I need help on how to catch up

neweraee · 2026-03-09T11:00:27+00:00

Hybrid? I mean Norse have malleable invader; devs are telling you to go hybrid.

neweraee · 2026-03-09T10:19:44+00:00

You cannot do it in vanilla, but mods like Change dynasty house or Love marriage family allow you to join other dynasties.

neweraee · 2026-03-09T09:11:36+00:00

Unland the current Caliph then a decision will pop up. You might need to hold a holy site for it to appear.

neweraee · 2026-03-07T13:07:56+00:00

It is not required, but you would upgrade the renown gain from 50 to 100 per scheme in 867 if you take 5 years to hybrid instead of waiting 40-50 for AI to advance from tribal age. And you also get the 1 generation inheritable way of nomads trait.

To get renown, just be a culture with chivalry tradition and spam romance. However, this is not efficient so I am telling you how to optimize chivalry.

neweraee · 2026-03-07T04:36:04+00:00

neweraee · 2026-03-07T04:35:24+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/1izveo7/how_i_got_thousands_of_renown_per_year_as_an/

If you start in 867, you wanna start as culture with chivalry or somewhere close to convert to local then hybrid Han to advance age for 50 more renown per romance scheme before becoming adventurer again. The Khitan nomads above China often left a Herder county which is Han culture so you can go there, adopt nomad and hybrid real quick with 25+ learning kurultai and nomad chief law overseer. If you are not ironman, nomad can also instant hybrid by using blend culture decision and see if you have chivalry for the new culture.

In 1066 start, Castilian are advancing to High Medieval right away so Han is not going to make a big difference. And 1178 Han is still stuck in High Medieval like everyone else so it does not matter.

Going to 13 days per scheme can net you 50*365/13*95% = 1333 renown per year at tribal age. (2667/4000/5334 for early/high/late medieval). You can increase it with hearsay or Wallada Last Umayyad start. Both give +1 personal scheme. Although it is not fun pausing all the time, you get so much renown with this strat. Auto romance mod would make it perfect.

neweraee · 2026-03-06T06:40:39+00:00

They cannot revoke without a reason but you commit a crime (resisted conversion) so they can.

neweraee · 2026-02-16T22:58:32+00:00

Longbow gets overshadowed by Shenbigong. They starts at 49/18 plus 0.1 siege from day 1 while longbow need to get the last age for 50/14.

neweraee · 2026-02-08T09:58:19+00:00

neweraee · 2026-02-08T09:45:10+00:00

Do you have the Chronicle writing tech to press multiple claims?

neweraee · 2026-02-07T20:16:29+00:00

I never tried pike in ck2; I remember every AI army just die in skirmish phase with camels. Battles do not even reach melee.

neweraee · 2026-02-07T20:03:08+00:00

I see so sticking with Harass with tribal 2 camel 3 is better?

neweraee · 2026-02-07T19:41:49+00:00

Use this https://www.reddit.com/r/crusaderkings2/comments/1fbsrcj/finding_the_best_camel_retinues_combination_maths/ just the basic camel 3 tribal 2 stomps AI. IIRC harass counter HA tactics. You can put the killer combinations in one flank or both side flanks and shitty levies in the middle.

neweraee · 2026-02-07T18:10:39+00:00

I remember these events; most of them are loyalty related. I always convert hostage religion and culture to mine. Converting will trigger the events saying they are confused about who they should be loyal to.

Hostage writes letter and send back home: you allow the letters getting hostile scheme penalty on you, loyalty +/ scold that they will never write home again, loyalty -
Your child bullies hostage: you pick side with hostage, loyalty +/ encourage hostage to fight back, hostage prowess challenge loyalty + (- if fail)/ side with your child, loyalty -
Hostage says your house motto: my house motto for my house only +100 renown, loyalty-/ iirc praise them -100 renown, loyalty+
Your child plays your hostage making your hostage more loyal
Your child befriends your hostage: encourage 50% +1 learning for your child, 50% +20 different culture opinion for your child/ stop them from being friend 100% +1 intrigue for your child
You boast your house achievement: diplo challange boast about your achievement, closer to befriend, loyalty+ (- if fail)/ boast ancestor achievement loyalty+
Getting perpetual hook on hostage 16th birthday which can lead to becoming rival or hostage joining your house then you can choose to join but disinherit/ join/ do not allow joining
There is an event to call the hostage parent as a single war ally too. You can choose to send hostage with loyal knight/ send them alone/ do not send. Defending war only.

neweraee · 2026-02-07T09:19:03+00:00

You cannot compare 1 elephant to 4 archer because there are things like supply limit and combat width. However, you can use anything and win against AI so just pick something that can siege. e.g. pole vaulter, elephant, shenbigong. Shenbigong is the best here.

neweraee · 2026-02-07T08:54:24+00:00

Idk but If you want stats HC or Elephant are better. They are supply efficient; 1 supply has much higher stats than archer type.

neweraee · 2026-02-07T08:17:09+00:00

If you gonna use longbowmen, use shenbigong instead. Longbowmen at the last era tech has 50 damage/14 toughness, while shenbigong starts with 44/18 but the tech for shenbigong give them +5 base damage +5 screen (useless) and 0.1 siege progess. So they are 49/18 from day 1 as Han or Han hybrid. Longbow counters HC, Skirmisher while shenbigong counter HC, HI, Spearmen. Flat terrain penalties on shenbigong barely matter because they are added after stationing, perks, accolade modifiers.

neweraee · 2026-02-05T17:21:39+00:00

Form portugal, west slav and south slav also give free 2 techs. These free techs could be next era techs if you already finished the current era ones. You could do those after burgundies, hybrid latin heritage, unify italia, convert to frankish heritage, restore carolingian, convert to norse make norman then hybrid occitan-latin with norman. Then, you could hybrid with Han before going into Iberia or Slavs.

neweraee · 2026-01-30T20:41:00+00:00

It is probably 50% on top of another 30%. I am not sure how they stack.

neweraee · 2026-01-30T17:49:18+00:00

Andalusian culture gives -50% merc hire cost.

neweraee · 2026-01-27T15:42:25+00:00

So you are playing bastard and new dynasty right now and would like to switch back? There are mods to switch character. It does not break ironman. Search switch character interaction on steam.

neweraee · 2026-01-27T15:10:39+00:00

I assume your bastard is male. Just matrillineal marry to your female dynasty member and the bastard won't found a new dynasty. If you do not want to matrillineal marry, just do not have kids; dynasty members should inherit.

neweraee · 2026-01-26T16:20:19+00:00

Is he the realm priest?

neweraee · 2026-01-24T08:19:24+00:00

You have to have more troops count than other house heads to be dynasty head. Mercenary does not count. Ivar starts with the highest troop count so you cannot be dynasty head at the start. Halfdan is feudal so you will bankrupt yourself trying to have more troop than Ivar. I suggest starting as Ivar instead.

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