The focus on dynasty and characters added a depth to CK2 I can't find in any other grand strat. Stellaris kind of has the species, ethics, and accession thing going for it but it still lacks the personal depth.
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Adrian Harris
How do I role play then?
Ethan Hernandez
Yeah Stellaris with all the race/empire customization also gives a lot of roleplay potential, but definitely not as much as CK2.
Brayden Miller
Somehow the Abbasid empire got raped into submission by China. They were ridiculous, holding the north of Africa, pretty much the entire arabian peninsula, and cut deeply into the far east. The Abassid empire could raise 100 000 troops around around the year 1100 while being a tributary of China which meant 50% of their troops were given to their suzerain. It was disgusting. They pushed me out of northern Africa, took maghreb from me, and marrakech, which contained my first and only great fully finished wonder: the Glorious Gardens of Marrakech. I spend the next century nursing my wound and growing my power deep in Mali while kowtowing to the Chinese emperor which was now in diplomatic range.
I don't quite recall what ended up breaking them though.
Cameron Lewis
However you feel like. I like to play my characters according to their traits. I also really like being a vassal and trying to get political control (or maybe even be a loyal one, depending on my traits) and place my relatives on other thrones.
Luis Wood
sadly this once you know how to play you will get bored
Adrian Wilson
Ok, so basically follow your traits and do it as you believe your character would do? Sounds fun enough. I usually play as a vassal and try to get as powerful as possible. But yeah I mostly go off traits and just be a dishonourable and ambitious bastard. I’ll try it your way, cheers user
Ayden Lewis
Pick a leader in a region. Consider their culture, position, religion, and maybe character traits if you really want to go full role-play, and play according to that.
For example, I started as Dobrava Turov of Kiev in my most recent playthrough to form a true slavic norse and steppe nigga free Russia. I subjugated the surrounding chieftains and made the magyars and Khazars my bitches. After that, I reformed the Slavic faith to be an unyielding ancestor venerating equal religion with a puppet high priest as its head, Dobrava Turov being the only female high chieftain in the early start.
Since then, I've been trying to make Rus into Russia by kicking the steppe shits out of Volga-Ural and the Pontic Steppe.
Joshua Baker
Cheers man
Daniel Morris
Damn, that sucks. At least you bounced back. It was probably a decadent revolt