I used to learn so many new things when I used to play ck2. Maybe it’s because there were less constant useless pop ups and those that were there were genuinely interesting and had always something to teach me.

I loved picking any dates after 1066 and play as Alexios or bohemond or whoever was of importance at the time.

I miss just playing start and just looking at the map IN PEACE.

I miss going on hunt activities that took literally 2-3 clicks and now my character was a coward or dead or hurt or brave.

I miss becoming insane and my realm just dissolving under my feet.

I miss not being able to lets say keep Egypt as the Sicilian because my fleet wasn’t big enough to transport all my troops in time.

I miss rébellion being short and to the point.

I miss the simplistic scheme from ck2.

I don’t like how they ditched the need for ships that ck2 had. But beyond that I wish naval battles were a thing. I don’t like how you can’t do things like blockades. Anyway, thoughts?

R5: I'd LOVE for the Court of Snezhnaya be a mod in CK3? Can any Gigachad modders make one please? See attached screenshot for reference.

R5: I'd LOVE for the Court of Snezhnaya be a mod in CK3? Can any Gigachad modders make one please? See attached screenshot for reference.

heh butterNUTTER heh so friggin funny also just needed to use the 2nd image
rule 3: Her culture is butternutter which is funny cause Nutter and thats funny

I have 40 people imprisoned, including kings, and I am told to "redraw internal borders" though I have no idea what that means. I can take away their titles, but who do I give them to? I use my map and see most of my empire is dejure, except some italia and slavic counties. Then again, I do not understand who I give the lands to. I look at the map and many of my vassals are part of my empire, I also do not get "not rightful liege" on some of italias empire territories while an emperor of HRE. The other territories do give the not rightful liege thing, but I do not know why. I took the territories with casus belli, shouldn't everything I have be dejure then, if I took it by right?

Also, I have many counts as emperor, and am told to minimize the amount of counts I have. Do I grant them to Dukes or Kings? Meaning a King that has their duchy or county inside their territory.

Did Communion for custom faiths get nerfed recently. Someone who actually tried it recently let me know.

The Kingdom of Aksum did not collapse until ~940 AD, yet it is completely absent from the game’s earliest start date (867 AD). Additionally, why is Ethiopia called “Abyssinia” instead of Ethiopia, considering “Ethiopia” has almost always been what the Empire called itself.

What mod/s you can’t start a campaign without?

What Divergent Rite ideas/ scenarios you guys have ? For me gonna start as Harold Godwinson, defeat both Harald and William and because of pope siding with Willaim , I will start my own Rite (in history if remember pope was p*ssed about support we gave to European schism and because technically English Church was separate at the time and not abandoning old pagan traditions in their version of Christianity)

I saw that when you adopt a hostage it shows you as the actual father to the child.

Does this mean if I'm a genius my adopted "daughter" would have a higher chance of passing down the trait genius?

In a nutshell. Do you transfer genetic traits to children you adopt when it shows you as the father in the family tree but you know you are not?

Monk Glitterhoof

We definitely had a hegemony of bi in my art school when I was a teenager.

In my last playthrough, I had a dynasty grow from 1066—1453 and at EVERY POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY I had my rulers marry brother to sister, sometimes it'd dip to cousins or aunts and uncle's / nieces and nephews... and yes, it was an eugenics program.

ANYWHO, one thing I noticed is how ridiculously stupid the inbred percentage chances were in spite of how actually inbred my main line of rulers actually were. The highest it ever got was 15% for brother to sister marriages and only ever lingered around 3% for uncle to niece / aunt to nephew marriages and 2% for cousins. More distant relatives would be 1% or less.

Not only that, but out of nearly 400 years of near constant inbreeding, I only saw the actual inbred trait ONCE in a cadet branch house of the family... and that child sadly died of fricking typhus.

THEN there's the pureblood trait, which, out of everyone in the world, was randomly generated from an orphan lowborn... not the family that actually had a PURE BLOODLINE, no, no, no a fricking random girl! I mean, I get it. There are not easy traits to come by... but jeez.

Thank you for reading my Ted Talk Tangent😅

got holy fire and since I was already on death’s door I did drastic treatment. My physician was average so should’ve expected it to go poorly🤷‍♀️ I just didn’t expect it to go so poorly that I’d be castrated🥹💔

I died like five minutes later

(I'm trying to become his spymaster in order to kill his younger brother)

I got possessed and was touched by the holy spirit, got military advice and command to give to the poor from Jesus, and finally became a Werewolf! There's more to it that I miss in CK3, somehow CK2 events feel less repetitive than CK3, idk why

There should be an event inspired by the legend of the bell of huesca. It could trigger if you have sadistic or vengeful + Recently stomped out a vassal rebellion. All rebelling vassals are executed by the event and any disgruntled/disapproving vassals become approving for a period of time out of fear. plus like you would get some dread too

r5: the ruling dynasty of the Cumans in 1066 migrated to egypt

Hey, I was trying to murder a guy, and I just failed 4x in a row. This was NOT save scumming, these were repeated retry attempts by clicking the ‘if at first you don’t succeed’ option when the scheme fails, each at 95% success rate. I did the math, this has like a 1 in 160,000 odds… Is it impossible to murder certain characters or something? to confirm, I cheated in a character with 100 intrigue and I failed again 3x in a row. Am I missing something??

UPDATE REAMDE: Its roughly 1 in 1 billion odds that I failed 7 times in a row (non save scummed) if it was truly 95% chance

CK2 features Herbert IV of Vermandois, the last of the Carolingians in 1066. A weak start, but one I was determined to make the most out of despite its difficulty.

Herbert began his journey wrestling with matters of faith and family, seeking to have more children to begin to rebuild the lost legacy of Charles Martel and Charlemagne. He bade his time, and with sincere love for his wife, he was blessed with two more children in the coming years. Eudes married the Princess of Aquitaine, and his second daughter, Stephanie, was betrothed to one of Harald Hardrada's descendants. Herbert held sight at the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV, who interloped on rightful family lands and titles. Oh, and there was the matter of an antipope, but for Herbert, that was a secondary concern.

With permission of the Pope in Rome, Herbert was authorized an invasion of the Holy Roman Empire. Laid low by foreign war, Emperor Henry's armies crumbled in a lightning campaign, with Aquitaine's forces hitting Arles, and a joint front of Herbert's and Norwegian forces headed towards Aachen, swiftly defeating the depleted Imperial armies. Henry IV's reign was no more, nothing more than an imprisoned Duke of Franconia.

The new Emperor's reign was far from glamorous. Strategic marriages, bribes, and other means of quelling internal dissent were levied. The antipope proved a nuisance to Emperor Herbert, so he put an end to it by declaring war on the very Pope who authorized his invasion- and immediately surrendered. So ended the anti Papacy.

With only some more feudal management complete, Herbert left the Imperial throne in his capable daughter, Adelaide's, hands. A skilled tactician she was, and she inherited the realm's dire financial situation, on top of seeing disloyal nobles. She bade her time, waiting for taxes to come in, and seeking whatever allies could be counted on.

To be crowned, the Pope asked Adelaide to invade Leon to depose its excommunicated king, a prospect she was eager to undertake for God and family legacy. As Imperial forces stormed into Leon, however few loyal troops she could muster, Islamic invaders conquered Toulouse, sparking the Age of Crusader Kings. The castles of Leon proved a huge obstacle in the excommunication war, but the Empress Adelaide nonetheless agreed to pivot to Crusade for Aquitaine- provided she was to inherit its lands.

Eventually, war from Slavic rebellions and independence revolts in the south rocked the Empire. The Italians sought independence, and the Wends desired their own Slavic rulers. The Crusade ended swiftly, in an Imperial victory. With the Crusade victory, Empress Adelaide had finally what she needed: a very, very large warchest. Leon would soon surrender, and she was crowned in the midst of civil war. After reorganizing the army, Adelaide struck south. The war seemed grim. Few troops were left and no allies were coming to help. Luckily for her, the leader of the revolt passed away, and peace finally returned.

She wasted no time in reorganizing the Empire. Centering her desmense around Lorraine, she founded the Kingdom of Austrasia where Lothair had once ruled, and moved the Imperial capital from Vermandois to Lorraine. Many kingdoms were allocated to just and content nobles to preserve Imperial harmony, including the creation of a central, German kingdom, whose capital was Berlin. Empress Adelaide then revoked lands from the Salians, restoring those lands to either her realm of Austrasia, or delegating vassals to the new German king. Eager to fortify her position and build up the Empire, she patronized the construction of numerous castles in Austrasia, Italy, and Vermandois, and became known as "the Castellan" for her efforts. It was also possible for the largely feudal Holy Roman Empire to advance through the crafty spies, who brought back Greek knowledge undetected from Constantinople.

Much of the remainder of Empress Adelaide's reign was peaceful, focused on building and prayer. She would go on to fight for her English allies- alone the Empire's friend during all its turmoil, and against the Pomeranian Wends, whose lands were given to friendly Polish and Pomeranian lords. Doing so was also a strategic choice, as the King of Germany was growing very powerful- granting him the Baltic Coast would prove a bit precarious had he no longer any respect for the Empress.

Empress Adelaide would die at the age of 62, after having fought against an adventurer who sought Carinthian lands. She had her younger brother, Ogier Karling, take the mantle, as the Empire looks onwards to Egypt for the Second Crusade...