Maybe I'm just being dense, but I don't seem to be able to get a handle on this game (CK1 complete). Played for about a decade, and really don't have a clue what I should be doing. Built a few province province improvements, chose a couple of "likely to be useful" techs to research, married off a couple of courtiers both within and outside of my kingdom, but basically I'm just waiting until this childless king dies and some relative with better stats takes over.
I've reduced my Scutage to where my vassals have a slight positive Loyalty drift, rather than slipping negative due to the king's horrendous 1 in Diplomacy. It seems like every year to two years, one of them takes a large Loyalty drop for unexplained reasons, and takes a year or so (or most of the year's finances as a bribe) to recover that Loyalty. I don't dare declare a war, because I can't afford the Loyalty hit, and the finances are still tenuous enough to make it seem like a war would be a financial disaster. Is there some direction or focus I should be aiming for, or is this game "simply" a matter of waiting for random events to happen, and dealing with them as best you can?
I tried to find a good tutorial AAR, but the dozen AARs that I've read so far appear to either be heavily RP oriented, or else game the system and assume that you already know all the tricks....not very useful for a beginner. Any hints or explanations (other than something on a Steam forum) would be appreciated.
I've reduced my Scutage to where my vassals have a slight positive Loyalty drift, rather than slipping negative due to the king's horrendous 1 in Diplomacy. It seems like every year to two years, one of them takes a large Loyalty drop for unexplained reasons, and takes a year or so (or most of the year's finances as a bribe) to recover that Loyalty. I don't dare declare a war, because I can't afford the Loyalty hit, and the finances are still tenuous enough to make it seem like a war would be a financial disaster. Is there some direction or focus I should be aiming for, or is this game "simply" a matter of waiting for random events to happen, and dealing with them as best you can?
I tried to find a good tutorial AAR, but the dozen AARs that I've read so far appear to either be heavily RP oriented, or else game the system and assume that you already know all the tricks....not very useful for a beginner. Any hints or explanations (other than something on a Steam forum) would be appreciated.