like a chore though, which is why usually do multiple achieves in one game.

 

[mrinku]

The only achievement that actually felt like a reward for me was the "The Can Be Only One" for having an immortal character.
It happened in my first Zunist run. I didn't really know what to expect, but I had a quite succesful character (third one in the playthrough I think?) and about to become large enough so the Zunists' very existence wouldn't be threatened anymore. That character became immortal and survived for centuries. He reformed the faith and created the Zun Empire. So I also got other achievements with him (Empire of the Sun, Reform a Pagan Faith, Surivive the Black Death...), but they didn't feel like rewards. The true reward was becoming immortal after struggling in the had beginning, for a first try.
To this day he's also the only immortal character who managed to stay alive for so long. Most others I had die in their 90s-110s.

My one Immortal died in combat three months later

Good enough for the achievement, though!

 

[Bouchart]

I'm currently doing a Seven Centuries run. Finished a world conquest in the late 1300s and...waiting. My computer is a bit old and things are really slowing down. Ten years left to go!

 

[fall back]

You are all forgetting the hardest achievement in the game
Get married

 

[Tapio]

You are all forgetting the hardest achievement in the game
Get married

 

[Masternachos]

You are all forgetting the hardest achievement in the game
Get married

I hear it can be a fulfilling achievement in real life, but I wouldn't know.

 

[Eragon432]

Ten Thrones.

I was expecting an epic game of thrones, creating and landing claimants while preserving those that were already in place. (I deliberately chose not to take the obvious "gamey" route of landing kings in my empire and then setting them free all at once.) I decided that it was an appropriate goal for my von Hapsburg run after the recent implementation of their special decision.

But then I got it mostly by accident: I got the Alexander bloodline early in the run and, after switching dynastic branch via a crusade, my distant cousins just... kinda... ran with it. Historical, in a way, but also rather anticlimactic.

I remember not reading the fine print on that one, and then going on a massive campaign as the Participazio family of Venice. Following the collapse of Karl's empire, the Mongol Invasion of Byzantium by a Hindu Genghis Khan, the Invasion of Greece by Shia muslims, and general anarchy, I managed to push back the tide with a weird and dysfunctional collection of fedual family members I got by banging anything and everything with a pulse. I then managed to get my dynasty on every new kingdom from France to Jerusalem until I was at the head of a massive coalition of over 15 independent kingdoms and multiple duchies of my dynasty. It was only then that I realized that the challenge was for feudal lords.... It was a delightful campaign regardless, but felt a bit jipped by that

 

[Karlington]

You are all forgetting the hardest achievement in the game
Get married

No, my friend, you have it all wrong.




This is easy to do, but very hard to live with what you have done...