CK2Plus - Balance improvements, more kingdoms and empires, more ambitions and plots

[Calbrenar]

Nope, you cant plot for trade posts, but you can declare war for them.

On your own vassal familes? Or only when you lose the election?

 

[Calbrenar]

Also as a Doge why can't I give castle led counties away? My demesne keeps getting eaten up because I can't get rid of these feudal lands. I've tried giving them to other barons to mayors in the place and to landless nobles.

Also any way to get your caliph back? Sunni caliph died at some point in the reign of princes scenario and hasn't been a new one. Religious head shows up as blank.

Disregard. We abandoned the reign of princes game we were playing because it kept alternatively crashing he tried to join or when I clicked the save file. Gave up after an hour or two and went back to vanilla

 

[Jaidal]

We are both vassals of the same liege but we have autonomous crown authority, which means we should be able to war on each other. Regardless, I think if it was because of crown law it would show a different reason for not being able to declare war, not the 'invalid cassus belli'. It's frustrating to spend time, money, and prestige to create strong claims which you can't use and not know why you can't use it.

Can you be a bit more specific? Like what country you are playing as, your religion, what type of government, etc. and the same for the other country plus whether there was a rebellion there recently?

 

[toniagree]

I think it'd be better if it just caused a civil war or made you a titular King instead. I can understand why they wouldn't want a foreigner on the throne, but the revokation surely wouldn't happen overnight.

Yeah, I don't mind massive civil war, or title turned titular. I, however, am pretty itched at the fact that the title suddenly got forfeited. It passed to my current king from his mother, last empress of ERE. The title is heredity, and there's no reason for it to be forfeited.

 

[Wizzington]

Byzantium is a special title with some special conditions on it. That event turns it into the Latin Empire if a Catholic gets it, I don't think I ever considered the possibility of a Pagan inheriting Byzantium.

 

[uzhanku]

is there a way to change the starting crown authority for a title? let's say i want to lower england's or persia's crown authority at the start game, how do i do it?

 

[toniagree]

Byzantium is a special title with some special conditions on it. That event turns it into the Latin Empire if a Catholic gets it, I don't think I ever considered the possibility of a Pagan inheriting Byzantium.

Yes Wiz, just like Christian and Orthodoxy laid claims on the ERE, us, Pagans also have claim on that title. But, seriously, you should make some leeway for pagan in order for some interesting gameplay.

 

[Darky]

Wiz can we expect a new version before next DLC will come out?

 

[unmerged(450907)]

Does anyone else get either 1 crusade or none at all? My last game there was a crusade in 1098 for Jerusalem and then no crusades afterwords. In my current game it is 1200 and no crusades yet.

I do have the VIET mods and the new duel engine mod active but i wouldn't think this has to do with it.

Does the crusade have piety requirements? Most of my popes have less than 0 piety.

 

[Finarfin]

Can you be a bit more specific? Like what country you are playing as, your religion, what type of government, etc. and the same for the other country plus whether there was a rebellion there recently?

I'll use the most recent situation where this occurred. I am an Irish Monophysite duke with seniority succession who pledged fealty to Scotland. My neighboring Irish duke is also a vassal of the Scottish monarch. Scotland has autonomous vassal crown authority which should mean that we vassals can do whatever we want. However, even after using my Chancellor to fabricate a strong claim on a county that is part of the neighboring duke's demesne the game won't let me declare war on him, as I'm still not considered to have a valid cassus belli. Every other condition is met, just not this one. I don't know what I need to create a valid cassus belli if a strong claim isn't good enough.

At the same time I have a weak claim on a neighboring Irish county that is part of an independent Welsh duchy. I'm not allowed to press this claim, either.

 

[toniagree]

Does anyone else get either 1 crusade or none at all? My last game there was a crusade in 1098 for Jerusalem and then no crusades afterwords. In my current game it is 1200 and no crusades yet.

I do have the VIET mods and the new duel engine mod active but i wouldn't think this has to do with it.

Does the crusade have piety requirements? Most of my popes have less than 0 piety.

It's quite a mystery since Wiz havent touched on that though he was asked several posts ago. Nevertheless, I think it's quite random. In my current game as Ghana (I am loving this mod), the pope called crusade on: Jerusalem, Greek, and Morocco.

 

[the_hdk]

Wiz. ive been playing latest version. crusade started in 1090. Jerusalem was created 2 years later. the holy orders came around 10 years later. its now 1230 and they still are not my vassals :S

also is there anything I can do against Mongols? I mean come on....80k army... before I can call all my vassals and place them in one territory (where they die en masse due to attrition...) they already got 100 score by storming each castle and is it just me or does it look like they don't have attrition? :S

 

[themrwho]

Wiz. ive been playing latest version. crusade started in 1090. Jerusalem was created 2 years later. the holy orders came around 10 years later. its now 1230 and they still are not my vassals :S

also is there anything I can do against Mongols? I mean come on....80k army... before I can call all my vassals and place them in one territory (where they die en masse due to attrition...) they already got 100 score by storming each castle and is it just me or does it look like they don't have attrition? :S

They can't storm castles if you enable "No Assaults" option in game launcher.

 

[unmerged(617637)]

crusades is definitely interesting. In this game right now within 1066 to 1140 2 crusades happen and 2 jihads happen. Crusades for Jerusalem and Egypt which catholics won. Jihad for Sicily where muslims won and they lost a minor jihad for some italy duchy.

 

[the_hdk]

They can't storm castles if you enable "No Assaults" option in game launcher.

thats rather unrealistic and I doubt I can add that mid-save game. or can I?

still I doubt my army can beat their monster of 60k+.... I can muster about 35k and if I keep them in one place it goes down to 25k within a month or 2.... thats the real problem.

paradox was lazy about this. they just created a monster stack deleted any attrition and went with it. there is no strategy or tactics to it...... another feature left half-arsed.

 

[Finarfin]

Even having a Crown Law in place still allows me to freely change councilors under Lifetime Appointments. Is there a spot in a file somewhere where I can see what possible conditions are preventing this from working properly?

Any ideas as to why this doesn't work for me?

 

[themrwho]

thats rather unrealistic and I doubt I can add that mid-save game. or can I?

still I doubt my army can beat their monster of 60k+.... I can muster about 35k and if I keep them in one place it goes down to 25k within a month or 2.... thats the real problem.

paradox was lazy about this. they just created a monster stack deleted any attrition and went with it. there is no strategy or tactics to it...... another feature left half-arsed.

I think you can why not try and see. It helps with AI's suicidal charges so it is actually a good option.

Search for 'Mongol' and you will find 5000 threads with tactics, I am sure you will find something useful have a look perhaps.

 

[Jaidal]

I'll use the most recent situation where this occurred. I am an Irish Monophysite duke with seniority succession who pledged fealty to Scotland. My neighboring Irish duke is also a vassal of the Scottish monarch. Scotland has autonomous vassal crown authority which should mean that we vassals can do whatever we want. However, even after using my Chancellor to fabricate a strong claim on a county that is part of the neighboring duke's demesne the game won't let me declare war on him, as I'm still not considered to have a valid cassus belli. Every other condition is met, just not this one. I don't know what I need to create a valid cassus belli if a strong claim isn't good enough.

At the same time I have a weak claim on a neighboring Irish county that is part of an independent Welsh duchy. I'm not allowed to press this claim, either.

Okay, that does sound strange. Mind posting a save?

 

[unmerged(617637)]

inb4 he didn't declare war on the liege.

 

[the_hdk]

I think you can why not try and see. It helps with AI's suicidal charges so it is actually a good option.

Search for 'Mongol' and you will find 5000 threads with tactics, I am sure you will find something useful have a look perhaps.

I was referring not to player tactics.... but was ranting at Paradox for their lazy design of them. and lack of any tactics from mongol AI.