It's like elective, but you never lose titles because the nominees are your family members, not your vassals. It's great if you have one top-tier title, but trash if you have multiple (e.g. King of England and Wales) because different people will get elected for both titles, especially if you have a large family. Tl;dr Primo, Ultimo, or Seniority. How to lose Crusader Kings II: a very short guide On the importance of swooshing cameras (or, personal meanderings how minor details add up to significant effect) Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods, As Told in Classified Ads. I am playing as Kaiser Heinrich IV, and I have the title loss on succession warning. It says 'The following titles will be lost on succession: Holy Roman Empire (Duke Ernst of Austria). So I click on it and it brings me to the line of succession page. What am I supposed to do, kill him? Imprison him? Kill his heir?
Gavelkind 'splits' the realm on succession, meaning all possible heirs get counties and the appropriate claims handed to them once you die. This isn't actually that bad, unless you have more than one of your highest claims. For example if you happen to be King of France and Italy with gavelkind succession, one of your heirs will get to be King of Italy and the other King of France.
If you only have one king title, one heir gets to be king and the others get to be dukes and thus his vassals. The same holds true for the duke - count level, of course. You can get the title loss on succession in other ways. I had a situation where my king's brother was ruling a duchy under me - he had no sons and his daughter was going to inherit. His other daughter was married off to a foreign count, and when he died, she became heir to a county. She was the count, but all her heirs were the sons she had with the foreign count so I got the warning that when the king died, the county would no longer be part of my kingdom. Also, for some reason, at that point I couldn't revoke her title!
Crusader Kings 2 is a strategy game from Paradox Interactive, the makers of all sorts of grand strategy games that span a vast time period, from 1066-the late 20th century. In this case, we are playing their game focused on Europe of the Middle Ages. Specifically, the second of those games.
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It's probably the best, or at least the least buggy, game they've made. In it, you take control of a dynasty, not a country, and try to guide them as successfully as you can to rank with the great families of history.So, yes, any takers?
Each player will get to play with one ruler. Sucks if your ruler meets an early death. But eh, part of the fun, no?EDIT: 4/3/2013Game has finished.Duke Bleddyn I of Gwynedd. I'd be interested. I have all the expansions except the Aztec one, but no mods.I too tend to play fairly straight edge. My favourite tactic is getting personal unions by marrying queens, but those don't stay single for long.I propose that we start with a Duchy somewhere nice like Novgorod or Ryazan, where there's plenty of pagans to conquer and no superpowers right next to you to lay claim to your lands.
Then when the Mongols show up, we convert them to Christianity and get them to beat up the Muslims for us. Plus, the Russians have really close family ties at the beginning of the game, which makes for some fun assassinating times.
I know Crusader Kings 2 and got fairly decent at it. What I don't know though, how this 'succession game' is working. Will someone just start a game and send his save to the next person as soon as his ruler dies?That's the idea, yes.I'm quite pleasantly surprised by the response. I think we can start taking nominations for duchies/counts to start off with.I personally nominate Connacht of Ireland, but I feel some of you would want a challenge, so one of the Spanish kingdoms might do.EDIT: I'll add that I have all the DLCs but the Aztec one as well, so it would be prudent to ensure you have at least the Legacy of Rome and Sword of Islam DLC to ensure save compatibility.
That's the idea, yes.I'm quite pleasantly surprised by the response. I think we can start taking nominations for duchies/counts to start off with.I personally nominate Connacht of Ireland, but I feel some of you would want a challenge, so one of the Spanish kingdoms might do.EDIT: I'll add that I have all the DLCs but the Aztec one as well, so it would be prudent to ensure you have at least the Legacy of Rome and Sword of Islam DLC to ensure save compatibility.The Spanish kingdoms are a challenge now?
I guess Legacy of Rome. changed more then i thought.I'm assuming this also includes the normal 'after action' report aspect?
Or are we not doing that?Regardless of the answer i have an interest in joining this. (Assuming your still accepting additional players.).While i don't currently own Legacy of Rome it would be trivial for me to buy it. The Spanish kingdoms are a challenge now? I guess Legacy of Rome.
changed more then i thought.I'm assuming this also includes the normal 'after action' report aspect? Or are we not doing that?Regardless of the answer i have an interest in joining this. (Assuming your still accepting additional players.).While i don't currently own Legacy of Rome it would be trivial for me to buy it.Hey now. Some of us are still learning how to deal with Fatimids (tm). Also, you're missing quite a lot without LoR, since you can't use retinues without it.Yes, it should include AAR aspect, since that is part of the fun.I think I shall adopt the Dwarf Fortress community fort style of choosing the next player. After the current ruler dies, the player has to upload the save in the nearest media downloader and prospective players has 24 hours to indicate their interest.
Random.org will be used to determine who will get the save and continue the game. Priority will be given to new players first.
Yes, it should include AAR aspect, since that is part of the fun.I think I shall adopt the Dwarf Fortress community fort style of choosing the next player. After the current ruler dies, the player has to upload the save in the nearest media downloader and prospective players has 24 hours to indicate their interest.
Random.org will be used to determine who will get the save and continue the game. Priority will be given to new players first. Sounds fair?I have no objections to that. Though i am curious, how long will the player who gets the save have to finish his/her lifespan and then write up his/her after action report?
Oh dear.I've tried Sicily a few times and things have always ended tragically. If we do Sicily, I volunteer not to be on for a few rulers, until we get a decent army or something.Sicily is a bit luck-based on if you'll survive or not, if i recall correctly. I've had games where a jihad was called against me a month in.
On the other hand i've also had games where the Fatimids and company never even bothered to attack me until i started attacking themSicily is really a bad idea. for a succession game with players of varying levels of skill unless its been significantly changed in Legacy of Rome.Unless we're lucky. Sicily where it works out can be quite a power, with the entire Mediterranean open to you for expansion.That's assuming the Byzantines or Fatimids don't want your head on a pike first. As far as I know, Byzantines has a claim on one of the province in Sicily and wouldn't hesitate to press it.Okay, so far our choices seems to be:Novogrod/Ryzan/Rus (or any Russian duchies)Duchy of Apulia (Kingdom of Sicily)Wales (Any one of the duchies)Any more?I'll grab screenshots of each individual duchies when I have the chance, so that you guys can better assess the options. Byzantium has a claim on a massive chunk of Italy, and the HRE on the other half. They're both busy with wars and revolts at the start, but who knows.Of the Russian provinces, in terms of difficulty, I would say Rostov is the easiest to start with (since it's right next to tasty pagans and can form Rus' easily), and Ryazan is second (same reasons, can form Ruthenia). Novgorod is tougher, especially after Rostov forms Rus' and declares war on you, but it's more Mongol-proof during that stage of the game.
If you assassinate or disinherit the Ryazan heir, then that Duke's heir becomes the Duke of Rostov, which sets you up to form both Rus' and Ruthenia. Kinslaying is kind of unfortunate, though.We could also try and win Hardrada's invasion of England, but without a ton of luck, it's hard to pull off. Possibly interested. Have Sword of Islam and Legacy of Rome, plus a few of the fancy sprite packs that are of no consequence.For faction, why not start small? A county in say Hungary or Poland? Both are smallish kingdoms with lots of room to expand but close enough to the HRE and the Eastern Roman Empire to be in danger.
Also, if we don't expand fast enough we might be fighting wars with Denmark, Sweden, and the Russian princes to get pagan lands.On a side note, is anyone else super excited about the new DLC that unlocks republics? I've read about retinues. Sounds like they make the game easier for the player to a fair degree (since they can make more of additional options than the AI), which if we're hoping on copious amounts of fun is the opposite of what we want, right?
Though if indeed everyone but me has all these DLCs I wouldn't want to get in the way.I vote for something on a coast, so we can go everywhere by boat to press our fraudulent claims. How about the Kingdom of Navarra, switching to absolute agnatic at the first opportunity so our ruling dynasty won't turn out to be a total sausagefest?