Have you ever tried to kill a mosquito with a bazooka? Really hard... I would imagine.
Game Of The Week: Reborn!
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Have you ever tried to kill a mosquito with a bazooka? Really hard... I would imagine.
I don't understand this, why would experienced players be crying for Nerfs on the Norse?
Two names come to mind. One is maxirage. The other is Hastein of Nantes.
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I didn't start this one after the challenge was posted, but this was an Ironman game I was playing directly after ROI came out. I got close to about 1320 but unfortunately something happened with the cloud and it says it was corrupted or something. Basically I went on a breeding program and spread my dynasty just about everywhere. Interestingly enough quite a few weird things happened this game. The Tengri reformation happened, a wicked pope was elected, and somehow a Karling managed to retake a Kingdom. I have screenshots of each but I'll just post the main one. I think my dynasty prestige was something like 3500 or more. I also by the end where it glitched had Scotland completely de jure drift into Ireland.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=261840118
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=261840118
I guess it is a matter of perspective, but you can pretty much blob with anyone extremely quickly if you are experienced at this game.
I'll definitely stick around and see when a challenge takes my fancy. I'm actually beginning to start CK2 videos, which I assume are also good ways to post the story - I'll try and make them somewhat new player friendly.
Ok, since I had not picked nothing in the British Isles since ToG, I decided to give it a go ... with just two rules ( and Ironman ):
- Always Catholic ( I could had gone Cathar twice ... it would made stuff faster, but more dangerous )
- No Jew cash
Anyway, it was a pretty standart run of forget claims, first to get the other county of the petty Kingdom of Tara ( while waiting for our esteemed father to kick the bucket and to stockpile enough money for mercs ), then towards the petty kingdom of Munster ( BTW by all logic Murchad had to have a weak claim on it since our grandfather was the ruler of it and our mother already died ... ) until we could usurp it.
I had some tense moments due to lack of money while with mercs hired ( due to a forged claim I could simply not refuse at that point ), but the fact I was allied with the King of Sicily meant that I was getting papal funds all the time ( due being part of holy wars vs muslims made by the Sicilian kings ), so it was not hard to recover from that. And after getting the totality of the Duchy of Munster I had enough of counties to create the Eire ... and from there it was easy to convince the counts of the North to submit voluntarily. The only one that needed military persuasion was the petty king of Connacht, but that was a fast and quite painless war. So, in 1094 ...
TBH I could had got it earlier, but as this was Ironman, it meant that stuff did not go quite as planned. First was the fact that Murchad decided to die ten months away of me having enough cash to create the Kingdom of Ireland ( well, he was infirm and ill for a couple of years , so he actually surpassed my expectations. But still ... just more ten months, man
) and his sucessor had not enough piety to create it ( so I had to buy some or wait ... I decided to buy it, since I would recover the cash faster than the natural piety buildup ).
The second reason was this Paradox luck magnet:
Our first son Domnall ... what a waste. He was not exactly the best chap around ( randomized stats, since he was in game start ), but as he was lustful like his father and had a decent stewardship, I got him to marry a nice genius girl...
That died in childbirth of a non genius girl not even a year after
So I married him to another genius girl ...
That died of illness a month after the marriage
Not learning with the previous examples, I married him to yet another genius girl ...
And then he becomes celibate
And then his only daughter dies of illness at 5 ...
And then he gets a brick in the head :/
Actually that might had been for the best, since the second in line, the would be King Énna I, while not gifted in anything in particular, is married with a princess of Sicily and our crown prince in 1093 has claims down there . So, if I decide to continue, it might get interesting ...
On other news:
- England has been back and forth between the Godwins and the Norwegians ( ATM is norwegian ). William the Bastard was king of a couple of weeks and ended in norwegian dungeons. Scotland is still as united as ever ... that is, it isn't
- The big news is the fact that somehow the 3 Iberian brothers decided to use their forces to attack the muslims instead of eachother Castille got Galicia and conquered all of de jure Portugal while Leon and Aragon also pushed south.
- The rest of the western world is pretty much in tthe same way ( except for India, but I have not took any attention of what was going on there ... )
I might continue this game. The perspective of Irish in Sicily is quite enticing
P.S If you want a sugestion for another ( slightly more dificult ) game, 1 Sept 1095, Duke of Portucale. Create the de jure Kingdom of Portugal while not being gobbled by the Almoravids. The fact that you are married with a 14 yr bastard princess is also of note ...
- Always Catholic ( I could had gone Cathar twice ... it would made stuff faster, but more dangerous )
- No Jew cash
Anyway, it was a pretty standart run of forget claims, first to get the other county of the petty Kingdom of Tara ( while waiting for our esteemed father to kick the bucket and to stockpile enough money for mercs ), then towards the petty kingdom of Munster ( BTW by all logic Murchad had to have a weak claim on it since our grandfather was the ruler of it and our mother already died ... ) until we could usurp it.
I had some tense moments due to lack of money while with mercs hired ( due to a forged claim I could simply not refuse at that point ), but the fact I was allied with the King of Sicily meant that I was getting papal funds all the time ( due being part of holy wars vs muslims made by the Sicilian kings ), so it was not hard to recover from that. And after getting the totality of the Duchy of Munster I had enough of counties to create the Eire ... and from there it was easy to convince the counts of the North to submit voluntarily. The only one that needed military persuasion was the petty king of Connacht, but that was a fast and quite painless war. So, in 1094 ...
TBH I could had got it earlier, but as this was Ironman, it meant that stuff did not go quite as planned. First was the fact that Murchad decided to die ten months away of me having enough cash to create the Kingdom of Ireland ( well, he was infirm and ill for a couple of years , so he actually surpassed my expectations. But still ... just more ten months, man
) and his sucessor had not enough piety to create it ( so I had to buy some or wait ... I decided to buy it, since I would recover the cash faster than the natural piety buildup ).The second reason was this Paradox luck magnet:
Our first son Domnall ... what a waste. He was not exactly the best chap around ( randomized stats, since he was in game start ), but as he was lustful like his father and had a decent stewardship, I got him to marry a nice genius girl...
That died in childbirth of a non genius girl not even a year after
So I married him to another genius girl ...
That died of illness a month after the marriage
Not learning with the previous examples, I married him to yet another genius girl ...
And then he becomes celibate
And then his only daughter dies of illness at 5 ...
And then he gets a brick in the head :/
Actually that might had been for the best, since the second in line, the would be King Énna I, while not gifted in anything in particular, is married with a princess of Sicily and our crown prince in 1093 has claims down there . So, if I decide to continue, it might get interesting ...
On other news:
- England has been back and forth between the Godwins and the Norwegians ( ATM is norwegian ). William the Bastard was king of a couple of weeks and ended in norwegian dungeons. Scotland is still as united as ever ... that is, it isn't
- The big news is the fact that somehow the 3 Iberian brothers decided to use their forces to attack the muslims instead of eachother
Castille got Galicia and conquered all of de jure Portugal while Leon and Aragon also pushed south.- The rest of the western world is pretty much in tthe same way ( except for India, but I have not took any attention of what was going on there ... )
I might continue this game. The perspective of Irish in Sicily is quite enticing
P.S If you want a sugestion for another ( slightly more dificult ) game, 1 Sept 1095, Duke of Portucale. Create the de jure Kingdom of Portugal while not being gobbled by the Almoravids. The fact that you are married with a 14 yr bastard princess is also of note ...
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You asked to paint Ireland green, so I figured why stop at one map-mode?
Actually managed to unite Ireland before going Sunni, although my brother and heir who was Sunni went decadent pretty quickly. Couldn't do anything about it short of killing him, and it got up to almost 60% decadence before he inherited. His genius son with amazing stats inherited shortly thereafter, but died of an infected wound after five years... I think this is the first time I had anyone die of a wound.Of course it would be my young, god-like ruler! Would have finished sooner, but it took 20 years to convert Connacht after the rest of Ireland converted in only about 15 years. Of note, the only son and heir of this current ruler is demon-spawn, which almost makes me want to keep playing.
Actually managed to unite Ireland before going Sunni, although my brother and heir who was Sunni went decadent pretty quickly. Couldn't do anything about it short of killing him, and it got up to almost 60% decadence before he inherited. His genius son with amazing stats inherited shortly thereafter, but died of an infected wound after five years... I think this is the first time I had anyone die of a wound.Of course it would be my young, god-like ruler! Would have finished sooner, but it took 20 years to convert Connacht after the rest of Ireland converted in only about 15 years. Of note, the only son and heir of this current ruler is demon-spawn, which almost makes me want to keep playing.
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Did anyone else think the op was talking about this when they saw the title of the thread? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn!
Can confirm: Not talking about a infant Japanese hitman called Reborn.
Impressive. You should go ahead and create United Sultanates of Great Britain and Ireland.
UKIP is not amused
I'm going to pass on this challenge, but I have quite the idea for next week. Talking about Heastein of Nantes, I found that it is possible to prepare a successfull invasion of those two countries in Mauretania if you do it right. Building a Norse North Africa sounds like a fun thing to me. Bonus Points if you make it a Republic
UKIP is not amused
I'm going to pass on this challenge, but I have quite the idea for next week. Talking about Heastein of Nantes, I found that it is possible to prepare a successfull invasion of those two countries in Mauretania if you do it right. Building a Norse North Africa sounds like a fun thing to me. Bonus Points if you make it a Republic
Next week is certainly Norse....
Brilliant. And here I was thinking that this Irish challenge was boring. You, Phoibos, have proven me wrong!
Did it on Ironman.
I got a bit lucky and managed to claim Ossory right after the Earl of Leinster died (I moved my chancellor over from Kildare and almost instantly got that claim) in 1068, took Desmond by landing a strong claimant. After a few years of waiting, I got a Duchy claim on Connaught, vasselled Breifne with the de-jure-claim and pressed the count of Connacht's (who really hates me) fabricated claim on Thomond (during this war, my plot against the earl of Kildare to press his brother's claim against his young son finally fired, I had that going since forever, didn't matter in the end, apparantly...). A banished bishop later, I have enough money again and am king of Ireland. And from, now everything will probably break apart because I have -100 with everyone.
I got a bit lucky and managed to claim Ossory right after the Earl of Leinster died (I moved my chancellor over from Kildare and almost instantly got that claim) in 1068, took Desmond by landing a strong claimant. After a few years of waiting, I got a Duchy claim on Connaught, vasselled Breifne with the de-jure-claim and pressed the count of Connacht's (who really hates me) fabricated claim on Thomond (during this war, my plot against the earl of Kildare to press his brother's claim against his young son finally fired, I had that going since forever, didn't matter in the end, apparantly...). A banished bishop later, I have enough money again and am king of Ireland. And from, now everything will probably break apart because I have -100 with everyone.
Huh. Just purchased ToG. It appears my original idea for Friday's challenge will be somewhat harder to initiate than originally thought, and will probably involve uploading a save. (If someone could PM me how to do this, that would be great) I will therefore hold off on 'A Paradoxical Rise' and instead go ahead with 'The Last Roar of the Red Lion', devised by TMSaxon. It will require The Old Gods DLC, and feel free to make guesses.
