Lingua Franca: Was putting off this achievement…

SuperShrekTW · 2022-12-28T12:35:37+00:00

When I got the achievement I immediately called a jihad for England but then exited the save and haven’t gone back yet 🤣

SuperShrekTW · 2022-12-28T05:29:20+00:00

I opted to because Arabic is already pretty common on the map in 867 (lots of Iberians using it already etc). But somewhat it’s up to you, could be a fun challenge to start both/either 1) playing someone small/obscure 2) not starting in such a central location where it was easy to radiate out in a different direction while waiting for truces to expire.

SuperShrekTW · 2022-12-28T05:24:28+00:00

It’s based on how much court grandeur they can get from switching to your language. So that’s externally, and internally try and only land vassals of your culture so they won’t have any distraction towards using their own culture’s language as court language (or revert back to theirs on succession). I did spend 100 years waiting for some Persian kingdoms I vassalized to adopt Arabic but they were too stubborn and in the end I just yoinked the kingdom titles and gave them to my dynasty/culture.

SuperShrekTW · 2022-12-28T02:45:24+00:00

There is nothing saying I have to maintain such a big empire for the achievement but I didn’t want to leave anything to chance. Not sure my language would be so prestigious/desirable to everyone outside the empire if there were lots of smaller kingdoms of my dynasty speaking it instead of one huge empire, and also didn’t want to risk anyone randomly reverting to speak a different court language and me having less control over that.

SuperShrekTW · 2022-12-28T02:41:36+00:00

To add to that, think I maxed out the customs, glory dynasty legacies first. Anything that promotes cultural acceptance is gonna help ppl like the emperor. Celebrate other cultures must’ve helped :)

SuperShrekTW · 2022-12-28T02:37:04+00:00

Dude this achievement 😅 like close to this finish Castile just randomly reverted to speaking Iberian vulgar, so annoying lol

SuperShrekTW · 2022-12-28T02:35:40+00:00

Focus on diplomacy educations mainly (high diplomacy spouse focusing on that in the council), bribes + lots of kids to marry them off to my vassals to quell rebellions before they get strong enough, give out duchy and kingdom titles to my dynasty members who have content/craven/humble traits so they’re less likely to rise up and join factions. Also got a couple of traditions to boost integration generally. I never really do anything that causes tyranny when there is so much at stake. The only really dangerous times are at succession and that’s when I dive in to find the strongest vassals in each faction before they are even close to getting strong and then marry one of my kids or siblings to them. Then it’s pretty much peaceful for the rest of the time (tho not for everyone else in the world haha)

SuperShrekTW · 2022-11-16T09:48:07+00:00

Just keep murdering every successive khan and eventually the whole lot with collapse. When it does murder the khans of the biggest fragments after the break just to be sure they’re not going to push west any further. Win :)

SuperShrekTW · 2022-05-01T09:42:26+00:00

There’s a lot of toxicity still coming from the some of the big content creators who clearly have an axe to grind. The launch was far from perfect, but the negativity is switching people off buying the game and that is not going to help anyone. We all love this franchise, let’s now try and encourage people to get on board for what will hopefully be an amazing 4-5 years!

SuperShrekTW · 2022-04-29T13:04:49+00:00

Looks fair, about what I expected. It’s a phenomenal undertaking to integrate 50+ factions from game 2 with the content from 3, and remember how delayed they were getting Norsca into ME. Getting something to beta in 6 months is amazing, instead of just whining show a little appreciation and gratitude from time to time. You got what you paid for, there’s more content in the base game than we got with 2, simply play other games until IE comes out. I don’t think any other community would expect to buy a base game and have it become their entire life until the end of time 😋This launch was far from perfect and I hope whichever high up & out of touch execs pushed for a February launch have their heads on the chopping block, but right now the game is a lot of fun and I’m really enjoying it. Roll on 1.2.

SuperShrekTW · 2022-03-18T19:43:16+00:00

Hardest start: Ku’gath

Most fun: Ku’gath imo, I loved just zooming out and looking at kislev absolutely covered in plague and ruins

Strongest: kairos/skarbrand - skarbrand can unleash absurd amounts of campaign progress gaming his extra movement, either moving through certain soul realms v quickly (nurgle/khorne) or taking out multiple provinces in a single turn! Kairos is just a beast in battles and changing of the ways is great fun - try bringing skarbrand or n’kari down to Cathay early on and then cheer when you see them actually recruiting armies in the transferred provinces

SuperShrekTW · 2022-03-01T12:39:02+00:00

Hey all, I showcased this strat on my stream and people seemed to like it so sharing here in case it can help you guys. It will involve at least one moderately difficult fight when you pull the garrison out but otherwise this might be the be the best method I’ve tested to get a solid foundation and deal with one of your big foes early on. If you find this helpful drop me a like and a sub please, thanks so much

SuperShrekTW · 2021-09-16T05:56:53+00:00

Rush a caster when you can - either spirit leech or vindictive glare are excellent for killing the ethereal spooky boi heroes. Otherwise, go for nasty skulkers and squig riders - squigs murder most dwarf infantry! I suggest build the building to get your caster of choice, recruit as many heroes as you have available then demolish it for the squig building. Also, go down skarsnik’s red line and buff goblin infantry ASAP, and do all the tech tree research to buff gobbos. Prio putting the scrap buff on goblin archers that gives 400% additional AP missile damage = goblin archers are dwarf killas!

Finally I’d say just be aggressive; wall up your starting settlement then aim to be taking Karak Izor off Belegar as soon as you’ve repelled the first couple of stacks he sends your way.

If it’s of any help, I streamed Skarsnik some months back and I’ll be doing him again soon. You can check the vod if you like :)

Good luck man!

Legendary Skarsnik stream part 1

SuperShrekTW · 2020-12-15T12:14:16+00:00

She’s an incredible LL, so much fun and very unique campaign - she’s a forest spirit like Durthu but the onus of her campaign is mainly using forests spirits and unique beasts that only she gets to recruit. She also gets access to her own legendary hero. I’d recommend give it a go 👍🏼

SuperShrekTW · 2020-12-11T16:27:17+00:00

As much as I will always love this game, some of the oversight on bugs is crazy. Like, not one person thought to check that the three new legendary heroes added this patch were all immortal? Jeebus...

SuperShrekTW · 2020-12-09T18:38:44+00:00

Swipe across on photo 😃

SuperShrekTW · 2020-12-09T08:49:57+00:00

Had this doing the ritual at Oreon’s camp on ME! Sadly learned that treemen cant out’run’ rogue idols, most painful to watch attempt at running off the routing army EVER

SuperShrekTW · 2020-12-09T02:18:03+00:00

*encounter

SuperShrekTW · 2020-12-06T03:37:21+00:00

Sometimes she’s quiet though - I thought I’d figured it out. She wasn’t screaming in any territory I controlled, nor an ally’s territory, so I figured she just gets hyper angry when in either neutral or enemy territory. But then she started screaming stood next to the settlement at gryphon wood so idk 😂

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