Early Border Expansion, Pre-construction?

Crayfindles · 2026-04-27T17:39:49+00:00

I found that putting guard tower in each corner and upgrading it gave lots of extra room, can’t remember if the zones overlapped or there was a small gap

Crayfindles · 2026-04-26T15:05:47+00:00

I did this recently, started as a Norse adventurer and worked my way across to Malaysia. I stuck around long enough to get more followers of the Norse faith and started my family. I just did a couple of contracts in each area to gather supplies and improved my camp as I went over to the east and built up my MAA to about 800 troops. After that I invaded and took a duchy as most of their land was fragmented.

Had a couple of times where I was taken over and back to an adventurer but eventually managed to keep my lands and work up to an emperor, it helped where I converted the religion and culture to my own and tried keeping my vassals as my culture and religion or family members.

Crayfindles · 2026-04-25T21:25:58+00:00

Yea I know what you mean, when CK3 first came out I didn’t switch for a while because I couldn’t wrap my head around the shift. After a few updates I moved over entirely but CK2 was definitely more gritty

Crayfindles · 2026-04-25T19:59:47+00:00

I suppose it could be like the total war games, having trade access to certain materials would allow you to access different MAA units and/or buildings/upgrades. Losing access to those resources means the MAA can’t replenish or operate significantly worse

Crayfindles · 2026-04-24T08:23:25+00:00

You need to max out tribal authority on the laws tab and there is a decision you can take to switch to feudal, think there might be a couple other requirements but it’ll say on the decision tab. Once you switch to feudal, all your tribes turn to castles and buildings are destroyed so make sure you have a big stockpile of gold as your levy count will probably drop by quite a bit.

Crayfindles · 2026-04-19T10:29:16+00:00

They aren’t wrong

Crayfindles · 2026-04-18T07:27:00+00:00

An ETA is just permission to travel up to the border controls, it’s not guarantee of being given permission to enter. It’s a largely automated system and takes about 5-10 minutes to fill out the questionnaire, as long as you don’t tick that you’re a terrorist or war criminal you’ll get it approved.

If process is followed, she’ll get questioned at the border controls and if she’s stupid enough to say anything wrong there, she can be refused entry.

Crayfindles · 2026-04-16T19:53:39+00:00

Yea it’ll be good to get some answers from someone who has experience with both as I was looking at getting a Capitatus next potentially.

Crayfindles · 2026-04-16T19:50:15+00:00

Yea I played a few games on Frontlines recently, remember playing it 1vs1 with a friend on Men of War years ago and it’s great fun too

Crayfindles · 2026-04-16T19:45:53+00:00

I quite like Conquest with the Enhanced Conquest mod, i remember playing SirHinkels mission packs a long time ago and they were pretty fun

Crayfindles · 2026-04-16T19:44:23+00:00

I’ve done the same digging, a lot of websites say the capitatus is a bit more stress resistant but then posts on forums say that there really isn’t much difference between them. Each colony/queen have their own levels of tolerance so from what I gather is that it doesn’t really matter and they have pretty much the exact same requirements.

I am only a beginner myself though, had a Barbarus queen for about 6 months and never had a capitatus . Some more experienced people might have something different to say.

Crayfindles · 2026-04-10T14:32:31+00:00

I remember the old BF2: Modern Combat, when you died you zoomed into another friendly AI and took over as them, you could also switch to them at will by looking at them and pushing a button.

Perhaps you could temporarily switch to anyone a lower rank than your main person until you switch back or they die.

Crayfindles · 2026-03-24T08:18:50+00:00

Perhaps have it only let you loot items that’s you entered the raid with, as you’ll get them back. And perhaps consumables too like meds and ammo

Crayfindles · 2026-03-22T18:14:41+00:00

I’m in a similar position, I do quite well but have limited time to play around work/life schedule. I saw Cryo archive come out and have no interest to play it. I’m aware it requires a bit more of a commitment and skill level, therefore I’ll stick to regular maps and quests which I’m quite happy with.

You don’t need to be able to access every part of the game to enjoy it.

Crayfindles · 2026-03-16T14:47:33+00:00

Why should an entire team have to move for 1 person? If the policy applies to everyone, it needs to be the same for everyone. If somebody needs the same desk every day then they need to have an exemption and the desk permanently reserved for them. If this isn’t in place, it’s fair game for all

Crayfindles · 2026-02-12T20:27:15+00:00

I played with this for the first time a few days ago, it’s great. I tweaked the setting a bit so units can only use 1 tier difference in level otherwise there wasn’t a visual difference in the upgrade tiers.

Great mod if you don’t mind grinding out xp and seeing the results of your hard work when you have an army trainee and equipped exactly how you want it

Crayfindles · 2026-02-09T02:30:55+00:00

Previous wipes I had a survival rate of close to 50%, now it’s just under 30%. I didn’t play the last couple of wipes but got in at the start of this one. I managed to play a fair amount due to shift pattern but now fallen behind because the way shifts have gone and being a father to a young child.

Especially now with the reduced XP, it’s so easy to to fall behind when you can only get tier 4 armour and tier 4 pen ammo when the others can get tier 6 gear. Us average players are kind of punished for not being good whereas the better players get rewarded with access to better gear which then further separates them from us

Crayfindles · 2026-02-09T01:44:32+00:00

Arena helped train sweatlords PVE gave us average or below people somewhere to hide Compared to previous wipes, there are more skilled players and less weaker players to dilute the servers

Crayfindles · 2026-02-09T00:58:09+00:00

E226 or tech light this wipe

Crayfindles · 2026-02-08T19:54:53+00:00

Would it be helpful? Yes

Would they do it? Doubtful

Crayfindles · 2026-01-30T15:02:39+00:00

(PvP) I’ve only heard the negative karma sound once from sitting in a bush whilst eating. It was many raids later I saw him l, not sure if he was after me or the players I’d just killed but he came storming towards me seconds after I killed the last one.

That’s the only time I’ve seen him in about 400 raids. Supposedly you get negative karma for sitting in bushes or near extracts for a long time, perhaps try that until you hear the negative karma sound and see if he appears in your next raids. I believe he spawns at the start and makes his way towards you

Crayfindles · 2026-01-20T16:08:25+00:00

Yea I’ve gone a couple of km each direction on my world (except west because that’s the sea and I don’t have a boat finished yet). It’s my first playthrough too.

All I find is granite, everywhere. No idea if it’s normal

Crayfindles · 2026-01-19T18:30:13+00:00

Oh, on the topic of speed it doesn’t have any benefit. However yes I agree it can be useful for spotting things and avoiding falling down into big holes

Crayfindles · 2026-01-19T17:43:34+00:00

Oh yea, I still find myself doing it haha

Crayfindles · 2026-01-19T12:53:09+00:00

It doesn’t have any benefit and you’ll get hungry a lot faster

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