Personally I think ever since they drastically reduced their event popups (even after the increase) they just havn't been a very good religion. Using the nation designer I just can't think of a reason to go Orthodox over any of the other completed religions other than MAYBE protestant.
So how do people feel about Orthodox now?
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Orthodox has the attraction (for me) of letting me pretty much completely ignore the Reformation (unlike Catholic) and not have to rejuggle my Piety slider every time my ruler dies (like the various flavours of Islam).
I have no idea whether I'd pick it in the ND, since I'm not buying any more DLC until "can declare war during regencies" is made the default for all religions instead of just Nahuatl.
I have no idea whether I'd pick it in the ND, since I'm not buying any more DLC until "can declare war during regencies" is made the default for all religions instead of just Nahuatl.
unless el dorado changed something I viewed them as competitive with Reformed. It doesn't take too long to max out the slider (<200 years) and even before its maxed you can spam lower autonomy quite easily without getting revolts.
It's also pretty good in that you can get it up where you want it for conversions / manpower / RR and then choose to drop it for stab, inflation, and money as needed. I rolled from 60 -75 for the last 200 years as Theo and got nearly as much out of it as a high - PA producing catholic, which isn't too bad.
I like Orthodox. You're kinda like a more consistent Reformed, and you're likely to be the only Orthodox nation on the board 100-150 years in.
+1 TotF and stab cost is also pretty good for the repeated trucebreaking stuff if you're into that sort of thing.
It's pretty good for keeping your country stable. As Byzantium in particular, full Orthodox + Religious means that you don't really ever have to deal with major rebellions except event-spawned ones, and you ultimately get +9 TTF (iirc), really good missionary strength and ludicrously cheap stability.
You get holy war CB on pretty much everybody. It's not as good as it was when cleansing of heresy was one of the only ways to lock the war leader, but it's still pretty nice.
How are you guys maxing out the slider in 100-200 years? I go a whole game and I've still only gotten enough events to get up to around 40%. That's always accepting positive events.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I like to keep the slider at zero and just take the free stab, money and everything else it gives me.
As OrthoRussia I vassalize Bulgaria/Serbia and have some nice friendly vassals to beat up Austria with. Sometimes Georgia is Orthodox too, sometimes it's Coptic.
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Modding that to be the case would take all of 30 seconds. Or are you one of the people who only play ironman?
He does indeed only play ironman. Modding is therefore out of the question for him.
The Patriarchy events are pretty good. Pretty much free candy if you keep your authority at the minimum.
A bit barebones but at least it's better than CK2.
I've grown surprisingly fond of playing Muslims lately, though I often feel bad when I need to go full piety and that means I have to stage book burnings and oppress dhimmis
I've grown surprisingly fond of playing Muslims lately, though I often feel bad when I need to go full piety and that means I have to stage book burnings and oppress dhimmis
It is probably the best allround religion in game. No Christian really hates you, you have a religious cb on everyone, you have the best conversion rate and lowest rr of all Christian religions, you can get PUs. For the nation designer, it is my top pick unless it doesn't really fit.
Reformed is a bit better in theory but you won't have it from start and can't pick it in the ND.
Reformed is a bit better in theory but you won't have it from start and can't pick it in the ND.
I thought I was the only one not getting events to increase Patriarchial Authority. Why were those events reduced so drastically? The Muslims still get Piety events at the same rate, so why shouldn't the Orthodox?
All these people talking about the patriarchal authority: I'm 50 years in to a game and havn't gotten a popup.