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Author Topic: How did you last *own*?  (Read 1345628 times)

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10590 on: November 05, 2023, 11:45:08 pm »

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10591 on: November 19, 2023, 08:31:02 pm »

Managed the "Kill five cougars with a bow" challenge done, which is a chore because cougars spawn rarely, in only a few locations, they can instakill you, AND it's using a frigging bow.

Cougars got me twice, once because of the bow taking so long to draw. On the final one the cougar actually got me, but I was backed up against a tree so instead it pounced and the animation got cancelled by me slamming into the tree, saving my life. The cougar ran off, giving me an opportunity to draw my bow and gently insert a poison arrow through its eye socket.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10592 on: November 22, 2023, 10:42:35 pm »

Booted up some CKII.  Took a baltic state and made it great with my starter Chief.

Gen 2 saw my brother inherit estonia and then later all of Iceland through a marriage to saxony.  This brother converted to norse, and began to consolidate alliances with his massive martial skill.  My bookworm character's levy and alliances saved him, and we unlocked religious title revocations just in time to effectively strip him of all Continental holdings.

Rather than remove his infidel ass entirely, I decided that since religious unification and reformation was right around the corner I could take the zealous outcome from the study the stars quest, and release Iceland as an independent duchy, relieving me of the need to keep an eye on that corner of the map and being a neat bit of roleplay.

With any luck, a norwegian king wont exist until he's able to claw together a few boats and Ill have spread my dynastic roots that way.


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I dont know when it was implemented, but my starting inheritance laws were eldership council.  The council votes on a valid heir, any from my dynasty.  No gavelkind, no gravelkind.
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10593 on: November 22, 2023, 11:29:55 pm »

I think that was added with the expansion of pagan reformation. Might have been Holy Fury?

Either the religion has it, or you can add it during reformation. It's surprisingly easy to control so long as you only have one duchy/kingdom/empire title - if the elders like you, you can vote for your candidate, if the elders hate you, vote for the person you least want to win.
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10594 on: November 24, 2023, 02:04:30 am »

After many, many attempts, I developed a rather brutal technique to liberate my earlier player.
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Purple Bamboo as my weapon means I get vigor as I do more damage. Jade Sting means I do lethal poison damage as I do damage. As I heal, I inflict lethal poison damage on all who oppose me.  The only real hard thing is getting into combat before their annoying ranged attacks kill me first. I even brought a bamboo mat to sleep on after fights.
I was nice, I buried all of them.

And as you can see, I finally freed my friend!

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10595 on: December 04, 2023, 01:57:41 am »

Was playing some light roleplay, and in this particular game Holy Rome choose not to explode into border gore.  Then, the Arabs snuck out a state of Syria from the Green Blob, and that Stole Constantinople. 

Deprived of their holy city, the Byzantines then lost the entire title of Empire to Khazaria....  It will be somewhat interesting to learn what happens to said title and the state of khazaria over time ...  Suffice to say the horde isnt going away anytime in the near future.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10596 on: December 11, 2023, 02:03:16 pm »

Year is like 1023 or something now.  Aztecs landed, and while I still hate my own gripes with the dlc, they do add a 'horde' from the west.

I consolidated lithuania into an empire, and purposely tried not to snowball further.  Went as far as rugen, but only begrudgingly took anything inland that far west.  I did reform the religion since the norse were converting, and orthodoxy was spreading as far as oman down south, and the character who did it was into religion.

The Shia revolt took over the byzantines and became a proto-ottoman emnpire.  the Sunnis of Arabi were splintered into Persia + a million pieces that slowly reformed.  The Khazarian state swooped in and claimed the Throne, but lost the provinces in the succession.  The surviving members of Byzantia are in greece and sardinia - they had sicily and almafi became a power for a while, but then a norse revolt snowballed, spawned adventurers who took all of sicily and then gobbled up Greece and Eventually Denmark.  Some courtiers of Byzantia fled to Nubidia and successfully took mecca from the muslims, forming a large egyptian state.

The mongols Never got past Tibet - they conquered the region briefly before converting to Hindu and settling down on the Asian Steppes.  They continue to exist over there, chilling with about 30k event troops - in what I can only hope is an enlightened despotism.

Francia the empire gobbled up half of Spain, and half of pannonia.  With 70k troops and holding bohemia from me, we went to war.  I had been donating any land outside my empire dejure lands to various benefactors, including Denmark, Finland, Vladimir, and Ruthenia.  This was a slow process that I didnt strive for, and I actively sought to revoke any realm holdings and grant them independence.  As various religions rose and fell, free tribes around me sought to convert.

So, with a huge swath of allies, tribal vassals, tributary states that I subdued so as to protect them from the nomads, and marriage ties to said nomads, We invaded a 70k troop yr970ish HolyRomebutnotreally France and we won.  That was neat.  Then the plague comes and kills all the hardened warriors.

The aztecs landed on Aquitaine and Ireland.  They swept into Denmark taking it from Sicily who took it from my allies.  They even took Paris from Francia at the end, but I used the situation and the pagan ability to raid to kill 65k of their event troops as a non-belligerent by picking good fights.

The real winner of the Aztec invasion of France of me for taking them down from 150k to 70kish in a war I wasnt even a part of while dodging both hostile parties.  I camped a small army offshore and selectively landed to raid both france and aztecs to maintain supply and control hostilities.

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The world is currently split into Francia, a 25kish Sicily, The Shia-ottomans, Hindu Mongols, A (large) free Welsh state competing with the Aztecs in England, Uyymads of most of west africa, an orthodox mecca, me and my collection of tribals, and whatever the hell is going on in india.  The Chinese empire came out once to threaten me about paying tribute, but nothing ever happened as a result of my refusal.
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10597 on: December 26, 2023, 06:19:22 pm »

FUCK the creche. It's a goddamn fucking nightmare on tactician, even with me being one level higher than all the Githyanki there.

I died three times in a row, not helped by hitting 50% chances 20% of the time while the Gith were critting nonstop. I burned through half my accumulated potions of speed on the first fight with the creche leader, her wolves, the two guards, and all the other guards who explicitly. Changed. Their. Patrol. Routes. To. Get. Involved.

Burned through almost all the rest fighting the inquisitor. Counterspell was incredibly useful during both too.

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EDIT: You know what, Grym can get fucked too. It took TWO hammer crushings after dealing a shitload of damage to kill, and still took two more turns of thwacking with regular weapons, not helped by me having no bludgeoning weapons despite my best efforts. I'm wanting a maul for my Durge paladin, but I can't get anything better than base-plus-minor-spell as far as they go.
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10598 on: January 02, 2024, 12:04:28 am »

I beat snakebird complete. A puzzle game that was free on epic a few days ago. Just sorta picked it up, wasn't sure if I was going to play it, but I heard from someone that it was okay. Turned out to be quite a good puzzle game. Hard as nails sometimes though, or maybe I'm bad at puzzles, took me 13 hours across a few sessions (according to epic) the last session was a six hour one to beat the last like... 8-9 puzzles (out of maybe like 110-120) with three in particular taking up most of the time. The last level was a hell of a doozy that probably took like 2-3 hours alone... At least one hour trying to move a block one space! I eventually managed though.

So yeah, I don't play puzzle games a ton, so take my word with a grain of salt, but seems like a pretty good one if you like hard puzzles.
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10599 on: January 06, 2024, 11:20:27 am »

Not I, but the party I DM for.

For the third time, they managed to interrupt my plans by sheer luck.

This time, they were being scried on by a particular mage. He was decently powerful, but he did not know them, so the DC was merely 12.
This mage had a friend from uni, who happened to also be a friend of the party. An almost equally powerful mage.

So, the Scrier fails the first attempt, tries again in 24 hours. The party just happens to be visiting his friend  on unrelated business (interrogating an assassin's skull), when he tries again and he succeeds.

So instead of the mage searching for the party and trying to learn the name of one of them so that he could send them a Sending, he just sent it to his friend and arranged a meeting.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10600 on: January 15, 2024, 11:47:26 am »

Just got reminded, somehow, in a manner beyond my understanding, I dropped over 100 damage at level 8. Needless to say, the poor bugger died in a single thwack.

Even now I'm at a higher level, I've failed to recreate this feat. Must have been a crit and a stacked a lot of good rolls from a lot of good dice.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10601 on: January 16, 2024, 07:53:54 pm »

i was a living embodiment of the emperors will, cutting down heretics left and right, one after another fell to my chain sword.
An then the oygrn's blocked me hitting the zombies an i fell over..
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10602 on: January 20, 2024, 12:22:50 am »

After a few tries, I beat the foreign pro’s challenge by landing a home run on a Soaring Eagle

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10603 on: January 20, 2024, 12:29:45 am »

Ah that was a pain.

It’s worse if you’re going for a 100% run though, since you have to do the baseball mini-game a lot, and using a guide so you actually know what pitches (and where!) you’re going to get is a must.
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10604 on: January 21, 2024, 11:28:38 pm »

I fucked a mind flayer. This game truly has everything.

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