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[Johnfalcon99977]

Pretty sure the difference between a weak and a strong claim is that weak claims can only be pressed against female rulers, regencies, or people in civil wars.

[timferius]

Pretty sure the difference between a weak and a strong claim is that weak claims can only be pressed against female rulers, regencies, or people in civil wars.

Ahh, that might make sense. Good to know. Also, my Chancelor sucks, spent pretty much the whole game trying to fabricate a claim on my neighbour, my dynasty head literally died of old age waiting...

[a1s]

Pretty sure the difference between a weak and a strong claim is that weak claims can only be pressed against female rulers, regencies, or people in civil wars.

They can also be pressed if you become 2nd or 3rd in the line of succession. That usually doesn't happen (or you'd have a strong claim already).

[timferius]

Pretty sure the difference between a weak and a strong claim is that weak claims can only be pressed against female rulers, regencies, or people in civil wars.

They can also be pressed if you become 2nd or 3rd in the line of succession. That usually doesn't happen (or you'd have a strong claim already).

Ohhhhhh I get it now, that's what that tooltip meant.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Been playing this on and off for the last few weeks.
My recent game I've been trying to unite Italy and then try to form the Latin Empire if Byzantium would just fall apart already. I've got Orvieto/Ancona all the way down to Malta. Progress has been massively halted due to the HRE on my borders, I'm going to inherit Castile when my mother finally dies so that might makes thinks easier. 
I'm also waiting for an awesome Bishop so I can make an anti-pope and boot that crusty old one out of my Rome. Papal mechanics needs a bit of an improvement methinks. Took Rome from the Pope and all he can do is bum around, I assume he's preaching in the rain with his cardinals on the sidewalk outside the Cathedral of Rome who are laughing and drinking wine.

A few words of advice. Always read the marriage pop-up. I got betrothal'd to the 10 year old queen of France. She grew up to marriage age and a pop-up from the king invinted me to marry her. I did that before I released it was matrilineal (more like matricidal amirite), apparently that can happen even if you've agreed to a regular marriage before. Scumbag King. Luckily I had elective succession so all it took from some tumbles with a courtier and I had a nice bastard to crown instead. He turned out to be a genius.

There's a really cool mayor I have floating around somewhere. He's a veteran of both a Jihad and a Crusade. He's also Sayyid, Faqid, been on Hajajj and also a Zealous Catholic. Must be a very conflicted man.

[Johnfalcon99977]

I would love to throw a MP game with the Lux Invicta mod, but I want to wait till the religious overhaul is done. For those who don't know, the mod is a pretty cool Alternative history thing where Christianity and Islam didn't become as prominent as they did in real life. They existed for sure, but they are surrounded by hundred of various pagan religions, and even then they both have plenty of heresies floating around.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

I personally would love to see a multiplayer game of Umbra Sphere if it ever gets working. Imagine one playing uniting the Mongol hordes and start marching on Europe while another player as the HRE or something tries to unite the silly AI to push back the threat. Another player as the Muslims has to choose to either keep the Mongols out of Persia or to join the Mongols in a raid of Europe. Is Islam, Christian or Pagan the future of Europe?
A multiplayer game in a broken India would also be interesting. Plenty of room to expand and plenty of threats on all sides.

[Dutchling]

It would probably lag like hell though.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Indeed, although they were reporting that there was only very mild performance drops with their current process. Also CKII is multi-threaded unlike EUIII with helps negate a lot of the problem. My biggest technical concern outside of the performance is the resized map, Malta is already a pain to click on.

[Dutchling]

Yeah, my laptop can actually run it so it's not that bad. You will just have slightly more lag than normal.

I totally have dibs on China though.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

So Legacy of Rome is already out on Gamer's Gate which means I ran out of time on my current project. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It was meant to be my retort to Byzaphiles. Rome is ruled in Rome, not in some Greek hole that's going to be overrun by Turkmen in a century. Plan to export it to EUIII sometime and have fun sacking Rome all over again, maybe as Gotland.
As usual late-game CKII is tedious and boring. Maybe the whole standing army mechanics from Legacy of Rome might make the end game a little less grating but I doubt that.

The key to expanding and having a stable empire is ... Arch Prince-Bishops (duke bishops). Seriously. 

They'll always vote for your choice in an election. They rarely plot or claim other lands. They don't desire king titles or other dukedoms. With Free Investiture they gain a +30 relationship boost and you can choose who inherits. If you have one of a foreign culture or bad traits you can just kill him and another will be elected. They don't have a "wrong government" hit. Getting virtues/crusader will push their relationship even higher. Almost always maintain 100 relation.

The negative is that you get less taxes/levies from doges/dukes in theory. However in practice since you'll be taking a pretty massive relation penalty from either dukes/doges, a Prince-Bishop will almost always generate more taxes and levies for you.
The other penalty is not being able to give dynasty members titles without micromanagement but if you're a king/emperor you won't ever be wanting for prestige.

[Rilder]

Yeah new Patch and DLC is out... of course its screwed up some of the previous dlc and Ruler designer and I think Dynasty coat of arms 1 isn't either. (No. Verifying local content doesn't work, because I know someone is gonna think that I wouldn't do that).

Gods damn it CK2 am I gonna have to do a reinstall you every fucking patch?

[scriver]

I wonder why that happens, and why the trick doesn't work.

[Rilder]

Well, did a full reinstall of CK2. Nope. Didn't work.

Did manage to get Coat of Arms working by manually going into the CK2 directory and moving the CoA gfx file from its DLC folder to the actual gfx folder of ck2.

[majikero]

Crusader Kings 2 is on sale so I bought it. Also got Sword of Islam and Legacy of Rome.

Any tips for a newbie? What faction is good for a start?