Hey Yea Forums I’ve put over 200 hours into this game, I have enjoyed it and I have several mods. But I don’t get it when people say this is their favourite game or ‘it’s the best paradox.’
Just to sum it up, tell me how you get fun out of this game
Hey Yea Forums I’ve put over 200 hours into this game, I have enjoyed it and I have several mods...
Ian Walker
Aiden Hall
seduce your mother
Jaxson Barnes
Or should I impregnate my daughter? I wonder
Tyler Brooks
Paradox games become incredibly boring after you get out of the noob phase.
Juan Hill
Ikr, I feel like every game I try I’m just repeating myself
Aaron Gutierrez
Reforming a pagan faith and waging my own Crusades against the Abrahamic filth.
It's either that or reforming my OG pagan faith with me at its head, becoming immortal, converting to other pagan faiths. and reforming them with me as the head until I'm the God-king of Mankind.
Jayden Howard
I'm close to ending a very succesful Mali run. My empire was run by a dynasty of empress-spirituals, empowered by 7 bloodlines and a vault of arcane texts written and added to by the empresses throughout the ages. A technological powerhouse, they held their own against the christians up north, muslims to the east, and succesfully pushed the western protectorate of China out of Africa. They build 4 great wonders.
The most notable empress was a cannibal worshipper of the dark spirits who came to power by accident when her genius brother inherited a county in the far east and converted to buddhism, which disqualified him from succession. She desperately sought to reclaim her bloodline, abducted her newborn genius nephew to raise him in the proper faith, and then dragged the empire into chaos. Her nephew eventually inherited her crumbling empire, refused to bury her tainted corpse, and was somewhat succesful in restoring the damage she had done. Her great pyramids were never finished.
Jacob Diaz
Oh so is paganism a lot more fun than playing the Abraham’s faiths?
Nicholas Bennett
If you're not aiming to be an actual Crusader King, you bet your ass it is. Holy Fury allows reformation to be dynamic and allow pretty neat unique religions with possible synergy between doctrines.
How the fuck did China get to Africa? Did they get an expansion leader that steamrolled the middle east?
Julian Lewis
Roleplaying my dude, it makes the experience much better and gives a lot of replayability. Can't really roleplay the same way in say EU4 imo
Angel Ortiz
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.
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
Asher Allen
Been playing as a Fanatic Authoritarian and Xenophobic race of intelligence long-lasting humanoids that evolved beside a scum fuck good for nothing but menial labor servile species. I want to get evolutionary mastery so I can perfect the species and make all other xenos my perfect slaves.
David Moore
I regret not picking Ancestor veneration. I reformed african paganism to be Proselytizing, went with Totem-guardians and Astrology, and made myself the temporal leader. I wanted to give my religion a real mystal theme. Totem-guardians was a mix of monasticism, religious tax, and ancestor veneration. No saints though.
Did you manage to get a lot of saintly bloodlines or is going ancestor veneration just for the sainthoods not worth it?
Aiden Stewart
Ancestor Veneration is more worth it for the Eldership succession law but sainthoods are a decent bonus. My only problem is that blessed ancestors are harder to become than saints. It's largely determined by your prestige and the traits you have in accordance with your faith's nature. You made a good choice in terms of doctrines and leadership but that nature's kind of eh. Hierarchal would've worked better so you could ask for claims on the recently converted's turf but even then it would've just been easier to holy war them.