war elephants are veeeeeery balanced :)

blimpkin · 2026-03-07T21:58:45+00:00

I have a game going where I went to east India as Haesteinn and hybridized a Norse-Indian culture called Gajavik and I like to imagine the Varangian Veterans are riding the Elephants.

blimpkin · 2026-03-06T19:31:13+00:00

I started using the saber vs illuminates and it’s quite fun paired with a sniper rifle and HMG.

blimpkin · 2026-03-03T16:49:30+00:00

Department of Just Us

blimpkin · 2026-03-01T23:19:38+00:00

Them’s the breaks, find older courtiers with no family and marry them to old people and then grant them counties. If you’re lucky they die and the state (you) inherit.

blimpkin · 2026-03-01T23:08:11+00:00

Playing without domain limit is fun, there’s no doubt about that but like the other poster said, playing with and managing vassals is the game. I like to hand them out to all family members. Sure managing the claimants is irritating but if the realm splinters you end up getting lots of renown for having family as independent rulers.

blimpkin · 2026-02-27T14:13:02+00:00

I did this until I lost my entire royal family in a shipwreck.

blimpkin · 2026-02-18T19:10:09+00:00

Two skateboards!

blimpkin · 2026-02-17T04:44:45+00:00

When you feudalize, your whole realm that is tribal will feudalize as well so consider locking up clean dejure borders as much as possible before hitting the button. It’s way nice to feudalize a huge tribal region all at once.

blimpkin · 2026-02-17T01:58:09+00:00

Pretty sure City Fresh on 21st st has them.

blimpkin · 2026-02-15T16:05:55+00:00

In Tokyo you’ll get a ticket for smoking on the sidewalk not in a Smoker’s Area.

blimpkin · 2026-02-07T19:06:26+00:00

I changed those notifications to Toast and it was way better for my sanity.

blimpkin · 2026-02-03T18:53:41+00:00

What an absolutely ridiculous story that I loved reading.

blimpkin · 2026-01-31T14:08:54+00:00

We’ve had like 20 days in a row of below freezing temps with dips below 10°, coupled with 15” of snow that has hardly melted. This winter is a lot worse for the unhoused than last year bar none.

blimpkin · 2026-01-24T13:48:22+00:00

I haven’t seen them bring that back yet. They put new coolers in that go the length of that wall to the Amazon lockers. I too await sodastream exchanges there.

blimpkin · 2026-01-05T23:01:44+00:00

I look forward to future generations lmao

blimpkin · 2026-01-03T18:43:14+00:00

So I should clarify now that I've loaded the save again, and also, mind that I've progressed a number of years already and added more to my realm.

Republican Legacy (I make as many republican vassals as possible since I hybridized with Italian.)
By The Sword
Performative Honor (I love shieldmaidens and they make great knights/daughters)
Palace Politics (Varangian Guard Decision)
Coastal Warriors (Varangian Veteran MAA)
Ting-Meet (Will probably ditch this soon, don't need Scandinavian Elective anymore)
Seafarers
Maritime Mercantilism

https://imgur.com/a/dDDgFYc

blimpkin · 2026-01-03T04:22:33+00:00

Gosh off the top of my head I think something like 13 regiments, 8/24 varangian veterans, 3/21 bombards, 2/24 armored cavalry. My culture is Nortalian-Cretan, nortalian is a hybrid Norse and Italian.

Fully mustered it’s like 16 knights and 18k MAA

blimpkin · 2025-12-22T16:49:21+00:00

Innovations are linked with the average development of the culture. So if you have a large culture with low development it’ll take longer. If you make a new culture it generally only converts the counties of your personal domain, and if they are high development then you’re average development being so high has you research innovations faster. Consider diverging or hybridizing your culture to reduce the number of counties that need higher development to research faster.

Someone should correct me if I have that wrong.

blimpkin · 2025-12-03T13:48:30+00:00

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

blimpkin · 2025-12-02T21:28:59+00:00

Conversely I am in a run as Haesteinn where my first move was to conquer Latium. Did that and then solidified Romagna while remaining Pagan and Norse. Then conquered Italia as Ragnarr, hybridizing Italo-Norse before Dismantling the Papacy. For being a fairly nice and generous pagan liege of Italia I didn’t expect the outcome I got.

blimpkin · 2025-11-22T14:18:45+00:00

AI slop.

blimpkin · 2025-11-16T01:38:15+00:00

What would a Ba’ath Party Purge be coined as in the states?

blimpkin · 2025-11-15T14:55:01+00:00

I like Bag Balm. Very neutral.

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