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[SaberToothTiger]

Poland is actually a pretty fun start, when I think about it. In 1066 it's a small realm, usually safe from intrusions. A step up from noob isles if you ask me.

But they suck shit as pagans.

[hector13]

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect... then

Though that's more of a punctuation thing.

Apparently there are more words that "disobey" the i before e rule in the English language than actually adhere to it.

English is just a weird language. I imagine if I had to learn it as a non-native speaker it would be worse, but yeah. I did have to learn French, which is another stupid language

[Putnam]

English is just a weird language. I imagine if I had to learn it as a non-native speaker it would be worse, but yeah. I did have to learn French, which is another stupid language

shh, the prescriptivists think that french is the perfect language because they have an academie that "controls" the language

when in reality every language is about as awful as english, like, goddamn, you have weird spelling and lots of irregular verbs in english but other than the irregular verbs conjugation is almost mindlessly simple. It's not like, say, German with noun cases, or Japanese with counters, which are not awful if you're a native speaker obviously. For some reason, English speakers like to whine a lot about their language, I guess because spelling iz hard.

[Kot]

Poland is actually a pretty fun start, when I think about it. In 1066 it's a small realm, usually safe from intrusions. A step up from noob isles if you ask me.

But they suck shit as pagans.

So does everyone. Reform ASAP and crusade the shit out of whole world.

[BFEL]

Well in my SviTHORNjod game the son of Ragnar Lodbrok ended up reforming the Germanic faith a year or so before he died, which has been causing all kinds of havoc throughout the realm.
Right now roughly half my vassals are stuck in the old ways, and conveniently every one of the bastards is zealous too (actually that might be what decides whether they switch or not, just realized that) making it nigh impossible to do anything with the fucks.
Most notably the king of Danmark is one of these old guards, and he and the original heir fought a duel over it, resulting in said heirs death unfortunately.

So I guess that I'm gonna be focusing my efforts for the foreseeable future on "converting all these asswipes one way or another" before I can move on to the problems of trying to get tribal organization high enough to go feudal.

[Kot]

conveniently every one of the bastards is zealous too (actually that might be what decides whether they switch or not, just realized that)

Pretty much. It depends on moral authority of the original religion and zealous/cynical. There is still a chance that zealous converts, it's just unlikely.
Also, they are going to die out in few generations since the moral authority of unreformed pagan is going to drop like a dead bird and that they just can't be zealous all the damn time, finally there is going to be a cynical/notrait heir that converts because, well, why not.

[BFEL]

I JUST REALIZED I'M AT MEDIUM ORGANIZATION.

I CAN REVOKE ALL THESE ASSHOLES ANYWAY! MWAHAHAHA.

Except the King of Danmark because he decided to convert right when I loaded the save apparently.
So I'm stuck with his -47 from his ambition. Fuck.

Ah well.
My favorite so far is I had one of my vassals already in jail, presumably for a revolt of some kind, so I let him ransom himself out with 70 gold from his position...AND NOW I'M REVOKING IT BECAUSE HE'S A SLAV! EVIL FEELS AWESOME.

[Kot]

AND NOW I'M REVOKING IT BECAUSE HE'S A SLAV! EVIL FEELS AWESOME.

I'm literally going to invade your singleplayer game with my glorious slavic hordes and paint the world red.
Slavs > Viking tryhards.

[ArKFallen]

Forgoing my "Stop Genghis Khan" introduction to Horselords and just ran a Magyar start as a Jew. Also counties with holdings in them can add to your population but don't alter if you have to hand them out to clans. And if you own the county with the empty holding on top all of the other vassals are barons instead of counts and as such can't join factions or add to your vassal cap. Had I known about this I could have been so much stronger.
Instead I'm 3 characters in and my holdings in Byzantium are hella mismanaged because I didn't know I can't hand out kingdoms. And I didn't realize how the merchant realm limit system worked. And because I ran into negative income from losing vassal taxes from being 20+ over the vassal limit.

In other news Middle Francia dominated France until Lombardy made them a tributary and they gavelkind apart. Khazaria hasn't done anything since I kicked their teeth in over my original capital. I tributaried the Abbassids which fixed my ducat problem. Thinking about subjugating Lombardy, reorganizing it under Judaism, and releasing it. Thinking about creating a jewish clan and releasing them at strength to invade the slavs so I don't have to deal with shitty pagan supply.

[LordBrassroast]

F*CKING SLAVS NEVER CONVERT

Playing Vikings, conquer 3 or 4 Pomeranian counties

Send the Court Gothi over there for about 2 years

Zero conversion factor in peasants or leadership, Gothi is violently attacked.

Good job, Pomerania. GG.

[BFEL]

Well, update time.

So that thing I did to the jailed slav? Ended up doing that like 8 times ROFL.

Also, I find it hilarious that my superheir after Ragnar instagibbed, but Fylkir Dag, a fat stuttering greedy cruel bastard is pretty much gonna go down in history as the Germanic equivalent of Jesus because he basically got all of Scandinavia to convert to Germanic and moral authority is now at 95, and his hair hasn't even gotten white yet.

Oh, and the King of Danmark is my heir because we're cool now and he has 18 stewardship. Funny how much things change in a generation.

Thinking of turning Republic instead of Feudal, mostly because it's available RIGHT NOW while I would have to spend inordinate amounts of dosh on castling up my capital for the other, and partly because FUCKING MONEY. I NEED IT.

[Teneb]

Thinking of turning Republic instead of Feudal, mostly because it's available RIGHT NOW while I would have to spend inordinate amounts of dosh on castling up my capital for the other, and partly because FUCKING MONEY. I NEED IT.

Remember that, until you start balling out of control, most of the republic dosh you make will end up as campaign funds. ... then your heir dies and suddenly the next in line is a child, so an AI doge takes over and ruins everything.

[Kot]

F*CKING SLAVS NEVER CONVERT

Git shrekt, Perun > Thor.

So that thing I did to the jailed slav? Ended up doing that like 8 times ROFL.

A very interesting afterlife awaits you.

[BFEL]

Thinking of turning Republic instead of Feudal, mostly because it's available RIGHT NOW while I would have to spend inordinate amounts of dosh on castling up my capital for the other, and partly because FUCKING MONEY. I NEED IT.

Remember that, until you start balling out of control, most of the republic dosh you make will end up as campaign funds. ... then your heir dies and suddenly the next in line is a child, so an AI doge takes over and ruins everything.

AI doge already happened *facepalm*
And I have nowhere near the plot power to murder the bastard. UGH.

[Putnam]

last time I got an AI doge, he presently became known as "the lecher" for being an incestuous adulterer

he only had daughters to do that with!

and i still couldn't get enough plot power to kill him