Crusader Kings II: The Republic revealed!

[DominusNovus]

My first republic game will consist of giving some unlanded fellow in the ERE a city, then a duchy, then going about attempting to reform the roman republic.

I think I'll start as an Italian Republic and do the same thing. Trade posts all along the adriatic, then conquer the neighboring cities, then the counties themselves, then whatever duchies I can claim. That should put me in a solid position to form Italy, and from there, it'll be condottieri Legions marching across Europe.

 

[Voy]

My first will certainly be the Dorias in Genoa or perhaps Gotland (or Iceland if it's included).

 

[cybrxkhan]

I think my first game will be as a custom-made East Asian courtier of the Byzantine Empire who'll get the kingdom/Serene Republic of Greece or Sicily or something. Hopefully in ruler designer we can change government type, too, or at least i'll just change the history files myself.

 

[Sleight of Hand]

I shall play as King Jesus I Christ, ruler of the titular kingdom of Heaven. He has the best retinues, and the Pope and all of the Christian holy orders are his landed vassals.

Failing that, probably someone with huscarls.

 

[Voy]

Failing that, probably someone with huscarls.

If they fixed the family history in Scandinavia I think it could be fun.

 

[Tomn_Peng]

I shall play as King Jesus I Christ, ruler of the titular kingdom of Heaven. He has the best retinues, and the Pope and all of the Christian holy orders are his landed vassals.

Failing that, probably someone with huscarls.

Given the subject of this thread, I find your idea out of place - it is only right and just that Jesus Christ should be a Republican instead.

 

[theKing1988]

I just know some neo-nazi leghista northern italian or even worse, a self-hating southern italian, is going to cry out and say how the new italian portraits make them look too middle-eastern or levantese or something like that and that italians are really just as white as those north of the alps. Hahaha. I've been to Italy many times and these portraits are dead on in showing a large/plurality look of the Italians, even those in lombardia and veneto. Sure there are blond hair blue eyed italians same way there are very swarthy europeans in germany and denmark, but we don't use them as portraying the larger look of the country> Bravo Paradox.

They are not specifically Italian, the faces are from the long-awaited Mediterranean faces pack, it was rumored that it would be released alongside LoR, but now it looks like it might be released alongside the TheRepublic instead. I would assume that Greeks, Italians, Spaniards and possible also Andalusian, Turkish, Albanian and Bulgarian people will be portrayed this way instead of with the proto-type Northern European faces. They might be a tad too dark for my taste, but it is a huge step forward from the current situation imho.

 

[Kalderus]

It says in the article that the new republic systems apply to "infidel republics" too. So obviously this new expansion pack isn't "Crusader Kings II: The Catholic Republic"

Of course playing a Muslim republic is an option.

I want a pagan republic.

 

[Bergioyn]

Still no Pagans? :sad:

 

[Communard]

I will probably raise the ruler of Cherson up to be a Lord Mayor. It's a perfect fit for a merchant republic, it was mainly focused on trading, it was very loosely ruled from Constantinople, with the ruler of the city, who in practice had most of the power (the Proteuon) being elected by the local magnates (the archontes). My goals will be to dominate trade in the Black Sea and make the city a kind of "Kingmaker" within the Empire.

 

[Dovahkiing]

And so, I ask the inevitable question I ask every time a new DLC and patch get announced:
Will 1.09 be compatible with 1.08 saves?

 

[Ninking]

And so, I ask the inevitable question I ask every time a new DLC and patch get announced:
Will 1.09 be compatible with 1.08 saves?

With highest probability, yes. This update will certainly come with a lot of changes to the core files, making old saves incompatible. Too bad, since I'd like to see republics in my current game, but that's a small price to pay for finally seeing republics pimped up!

 

[Svip]

With highest probability, yes. This update will certainly come with a lot of changes to the core files, making old saves incompatible. Too bad, since I'd like to see republics in my current game, but that's a small price to pay for finally seeing republics pimped up!

So you mean 'no'?

 

[Ninking]

So you mean 'no'?

Yes!

 

[Zhetone]

Yes!

...No?

 

[Bad_Haggis]

Yes.

 

[Elfman200]

This is amazing and terrible all at once I want this so badly but there isn't even a dev dairy NOO it too cruel

Edit: on a more serious note I have a question which I doubt anyone can answer at the moment but I hope someone will give there views on it anyway, is it possible for the same family to be feudal and republic but have different heads? For example one of the families in Venice be the same as the king of France?

 

[Thure]

This is amazing and terrible all at once I want this so badly but there isn't even a dev dairy NOO it too cruel

Edit: on a more serious note I have a question which I doubt anyone can answer at the moment but I hope someone will give there views on it anyway, is it possible for the same family to be feudal and republic but have different heads? For example one of the families in Venice be the same as the king of France?

Yes. It was in the interview. Your family can inherite feudal titles (but not the head of the family, who is in the republic)

 

[Elfman200]

Yes. It was in the interview. Your family can inherite feudal titles (but not the head of the family, who is in the republic)

Thank you very much I guess I must of misread that part, but does this apply also the other way round and what happens if the other families in the republic die? I think what I will do is constantly switch (via save games) between feudal and republic

 

[giancarlo]

I think I shall start in Pisa, this looks like an awesome expansion