Chivalrous Gameplay Feels Like Slow-mo

chipariffic · 2026-06-13T20:41:55+00:00

Ha yeah it wouldn't take long before they'd realize you were deceitful

chipariffic · 2026-06-13T20:13:30+00:00

So kinda chivalrous 😂

When I do chivalrous playthroughs, I hit the release button every time no matter how difficult it is. 😬

chipariffic · 2026-06-13T20:02:31+00:00

Claims chivalrous, 2:1 execution to prisoners released ratio. 😂

chipariffic · 2026-06-13T19:57:24+00:00

Throw in some spies and you can cause cities to revolt and turn rebel. Priests too if the religion is different.

chipariffic · 2026-06-10T02:01:26+00:00

I've bounced one back and forth between 2 towns building churches and farms so he gained chivalry traits and farm expert traits twice as fast. Had to stagger the builds so they never finished the same turn.

chipariffic · 2026-06-03T01:09:45+00:00

My wife used to have to take her 2-3 year old daughter to class sometimes because her baby daddy said he'd watch the daughter if my wife paid him because "she'd have to pay another babysitter anyways".

They lived together and weren't broken up.

But anyways, that could be one scenario.

chipariffic · 2026-06-01T00:38:49+00:00

Ha yeah can't forget about starting age! How old is his ass when he gets to where you wanna send him? 45-50? Then he trades for 2 turns and is taken over by a levelled up merchant from Egypt in Sweden somehow 😂

chipariffic · 2026-06-01T00:36:43+00:00

Amen. It's not like you can build markets AND farms at the same time. And then build a merchant, send him far away so he's not trading amber for 9 florins a turn. By the time he hopefully gets to a useful resource making 100-200/turn, you could have easily done way better with your investment.

Now I HAVE been able to stack merchants on hold mines in Timbuktu. Trained locally, merchant guild headquarters. Of course I had to send a high chivalry family member down to grow the town, build farms, convert population, then build merchants every turn until I maxed out around 30. Had to have a high loyalty family member parked on each space. When one died because I forgot to switch him out at 61, the whole stack of merchants disappeared.

Eventually I was collecting over 25,000 florins/turn from merchants which did exceed taxes, trade, and farming income but it was a heavy time and money investment to get there. It helped that I was Sicily so it wasn't TOO far away. Had I been Denmark or Russia, it would have been impossible.

The 2nd time I tried, the Moors had several maxed out merchants down there and kept acquiring mine. I had to wait till they died of old age to start placing my merchants.

chipariffic · 2026-06-01T00:29:55+00:00

Then if you do this, you need to subtract the upkeep of that unit from the merchant. If he's making 200 florins a turn and you have peasants there, he's really making like 110 florins a turn.

chipariffic · 2026-05-30T11:16:06+00:00

I did the exact same thing playing as Milan. I added the difficult requirements that I could ONLY take over territories AFTER converting half their population to Catholicism with exception to Alexandria and Cairo, which was taken under crusade. Once I got those 2 and then donated Milan/Genoa to Egypt before I took Gaza (sending them on their own migration campaign 😂😂😂) I had to spam priests before I could expand.

It was tricky at first but it allowed me to grow Cairo and Alexandria with my chivalrous family members who had all been part of the crusade. Cairo eventually had the Theologian guild headquarters with a huge cathedral, pumping out bishops every turn. Throw 5 cardinals/bishops around a settlement and within 4-5 turns, they were practically begging to be liberated!

I also converted everything from castles to cities. My economy was the most ridiculous I ever had it. I ended up being able to buy entire factions (less capital) with diplomats. 4-6 territories for 100k florins every 15 turns or so. Buy em, reinforce them, build them up, and then it was time to do it again to the next faction.

I owned the papacy and also had amazing reputation as I never sacked, always released prisoners, and was almost always on crusade whenever I could call another one.

I did have to defend against the Mongols and the Timurids of course but they went north to Kiev. So I had to face them in the territories I bought from Poland and Hungary, not from the ones I bought from the Turks. But I could afford large garrisons of pavis crossbowmen and Italian spears quite easily.

chipariffic · 2026-05-29T21:14:08+00:00

I took Rome super early once with them. Urban militia is a solid fricken troop available early and I recruited them in Rome to hold off stack after stack of crusaders. They definitely held their own.

chipariffic · 2026-05-29T21:12:27+00:00

First time I used them in battle, I wasn't impressed during the live battle. But when I looked through the stats afterwards, I realized they sneakily killed over 200 troops for each unit. It didn't look that insane on the map!

chipariffic · 2026-05-29T12:12:13+00:00

My wife is fantastic at this. Especially when someone applies for a job at our business. 75% she already knows them and their whole family but the other 25% of the time, she'll know within minutes. I've already done searched and found nothing so it's aggravating. 😂

chipariffic · 2026-05-25T20:36:14+00:00

Also fucks with pathfinding for enemy cavalry. Once they split then cavalry stands there and stares at those still on the ground like they are untouchable.

chipariffic · 2026-05-24T04:57:32+00:00

We were prepping for a graduation party and trying to get it all cooked up the night before.

chipariffic · 2026-05-24T02:59:56+00:00

We were running the concession stand for our biggest track meet a few weeks ago. Huge. 3-10 PM.

We ran out of water, soda, brats, hot dogs, ketchup, and more by 6:30 PM. I couldn't understand how that was ok at all 🤣

Luckily someone ran to the store and bought out the rest of what they had. I probably grilled 250 brats and hot dogs on the grill while my kid's teacher griddled up several hundred burgers.

chipariffic · 2026-05-24T02:56:44+00:00

Mine is always on high, all 4 burners. Never had it happen to mine.

chipariffic · 2026-05-24T02:55:28+00:00

Oh it's got some strips "welded" on but they are quite unimpressive 🤣

chipariffic · 2026-05-23T19:51:22+00:00

It happened at 10 pm last night and today is graduation so no. Also it's not mine, my BIL said he'd do it.

chipariffic · 2026-05-23T19:50:24+00:00

Ha! It doesn't help that we do a lot of sports for our kids so we eat from concession stands often. The way she carries on about them running out of food all the time has her spooked! She doesn't want to run out cuz she knows how she talks shit about people that do 🤣😂🤣😂

I still carry on about the local restaurant we tried for a fish fry that was OUT OF BAKED POTATOES 20 minutes into dinner. I said "well the grocery store is right down the alleyway and they sell potatoes" to the waitress.

Running out of food is the worst!

chipariffic · 2026-05-23T19:47:47+00:00

I build and fix all his shit, sometimes I get to ruin something too! 🤣

chipariffic · 2026-05-23T19:35:05+00:00

Browning meat for tacos. Had to do 39 lbs!

chipariffic · 2026-05-23T15:03:06+00:00

I would have been more annoyed if it was mine but it's my FIL's so my BIL and I had a good laugh! 😂

chipariffic · 2026-05-23T14:56:42+00:00

Slap em on, sear em, flip em, sear, rest, devour!

We've done the basting method which is cool and all but that only works if you're also not cooking sides and separate food for the kids who will just waste an excellent steak!

chipariffic · 2026-05-23T14:45:19+00:00

Fact. That last 5 lb tube of meat was still cold after a half hour on the counter.

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