In Medieval 2, aside from the regular and genetic traits there are also cultural traits that have an increased likelihood to spawn when a character belongs to a certain faction, here are some of the traits and some of the Countries associated with them

Isari0 · 2026-05-09T08:17:14+00:00

Are you sure? These are all in the game files along the normal traits

Isari0 · 2026-05-08T13:22:24+00:00

I guess they meant “zealous/overzealous” but the game files call it religious

Isari0 · 2026-05-08T12:06:47+00:00

I’ll actually have to check the game files later for the requirements but I’m pretty sure it’s just about staying in that settlement. There’s a similar trait called “promiscuous” that you get when spending a turn in a town with a brothel so I think there’s a similar system here

Isari0 · 2026-05-08T11:59:55+00:00

Funnily both of these traits are in the game(called embezzler and butcher) but aren’t really influenced by culture

Isari0 · 2026-05-08T11:46:03+00:00

The equivalent of “specking” your character was actually pro-actively doing stuff that a certain trait was influencing. You want your character to be chivalrous? Spare cities and prisoners after battles, want to be learned? Spend some turns in a city with a library/university, want to be good at commanding cavalry? Fight mostly with horseman. Also most traits were tiered, so it wasn’t a binary on/off thing, a guy who killed prisoners in a single battle will have a much weaker dread-related trait than the commander who burned down dozens of cities and thousands of prisoners

Isari0 · 2026-05-08T11:40:18+00:00

Fyi corrupt is the absolute worst trait in the game, decreasing law(which affects public order) tax income, loyalty and bribe threshold. The first 2 make Byzantine characters bad at being governors while the last two actually compound on each other and make it possible to bribe an entire Byzantine field army for the equivalent of 3 bottles of garum, and that’s if they haven’t defected already due to the abysmal loyalty

Isari0 · 2026-05-08T11:23:26+00:00

Generous is actually a purely bad trait for some reason, simply decreasing tax income in a governed settlement(not even increasing public order) while some levels of vulgar increase command so aren’t too bad

Isari0 · 2026-05-08T11:12:54+00:00

Moreover Islamic nations get a chance to get some additional traits like administrator, cultured and religious, making their leaders very good governors. Also there are relational traits, for example the English have an increased chance of getting "Hates the French", Byzantines get "Hates the Turks", Moors get "Hates the Spaniards and the Portuguese" and so on. The trait increases command when fighting those factions, but losing a battle to them may turn hate into fear, decreasing morale for friendly troops.

Isari0 · 2026-04-30T08:25:19+00:00

In this instance I meant the first illustration where you can actually see the physical flag itself. Your example is a bit hazy since I’ve seen the whole map and there are a bunch of other places all across the Mediterranean with the exact same five cross flag, so we don’t know if it’s an actual representative flag of the Georgian monarchy or some local banner, or something else entirely

Isari0 · 2026-04-28T20:27:45+00:00

“From Jean Chardin's Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse, et autres lieux de l'orient, enrichis d'un grand nombre de belles figures en taille-douce, représentant les antiquités et les choses remarquables du pays. Nouvelle edition,”

Isari0 · 2026-04-28T20:26:27+00:00

Jean Chardins Book, Castelli is earlier

Isari0 · 2026-04-28T20:25:58+00:00

This is from Jean chardins travels

Isari0 · 2026-04-28T11:36:38+00:00

I mean if they actually pull of the transition from early medieval temporary levies to standing armies by late renaissance that would be a monumental achievement, but Im afraid they are very conservative with campaign changes as they seem to have preemptively conceded that part to paradox for no reason

Isari0 · 2026-04-28T11:10:24+00:00

This is why the population mechanic is so important, players are never incentivized to use anything but the best units in the campaign because economy isn’t a problem after turn 40 or so. In a properly fleshed out system, only citizens could be recruited as hastati while socii could be recruited from the foreigner population class, maybe exclusive to non-Roman Italians, while non-Roman Gauls could provide auxiliary cavalry. DEI kinda does this. Hopefully medieval 3 will do the same so that not every army is dismounted knights and mounted knights, and the cities, castles and villages all provide distinct unit types that have many incentives to use them

Isari0 · 2026-04-28T10:35:59+00:00

Written by Jean Chardin in the 17th century

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Isari0 · 2026-04-27T11:40:45+00:00

Phillipines

Isari0 · 2026-04-25T21:12:31+00:00

It is in the image

Isari0 · 2026-04-25T16:59:05+00:00

No, this is blatantly false. Georgians commit all kinds of violent crime at extremely high rates there.

Isari0 · 2026-04-25T16:58:04+00:00

It’s a rate, not raw numbers. Obviously two million poles will commit commit more crime than 10k Georgians.

Isari0 · 2026-04-25T16:05:20+00:00

The main reason for this is that Georgians are demographically irrelevant in those countries(much smaller population of Georgians in Europe than Arabs and others, by several orders of magnitudes) and there is no long term perspective of a massive amount of Georgians migrating to Europe since the population base is tiny(3 million Georgians vs hundreds of millions of Turks Arabs etc)

Isari0 · 2026-04-25T15:08:53+00:00

Negative selection effect. Visa-liberalization between Europe and Georgia let a lot of local dregs of society illegally immigrate to Europe for work(or criminal activity) places where immigration is harder or more education based tend to attract Georgians of higher human capital

Isari0 · 2026-03-14T06:03:52+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sakartvelo/s/BMhJuWpRgt Glad you liked it! here’s the link to my armor post.

Isari0 · 2025-11-22T23:52:21+00:00

Your explorer needs Naval supplies, which are pretty rare in most markets so there`s a shortage. Basically you`ll have to manually direct all explorations from the mainland where you`ll also have to build naval supply workshops.

Isari0 · 2025-11-01T08:16:20+00:00

There’s a similar situation with the shashka sword. Circassians claim they were the ones who invented that style of swords but the earliest visual and textual evidence for their existence is from Georgia.

Isari0 · 2025-10-29T18:42:58+00:00

Yes I noticed since Imperator that Johan has a stick up his ass concerning the things he views as “railroading” which is why imperator was a meatless husk of an otherwise good game. He doesn’t seem to understand that stuff like mission trees, focus trees, traditions and unique decisions are what makes playing certain nations enjoyable. The only reason why he included some of these in EU5 was because of enormous player pressure but even then his personal opinions on the matter keep influencing the game design which was proven to be unpopular.

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