KoJ kamikaze

[Swuul]

The CK MP forum seems to be dying out soon as people are waiting for the next beta

So, anybody for a Kingdom of Jerusalem kamikaze on Tuesday evenings (European time)? Prolly one whole campaign per evening, though it would be fun to survive for one session Hopefully the Virtual Function Call bug wouldn't have time to hit before all players are overrun by the moslems

 

[unmerged(21937)]

I have to see can I play CK in the evil Training Center of Lapinjärvi first.

 

[Solmyr]

I have to see can I play CK in the evil Training Center of Lapinjärvi first.

You can't, they impose a 30 min limit on using their computers.

 

[unmerged(21937)]

You can't, they impose a 30 min limit on using their computers.

So I shall (or actually did) get a nice E-class to get away from the Evil Training Center.

I could play one KoJ Kamikaze today then, would be fun to get it running nicely.

 

[Swuul]

So I shall (or actually did) get a nice E-class to get away from the Evil Training Center.

I could play one KoJ Kamikaze today then, would be fun to get it running nicely.

Two is a bit low number for a MP

Anyone else interested, contact me over ICQ

 

[Lord Ederon]

Tuesday is most suitable day for me and I'd like to try CK in MP. I'm still new to the game, thus I might be not as competent as you'd want, but I love to roleplay. Have played one CK game so far for about 25 years... (in-game 25 years indeed )

If you have patience to answer my newbe questions during the game, you might want me. Otherwise...

OK. So tell if it is ok to let me in.

 

[Swuul]

Sure, welcome We didn't play with Byak last Tuesday, as two is a rather low number for MP, but three is ok. And in a KoJ kamikaze it does not matter if you screw up, because the christians defending the Holy Land will be screwed eventually anyway (it is about surviving as long as possible ), so newbies are welcome.

Somebody might ask what a KoJ kamikaze is ? Well, you take a few players, one of them will be the King of KoJ, others will be Dukes in the area. For King we tend to look for somebody sane and balanced (ie that leaves people like me out), examples of Kings in the previous games we've had: Flo, Byak, Aldo. Then it is all about trying to survive, the Kings task will be to find new strong allies to fight against the inevitable moslem onslaught, the Dukes' task is to try to get as much land (from the King ) and armies so that they can put a good fight. When all hell then eventually breaks loose players will be forced to harmonise their operations or the AI will have an easy stomping.

It is darn fun IMO, a lot different from a "normal" CK MP, altough the domestic matters (techs, marriages, education etc) have to be solved too in some way, in case the players are able to stop the first wave. It is certain the players will lose, so nobody will be feeling sad for getting annexed, because they *will* be annexed

 

[Lord Ederon]

I don't mind loosing and such kind of game could be good lession how to take full joy of CK

 

[Swuul]

Ok, let's try tomorrow at 20 CET. Everybody wanting to join the fun of a kamikaze, please join the V-Net CK channel then. Latest beta is to be used

 

[Lord Ederon]

It went pretty fast at the last attempt

Thank you all for funny game. Not much action as Tripolis (myself), except f**king it up by accidental peace. But it was significant enough to mourn us almost instantly. Second one as emperor was just going to be fun when we crashed. And since client save seems not to work as proper save should, we must roll back one year or restart again or conclude it altogether. I'm for autosave but despite I'm your liege, I'll let decision on you - more experienced.

Thanks again for guiding me in first steps of multiplayer crusading.

 

[Swuul]

Heh, yeah we were doing pretty well in the KoJ kamikaze uptil that unfortunate misclick which also put Outrejordan for some buggy reason to peace. Well, in the end we did survive the first onslaught, altough Jerusalem itself was lost.

The second game was fun too, nice to see smn making the n00b mistake of declaring war on infidels and watch how your lieges ally king come and steal the siege(s) I'll put the autosave up later, hopefully the sudden crash wasn't the forewarning for VFC's, we've not played for the 1066-scenario-required three decades yet (but then again 1337 aint 1066)...

 

[unmerged(21937)]

Some kind of improvements for 1187 scen to make KoJ Kamikaze more enjoyable would be nice. Mostly dealing with these heirless old people without wives...

 

[Swuul]

Well, we could make new characters. I've heard there is some sort of "rules" on how to make characters?

 

[unmerged(21937)]

Oh yes, but making characters takes time, so having ready-to-play version with improvements to starting with trouble in inheritance issue could be handy.

I mean, KoJ kamikaze is most often single shot thingy and making a character every time is rather much and it makes it harder for random guys just hop in.

 

[Swuul]

Ok, but let's make some characters to be placed there. With wives. That way there is one problem less in the kamikaze

 

[unmerged(21937)]

Let's see, there are five playables within the KoJ itself. The king, duke of Galilee, duke of Tripoli, duke of Oultrejourdain and count of Beershab (if king makes him duke of Ascalon).

Then there is duke of Antioch and duke of Cyprus as additional positions that can pledge fealty to KoJ.

So one would need to make seven characters and seven wives.

What kind of people they should be. Martial ability would be rather important, diplomatic ability for king and stewardship ability also for all. Though having everyone with intri 0 might be silly.

 

[Swuul]

What kind of people they should be. Martial ability would be rather important, diplomatic ability for king and stewardship ability also for all. Though having everyone with intri 0 might be silly.

Well, considering that the lords of KoJ seem to have been warriors with constant monetary problems and few allies, but who seemed to live long if they didn't die in the field, I'd consider something like 8-6-6-6-7-7 (on the 40-point-scale) to be the basis for the men; wifes could perhaps have a base of 5-6-7-6-7-7 (women surely were plotting those days too, right? ).

 

[unmerged(21937)]

Seems reasonable. Perhaps with Knowledged Tactician edu and some varying traits for each lord and Intricate Webweaver and some traits for the those plotter wives?

 

[unmerged(21937)]

I did some characters to make a modded KoJ Kamikaze scenario. You may dl it from here: http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload9/kojkamikaze_scenario.zip

 

[Swuul]

I did some characters to make a modded KoJ Kamikaze scenario. You may dl it from here: http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload9/kojkamikaze_scenario.zip

Splendid!

Game tonight, let's try the Byzant game first? Or should we go for the new and improved KoJ kamikaze scenario right away?