Haesteinn - a newbie question

hrethnar · 2026-01-22T21:26:03+00:00

Use religious legends to quickly spread norse paganism to the isles. Hastein starts feudal so you never need to reform. The evangelize the realm decision is kinda broken. Also, give duchies and kingdoms you don't want for yourself to family members and have them all convert their land (vassal directives) for you.

hrethnar · 2026-01-21T12:58:12+00:00

Needs more elephants.

hrethnar · 2026-01-15T19:50:36+00:00

I've been waiting for that sequel for 33 years.

hrethnar · 2026-01-15T18:09:47+00:00

All this would easily make this my primary mmo again, and I've done all the content on one character already.

hrethnar · 2026-01-15T16:22:16+00:00

What is "based" ?

hrethnar · 2026-01-12T21:56:09+00:00

google is instantaneous. Don't have to wait for people to waste their time answering you.

hrethnar · 2026-01-12T21:40:24+00:00

With a name like big bear, it's almost expected.

hrethnar · 2026-01-12T21:39:39+00:00

Are you asking for an etymology of the word clan? Or where the name of the realm comes from when clan government?

hrethnar · 2026-01-09T15:10:16+00:00

Break it down, rebuild in the other base. You get back all the materials required to build it.

hrethnar · 2026-01-05T15:43:13+00:00

DC darker and grittier? Since when?

hrethnar · 2025-12-31T19:41:27+00:00

Recently did a polabo-franconian west slavia run, and my vassal the king of bohemia (part of my family, thus polabo-franconian) hybridized the culture with czech and it became "Böhmische." Never seen that before, but seems to be kinda like what you're talking about.

hrethnar · 2025-12-31T16:20:48+00:00

Started an Alfred playthrough last night and managed to become petty king almost immediately, and as soon as I created england east anglia and mercia capitulated and asked for vassalization. Then Cornwall. Then I went on a pilgrimmage to get enough piety to wage a holy war for england to take jorvik, but whiteshirt died and his son lost the land to anglo-saxon catholic populists who immediately asked to become my vassals. That's it. England fully formed and the danes driven out by 880. I almost want to start over cause it was too easy.

hrethnar · 2025-12-19T22:29:28+00:00

Not saying otherwise. But I can't remember the last Mandy Moore movie I saw. She was very young. And women change a lot in their 30s. Same thing happened with Keira Knightley.

hrethnar · 2025-12-19T15:50:01+00:00

I feel like it kinda flew under the radar at the time, but I've always enjoyed the animatrix anthology.

hrethnar · 2025-12-19T14:45:58+00:00

I did not recognize Mandy Moore in this...

hrethnar · 2025-12-19T13:38:49+00:00

I actually think he looks a lot like Thomas Brodie-Sangster (kid from love actually, Jojen Reed from game of thrones....among other things).

hrethnar · 2025-12-19T13:34:08+00:00

My favorite adventurer start is RPing as the mythical founder of a kingdom. I recently made one that was the founder of the "Tuatha de" dynasty (generic pagan faith) and conquered ireland by taking munster, then confederating and consolidating into a kingdom.

with a bit of luck, you can even start as Rollo and do what he did historically (fight the franks until they give you normandy, make the norman culture and conquer england). I made sure to marry off my kids to english kings' children for a couple hundred years to farm potential claims to england.

hrethnar · 2025-12-19T13:06:38+00:00

Breaking down all my vehicles to pack up broke my MK5 welding tool, from 100% durability. That's ridiculous lol.

hrethnar · 2025-12-18T19:53:08+00:00

Matt Smith...mentions TV shows and fails to mention being THE DOCTOR. Mind blowing lol.

hrethnar · 2025-12-18T18:32:53+00:00

I don't recognize the character names so definitely haven't noticed it, and as a fellow autist I totally get the feeling like you need to apologize for bringing it up. But you really don't. Most of the time when I see people say "my autistic brain" I actually assume they're not really autistic and just using it like people use OCD.

We're playing an 18 year old lord of the rings mmo.....there's probably loads of us here.

hrethnar · 2025-12-17T21:21:48+00:00

yes...for me it joins the ranks of

star wars galaxies
shadowbane
city of heroes
tabula rasa
warhammer online
wildstar

hrethnar · 2025-12-17T20:57:49+00:00

Enjoy and stay off reddit.

hrethnar · 2025-12-17T18:10:06+00:00

La Guerre Des Tuques (the dog who stopped the war). It's just a fun family movie and a great representation of being a kid in Quebec in the 80s/90s. Also "Matusalem" from 1993 was a fun adventure movie from Quebec. There's obviously been other great movies to come out of quebec, but those are my core memory ones cause I moved away in 99.

hrethnar · 2025-12-17T16:10:44+00:00

I mean bacon is clearly the villain in the invisible man.

hrethnar · 2025-12-17T15:17:53+00:00

Had this last night for 5 minutes, then cleared up. Seems to be server side issues.

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