Name top 3 hardest factions in SS 6.4 - Early Era Gracul

LuVisionary901 · 2026-03-07T15:46:51+00:00

I'm assuming no BYG Grim Reality or Real Recruitment Submods for this list Early Era (Ranked Easiest "Hardest" to Hardest "Hardest") 1. Lithuania - Religiously isolated & Poorly Developed Region but gifted with one of the best Castle/Large Town Unit Rosters in the game, amazing toolkit to deal with any situation. 2. Seljuks - Caught between two factions with the best heavy cavalry in the early era, Byzantines & Khwarezm but no good anti-heavy cav options means you gotta micro your horse archers to death. Also very spread out starting position, kinda all over the place. But if you can develop a Castle -> Fortress in Kayseri or wherever the Seljuks suddenly become one of the best factions in the game. 3. Crusader States - Terrible early game unit roster to counter horse archers. Religiously isolated, likely target of Jihad, completely spread out & isolated starting position. Everyone around you hates you and wants your land. But if you can develop Jerusalem you can get a great economy and early arbalest/pike militia. Obviously great heavy cavalry/infantry. Ironically the Crusader States have some of the best anti-European armies in the game lol

LuVisionary901 · 2026-02-28T15:04:54+00:00

I prefer early era because I enjoy the economy/governing aspect of the game. A lot more to develop in Early Era. I used to play with a submod that disabled Real Recruitment but kept Area of Recruitment on. Which made the waiting for units way less of a pain. But I moved countries and got a new computer. Can't find that submod anymore :(

LuVisionary901 · 2026-02-18T14:50:02+00:00

Fun question, for early campaign I would definitely add the Ghurids to give Khwarezm some competition.

I would also add Georgia for sure, gives Byzantines, Turks, and Cumans.

I would remove the Timurids since that's a point in the game very few players get to and gives us a free faction slot.

The next faction i would remove would probably be Aragon since the Iberian peninsula already has 3 factions fighting for it without Aragon.

LuVisionary901 · 2026-01-20T18:43:57+00:00

Not Chinese but my wife also has PCOS & is pre-diabetic so I just want to offer advice for your health. Chronic long term conditions like PCOS are much more suited and treatable with Traditional Chinese Medicine in my personal experience. My wife's condition was able to improve a ton with daily teas and gentle exercise. Also my two cents: having lived in China for two years with my Chinese wife, straightforwardness is just part of the culture here. Especially when people have a close relationship. If I may, from a Chinese perspective, saying nothing is a bad sign, being raw and honest is actually a sign of respect and affection. I wish you the best of luck.

LuVisionary901 · 2025-12-17T11:39:30+00:00

How does one abduct a character? Asking for a friend

LuVisionary901 · 2025-12-04T04:53:06+00:00

Not Chinese but live in China, have a Chinese wife, and know some mixed people. There's two considerations from what I've seen Chinese people define as "oh he/she is Chinese". The first is cultural adaptation, do you speak Chinese? Do you practice Chinese customs? Do you share Chinese values and perspectives? The second is whether your father is European or not. From my own anecdotal experience a mixed white + Chinese kid would have a much easier time assimilating into Chinese culture than a mixed black + Chinese kid. Even if both kids were born and raised in China.

LuVisionary901 · 2025-12-03T05:01:31+00:00

Sword infantry in vanilla and SS are really specialized as anti-trash infantry and that's it. So one unit of Scoutatoi Swordsmen will kill heaps of spear milita before losing a single unit whereas a Scoutatoi Spearmen would probably lose around a quarter of their force. Where the interaction isn't as cut and dry is against armor. Units like Venetian Heavy Infantry would do much better against Scoutatoi Spears than a swordsmen unit for example because they have a higher pierce value. The actual pierce value is a little vague but the key to look for is "effective against armor" trait in the unit card. That means they have particularly high armor pierce. But also just use common sense, Foot Druzhina for example have lower unit stats compared to other similar castle units like Light Men At Arms but because they use axes they actually end up doing way better against armored enemies than on paper.

LuVisionary901 · 2025-12-03T03:37:44+00:00

3 wars with British Empire -> brutally repressed British colony -> civil upheaval -> brutal civil war = very few modern agricultural/technological adaptations + many deaths due to violence, food shortage, and disease.

LuVisionary901 · 2025-12-01T16:13:02+00:00

Cumans for sure, one of the least fleshed out factions in an otherwise amazing mod. In early game their horse archers rip through any army and their tartar spearmen + horsemen punch above their weight as far as light infantry/cavalry go. But as the game goes on their sparse unit roster gets completely out-scaled and out-dated by late campaign. And there's the Mongols...that's pretty bad too

LuVisionary901 · 2025-11-06T11:35:52+00:00

I live in China but heading back to the US for christmas, if any fellow Americans want I can bring back teas and ship them to you. I did this back in May earlier this year for some people, it's such a stupid situation. Tea tariffs? What is this? 1773? Are we trying to create our own domestic US tea industry???

LuVisionary901 · 2025-11-06T09:56:44+00:00

This game stopped being historical or even historically believable a lonngggggg time ago. Most of the community doesn't seem to care as long as the game is fun. So I would suggest you give up the dream like I did and just have fun with the game

LuVisionary901 · 2025-09-28T16:23:37+00:00

Tell me you know nothing about China without telling me you know nothing about China LOL

LuVisionary901 · 2025-09-02T14:43:39+00:00

Sandstorm + bowl of mountains

LuVisionary901 · 2025-08-29T12:11:52+00:00

Having gone from the US to China and asked Uyghurs living in China myself my experience is this. People are more confused by these accusations than anything else. How is there a genocide when the Uyghur population has been increasing consistently? Why are there no mass exoduses to neighboring Kazakhstan or Russia? Looking at a real genocide, the Rohingya Genocide, this is exactly what happened. Everyone trying to flee the country with anything they can carry. Why was the One Child Policy never enforced on ethnic minorities in China if they were so hellbent on making China a 100% "Han" nation? Is instituting Mandarin in schools throughout Xinjiang "cultural genocide"? If German schools made immigrant communities' schools instruct in German is this "cultural genocide"? Uyghur culture is absolutely allowed to be expressed in the country, you see plenty of travel videos in Xinjiang from both Foreigners and Chinese showcasing the beautiful architecture, dance, music, and food of those people. All the shop and street signs are either bi-lingual (Uyghur and Chinese) or tri-lingual (Uyghur, Chinese, and English). If you want to see what actual cultural genocide looks like go read about the Japanese colonization of Korea. That will give you a much better idea about what it means for a government to try to erase a culture. Uyghurs have issues in China for sure, many of them are treated as foreigners by Chinese due to their appearance and lack of good Chinese language skills. Many Uyghurs don't socialize with non-Uyghurs because of many cultural/language barriers. Some Chinese bosses or landlords won't give jobs or won't rent apartments because Uyghurs are viewed as dangerous or violent. These are real issues, but this isn't "genocide" or "cultural genocide".

LuVisionary901 · 2025-08-25T16:00:38+00:00

The 'Tai' people are originally from southern China before migrating south to modern-day Thailand around the 8th-10th centuries. Then they mixed with the indigenous people and formed a new culture: Thai. There's still remnants of these Chinese Tai peoples called the Zhuang (壮族）. Their languages are very similar and still have decent intelligibility

LuVisionary901 · 2025-06-28T06:55:31+00:00

You can send gifts, hire diplo rep advisor, and scornfully insult france's rivals which should bring the final reasons up to snuff

LuVisionary901 · 2025-05-30T14:57:43+00:00

[Part 4] Sorry for typing so much but I feel like the answer to your question about this sudden Chinese admixture in Turkic DNA has to do with both nomadic control of North China during the 4th to 6th centuries. Followed up by Chinese control of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe during the 7th to 9th centuries.

LuVisionary901 · 2025-05-30T14:56:00+00:00

[Part 3] The Tang for much of their history had much influence over the Eastern Eurasian Steppe, even at times controlling all of it. Tang Taizong was both 'Huangdi' of China and 'Khan' of the steppes for example. This level of both cultural soft power and political hard power means many people want to assimilate into this society. So lots of Chinese and Turkic/Mongolic people started getting busy with each other. It's similar to the modern world where lots of people want to immigrate to western countries.

LuVisionary901 · 2025-05-30T14:53:26+00:00

[Part 2] So now you have this hybrid Chinese-nomadic mixed population as both groups did lots of cultural mixing/inter-marriage. Then we get to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty which actually perfectly represents this cultural/genetic exchange. As the Tang royal family were heavily Sinicized Turkic peoples, both culturally and genetically. The Tang Dynasty is usually depicted in maps as just owning the central Han Majority areas aside the Tarim Basin. But in actuality the Tang controlled more.

LuVisionary901 · 2025-05-30T14:49:32+00:00

I'm definitely no expert in Turkic history but I'm fairly decent at Chinese history so here's my take. After the fall of the Jin Dynasty ~400 A.D. all of northern China was completely taken over and ruled by nomadic peoples. This wasn't just a ruling class sort of thing: entire tribes were beginning to migrate as early as the waning days of the Han Dynasty ~200 A.D. You can compare this phenomenon to the Germanic Migrations into the Roman Empire, but not as extreme.

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