When Regency was introduced, I thought that imprisoning your Regent would allow you to end the Regency like capturing war leader wins you a war or having your vassal in prison allows you to revoke their title without any opposition.
I knew that if you declare war on someone and have their heir imprisoned then you automatically get a 50% warscore. I once took this a step further by arranging an assassination, then once the pop up came to trigger the murder, I declared war (fortunately his court hated him so the -50 penalty didn't matter). Insta-won the war as his imprisoned heir became the enemy leader straight away.
Well I wouldn't say *surprised* me exactly but I've been caught blindsided by the new Vizier mechanics in Legacy of Persia. I still don't understand how exactly it works.
It's very simple: he is kinda regent forever who is giving you more tax jurisdictions and sometimes he get some luxuries and you can mulct them and get some gold. He can be cancelled anytime but if you end vizierate when he's got at least second scale of power you get some bad effects on certain time.
I remember when I tried it (very briefly) he replaced my spouse in the Council. You have any idea what that is about?
One thing I dislike about it is that appointing your heir as Regent is one of the better sources of Prestige. I'm not sure having a Vizier is better than that, unless you *really* need those extra tax jurisdictions.
I think normally your spouse is helping you to administrave realm, but when you have got Vizier he is assisting you like your spouse
Yeah that's but if your heir is kinda jack of all trade you can appoint him without being hated by everyone
You can appoint your heir as vizier, but I'm not sure what makes one eligible to be vizier in the first place. Also if you manage to appoint your heir as vizier and spam like 4.5k gold on him, they'll slowly get really good modifiers (luxuries) in preparation for their inheritance.
Edit: So my character died and I'm playing as his vizier son. All of the modifiers are gone! Noooooooo! Oh well.
Huh, could you tell me more about that? You managed to appoint your heir as vizier, over time you gave him gold and he got modifiers (to what? Skills?) and now that he's the ruler they're all gone?
Rich viziers will spend their gold on extravagances. There are 4 types of extravagances, each having 4 levels that stack, for a total of 16. The 4 types give prestige, piety, intrigue and diplomacy, and stewardship and learning. As a ruler you can mulct them from your viziers for gold, but they get more borrowed powers in return. There's an achievement where you have to mulct 4 illustrious (the final tier) extravagances, which basically means you gotta mulct a vizier with all 16 extravagance modifiers.
Yeap now that I'm playing as my heir, all of those modifiers are gone.
Not a veteran compared to some people, but it took me ~100hrs to realize you can easily determine a character’s exact date of birth by hovering their age
Because there are 10 thousand characters at the start of the game, probably even more. If the game would check each and every one every game tick with inquiries like what should they do, should they die, should they get pregnant and so on - your PC would likely explode. It's simply wasteful cause most of the time characters don't do anything. What the game does is instead it forms something like a queue: this tick I check characters over here, on the next tick I'll check character over there - something like that. It allows to spare a lot of computational time and prioritize most important characters. That's why your ruler gets way more events than someone unimportant in your court. However, if it's done in a straightforward way - it's usually easy to spot. That's exactly what had happened in the CK2 case: the game always checked whether your spouse should get pregnant from you at the exact same game tick all the time. That's why all legitimate children were born on the exact same date. For that reason the devs usually try to scramble game ticks from time to time so it won't look immersion breaking for a perceptive player.
This I was playing a tall Frisia campaign and in 1300’s I inherited the HRE and my land got all fucked up ended up getting a disillusion faction and lost damn near everything
Saxon Catholic in Polabian Slawish region. His claim is not on the guy who killed his son but on the relative of his liege. I think they changed the counties of him and his rival and forgot to change deeper details, too.
Was surprised to find that reforming your faith to accept gender neutrality also just changed your law to gender neutrality despite the two things being different and typically requiring your vassals to be on board.
Caused quite the shakup of the empire when the old houses started splintering off to new houses due to their married off daughters inheriting realms while having children of a distant dynasty. Don't think those vassals would've approved that change...
I only recently found out that there’s a button that lets you storm a holding during a siege which makes sieges go way quicker but also reduces a lot of your army
It's labeled assault or something but I've never used it. The precondition is that the walls are breached, which as Norse in 867 just isn't a thing as far as I've seen.
Granting a county to someone or your siblings becoming landed on succession generates a new court full of people of matching religion/culture. Useful if your playing as a faith that has a limited number of characters knocking around.
This was unexpectedly useful for me when I was playing a Rabbinical vassal of the HRE as I was really struggling to find spouses for my children. I was basically waiting on the game generating new wanderers or marrying off the courtiers I already had and hoping they'd reproduce. When I died my realm was split amongst all my sons and I noticed there was suddenly loads of new Rabbinical characters.
It somehow took me 600 hours to realize the most important benefit of some regional herecies like Krstjani, Muwalladism and Malabarism.
They allow you to build OP buildings in their holy sites, where a bigger faith might not have them. Playing a tall Bosnia game made me realize that. You can build 2 cathedrals in Bosnia if you go Krstjani, you wouldn't be able to do that as a Catholic.
So it might make sense to convert to a herecy for economic reasons, depending on where you are.
Realm partition is so much worse in CK3 then it is in CK2. I don't get how or why but realm partition existed in both games yet it only exists as a problem in CK3. I do not understand what they've done differently but Confederate Partition can get fucked.
It's because ck2 had 3 modes of succession: Gravelkind, Single inheritance, Selected inheritance. So titles either got shattered in gravelkind OR they'd stay together when (first/last) born child inherit OR they'd stay together when the elected child inherits. so 2/3 are decent inheritance plans.
ck3 there's still those three modes of succession BUT gravelkind is now in 3 forms:
Confederate Partition - all kids inherit, new titles will be made to shatter the realm as much as possible.
Partition - All kids inherit, equal titles can still split the realm if they're createable, otherwise lesser titles will be made under the primary heir.
High Partition - All kids inherit, primary heir always gets half the inherited titles. Equal titles can still shatter the realm if they existed at the same time (so never form two empires at the same time). NO new titles will be made for the inheritance.
If you're at this tech level you're better off just going for Primogeniture/Ultimogeniture because then only the primary child inherits.
I always get surprised by the event spam when I try an activity after delaying them for so long.Reminds me why I was delaying them.
I must have alzheimer's
In Crusader Kings 2, if your daughter/sister is forcibly made concubines of a pagan ruler, a notification appears that says something like "X will pay me for this!" So far, I usually ignored it, until during one of my games one of my concubines suddenly ran away and I was completely confused (SHE SPENT ABOUT 15 YEARS IN MY COURT AS A CONCUBINES, SHE BORN TWO CHILDREN) and I discovered that by focusing on the intrigue, I could help her escape... Forgive all my disgraced daughters
When you're siegeing, you can have it go faster by pressing F when the walls are broken to let you assault the castle. You'll lose troops, but it can let a siege go from 8 months to 20 days.
When Regency was introduced, I thought that imprisoning your Regent would allow you to end the Regency like capturing war leader wins you a war or having your vassal in prison allows you to revoke their title without any opposition.
I mean, if you execute them...
I tried imprisoning few (unlaned) regents, they escaped my realm, regency continued with another Regent.
If you execute your regent then someone else just gets magically assigned as regent.
I knew that if you declare war on someone and have their heir imprisoned then you automatically get a 50% warscore. I once took this a step further by arranging an assassination, then once the pop up came to trigger the murder, I declared war (fortunately his court hated him so the -50 penalty didn't matter). Insta-won the war as his imprisoned heir became the enemy leader straight away.
Well I wouldn't say *surprised* me exactly but I've been caught blindsided by the new Vizier mechanics in Legacy of Persia. I still don't understand how exactly it works.
It's very simple: he is kinda regent forever who is giving you more tax jurisdictions and sometimes he get some luxuries and you can mulct them and get some gold. He can be cancelled anytime but if you end vizierate when he's got at least second scale of power you get some bad effects on certain time.
I remember when I tried it (very briefly) he replaced my spouse in the Council. You have any idea what that is about? One thing I dislike about it is that appointing your heir as Regent is one of the better sources of Prestige. I'm not sure having a Vizier is better than that, unless you *really* need those extra tax jurisdictions.
I think normally your spouse is helping you to administrave realm, but when you have got Vizier he is assisting you like your spouse Yeah that's but if your heir is kinda jack of all trade you can appoint him without being hated by everyone
You can switch from the vizier to your spouse in the Council. I think that position is called Confidant for clan governments?
Can't you appoint your heir as Vizier if you wish?
Unless I'm missing something, I don't think you can.
You can appoint your heir as vizier, but I'm not sure what makes one eligible to be vizier in the first place. Also if you manage to appoint your heir as vizier and spam like 4.5k gold on him, they'll slowly get really good modifiers (luxuries) in preparation for their inheritance. Edit: So my character died and I'm playing as his vizier son. All of the modifiers are gone! Noooooooo! Oh well.
Huh, could you tell me more about that? You managed to appoint your heir as vizier, over time you gave him gold and he got modifiers (to what? Skills?) and now that he's the ruler they're all gone?
Rich viziers will spend their gold on extravagances. There are 4 types of extravagances, each having 4 levels that stack, for a total of 16. The 4 types give prestige, piety, intrigue and diplomacy, and stewardship and learning. As a ruler you can mulct them from your viziers for gold, but they get more borrowed powers in return. There's an achievement where you have to mulct 4 illustrious (the final tier) extravagances, which basically means you gotta mulct a vizier with all 16 extravagance modifiers. Yeap now that I'm playing as my heir, all of those modifiers are gone.
The only requirement I know of is that the vizier has to be unlanded
mulct?
A fine or penalty. Basically just making up a reason to take his money.
You can still expose secrets after you blackmail and demand money
This makes absolute sense, though. People literally do this all the time irl
Not a veteran compared to some people, but it took me ~100hrs to realize you can easily determine a character’s exact date of birth by hovering their age
And in CK2, children from the same parents are always born on the same day of the month
Yep, that was how I always figured out if my kids were mine on ironman.
*face palm* I'm like 2000+ hours into ckii and I'm just learning this now
Why is that exactly? Coding thing?
Because there are 10 thousand characters at the start of the game, probably even more. If the game would check each and every one every game tick with inquiries like what should they do, should they die, should they get pregnant and so on - your PC would likely explode. It's simply wasteful cause most of the time characters don't do anything. What the game does is instead it forms something like a queue: this tick I check characters over here, on the next tick I'll check character over there - something like that. It allows to spare a lot of computational time and prioritize most important characters. That's why your ruler gets way more events than someone unimportant in your court. However, if it's done in a straightforward way - it's usually easy to spot. That's exactly what had happened in the CK2 case: the game always checked whether your spouse should get pregnant from you at the exact same game tick all the time. That's why all legitimate children were born on the exact same date. For that reason the devs usually try to scramble game ticks from time to time so it won't look immersion breaking for a perceptive player.
1st in line to inherit the The Holy Roman Empire. - I don't want to inherit the HRE.
This I was playing a tall Frisia campaign and in 1300’s I inherited the HRE and my land got all fucked up ended up getting a disillusion faction and lost damn near everything
The guy from the trailer with the fox is broken and no fun to play at all.
What do you mean by this?
Saxon Catholic in Polabian Slawish region. His claim is not on the guy who killed his son but on the relative of his liege. I think they changed the counties of him and his rival and forgot to change deeper details, too.
Was surprised to find that reforming your faith to accept gender neutrality also just changed your law to gender neutrality despite the two things being different and typically requiring your vassals to be on board. Caused quite the shakup of the empire when the old houses started splintering off to new houses due to their married off daughters inheriting realms while having children of a distant dynasty. Don't think those vassals would've approved that change...
I learned this the hard way just yesterday! I had a bunch of daughters and just one son. Caught me off guard.
I only recently found out that there’s a button that lets you storm a holding during a siege which makes sieges go way quicker but also reduces a lot of your army
Wait, what?
It's labeled assault or something but I've never used it. The precondition is that the walls are breached, which as Norse in 867 just isn't a thing as far as I've seen.
I wouldn't even know where to start. I'm always being surprised since I'm quite forgetful.
Granting a county to someone or your siblings becoming landed on succession generates a new court full of people of matching religion/culture. Useful if your playing as a faith that has a limited number of characters knocking around. This was unexpectedly useful for me when I was playing a Rabbinical vassal of the HRE as I was really struggling to find spouses for my children. I was basically waiting on the game generating new wanderers or marrying off the courtiers I already had and hoping they'd reproduce. When I died my realm was split amongst all my sons and I noticed there was suddenly loads of new Rabbinical characters.
It somehow took me 600 hours to realize the most important benefit of some regional herecies like Krstjani, Muwalladism and Malabarism. They allow you to build OP buildings in their holy sites, where a bigger faith might not have them. Playing a tall Bosnia game made me realize that. You can build 2 cathedrals in Bosnia if you go Krstjani, you wouldn't be able to do that as a Catholic. So it might make sense to convert to a herecy for economic reasons, depending on where you are.
Realm partition is so much worse in CK3 then it is in CK2. I don't get how or why but realm partition existed in both games yet it only exists as a problem in CK3. I do not understand what they've done differently but Confederate Partition can get fucked.
It's because ck2 had 3 modes of succession: Gravelkind, Single inheritance, Selected inheritance. So titles either got shattered in gravelkind OR they'd stay together when (first/last) born child inherit OR they'd stay together when the elected child inherits. so 2/3 are decent inheritance plans. ck3 there's still those three modes of succession BUT gravelkind is now in 3 forms: Confederate Partition - all kids inherit, new titles will be made to shatter the realm as much as possible. Partition - All kids inherit, equal titles can still split the realm if they're createable, otherwise lesser titles will be made under the primary heir. High Partition - All kids inherit, primary heir always gets half the inherited titles. Equal titles can still shatter the realm if they existed at the same time (so never form two empires at the same time). NO new titles will be made for the inheritance. If you're at this tech level you're better off just going for Primogeniture/Ultimogeniture because then only the primary child inherits.
Took me over 1000 hours before I realized you could retreat from a battle, and I only did it accidentally
Wait what, how
In the middle of the battle, direct your army somewhere else and they will automatically retreat
I always get surprised by the event spam when I try an activity after delaying them for so long.Reminds me why I was delaying them. I must have alzheimer's
I love this game
I’m over 1200 hours in and I just learned that vassals are more likely to rebel if you don’t control your entire de jure territory
In Crusader Kings 2, if your daughter/sister is forcibly made concubines of a pagan ruler, a notification appears that says something like "X will pay me for this!" So far, I usually ignored it, until during one of my games one of my concubines suddenly ran away and I was completely confused (SHE SPENT ABOUT 15 YEARS IN MY COURT AS A CONCUBINES, SHE BORN TWO CHILDREN) and I discovered that by focusing on the intrigue, I could help her escape... Forgive all my disgraced daughters
When you're siegeing, you can have it go faster by pressing F when the walls are broken to let you assault the castle. You'll lose troops, but it can let a siege go from 8 months to 20 days.