Crusader Kings 2.

[Herkkutatti666]

The best strategy is to max military organization and get shittons of retiunes.

[Lt_Anders]

The best strategy is to max military organization and get shittons of retiunes.

10K retinue right now with the ability to hire more.

[SeQuel]

Ok, ok so I started a new game after the recent patch and it's going MUCH better than my Ireland game.

I've set up a perfect marriage and got my son to marry the princess of Castille whom was set to take over upon her fathers death. He died not long after and she took his spot and got her married to my son. I then made a election based government and got my son who was married to her to become the new King instead of his brother. I now have it where we have had a child and he is heirs to both my kingdom and HERS! It's fantastic. I'm playing as Barcelona and my Wife is Castile.

(Side note - Our relationship started out a bit rocky with her cheating on me, me promptly assassinating her lover and her trying to attempt to kill me but thats all in the past! Live and forget, we've gone through some counselling and were both over it and now have a happy loving family.)

(Side side note - Shes kind of a warmonger and I don't want to step on her toes so I try to tread lightly as she is very scary. She wears the pants around the house.)

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I'm getting way into family simulator.

[Herkkutatti666]

10K retinue right now with the ability to hire more.

90k retiunes atm 

[Lt_Anders]

Has anyone been playing RoI? I haven't cause I got a good pre-2.2 save that I wanna finish.

[Fredom]

Has anyone been playing RoI? I haven't cause I got a good pre-2.2 save that I wanna finish.

Macbeth owns it and he told me that its good.

[Gatsby]

66% sale on steam, uhm i'd like to give this game a chance but still not sure. How's multy? do u need friends to play or random games with strangers are good too?

[Nightmare798]

Änything with TW-like realtime battles similar to this?

[Kafein]

Noob question here, playing some CK2 recently and i'm a total noob so could use some assistance.

Welsh scumlords have declared war on England to take my counties, they want my counties, if we lose the war i lose my counties. Now England is busy doing other shit and getting their asses handed to them, however because i'm a badass i was able to win all the fights in the vicinity and destroy the main welsh armies. Then i noticed my victories weren't adding to the warscore, none of my victories are being mentioned and we're losing warscore % because every time 100-200 men are raised with no morale and get picked off by welsh stragglers we lose %.

In this game i cant seem to make my actions effect the warscore, and my kingdom clearly cant do shit without me, AI being dumb. Any suggestions on how to actually make me defeating the enemy armies and taking their counties change the warscore in my favour?

IIRC peace negotiations between AI controlled characters work in inscrutable ways in CK2. Sometimes they will prolong a war for no reason. The concept of "war score" is much less rigorous than in EU4. If you can simply maintain the enemy away from your allies' provinces you should be okay.

[Andswaru]

Best way to bum-rush ck2 warscore as a defending nation is to capture the enemies main capital province, all levels, it normally gives a good chunk in warscore and the chance for a juicy hostage.

Oh as defending nation if the enemy hasnt taken any goals after 2 years you start to get ticking warscore in your favour.

[Andswaru]

Okay I paid attention and read your post properly this time.

1) I made a mistake its 5 years then your liege gets ticking warscore.

2) As a vassal you dont contribute to warscore in your lieges wars. Finished. Crappy Mechanic but thats how it is.

So basically defending the wargoal for 5 years and lifting sieges are the only 2 ways you can "assist" in the war.

[Andswaru]

On a side note.. now might be a time to start a Independance faction and break free along with some other counties. Maybe try and secure a good marriage for your son to a child duchess (or a countess) somewere in England to expand your holdings easily and safely. If you have a chancallor with over 20 skill, you can fabricate claims not just on 1 province but on the whole dutchy which is awesome, always try and invite high skilled characters to your court or marry them matralinally to your daughters if your really desperate.

[Andswaru]

Okay ive had an idea.

Im 98% sure if you attach your stack to your lieges stack, then hes leading the battle so to say your just "assisting" him, then he should get warscore from your forces. Just watch what he does to avoid having your troops wiped by the ai leading them against a monster stack in a vainglorious charge.

[Casimir]

Just accept that the Welsh princes are better than your shitty 'english' king and submit to their authority as the true Britons.

[Casimir]

It's a dynasty simulator, you need to be planning 2 or 3 generations ahead and continually playing with lines off succession. It's how I raised myself from a one county minor to controlling 75% of the map as HRE.