The Obligatory CK2 Strange Screenshot Thread

[Kurblius]

I'm really proud of this. After three generations of work, I managed to get my aunt elected Pope while playing as Navarre in Vanilla without consols. You can give women property as Basque culture, so I made two of my daughters Prince-Bishops after I acquired the Kingdom of Jerusalem in a Holy War. First I had to elect her as a Cardinal, then the Cardinals elected her as Pope after I dominated the College. For a long time I wasn't sure if the game would even allow it. Interestingly enough she isn't given the designation of Pope, but King-Bishop. Apparently the Pope designation is reserved for males. I'm really getting a kick out of the fact that she's of my dynasty and Basque culture so I have great relations with her.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Which mods are you playing? I'm especially interested in that mini-map, if you don't mind me asking.

CK2 Plus, pre-RoI version.

..and originally from Korbahs Minimap Makeover mods collection (as far as i remember): http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?731311-MOD-Minimap-Makeover

and updated for india.

 

[Colpo]

Best. Nickname. Ever.

"The Whore of Wales" just has a nice ring to it.

(And if your Roman Emperor doesn't have some East African DNA in him, you're not playing the game right)

 

[Attalus]

I'm really proud of this. After three generations of work, I managed to get my aunt elected Pope while playing as Navarre in Vanilla without consols. You can give women property as Basque culture, so I made two of my daughters Prince-Bishops after I acquired the Kingdom of Jerusalem in a Holy War. First I had to elect her as a Cardinal, then the Cardinals elected her as Pope after I dominated the College. For a long time I wasn't sure if the game would even allow it. Interestingly enough she isn't given the designation of Pope, but King-Bishop. Apparently the Pope designation is reserved for males. I'm really getting a kick out of the fact that she's of my dynasty and Basque culture so I have great relations with her.

You sir, have won the game

 

[njmfffanj]

Ummm, wait what?

he was THAT spymaster. :rofl:


This had me nearly fall out of my chair. It's the first time this reference\e-egg happen to me.
Last game I had birth of Jesus (my daughter gave "virgin birth", child had no father so to speak. There was a name, but I couldn't find his character, and his icon wasn't listed in child's parent tree? Probably some bug due to father dying before child was born?

now it's little Rosemary's Baby\Damien. :rofl: and genius on top of that!

fallowed by my little Napoleon getting "nanny" that has only first name, no family name and dynasty tree. (obvious reference to Omen movie)

Look at those stats. 26 learning and high intrigue +quick trait. I am soooo gonna murder my wife with horrible stats that I marry only for shot at East Francia throne, and remarry this girl once succession is done.

ps. my dynasty name is also a joke. :ninja:

 

[Raineh Daze]

The nanny will kill herself, don't bother.

 

[alscon]

Also, she's a nun. But the real witches make good wives.

 

[Attalus]

ps. my dynasty name is also a joke. :ninja:

Sad you aren't caliph

 

[njmfffanj]

Sad you aren't caliph

Yeah. Might try it once with emir of something, trying to become caliph instead of caliph.

as the other poster said, yeah, nanny killed herself, just like in Omen. Still stuck with my idiotic wife. (She's dumb as hell).

but little Napoleon became possessed, so it should be one of those weird characters that fight bears and hear voices. It should be fun until he starts randomly killing people. :rofl:
Sad, he turned out to be rather strong character with huge stats.

another funny thing, Carlings keep putting me in their council either as spymaster or chancellor, and I keep assassinating them (I am already independant King of Aquitaine and Aragon). They seem to be oblivious that I literally killed every single king till my wife got on throne of West Francia. :wacko:

 

[Sarenarass]

THE JEWISH DRAGON (So much wat)

So... just doing my "attempting to English-ize England with Normans" campaign.. decide to look towards the Middle East when I see one of the Caliph's vassals doesn't have a traditional Islamic symbol.

HOW? Someone explain! I only hope they become independent because it would be too funny. Almost all of the rest of the dynasty is also Jewish now.

 

[Andre Massena]

This had me nearly fall out of my chair. It's the first time this reference\e-egg happen to me.
Last game I had birth of Jesus (my daughter gave "virgin birth", child had no father so to speak. There was a name, but I couldn't find his character, and his icon wasn't listed in child's parent tree? Probably some bug due to father dying before child was born?

now it's little Rosemary's Baby\Damien. :rofl: and genius on top of that!

fallowed by my little Napoleon getting "nanny" that has only first name, no family name and dynasty tree. (obvious reference to Omen movie)

Look at those stats. 26 learning and high intrigue +quick trait. I am soooo gonna murder my wife with horrible stats that I marry only for shot at East Francia throne, and remarry this girl once succession is done.

ps. my dynasty name is also a joke. :ninja:

She's pretty hot

I think we know the real Naploleon's secret now

 

[njmfffanj]

It's been one of the funniest CK2 games I've played in a while.

Now Morgan le Fay showed up, and I married her (my old queen "died in accident" (guess she was assassinated by her brother) anyway, so I could put my son on West Francia throne).
Morgan has insane stats, nearly 40 intrugue, huge martial\steward\learning, bad diplo tho. She's also attractive+genius. Oh and a witch. Hopefully she doesn't try to kill me, so I reconverted her to Catholic (she was Pagan) and I keep bribing her to get high opinion of her. I also got random event where my guy and her fall in love. I am not letting her be spymaster tho, just to be sure.

I am curious if other historical "witches" will show up.

my son is still possessed, but it seems fine. He seems to be ok with his vassals? I should have named him Damien. :angry:

ps. Is there any way to remove "witch" trait from Morgan?

 

[th3freakie]

Yes.

Pope HILARIUS the WISE.

I know his name is missing the 'O', but just thought it was funny...

Crusader, Pilgrim and... Lunatic!
I want to read his biography.

 

[Davisx3m]

Crusader, Pilgrim and... Lunatic!
I want to read his biography.

He's currently leading troops in Constantinople!!

 

[niallmcfc]

Crusader, Pilgrim and... Lunatic!
I want to read his biography.

Lunatic? Arbitrary slothful drunkard maybe, but not lunatic. I bet a drunkard scholar leads to a lot of interesting situations.

 

[Dukjlanin]

Crusader, Pilgrim and... Lunatic!
I want to read his biography.

I think those go together pretty logically, but then I'm an atheist.

 

[th3freakie]

Lunatic? Arbitrary slothful drunkard maybe, but not lunatic. I bet a drunkard scholar leads to a lot of interesting situations.

You are right - drunkard, not lunatic.

...even better!

 

[Simmy93]

So... just doing my "attempting to English-ize England with Normans" campaign.. decide to look towards the Middle East when I see one of the Caliph's vassals doesn't have a traditional Islamic symbol.

HOW? Someone explain! I only hope they become independent because it would be too funny. Almost all of the rest of the dynasty is also Jewish now.

And they told us Colonel Gaddafi was dead, he's clearly ruling Persia.

 

[Andre Massena]

You are right - drunkard, not lunatic.

...even better!

Seems like 4 out of every 5 popes are drunkards in the game

 

[Actalo]

This province was about 3/4 upgraded so don't ask me why the numbers are so over-powered because I simply don't understand it either. Needless to say, I reloaded an older save.