This game is crazy

[SupraDork]

In most strategy games, you can pretty much start fully implementing your plans for conquest/domination just over the end of the mid-game cusp, at which point nothing except sheer stupidity can stop you. With this game, however, everything can change on a dime because of its character focus and *rolls*. Wow. Like most of you, I started my first *real* game in Ireland 1066. It's now 1220 and I'm still only King of Ireland and hold half of Wales (the northern half will be mine soon as my heir will assume it once the Queen is dead). So, perhaps in a few game years, I'll be King of Scotland and Wales (mostly through marriages and offers of vassalization, nary a sword unsheathed). However, my plans keep getting set back with character deaths (heirs, kings, etc.), ambitious vassals who keep playing the game like snakes in the grass, and other random events. Wow. This, at least at the moment, is the most dynamic strategy game I've ever played! Excellent job, Paradox.

 

[kmh42]

This reminds me of my first "real" game. Also 1066 Ireland, But I got crushed by England but inhered Leon just to get a Game Over becasue I become a distant kinswoman with a patrilineal marriage and 50 years. I will never forget this game. Dose game where you fail are the one you will remember forever!

 

[Dahoota]

My first ever real game resulted in rage. Also 1066 Ireland, I bought CK2 in a sale bundle which included Sunset Invasion.

I got really into the game with its ups and downs, dealing with succession etc, I made a bunch of noob mistakes but eventually managed to take most of Britannia. Then in 1350 the aztecs invaded Britain. Game over.*Insert a few minutes of constant swearing*. Stupidest DLC ever.

OP if you bought the same pack and want to avoid this you can switch the DLC off in the launcher. As long as they haven't appeared yet, they won't ever.

 

[SupraDork]

My first ever real game resulted in rage. Also 1066 Ireland, I bought CK2 in a sale bundle which included Sunset Invasion.

I got really into the game with its ups and downs, dealing with succession etc, I made a bunch of noob mistakes but eventually managed to take most of Britannia. Then in 1350 the aztecs invaded Britain. Game over.*Insert a few minutes of constant swearing*. Stupidest DLC ever.

OP if you bought the same pack and want to avoid this you can switch the DLC off in the launcher. As long as they haven't appeared yet, they won't ever.

Nope. I'm not getting that one. I'm into history revision, but not to that extreme. LOL. May as well get the Alien Invasion DLC.

 

[Thure]

Welcome to a monarchy. A bad heir could chance a lot in our world too. And there wasn't much anybody could do about it.

 

[Rags17]

Don't worry, there's still the chance that after all your hard work your dynasty will yield a string of idiots or children, after which your entire line becomes extinct due to bad fertility rolls.

One of my earliest playthroughs was as the King of Abyssinia, I managed to last 130 years before being taken out in one hit by an Abbasid jihad. I then played on for the next 130 years in observer mode, one of my grandsons ended up becoming the idiot Emperor of Byzantium for a while (I think he was known as "the Ill-Ruler" or somesuch).

That's why I LOVE this game !

 

[Maizel]

I know, this game is great, right? She's a masterpiece. After our 1500 hour relationship I would ask her to marry me if it were not taboo.

 

[jcbuilder]

haha.. My only Real games have been Ireland, and honestly i barely make it to the castle age.. aka 1050+ I just love playing tribes and raiding England and France. If you like playing Ireland, you really should get the old gods and Charlemagne. I have played the game about 550 hours as of now,,, And still have not left Ireland. I have picked up all the song and Unit DLC that could possibly effect m, along with the Rome, sons of Abraham for crusades and i have sunset, but i never see that.. perhaps it happens later than i play too. you can you can play a good 300+ years in tribes..

I know one day i will try to convert all of England to tribes, i have one save that i got over half before 1050, i converted all of Wessex, Kent, Merica and part of Essex tribal

One of these days i think i will try a lolard, or fractile religion conversion, that could be fun.. Another 500 hours i might move out of Ireland.. maybe Scotland next

 

[JakeCourtney]

The game is pretty awesome. I look forward to one day playing CK3 before I'm dead.

 

[Yeekim]

Don't worry, there's still the chance that after all your hard work your dynasty will yield a string of idiots or children, after which your entire line becomes extinct due to bad fertility rolls.

I was trying to get the "Seven centuries" achievement - started as Essex, slowly created Empire of Britannia, proceeded to conquer Scandinavia, Brittany, Spain, Italy, North Africa, Levant + bits and pieces in Eastern Europe. 700+ member dynasty with 20,000+ prestige.
Then I made my first mistake and had my heir marry a foreign Duchess. Sadly, he only ever had two daughters, who were brought up in their mother's court.
She was nice enough to let the older one marry matrilineally, but wed the younger one patrilineally. Obviously, the younger one had a son instantly, bypassing her older sister in inheritance order.
Then, in 1300, Black Death hits and their father who meanwhile inherited the throne dies instantly.
Younger daughter inherits, contracts the plague as well, drops dead. Game over.

Nothing I could do...

 

[tahlaskerssen]

As an Eu4 experienced player i can´t understand why people say Eu4 is way harder than Ck2.

 

[JakeCourtney]

I think both EU4 and CK2 are about as hard as you make it. In both you can choose good starting position.

 

[jcbuilder]

The game is pretty awesome. I look forward to one day playing CK3 before I'm dead.

I keep seeing this.. Why are people so obsessed with getting CK3? this game has been under constant development for years now. Huge updates, tons of new content/expansions.. When you build a giant castle, you keep adding on to make it great.. you don't say, well we made it this far, lets tear down the whole thing and start over it will be 10x better.

spend 2-3 years to get a base that is here, and another 2-3 to make it better? I'd rather see them keep working on this for a good 2-3 years more.. by the time you run into an 8-10 year old engine, that is when they show age. To me this game has many more years of life left in it. Hell, i have years before i even touch half the map.

the game might as well be called CK6 by this time, as compared to CK2 with no DLC, the games are night and day IMO

 

[CKnewB]

This game is a true masterpiece. Every time I pick it up and play I have a blast and the hours disappear....

 

[amore e morte]

I keep seeing this.. Why are people so obsessed with getting CK3? this game has been under constant development for years now. Huge updates, tons of new content/expansions.. When you build a giant castle, you keep adding on to make it great.. you don't say, well we made it this far, lets tear down the whole thing and start over it will be 10x better.

spend 2-3 years to get a base that is here, and another 2-3 to make it better? I'd rather see them keep working on this for a good 2-3 years more.. by the time you run into an 8-10 year old engine, that is when they show age. To me this game has many more years of life left in it. Hell, i have years before i even touch half the map.

the game might as well be called CK6 by this time, as compared to CK2 with no DLC, the games are night and day IMO

This. This is it, if they start a new one for the first two years it will be feature barren (See Stellaris for an example) I don't see any ways that starting from scratch would improve what we have in this one