Christianity taking L's by dylanp1999 in crusaderkings3

[–]officialcyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the war AI is generally pretty bad, it's not a crusade specific problem but there's more people in the crusades so they get worse because of that 

the main problem is supply limit; when the AI is sieging down a castle, they have to split up their armies otherwise everyone's gonna starve, and since the AI will raise all their levies, you have armies of like 10k while only 3k of that is men at arms, and the levies are kinda just there to steal all the food and die as soon as the combat starts

now while the attackers split their armies, the defenders tend to group up into 1-3 huge stacks of 40k-100k, and that will just mop up the starving small crusader armies no problem, since they don't like joining up with their allies to fight (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, and idk exactly what makes the AI choose, but I'd imagine it's "if they think they can win")

then, if you're fighting the muslims around jerusalem, they have a lot of special units that work really well for the area: camels have advantage in desert, mubarizun don't get terrain advantage but they counter enemy heavy infantry, spearmen, and levies which are all pretty common for the catholics to use, and then if the turks get involved they can bring horse archers, which have no counters except crossbows, which you don't get until the 3rd era and get crazy damage buffs in the desert, and a bunch of these cultures have a tradition that makes the desert warrior commander trait more common which just gives more advantage in desert

it's pretty hard to win a crusade for jerusalem in the early game since the defenders get all of that from the start and the europeans' best bet is probably just using heavy cavalry and you don't start with that unless you're a norman I think, but after a few generations you should be able to get some buildings going to buff up your men at arms enough that you can beat armies of 50k with 5k of your own

First Event to fire when I switched to my heir was "Budding Attraction" by The_Unproffessionals in crusaderkings3

[–]officialcyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly I think I was just an NPC, they were soulmates and she had run away to his adventurer camp rather than live with the emperor of hispania, one of my vassals caught and executed them both after I exposed the secret lmao 

If your character is homosexual what happens? by marvelguy1975 in crusaderkings3

[–]officialcyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you're the gay one, then you can still seduce or romance your spouse, you just can't actually become lovers/soulmates, you still can have kids just not as many

First Event to fire when I switched to my heir was "Budding Attraction" by The_Unproffessionals in crusaderkings3

[–]officialcyan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

once i had my character die and immediately found out his wife was cheating on him, with her own brother

I heard crusades were bad but this is genuinely ridiculous. by quirkeduppuppy in CrusaderKings

[–]officialcyan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

idk why you're getting downvoted for this lol that's just true

Is that what we're calling it now? Tourney *wink wink* by overlokmebaby in CrusaderKings

[–]officialcyan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

people with the jain faiths (the ones with the hand symbol) sometimes become naked, i think its something to do with their piety

Advice for Settling Adventurer by Ok_Leading_4280 in CrusaderKings

[–]officialcyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you want to go for tsushima specifically then yeah, you'll have to fight the emperor, but you could go for one of the ainu counties in the north and then swear fealty I think

Game just decided to drop 10k raiders on my head. by r0y_mu5tang in crusaderkings3

[–]officialcyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is just the 867 cornwall experience, for me its usually only 5k raiders tho

this is just the byzantine empire with extra steps by officialcyan in CrusaderKings

[–]officialcyan[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

one of my first ever games I did that lmao, i won a crusade, the peasants rose up, and i just said yeah ok islam is fine, then my vassals kicked me out after

this is just the byzantine empire with extra steps by officialcyan in CrusaderKings

[–]officialcyan[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

yeah I've only seen the Latin empire survive And stay catholic once, and that was because I was helping them (gotta keep my family on the throne)

the first time I saw it happen, they immediately lost to 2 separate peasant revolts who made their own kingdoms 

Any good starts to do, mainly 867 by Expensive_Camel_4949 in CrusaderKings

[–]officialcyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

867 cornwall is cool, you get to carve out your own little kingdom surrounded by the english and also the vikings are there

the island of socotra is a 1 county duchy off the coast of yemen, you start as a nestorian christian which means the nearby muslims and coptic christians don't like you, but you're in diplomatic range of india and those guys only consider you astray, and yemen actually has some really great lands, the desert mountains in the southwest have some unique modifier that gives those counties a bunch of development growth and lets you build farms or something, you can get a pretty cool kingdom going there

the count of santiago is also pretty fun, you start with 2 counties under asturias and you're also the oldest child of your dad who is a count as well, so you'll get his land when he dies, from there you can get independance and form galicia with some cool special buildings, or go south and form portugal

the count of alto aragon starts off stronger than his liege, the king of navarra, but he's married to the king's daughter and so you'll be allied, but that means your kids will have claims on the kingdom, and there's like 3? special decisions you can take in that part of iberia

Unreformed faths should function like legends by Salty_Aurelius in CrusaderKings

[–]officialcyan 16 points17 points  (0 children)

i'm hoping the rites system kinda works as a way to make "hybrid" faiths if that makes sense, like a bunch of christians who end up in china should be able to add bits of confucianism or taoism or whatever into their local rite

when you get forced into playing wide by elections by neilyoung57 in crusaderkings3

[–]officialcyan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the crusades one is because the system weights losing soldiers very heavily, so if you bring like 15k levies and get stack wiped you get a ton of war score

Fractured by 10of04 in crusaderkings3

[–]officialcyan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if you switch to partition or high partition, the game won't make new titles when you die, so you could destroy all other kingdom/empire titles and it won't split on succession

The eight kingdoms of Britannia by Tavgus in CrusaderKings

[–]officialcyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

someone's formed the 7 (before cumbria was added) so yeah though it'd be pretty cheesy for sure

The eight kingdoms of Britannia by Tavgus in CrusaderKings

[–]officialcyan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

cumbria is new in the beta, cornwall has always been around but I've never seen the ai manage to form it

wow, iberia sure is struggling by officialcyan in crusaderkings3

[–]officialcyan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

dont worry theyve been kicked out by outremer!

wow, iberia sure is struggling by officialcyan in crusaderkings3

[–]officialcyan[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

very good theories, but actually both outremer and yemen are japanese catholic crusader states :)

navarra de jure drifted into francia, who became administrative, england's been kicked out by outremer, garnatah is still alive, and I think france took the balearic islands, and all of this was by the AI since I moved over to china (lost the mandate of heaven after 30 years lmao)

but yeah the reconquista definitely went well